Top Specialty Contractors
of the Southwest

Statistics gathered for Southwest Contractor's 2005 Top Specialty Contractors clearly demonstrate how busy subcontractors have been. The following pages contain analysis of the 2005 performance of leading subcontractors in the region, breaking down their revenue into categories such as concrete and steel, and ranking them by state.
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Safety in Numbers

Safest Subcontractors of the Southwest
Subcontractors face many issues in the field, but one of the most important is safety. Safety directors use many techniques, from offering training courses to halting work at unsafe jobsites. But most say that caring for your fellow employees is the best way to promote safety.
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Thinking Big

UNLV Expands to Keep Pace with Valley Growth
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas has expanded greatly since it was founded in 1957 in a classroom at Las Vegas High School as part of an extension program to the University of Nevada in Reno.
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Growing Downtown

ASU Comes to Phoenix
For years the City of Phoenix has struggled with attracting people to the core downtown area. Projects such as Arizona Center, Chase Field and America West Arena brought scores of people downtown, but once the events ended, people fled. Full Story >>

Breaking New Ground

UNM Health Sciences Center
Any building that will need room for robot medical patients is bound to be a bit unusual in construction and layout. The $49 million University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center Education Building is such a building. The four-story complex will be home to students in medicine, pharmacy and nursing when it opens in the fall.
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Legal Story

Are "Pay-if-Paid" Clauses Valid in Nevada?
Six years ago, the State of Nevada was rocked by the opening of the Venetian Casino Resort. Not the opening night party but the legal battle over the interpretation of "common" construction clauses and their impacts on the Nevada construction business.
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