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Richard Wilczak

Director of Construction, Garfield Traub Development

Rick Wilczak has 39 years of international design and construction management leadership experience and has served in the capacity of project engineer, construction manager and senior construction manager, Sr. Project Executive & presently holds the position of Director of Construction  for a wide range of publicly and privately owned property types valued at up to $400 million each.

Mr. Wilczak recently completed an assignment as Sr. Project Executive for Garfield Traub in its role as Owner’s Representative for CityMark Juhl Condominiums, a multi-tower condominium high-rise in downtown Las Vegas. The facility includes more than 340 residences, a two-story fitness center and a centralized pool and spa. The high-rise community will also have restaurants, retail shops and art galleries.

Wilczak was formerly assigned as Garfield Traub’s Program Manager for the Los Angeles Unified School District schools development. In that capacity, Rick oversaw the simultaneous construction and commissioning of seven primary centers and one recreation center in eight different locations within the Los Angeles area, totaling $65 million in value for the nation’s second largest school district.

For the last fifteen years, Mr. Wilczak’s has primarily focused on design-build and development of commercial and institutional projects such as schools, hotels and convention centers, warehouses, malls and hospitals ranging from $0.5 million to $400 million in value. Since 2000, Mr. Wilczak has had responsibility for a total of 21 school projects within the Las Vegas and Los Angeles area.

Mr. Wilczak’s experience includes direct supervisory responsibility for a number of industrial and commercial projects including a Chlorine Expansion Plant in Taft, Louisiana, Fiberfrax industrial facilities throughout England, Germany, Australia and the United States, and the relocation of an entire steel processing plant from Ohio to China. These projects required experience in civil, mechanical, electrical, structural and all minor trades. At the early stages of his career, Mr. Wilczak was a structural and civil design engineer. As time passed, Mr. Wilczak’s skill set expanded to encompass actual construction management, which provided an opportunity for him to obtain valued field experience.

Mr. Wilczak holds a BSCE degree in Civil Engineering Bradley University from (Peoria, Illinois) and completed Master’s Degree courses in Structural Engineering and Business. Mr. Wilczak’s experience abroad required a facility to adapt to language barriers when constructing outside the US. Mr. Wilczak also holds his Contractor’s License in the states of California, Arizona and Utah.