Experience

For 30 years Henry Gilkey has worked in commercial management company overseeing 167 acre property, 16 commercial buildings and the day-to-day operations in Building & facilities Services for landlords and tenants. His management scope encompasses buildings that are 4,000 square feet to 180,000 square feet varying in occupants He is responsible for scheduling site visits with potential tenant, leasing agents, subs and HR professionals. the demolition or removal of, of structures or equipment. Facilities daily debris clean up and removal of crews that comes in at the end of the shift. The demolition or removal of structures or equipment.

Henry’s responsibilities include bidding projects, managing budgets and overseeing renovations, repairs and any problems that occur on the 167 acre commercial property. He works with an array of concrete contractors, from electrical contractors & HVAC, contractors, janitorial, civil engineers, roofing contractors, landscape, voice data and communication contractors, asphalt contractors, security systems, security contractors and card access security contractors.

Deep experience resolving irrigation issues asphalt, concrete, damage, walkway, roadway, roofing issues. He is responsible for bidding out companies security services as well as our janitorial services. He identifies subs, oversee all bids, reviews them to make sure that the scope of work is the same and then awards that contract to that particular company.

Henry now has his General Contractors B license so he is moving into doing government and commercial construction, facilities & disaster relief projects.

Success

Henry's success in the construction industry can be attributed to his commitment to excellence and his ability to build strong relationships with top companies. Over the last six years, his team has consistently come in under budget, even during the challenges presented by Covid.

One of Henry's key relationships is with Turner Construction, with whom he has a direct relationship. He works closely with Turner Construction to facilitate the logistics for their projects, ensuring that work is completed efficiently and effectively. Turner Construction is a major player in the industry, having built the SoFi RAM Stadium and bidding on the Las Vegas Raider Stadium.

Henry also works with a top real estate company, C B R E, to facilitate both the sale and purchase of properties. He understands the unique challenges of the real estate industry and works closely with C B R E to provide exceptional service to their clients.

Another recent collaboration for Henry has been with Rudolph and Slaton, a steel company. He worked with them to complete a recent project, demonstrating his ability to collaborate with companies in various industries to deliver high-quality construction projects.

Through his strong relationships with top companies and his commitment to excellence, Henry has achieved great success in the construction industry. His ability to deliver projects on time and under budget while maintaining the highest standards of quality has earned him a reputation as a trusted partner in the industry.

Pride

The years of service that I have been able to provide to tenants, subcontractors, prime contractors, and, my current employer. 30 years of service, in the same field. I have been referred as a General Motors employee in construction there's just not a lot of, people out there that can say they've worked at a construction company or for 30, 40 years today. I really pride myself in my commitment. I believe that I make clients and contractors job easier because I am a problem solver and provide solutions.

Get her done!

Challenging but rewarding

There were three buildings at this site, and they wanted to create an association and part of creating an association is each building would have to have its own utilities going to that building only at the time they were shared. So, for example, the sewer line was all connected to all three of these buildings. So we'd have to intercept the sewer line and have each building have its own separate sewer line and go directly from that building to the public street.

So the wet and dry utilities that were all, shared at the time, we had to go intercept those lines and then reroute those lines to that specific building and not have those buildings shared. At that point. Part of the requirements from the city was we had to widen one of the driveways, which took us off the, you know, our property and onto the public street mm-hmm. , which the public street has its own set of rules and requirements that are totally different from the requirements that we have at our site. And so it was the time year where we were getting rain, so we had to do some work in the street. We'd cut the asphalt, we'd go home at night, and it would rain, and we'd come home, come back to work the next morning, and our asphalt trench that we had cut out was full of water, so it delayed the project. We also had to plant three trees as part of this, association, we also had to install a streetlight. And so we had public works. so I was dealing with multiple agencies with multiple requirements, multiple inspectors, multiple insurance. We finally got it completed. but it was, it was a tough project.

History of Redline - In Out and On Budget

The name Red Line Construction my vision for that was, the train. I was really looking at the bullet train, which is a very fast train to gets you from one state or one, you know, area to another in a very fast timeframe. Eed line, construction was kind incubated from that vision. My dad was big on customer service so we want to have the customer or the client, to be inconvenience for the least amount of time is possible. The vision behind Red Line Construction was a speedy, completion of the project in and out, speed, satisfaction, budget, on time.

My, father was a construction contractor several years ago. My first construction job with my father was when I was 11 or 12 years old and I really fell in love with the trade. My first construction job when I was age 11 or 12 was for a plastering company that I worked for that, my dad had. So, we would go in, we'd do all the outside stucco on the house.

I also learned electrical. I have, installed what we call rough electrical.

So my background experiences, electrical work, stucco, experienced in drywall work and repair.

I just really wanted to take my dad's legacy on. So just a combination of the love of the work and, my father's vision that he had of a construction, contracting business was really the two driving forces that led me to, pursue my general construction license and my hope is to create a construction company that positively impacts communities to keep the Gilkey tradition going by passing the business down to my son.