A photo tour through the $4.8 billion dollar Las Vegas Echelon Resort construction progress through the eyes of the Project Executive / Owners Representative. Ownership was also the General Contractor. Comments throughout recognize the team players who assisted in the effort and include the writers management philosophy.

1. People judge more from appearances than reality.
All people have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. Everyone
sees your exterior, but few can discern what you have in your heart.
Company
As a leader, I do the right things. As a manager, I do things right.
LOGO I manage time and the efficient use of it.
Mike Clynes, Senior Project Executive’

2. If you are wise in the choice of your partners, you will do very well, and, similarly, if you are intelligent in your selection of
businesses and people to run them, you will prosper.
I am a sociable, persuasive, and garrulous individual who will keep pushing forward to exceed the company’s objectives
with a tremendous amount of self confidence and passion. I truly enjoy my work, I am highly motivated, I am extremely
dedicated and I work very hard in creating a successful product. I believe that there are no limits to my future
accomplishments.
This slide show is a short tour of the Echelon Resort project. I have included some brief statements relative to my
management philosophy to help you understand a few of my strengths. I have also included a list of some the
professionals that I have worked with in the past
As the Senior Project Manager, I am the individual who leads the project during its life cycle and accomplishes the
project’s technical objectives on time and within the budget. I direct the organizational effort, both presence and the
process as required to build a thriving result.
I have the tenacity to seek out problems, develop opportunities, and to make responsible decisions based upon corporate
policies.
I as a leader, I influence others to accomplish the mission by providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
• Purpose: provide team members with the general scope of the project, and the tasks to be performed.
• Direction: provide team members information, describe the tasks, assign the tasks, and set priorities to be
accomplished.
• Motivation: provide team members with knowledge of the importance of the project work, and instill the will to
complete the work.
I as a manager, I cope with the complexity of developing, and implementing a management system. I use corporate
policies, processes, procedures, protocols, and documentation along with empowerment to guide team members in
making, and implementing decisions in their area of responsibility.
I hope that you will enjoy this presentation.

3. The Echelon Resorts Project
Echelon jobsite, 85 acres
My
Office

4. Marnell
Corrao’s crew poured
over 20,000 cubic yards
of concrete daily
Nevada Redi Mix’s
for this mat type
on site batch plant.
foundation

5. 6’ diameter drill bit
Malcolm Drilling, shown drilling
caissons and using these large
cranes to lift the reinforcing cages
built by Century Steel.

6. One of the many reinforcing cages for the caissons 160 feet
long built by Century Steel (Tower and Podium), and Steel
Engineers (Expo and Building B).

7. An individual The Exposition Building, and Encore Tower
without Parking Garage concrete retaining wall and
information cannot columns under construction by: H.B. Parkco.
take responsibility;
an individual who is
given information
cannot help but
take responsibility.

8. Wynn Encore,
There were over 3,000 caissons
under construction.
installed by Malcolm and Anderson
Drilling, 6’ in diameter and as deep as 190’.
The reinforced concrete matt foundations
were 12’ to 16’ deep and were poured over these
large caissons. These caissons shown below are
for the main tower structure.

9. Las Vegas is built on a lake, and the water table
is 10’ below the surface. The site dewatering was
contracted to Allen Drilling. As a design build endeavor,
Allen installed over 100 temporary wells that were over
100’ deep. When this system was working properly it
removed over 200,000 gallons of water each day. Allen
hired Malcolm Drilling to maintain the pumping
equipment. As you can see by this picture, we battled
water infiltration on a continued basis.

10. Successful project management can be reduced to effective
response to dilemmas. Successful project management 30’ tall poured in place concrete
is distinguished by decision making grounded in retaining (basement) wall. Isaac
objective, proactive, prudent, and timely Concrete built the Podium
thinking. walls, H.B. Parkco built the
Exposition walls, and Colasanti
built the
walls for Building B, or
the Retail Building.

11. Isaac Concrete Company’s workmen
shown straightening up the aluminum
forms for the poured in place concrete
wall.
A Project Executive’s goal is
to bring about orderly, harmonious,
and mutually beneficial performance
by all parties to the project. Project
Management is an ongoing series of
responses to surprises, and it is vital
that the manager never loses sight
of the primary functional objectives,
which are to make decisions and solve
problems.

