The word is getting out to the real estate brokerage community: SiliconX Construction provides high-quality general contractor services with exceptional attention-to-detail for a range of projects — from the smallest tenant improvements to large-scale, ground-up construction.

Key Building Ingredients

Beyond materials such as wood, steel and concrete, SiliconX brings four key ingredients to every project it builds:

•     Experience — The SiliconX team has experience with virtually any type of tenant improvement project — from Class A office space to highly complex, technically demanding clean rooms and R&D facilities.  The team’s expertise also extends to high-rise, mid-rise and low-rise construction that includes office, manufacturing, R&D, distribution, retail, hospitality, and even parking structures.

•     Personalized service — Work is tailored to the precise needs of each client. Clear, concise, and continuous communication with brokers, clients, and subcontractors ensures everyone is always on the same page.

•     Detail-oriented work — SiliconX pays close attention to the details, from fit and finish to the little touches that result in a first-class end result.

•     Highly competitive pricing and fast turnarounds on estimates — Brokers and their clients are busy, and opportunities often have short timeframes. SiliconX responds with quick and accurate rough estimates — at no obligation — when brokers need to pencil something out for a client.

Earning your Business Every Day

While some contractors may rest on their reputations, SiliconX Construction’s philosophy is to work to earn your business every day.

If you’re a broker or property owner who would like to know more — or you need some rough project cost estimates really quickly — e-mail VP Todd Trekell, or call him directly at (408) 418-0099 Ext. 502.

So much to do in so little time. We’ve come a long way, baby! – Quaint sayings but in this case, right on the Money!

Phase 2’s foundation was planned, permitted and laid out in 2007 in conjunction with what we all know of as Club Auto Sport. Few knew what lay underneath the trailers and over flow parking on the south side of the property. That is until September 2011 when a deal was struck with Goodies Speed Shop. That deal started a beehive of activity. Club Auto Sport and it’s development team had to deliver a 34,000sf building in just 4 short months!

The ground breaking ceremony occurred on December 14, 2011 and everything started to shake rattle and roll! It has been fascinating watching this unfold. With just a couple of rain delays, we turned over keys to Goodies Speed Shop on May 1, 2012.

Already signed for another space is Supreme Detail Works. And being the ONLY Class A auto-related project in the area, interest is high for the balance of space ranging in size from 1,688sf or contiguous 8,500sf. Contact Anna McQuillan Rose for details at 408.770.1205 or anna@clubautosport.net.

How to travel around the state, conduct business in several cities, and still be home in time for dinner?

Borelli Investment Company, parent of SiliconX Construction, recently solved that problem by partnering with Silicon Valley Air Charter – a small plane air taxi service in San Jose. Imagine taking a limo to your sales visits – an “air limo” – departing from the bay area and having you in the far reaches of the state in minutes.

For more information about Bay Area airplane charter – call Silicon Valley Air Charter at 408-599-3205.

Highlights

•   Completed the project on schedule and on budget even while working through the Santa Clara Valley winter

•    Formed and poured 43 concrete panels in stacks in the highly confined parking area behind the existing Club Auto Sport facility

•    Relied on an oversized crane and innovative lifting techniques to safely and efficiently hoist the panels into their vertical positions in the building

Club Auto Sport is a high-end club for auto and motor sports enthusiasts, as well as a unique business community and event center that attracts thousands of upscale guests annually. After a slow start caused by the Great Recession of 2008, Club Auto Sport shifted into high gear. Today, the approximately 87,000 square foot facility is home to a growing roster of more than 40 businesses operating within the unique club. With the main building approaching 90% occupancy, Club Auto Sport-Silicon Valley gave the green light to begin building Club Auto Sport-Phase II. SiliconX Construction was selected as the general contractor.

Challenge

While the winter of 2011–2012 will be remembered as one of San Jose’s mildest and driest, it was still winter. Days were short. And when the rain fell, as it did from time to time — it negatively impacted schedules and created difficult working conditions for the construction personnel. This presented challenges in keeping the project on track for a spring completion.

In addition, the club’s second phase was built in a highly confined area behind the initial building — an area that had provided overflow club parking. This necessitated some creative solutions for casting the tilt-up panels used in the phase II structure.

Solution

SiliconX Construction broke ground on the 33,000 square foot Club Auto Sport-Phase II in mid-December. Club Auto Sport had the foresight to prepare a building pad for the second building when the first building was built in 2007–2008. Because of this, the construction on Club Auto Sport-Phase II got off to a fast start, even in the dead of winter.

To allow for the casting of the 43 panels required for the concrete tilt-up structure, SiliconX placed casting slabs in the club’s parking lot. The general contractor also formed and poured a number of the panels in a stack. This was the only way all of the concrete panels could be cast in such a small area.

Finally, to safely and efficiently lift the panels into their final vertical position with so little clearance on the site, SiliconX had to arrange for a crane with an extended height to be brought in — and relied on innovative sliding and rotating lifting techniques to get the job done properly.  Other than some minor redesigning of ADA parking adjacent to the new facility, the rest of the design and construction was relatively straight-forward.

Results

SiliconX completed construction of Club Auto Sport-Phase II by the end of April, 2012 — only 4 1/2 months after groundbreaking. Staying on schedule and on budget through the winter months, even with a minimum of weather issues, was a credit to the entire SiliconX team — from the project superintendent to the individual craftsmen and laborers.

“Club Auto Sport was very pleased with the teamwork that SiliconX Construction brought to our Phase II building — in bringing the project in on time and on budget,” said Ralph N. Borelli, co-founder and co-managing partner of Club Auto Sport-Silicon Valley.

The Phase II facility includes 16 individual condos, with five contiguous units leased prior to the start of construction to anchor tenant, Goodies Speed Shop. Goodies is a well-known, highly respected name in the Santa Clara Valley, having provided speed and performance parts and services to hobbyist-owners of American “muscle” cars and other high-performance vehicles, including hot rodders and drag racers, since 1962. Goodies moved its entire retail operation, signature service center, and a fabrication area for many of the custom parts it sells into the new space at Club Auto Sport shortly after the Phase II building opened.

Tony Gonzalez, Director of Construction Operations for SiliconX, oversaw the construction at Club Auto Sport-Phase II.