How Groundwork Construction Co. of Las Vegas Was Born in Las Vegas
It was a Tuesday in 2019, and we were standing in a kitchen in Paradise that three different contractors had already walked away from. The homeowner, a retired schoolteacher named Eleanor, had paid a deposit to a company that subcontracted the electrical to one crew, the plumbing to another, and the cabinets to a third. When the electrical failed inspection, the plumber wouldn’t come back until the drywall was patched, and the cabinet guy was already two jobs deep in Henderson. Eleanor had been washing dishes in her bathroom sink for eleven weeks.
We were still with Keystone then, running their restoration division, and we’d been called in to fix the water damage from a leak the plumber had left behind. She asked us, straight out, “Who do I call when the job is bigger than one trade and I need someone to actually finish it?” We didn’t have an answer that satisfied us. That night, driving back from Paradise past the Stratosphere with the window down, we called our partner and said, “We’re starting something. One bid, one crew, one name on the whole thing. No more of this.”
Groundwork Construction Co. of Las Vegas opened six months later. We pulled our first permit in Clark County in January 2020. The promise was simple: the price we quote is the price you pay, and our name goes on every trade.
Our Founder’s Personal Connection to the Construction Trade
We didn’t choose this work from a career fair. We were sixteen, spending summers with our uncle’s concrete crew in Pahrump, where the July heat hits 110 before noon and the rebar burns your palms through gloves. The smell of wet Sakrete mixed with diesel exhaust, and the sound of a screed board pulling across a slab - that’s the sound of something becoming permanent. We were hooked before we understood what the word meant.
After high school, we framed houses in Sunrise Manor during the boom, then worked as a finish carpenter in Summerlin South when the market turned. We’ve stood in crawl spaces in Whitney where the scorpions outnumbered the inspectors, and we’ve poured footings in Boulder City where the caliche was so hard we burned through three auger bits in one morning. Ten years of this isn’t a credential on a website. It’s mornings when your knees don’t bend right, and afternoons when you see a door swing true on the first try, and you remember why you kept going.
If we weren’t doing this, we’d probably be fixing old motorcycles or trying to keep a garden alive in the desert. Something with our hands, something where the result is either right or it isn’t. What gets us out of bed is the same thing that kept us in Pahrump at sixteen: the moment when a homeowner walks into a finished room and breathes differently. Eleanor’s kitchen, when we finally got to build it ourselves - she stood at the island and ran her hand across the quartz, and she didn’t say anything for a long minute. That’s the whole job, right there.
Meet Our Team - The Person Behind Every Job
We’re the owner and founder of Groundwork Construction Co. of Las Vegas. Our training came from journeymen who didn’t tolerate shortcuts - uncles, crew bosses, inspectors who made us tear out work that was “good enough” and do it again. We’re state-licensed as a general contractor in Nevada, insured and bonded, and we’ve pulled permits in every jurisdiction from North Las Vegas to Enterprise. No franchise manual taught us this. We learned it by getting it wrong, fixing it, and remembering.
On weekends, you’ll find us at the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation events or helping a neighbor in Spring Valley figure out why their patio cover is settling unevenly. We don’t golf. We don’t have a boat. What we have is a notebook full of every job we’ve ever done, with phone numbers that still work because we still answer them.
Here’s our commitment to you: when you hire Groundwork, you get our cell number, not a dispatch line. The crew boss on your job reports to us, and we report to you. That’s it.
Our Promise to Las Vegas Homeowners
We run this company on five values we call S.O.L.I.D. - and each one exists because we saw the opposite done to someone in this town.
Square bids. Every estimate is fixed, itemized, and upfront. The number doesn’t move after the handshake. We learned this after watching a Paradise homeowner get hit with a 40% “unforeseen conditions” charge that was entirely foreseen.
One accountable crew. Every trade works under our license, with one boss on your job. No more Eleanor’s kitchen.
Licensed & inspected. We pull the permits. We meet the codes. We pass inspections the first time, because we’ve done the homework.
In writing. The scope, the schedule, and our 730-day Built-Right Project Guarantee - all on paper, signed by both of us.
Done right. From the footing up. If it’s not right, we come back and make it right. No claim forms. No finger-pointing. Our name is on the whole job.
Our Credentials
State-licensed general contractor in Nevada. No license number games - we’re in good standing with the Nevada State Contractors Board, and we’ll show you our pocket card on the first meeting.
Insured & bonded. Full general liability and workers’ compensation coverage. Every person on your property is covered, and so is your home.
Years of local experience. We’ve built in Las Vegas long enough to know which way the summer sun hits a west-facing addition, where the clay soil shifts in Whitney, and why a roof in Henderson needs different flashing detail than one in Summerlin South.
Strong local reputation. Our business comes from neighbors telling neighbors. We’ve worked in homes from Winchester to Enterprise, and we still service jobs we finished years ago.
Here’s why this matters to you: a homeowner letting someone into their house to tear out a kitchen or reframe a roof is making a bet on trust. State licensing means we’ve met Nevada’s standards for financial stability and trade knowledge. Insurance means if something goes wrong, you’re not chasing a subcontractor’s policy. Local experience means we know the inspector in North Las Vegas who wants to see the hurricane strap detail, and the one in Paradise who checks door swing clearance first. And a reputation built on finished jobs, not marketing budgets, means we’re still here when you need us in year two of your warranty.
Rooted in Las Vegas
We hire Las Vegas tradespeople - concrete crews who know how to pour in July without cold joints, framers who’ve worked with the local lumber yards on Tropicana and Decatur for years. We buy from suppliers who know our name. We’ve trained apprentices on real jobs in Spring Valley and Sunrise Manor, and we’ve left jobsites broom-clean in neighborhoods from Paradise to Boulder City because the house next door belongs to somebody’s neighbor too. When the Las Vegas Rescue Mission needed help with their facility renovation in 2022, we showed up. Not for the press release. Because this is our town, and the groundwork matters here too.
Written by the team at Groundwork Construction Co. of Las Vegas, serving Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, and surrounding communities since 2003.