12. Marnell’s is building the tower, and
Isaac is building the podium walls.

13. Isaac Concrete used 15’ wide x 30 ‘high
aluminum form panels and raised them
into place with a crane.
To insure productivity on this large 85 acre
site, five Concrete Contractors were selected
to work:
Tower: Marnell Corrao Construction
Podium Foundation: Isaac Concrete
Decking: Urata & Sons
Retail: Colasanti Specialty Services
Expo Center: HB Parkco
Improve the competitive position
within the industry through bringing faster
results to situations.
A schedule describes the work that will be
accomplished over time. The layout out of
the work on a time line provides the plan
for the work sequence and at what time to
start and finish tasks. Sequencing the work
ensures that it is all in the time frame for the
project and that the project completion is
identified.
Risk Management focuses on
major issues and Dilemma Control focuses
on minor issues.

14. Isaac’s cement masons are shown patching and sacking
the vertical surfaces of the concrete retaining wall.
Eberhard Southwest Roofing is applying the
sheet waterproofing membrane to the
backside of the high wall.

15. Project Information:
Building Department: Clark County
Rental Equipment: Ahern Rentals
Redi Mix: Nevada Redi Mix
Site Work: El Camino Construction
Excavation and Off haul: Southern Nevada
Dewatering: Malcolm Drilling
Caissons: Anderson Drilling
Reinforcing Steel (Expo): Century Steel
Reinforcing Steel: Steel Engineers
Precast Concrete: CoreSlab Structures
Food Service: Boelter
Signage Contractor: CalSigns
Waterproofing Contractor: Eberhart
Waterproofing Consultant: Noble
Theatre Consultant: Sceno Plus Inc.
Theatrical Lift Consultant: David Collins
Theatrical Lift Contractor: Gala Systems
Video Screens Consultants: Daktronics
Elevator Contractor: Otis Elevator
Escalator Contractor: Schindler Elevator
Spiral Elevator Contractor and Manufacture: Mitsubishi Electric
Architectural Steel Structures (Skylight): Permasteelisa Central Europe
Architectural Sheet Metal Contractor: Sierra Metals
Steel Stair Contractor: Southwest Steel
Commissioning Consultant: FEA
Commissioning Quality Assurance: Don Koch
General Superintendent: Bill Potteiger
Senior Project Manager and Master Scheduler: Ed Rogers
Echelon Project Managers: Dan Allum, Ron Siegal, and Andi Torrealba
Echelon Executive Assistant: Patricia Martinez.

16. Retaining wall for Building B, or the retail building is being built by Colasanti Specialty
Services, Inc. GGP Properties was the co-owner and operator of the
300,000 square foot two story facility.

17. Basement level of the Enclave, Shangri La,
and Echelon Towers, Marnell Corrao Construction
Company is performing the state of the art
concrete high wall forming.
The excavation contractor, excavated and
off hauled over 2 million cubic yards of native
material in a two month period.

18. The Enclave Tower. Concrete forming and five Tower Cranes by Marnell
Corrao Construction Company. Marnell was the only General
Contractor working on the site. Their responsibility
was to build the eight level Employee
Parking garage and form
and pour the concrete for the Enclave,
Shangri La, and Echelon Towers.

19. I as a manager, I cope with the
complexity of developing, and
implementing a management system.
I use corporate policies, processes,
procedures, protocols, and
documentation along with
empowerment to guide team
members in making, and
implementing decisions in
their area of responsibility.
Shangri La Tower

20. Marnell Corrao’s experience in forming high rises
proved efficient and ultimately successful.

21. Six levels of the 8 level
Employee Parking Garage.
Basement or
back of house levels

22. The project schedule must present itself in may different formats, as a series of tailored reports. These reports will tell what the
designers ought to be working on, advise the owner as to what he needs to be thinking about, describes what each of the
superintendents is pursuing, details the status of key deliverables, and establishes what management knows to be the situation at
the job site.
With over 3000 people
working on the site, the building’s
footprint and skyline grew every day.

