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RELIANCE BUILD INC.

The $12 million Bank of America building in
Phoenix will be Reliance Build’s first LEED-
certified office building.

Loyal to its City and Staff

Family-owned Reliance Build Inc. is dedicated to the Phoenix-area market. The company is in the last
stages of its first LEED-certified office building, a $12 million project for Bank of America.
By Libby John problems, he says, because its subcontractors were familiar

R eliance Build Inc. (RBI) is in the final stages of a

$12 million, 32,000-square-foot office building for
Bank of America in Phoenix. The project is slated
to receive LEED Silver certification, says President Steve
Stoaks, the first of its projects to do so. “We are very excit-
ed to be a part of it,” he adds.
To meet LEED requirements, the building has a highly
efficient energy management system, as well as innovative
lighting and plumbing systems. “It is also a very mainte-
nance-free building,” Stoaks says. For example, its floors are
made from exposed ground concrete, which require low
maintenance, and every aspect of the build-
Reliance Build Inc.
www.rbiphx.com ing is made from natural products, all re-
Projected 2007 revenues: $50 quiring little or no maintenance.
million An important criteria for certification
Headquarters: Chandler, Ariz.
Employees: 40 included keeping the job clean and order-
Services: General contracting ly during the 10-month project. “We tried
and design/build to keep the environment dust free as we
Steve Stoaks: “To work on
another bank green building [worked],” he says.
would be really challenging.” The project did not run into any major
with the construction methodology. “We work with a large
group of subcontractors in that area and we put some of
the best subs together as a team,” such as Bel-Air
Mechanical and Swain Electric, he explains. “The subcontrac-
tors really know and understand that type of environment.”
RBI enjoys working with a number of qualified subcontrac-
tors and those relationships are essential to the successful
completion of all of its construction projects.
Stoaks says he hopes the company will work on more
green projects. “To work on another bank green building
would be really challenging,” he says. However, this is not
the first challenging project it has done for Bank of America;
the company has built 54 banks for it in the past four years.
Focused on Phoenix
The Chandler, Ariz.-based company does high-rise tenant
improvements, medical tenant improvements, such as den-
tal and doctor offices, and surgical centers and banks, as
well as projects in the industrial sector and retail centers.
The company provides general contracting and complete

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