Energy & Solar Infrastructure
One O&M Floor Plan. Four Sites. Three Operators.
We build operations and maintenance facilities for energy and solar operators across West Texas — and we have built the same one four times. If you are placing an identical facility at several sites, the contractor who has already done it is not a nice-to-have. It is the difference between a program and four separate projects.
The Builds
Where the Same Building Went Up
Three operators, four locations, one design. Named because a claim you cannot check is worth less than one you can.
South of Midland, Midland County
WHC Energy Services
on a Chevron project
The first of the four. A working operations facility on a remote site — control instrumentation, staff space and maintenance bays under one roof, not a shell.
Culberson County
Delaware Ranch Solar
two separate locations
The same floor plan, repeated twice on one project. Far West Texas, long haul distances, and no margin for a design that needs re-solving on site.
Midland County
Greater Bryant Solar
same plan again
Fourth build of the identical layout, for a third operator. By this point the crews, the submittals and the sequence were known quantities.
On Site
The Buildings, Photographed
All four are photographs of our own completed and in-progress work in the Permian. They look alike because they are the same building.
Scope
A Working Facility, Not a Shell
The distinction matters when you are comparing bids. A shell quote and a turnkey operations facility are different products, and on a remote site the difference is whether your people can actually work there on day one.
These buildings house control instrumentation and staff. Foundation, erection, interior fit-out and site work come under one contract, so there is no gap between trades for you to manage from four hours away.
- Full SCADA room
- Two offices
- Restroom
- Maintenance bays
- Standing-seam roof
- Separate exterior pump house for water
- Caliche pad and site work
- Foundation, erection and fit-out under one contract
Common Questions
Multi-Site Program Questions
- Can you build the same facility at multiple sites?
- That is what this page is about. The same operations and maintenance floor plan has been built four times across the Permian Basin for three different operators — WHC Energy Services on a Chevron project south of Midland, two locations in Culberson County for Delaware Ranch Solar, and Greater Bryant Solar in Midland County. Tell us how many sites and over what window, and you get a per-location cost with the sequencing laid out rather than several unrelated quotes.
- Why does building the same plan repeatedly matter?
- Because the second building is where most multi-site programs lose money. A contractor who has built your plan once already has the engineering resolved, the submittal package approved, the long-lead items identified and the crews who know the sequence. A contractor building it for the first time solves all of that again at your expense, and the fourth site ends up different from the first. Repeatability is not a marketing word here — it is the reason site four goes up to the same standard as site one.
- What is actually inside these buildings?
- A full SCADA room, two offices, a restroom, maintenance bays, a standing-seam roof and a separate exterior pump house for water, on a caliche pad with the site work included. These are staffed working facilities on remote sites, not storage shells. Foundation, erection and interior fit-out are delivered under one contract.
- Do you work outside the Permian?
- Yes. UTS BuildPros builds across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, and our General Manager holds the NASCLA Accredited Examination for Commercial General Building Contractors, which twenty licensing agencies across 17 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands accept in place of their own trade exam. If a project needs us licensed somewhere we are not yet, that is a filing rather than a re-examination, and we will pursue it for the work.
- What bonding capacity do you carry for a multi-site program?
- Single-project bonding to $10,000,000 and an aggregate program above $25,000,000, with general liability at $2,000,000 per occurrence and $4,000,000 aggregate. Bonding capacity is not what caps how many of your locations we can carry at once.
Placing the Same Facility at Several Sites?
Tell us the number of locations, the window, and roughly where. You get a per-location cost with the sequencing shown — which trades move between sites as a crew, and what that does to your schedule.