23. There is no objective reality. The project that we envision during the initial
planning is not the project that the team will encounter as the project unfolds.
The reality of the moment will be different than anything we can anticipate.
Although, the better prepared we are, the easier it will be to solve the problems.
Albert Einstein said that chance favors the prepared mind.
Underground truck delivery tunnel designed to accept 200
vehicles each day. Security Consultant: Alex Tabb, Crisis & Continuity Services

24. Stainless Swimming Pool Vessel Contractor: Bradford
Products LLC. The interior of the vessel is tiled with 2” x
2” mosaic tile, manufactured by Dal-Tile.
The six acre pool deck featured restaurants, luxury villas,
and private cabanas. One of the many challenges in
performing the landscape work included placing mature
30,-000 pound trees on the three story high pool deck
around the stainless steel pool vessels.

25. The pool vessel is shipped to the jobsite
in sections and then welded
together by Bradford’s welders.

26. A section of the
stainless steel
pool vessel.

27. Steel structure that support
the stainless steel vessels.
Projects are more than just people, equipment, and materials sharing the same long term
objectives. They are an elaborate set of processes, representing overlapping and interdependent
activity strings that culminate in the physical manifestation of a conceptual design. A project’s rate of progress
is often interrupted and diverted, with characteristic ebbing and surging. The Project Executive’s role is to safe guard the
project’s pace and direction, which is called the momentum.

28. Grand Theatre, 4,500 seats
structural steel framing and metal
decking for the seating area. The
fabrication was performed by
Mountain States Steel and the
erection was completed by
Eagle Iron.

29. Project Manager’s objectives: Structural Steel Framing for the 4,500 seat
Understand the Contract Grand Theatre. Fabrication: Mountain States
Understand the Design The Steel Erection by: Eagle Iron.
Understand the Schedule
Remove the Progress Obstacles
Discern Progress being made
Recognize Scope Changes
Detect Seeds of Change
Sustain Project Momentum
Communicate Feverishly

30. This Jobsite In today's market place, every advantage must be
is clean, neat, explored to increase efficiency and effectiveness
orderly, and with which the production function can be carried
safe. out. Effective management balances competing
demands and prioritizes the work that provides
the most advantage to the organization.
Eagle Iron is shown erecting the Grand Theatre’s
Structural steel.

31. Project stability is directly related to
the level and detail of the planning,
as well as the availability of valid
information at the time of planning.
The best prevention for instability
of a project is to have a well thought
through plan that removes as much
risk and uncertainty as possible in the
time available for planning.

32. Urata Concrete poured and
placed an average of
As an Manager, I have found that no two projects are the same,
15,000 square feet of concrete
the product is different each and every time. It is my belief that
each day.
the project schedule must consider the unique design of the project,
including such things as constructability, availability of resources,
long-lead item implications, installation of new or untested materials,
worker and material movement logistics, concurrent uninterrupted
Owner’s use of facilities.

33. SME was one of two steel fabricator’s
that worked on this project.

34. At just 40’ long, these columns
weighed 44,000 pounds. It took two 30,000 lb. forklifts to
unload one section from the truck.
Once preheated to
210 degrees, and using
large torches, these are
welded together
with one single pass!
A section of one of the steel columns fabricated
by SME for the Podium. Made out of 6” thick plate.

35. SME’s fabrication process in the
Facility in West Jordan, Utah.

36. Delivering a product on time requires accurate
scheduling and precise timing.
Momentology may be the new face of scheduling.
Momentum Management. It fosters the smooth
functionality of the project team working together in a
collaborative and constructive way, as opposed to
traditional Critical Path Method (CPM) reporting, which is
focused on retrospective analysis of past performance
and baseline compliance.
Momentology concentrates on what remains to be done
and how to get from the present state to the project’s
ultimate time objectives as cooperatively as possible.
Momentology operates under the premise that a project’s
time - performance objectives can be best ensured by
constantly monitoring and influencing the project’s
inherent Momentum.
Momentum Theory is not a replacement for conventional
CPM, it is merely an enhancement of it.
SME paid over 1 million dollars for this automated cutting
and welding machine. Once programmed it can cut
holes in up to 4” thick plate and determine whether to
use a laser or a torch to perform the task.
SME was awarded the steel fabrication for the Podium,
Expo Center, Central Energy Center, and the Retail
(Building B) Area. Mountain States was awarded the
Grand Theatre.

