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mechanical contractors from across the country under common ownership. Together, our motto is to get‘ Better Together’, so that we can bring the best of all the businesses together to achieve the most productive, but also one of the best, companies to work for in the nation.”
Encompassing a vast range of specialisms across a number of market sectors, including healthcare, industrial, laboratory, public, and education, ACI’ s comprehensive scope of capabilities makes it the partner of choice for a plethora of different projects. From structural steel fabrication to process piping, HVAC, electrical services, and fire protection, ACI is proud to offer a breadth of turnkey solutions that have only continued to improve as it embarks further on its journey. Aligning with its client-centric ethos, the company has augmented its modular fabrication services in response to the increase in industry demand. Through its highly automated 340,000-square-foot facilities in Richmond, ACI provides a plethora of integrated modular solutions for projects of all scales and complexities, handling everything from initial design and manufacture right through to delivery.
Evan elaborates:“ With our modular fabrication, we can build structural steel frames the size of a tractor trailer approximately 50 feet long. We then preinstall all of the major mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection systems for the building onto the steel frames, and we then ship those frames all across the country. It’ s really helped us to break the geographical boundaries of the projects that we’ re able to participate in.”
As the company embarks further on its growth trajectory and the demand for its modular services continues to rise, ACI has invested heavily in its infrastructure. Consequently, its state-of-the-art Richmond headquarters underwent a major expansion in February 2025. Enter: HQ 2 – a new, 170,000-square-foot building dedicated entirely to ACI’ s modular fabrication processes. The $ 25 million investment operates in conjunction with ACI’ s HQ 1 and will increase its modular capacity by five times, marking an evolutionary shift in the company’ s overall speed and efficiency.
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“ We’ ve recently doubled the square footage of our Richmond headquarters, which we were really excited about. We added an additional 170,000 square feet to the facility, taking it to a total of around 340,000 square feet; this has allowed us to not only expand our one-stop fabrication capabilities, but offer a new facility to further build out our modular fabrication,” Evan explains.
“ Essentially, we’ ll take the parts and pieces from HQ 1 and move them to HQ 2 for the volumetric modular assembly,” he continues, elaborating further on the process.“ This system allows us to be more efficient because we’ re moving more of those trade hours off the job site and into a controlled environment with highly automated, robotic machinery, which means that we can get more work completed with the same number of people whilst maximizing our key performance metrics, such as safety, quality, and productivity. It enables us to give our people the best working environment that we can.”
As Evan emphasizes, nurturing the wellbeing of its workforce is absolutely paramount in ACI’ s people-focused culture. The company’ s core values of innovation, collaboration, and diversity permeate every facet of its culture and operations and is one
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