The Las Vegas office of glazing and curtain wall subcontractor Enclos drew a royal flush last year, tripling its revenue to $150 million from $50 million based on a trio of high-profile local projects.

In addition to the $2-billion, 65,000-seat Allegiant Stadium, home to the National Football League’s newly relocated Raiders franchise, the firm concurrently lent its expertise to the $1-billion, 44-story Circa (18 Fremont), a hotel and casino in downtown Las Vegas. It also worked on the 70-story, 3,000-room Resorts World, a pair of adjoining towers marking the first phase of a multibillion-dollar gaming and hotel complex on the Vegas Strip. The stadium is complete, and the other two projects are expected to come online later this year.

虽然度假胜地世界要求120万平方英尺的反光，有色青铜玻璃和红色金属面板，但Allegiant Stadium要求Enclos Crews安装约410,000平方英尺的深灰色和黑色和黑色和黑色的玻璃，并突出的金属条纹在横跨外观的金属条纹上。大约要求175,000平方英尺的黑暗，反射玻璃和面板，所有琥珀色的色调都略有。

这些项目18luck官网统称超过177万平方英尺的单位窗帘墙。忠实的体育场和度假胜地世界小组是由一个120,000平方英尺的凤凰区议会组装工厂生产的，该工厂是明尼苏达州伊根（Eagan）建立的，该工厂建立了为西方和西南部提供项目的建立。18luck官网工厂负责人约瑟夫·韦尔奇（Joseph A. Welch）说，该设施拥有六个生产线，并在最佳时期雇用了80名工人。

Recent activity marks a resurgence of sorts for the company’s Las Vegas operations, following a lull in local demand for the high-profile, signature projects that it and 14 other Enclos offices typically pursue. “We don’t simply provide pre-engineered, off-the-shelf solutions,” says Mike Coulter, vice president for operations with the firm’s Las Vegas office. “Instead, we’ve established a niche in providing a custom curtain wall solutions approach that removes the handcuffs from architects and invariably supports larger-scale, complex projects. This may contribute to why you see 10 office buildings rising simultaneously but only a few structures with more challenging facades.”

“Enclos brings a wealth of expertise to the table, whether mechanical or structural, to create the most efficient systems with respect to performance, cost and minimizing waste,” says Tom Richardson, senior project manager with the Henderson, Nev., office of general contractor McCarthy Building Cos., a longtime collaborator with the firm, most recently on the Circa and Allegiant Stadium projects. “They walk in the room with the whole project thought through, and you can see the lights go off in the architects’ eyes,” he says.

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During a regional boom cycle extending from 2006 to 2009, before the Great Recession, Enclos’ facades helped change the face of Las Vegas, with projects that included Trump International Hotel and Tower, Wynn and Encore Towers, MGM CityCenter, Aria Resort & Casino, Planet Hollywood Towers and Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.

Enclos’ Vegas office maintains the skill set and resources to build big. Its crews have mastered the design, engineering, fabrication, assembly and erection of numerous custom systems. In the area of acoustics, Enclos has swapped out the more standard dual panes with an insulated space between them for two pairs of glazing, each of them laminated. That innovation helps block sound penetration on the south facade of Circa, where a swimming pool and event spaces are located.

To expedite construction of Resorts World, Enclos devised twin-span unitized curtain wall units measuring 21 ft tall and 6 ft wide, thus reducing the number of lifts by enclosing two floors at once, says Mike Padgett, executive vice president of field operations for all Enclos projects, including those in Las Vegas. “Resorts and casinos are all about schedule,” he says. “The sooner they open, the sooner they earn revenue.”

Glazing work at the steel-framed Allegiant Stadium involved collaboration among project architect MANICA Architecture, Kansas City, Mo., structural engineer Arup and Enclos’ kinetics division, which created six megapanels, each the size of a basketball court and weighing 58,000 lb. Four of the megapanels function as operable lanai doors at one end of the stadium that open to vistas of the Las Vegas strip, Coulter says.

马尼卡（Manica）主任基思·罗宾逊（Keith Robinson）说，体育场从底部到顶部排除了12度坡度。这位建筑师与Enclos合作，将定制面板的数量从预算破损的8,000减少到大约2,400，主要是通过关注会员之间的公差。罗宾逊说：“我们与Enclos合作进行制造。”“它的员工采取了我们渴望完成的工作，并使其成为现实。”

On Board Early

The firm, currently staffed with 65 office and field personnel in Las Vegas, frequently joins projects as early as the conceptual phase, providing design-assist services or serving as the curtain wall’s design-builder, with representatives from project management and field operations on hand. Early discussions not only focus on potential design solutions but also on their impact on installation and safety practices, says Padgett.

Based in the firm’s San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based office, Padgett gets field reports from both a regional superintendent and a Las Vegas-based general superintendent, both of whom “touch all projects,” he says. Padgett travels to projects several times during their life cycle, from inception through completion.

From the outset, Enclos typically assigns a project executive, senior project manager and assistant project manager to collaborate with a client and its project team. The company supplies additional managerial resources if projects rise to the scope of Resorts World or Allegiant Stadium.

项目主管工作在多个项目18luck官网concurrently, focusing on fulfillment of contractual obligations, “senior project managers are 100% dedicated to individual projects from start to finish,” Coulter says. Detailing is performed by designers and engineers in the firm’s Minneapolis, Montreal and St. Louis offices. Enclos engages in both virtual reality and 3D modeling to flesh out designs, with a modeler on hand in each branch office, including Las Vegas.

The Phoenix plant is charged with assembling prefabricated components that derive from a global supply chain to help optimize quality and price, regardless of a vendor’s location, Coulter says. The plant tracks units via QR code with an Enclos-created app, allowing workers to trim units quickly and prep them for the final installation sequence.

“We produced up to 72 curtain wall units a day during peak periods involving both Resorts World and the Raiders Stadium,” Welch says. “Most days we averaged 50 units per day.”

库尔特说，出于质量控制的目的，工人在每个生产站都检查了玻璃碎片，然后才能进行下一个生产站，并指出，电台的iPad捕获了在组装各个阶段的玻璃单元的图像，并将其放置在基于云的服务器中，允许其他人实时评估产品。Padgett说，机组人员还创建了安装的性能模型，并查看了进程生成的流程和实践动画。

工作地点安全至关重要。根据Padgett的说法，ENCLOS要求所有机组人员至少进行10个小时的OSHA培训和主管。该公司的特定网站安全培训包括几乎每项任务的工作危害分析。

COVID-19病毒创造了额外的复杂性层次，每天都有障碍，以审查健康实践，从自我监控和社交距离到正确的戴口罩的方法。交易中的时间表，包括窗帘墙体的工作人员交错，以减少将提升机的员工数量减少到较高楼层的数量。

However, the pandemic has had a broader impact. Many regional projects, some of which Enclos planned to bid on, “are on pause,” says Coulter. “That’s an expression we hear more and more these days. We still plan on submitting bids when conditions improve,” he says. “Meanwhile, we’re using the additional time to refine our proposal processes.”