Major Projects

BOB JOHNSON | SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, MAJOR PROJECTS

PROMOTED! Alex Johnson, Assistant Project Manager Alex started working at Helix, in the PreFab department in 2008, until he was accepted in the ABC Electrical Apprenticeship program and started working as an apprentice.

After graduation, he continued working as a journeyman, and then became a medium voltage leadman in charge of medium voltage terminations and splicing. Alex worked as MV Lead on multiple solar field projects across Nevada, Idaho, and Texas, gaining multiple certifications along the way, and also became a licensed journeyman electrician in Idaho, and graduating Helix Superintendent training. Alex started his Project Engineer role in 2018, and has now moved into his Assistant Project Manager position. His first official job is Catholic Charities, Phase 2 with Martin Harris, but has been working closely with Marshall Thomson on projects such as World Market Center, Corridor of Hope, Amazon LAS1, and Edwards AFB. Congratulations Alex!!

COMINGS & GOINGS! A very bittersweet goodbye to two of Department 16’s key players, and a warm welcome to our newest team member!

Kirt Svedin, Project Manager Transferred to the Helix Utah Office. Kirt’s been with Department 16 for 6 ½ years, starting as a PE, working his way up to the Project Manager role. Good Luck in Utah!!

Danika Johnson, Project Assistant She completed her Master’s Degree and is pursuing her career as a Clinic Mental Health Counselor. Thanks for all your hard work, best of luck in your new venture!

Donna Rose, Project Assistant The newest member of our team as Project Assistant. We all look forward to a bright future with Donna, and know she’ll be a great asset to our department!

Twinning! The Danika/Donna transition is complete, down to the same outfit on Danika’s last day!

CHANNELLCOMMERCIAL CORPERATION

Channell is a design/build project for renovation and expansion of existing electrical distribution system, feeders and connections to all processing/auxiliary equipment and general lighting/power for production facilities and office tenant improvements. It is an injection molding manufacturing plant comprising of 87,000sq ft of production floor and 10,000 sq ft of office improvements (corporate, human resources, shipping). Helix was engaged directly by the client based on recommendation of a mutual acquaintance and the project went into construction with much of the main processing equipment already on order and being fabricated.

This has been a challenging project due to numerous factors including the short schedule and working with only the availability of existing NVE services, and sizes. The first challenge introduced the requirement for the installation of a 2000A temporary service to be able to energize the first machines to come on-line and the subsequent removal and replacement with the permanent board when available while keeping the plant in operation. The restriction to using the existing NVE services required the re-configuration of the existing distribution system which incorporated the demolition and replacement of one of the three existing services (3000A) to align with the requirements of the Client’s processing equipment.

Project Manager | Wade Brasuell Project Assistant | Danika Johnson/Donna Rose Superintendent | Ed Seward