Field record
Projects
Tenant improvement is our lane — build-outs and remodels of existing commercial space for national brands, developers, and property owners. Here's the work, plus the ground-up builds we take on when the project calls for it.
Case study · Ground-up construction
Take 5 Car Wash — Two Ground-Up Builds
An express car wash is one of the most electrically demanding small buildings there is — wash equipment, dryers, conveyors, and vacuum stations all pulling hard at once. We were brought in by the general contractors to build two ground-up Take 5 locations, working from the engineered drawings.
1,000A
208V service — Hillview, KY
1,200A
208V service — Jeffersonville, IN
800A
Motor control centers at both locations
2/2
Tight deadlines — both hit
Real construction drawings never answer every question — and these left plenty. Our crew worked through the gaps in the field, kept both jobs moving, and hit tight deadlines at both locations — ground-up through final inspection, on a national brand's schedule. Both are open and washing cars today.
Jobs like these are exactly why we push design-build: when the people doing the load calcs are the people pulling the wire, the drawing problems never make it to the field.
Case study · Occupied renovation
Three LIHTC Apartment Communities — Occupied Full Remodels
Affordable-housing renovations run on tax-credit financing — immovable schedules, stacked inspections, zero room for a trade that falls behind. Now add the hard part: all three communities were occupied, roughly 100 units apiece, one of them a senior building, with residents living there through the entire remodel.
Working occupied means every day is choreography — sequencing unit-by-unit so outages are measured in hours, coordinating access with management and tenants, keeping corridors, elevators, and life-safety systems live in buildings full of people.
~300
Occupied apartments renovated unit-by-unit
3
Properties, incl. a senior community
25
Buildings re-metered at Woodland Heights
100%
Elevators kept in service for residents
The scope covered complete unit electrical renovation, common areas throughout, elevator work at every building — and a full meter center replacement across all 25 buildings at Woodland Heights, executed as building-by-building power cutovers around the tenants.
Replacing old, unsafe meter centers is the specialty Newman Electric was built on 35 years ago. These projects are that specialty at portfolio scale — occupied, on schedule, three times over.
Case study · Fire restoration · Design-build
Burned Out, Built Back — Twice
Clarke Power is a diesel and fleet service operation — and in the kind of irony you couldn't script, a fire truck being serviced inside the shop caught fire. The blaze took the building's electrical system with it.
This one was ours from the first walk-through: we demoed the fire-damaged electrical completely — down to bare structure — then designed and built the replacement from scratch. No inherited drawings, no patching around damage. A clean design for a heavy-shop environment, built by the same crew that drew it, through final inspection.
Then it happened again across town: fire damage at Fibreworks Corporation, a Jeffersontown carpet manufacturer. Same playbook — demo the burned system, design the replacement, build it back. Fire restoration rewards exactly what design-build is: one contractor who can assess, redesign, and rebuild without waiting on anyone else's drawings.
100%
Fire-damaged electrical demoed to bare structure
2
Fire-damaged buildings design-built back
This is design-build the way we pitch it on every page of this site: hand us the building, and the people doing the load calculations are the people pulling the wire. Both businesses got their buildings back — cleaner and better laid out than before the fires.
Built for names you know
More Clients & Projects
Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass
Four build-outs at one center — Nike, Victoria’s Secret, Pandora, Five Below · Simpsonville, KY
Dave & Buster’s
Tenant build-out · Mall St. Matthews
REI Co-op
30,000 sq ft tenant build-out · The Summit (Paddock Shops), Louisville
Fresh Market
30,000 sq ft grocery build-out · The Summit (Paddock Shops), Louisville
Firehouse Subs
Restaurant · Blankenbaker Pkwy, Jeffersontown
Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Restaurant · Hillview, KY
Consumer Cellular
Retail · Shelbyville Rd, St. Matthews
Anchorage Animal Hospital
Veterinary (now Livewell Animal Hospital) · Anchorage, KY
Harvey Eye Optometry
Optometry practice · La Grange Rd, Louisville
New Albany Dental Care
Dental — Dr. Ronnie Netter · New Albany, IN
Dorsey Family Dental
Dental · Shelbyville Rd, Louisville
America’s Floor Source
Retail showroom · Hurstbourne Pkwy, Louisville
Daddy Vic’s Soul Food
Restaurant build-outs — original and new location · Dixie Hwy
National franchises, medical and dental practices, big-box retail, restaurants, and multifamily communities across Kentucky and southern Indiana.
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