37. SME Steel fabrication facility located in West Jordon, Utah.

38. I have superior problem solving skills,
and I can also provide accurate and
competitive bids.

39. W.P. Moore made sure, in their structural design, that large and
thick base plates were typical for the column bases,
even when they were embedded in concrete.

40. Highland Tank’s Grease Recovery Equipment shown above. With the help of JBA Engineers, the Highland Tank’s staff
and their equipment, I started and closely documented a two month long effluent water quality testing program at The
Orleans Resort facility. It provided us with the necessary information to convince Clark County Building and Health officials to
allow this type of grease recovery be installed in the Echelon facility. Green Building Technology, one step forward.

41. Central Energy Center (CEC) Plant
A design build project by LVE Energy.
A joint venture between Marina Energy and
DCO Energy.
300 million dollar contract.
Mechanical Engineers: Joseph Jingoli & Son
Electrical Engineers: JBA
LVE Senior Vice President: Don Butler
LVE Vice President Construction: Lonny Kirk
Construction Duration: 2 years.
Structural Steel: SME Contractors.
Mechanical: Bombard

42. CEC Structural Steel diagonal bracing
engineered and manufactured by
Core Brace, a division of SME Steel.
Also, the Employee parking
garage constructed by Marnell
Corrao. The concrete structure
will eventually be seven
levels high.
The Project Executive’s goal is to
consistently and positively inspire the conduct
of dozens, , hundreds, or thousands of individually
minded project participants.

43. Large 42” diameter Hydronic
lines are hung from the ceiling, large
natural gas fired boilers are placed in rolls
on each side of this level.

44. LVE had these large pump and
Valve platforms preassembled in
Florida and shipped to Las Vegas.

45. Setting up Air Casters to move the heavy equipment.

46. Air Caster - Load Module
Systems:
Load Module Systems
are Rigging Kits designed
for moving various types
and sizes of machines and/or
structures. These easily
transportable systems can be
set up and fully functioning
in as little as 10 minutes

47. Aeris Corporation is the leading Air Caster and
Air Jack Manufacturer utilizing advanced Air Film Technology
to make heavy equipment and machinery moves, ranging
from 200 pounds to 5000 tons, easy, safe and economical.

48. Project leaders should control
the number of hours worked
over long periods of time.
Surge efforts may be required for short durations, but
excessive overtime will diminish the team’s ability to
perform at the quality and efficiency level expected.

49. Roof mounted Cooling towers.
A plan that reflects the work to be accomplished
and provides a clear picture of the delivery of a
technically qualified product is best.

50. I create a constancy of purpose for improvement of
the product and service. I develop and encourage within the
team to influence the success the organization.

51. The debate goes on regarding the pros and cons of the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Green Building Rating System.
There are certainly aspects and components that are worthy of critique, it is difficult to argue that LEED remains the single
most transformative tool in the history of modern green building movement.
By now you’ve undoubtedly heard about green buildings and sustainability, as well as the myths and legends regarding
what they are and are not. But where do you go to find out how to make your building greener or help your organization down
the path toward sustainability? For starters, I suggest: www.greenfacilities.org
The best practices toward sustainability means striving to minimize construction waste, to avoid the use of nonrenewable
materials, and to design structures that require minimal energy input to maintain indoor comfort.
In my opinion the most vital way to take care of our lives is to take the responsibility of our own energy foot print.
With the growing concern about the future and security of the world’s energy supply, renewable resources such as
solar power are becoming increasingly important. Various solar energy technologies have been used through millennia
of human history. Photovoltaics technology has been developing or more than 160 years, but has progressed
exponentially in the last few decades. Photovoltaics is a direct energy conversion system which produces electrical power
without any mechanical components. No energy conversion is 100% efficient. Practical photovoltaic's, the direct conversion
of solar energy into electricity, has a history of only 50 years. Photovoltaics is a solar energy technology that uses unique
properties of semiconductors to directly convert solar radiation into
electricity. Systems that are connected to the utility grid and use
Photovoltaics energy as a supplemental source of power offer the
greatest flexibility in possible system configurations. The
supplemental power offsets a portion of the power needed from the
utility, resulting in lower electricity bills.
Wind energy is growing faster than Photovoltaics. The three
windiest states in the United States: North Dakota, Kansas,
and Texas have enough usable wind energy to satisfy all of
our national needs..