Westates Team
Westates Mechanical has LEED Accredited Professionals on our staff. The "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System", provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction.
Our employees are our most important resource. Westates strives to provide a safe and accident free workplace for its employees. This goal is achieved through ongoing safety training coupled with an incentive and recognition program which rewards safe practices. Our company maintains a comprehensive written safety program which adheres to all current OSHA guidelines.
William H. Bird, Jr. - Founder
Bill has been in the in the mechanical business since in 1973 with Scott Company. In 1980, he left Scott and moved to Broadway Mechanical as an Owner and Vice President and helped them become a major player in the San Francisco/Bay Area markets. In 1985, Scott Company and Broadway merged to form The Scott Companies and this was the catalyst for Bill to start his own business, Westates Mechanical Contractors, Inc. Over the next 10 years, Bill and Dan Loeffler built a very successful company using the same business model they had used at Scott Co. and Broadway Mechanical. As a result, in 1994, The Scott Companies approached Bill and convinced him to merge and to join their San Leandro operations as the head of the Service Contracting Department. Bill managed this department until 1998 when he relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada to handle the $72 Million mechanical contract on the Venetian Casino Resort project. In 1999, at the completion of the Venetian project, Bill became the Division Manager for Scott Co.'s Las Vegas office. In 2001, Bill was promoted to the position of Manager of Engineering and Detailing for all of The Scott Companies operations and was also tasked with developing the "Distributed Generation or Co-Generation" market in California and Nevada. In 2003, Bill left The Scott Companies and created a new company that we know today as Westates Mechanical, Inc. serving as a Board Member and the RMO (Responsible Managing Officer) for the Company.
Daniel Loeffler - CEO/President
Dan has been win the construction industry since 1977. He joined the original Westates Mechanical Contractors in 1986 and was the lead superintendent until Westates merged its operations with The Scott Companies in 1994. Dan continued to work as a key superintendent for Scott Co. until 1999 when he was promoted to Project Manager where he excelled. He developed the Chevron Account for Scott Co. as an Alliance Team Leader and the account had grown to perform up to $15 Million worth of work annually. Dan has developed very strong personal and professional relationships with Chevron, UCSF Mt. Zion Hospital and several key general contractors. He has managed and developed "State of the Art" projects including Fuel Cell, Co-generation, central plant upgrades and heat recovery projects that give Dan a competitive edge in specific fields that few people in the mechanical industry possess today. He has developed an expertise for working in existing operating facilities that is impossible to replicate without first hand knowledge. Dan left The Scott Companies in 2003 and help Bill create the new company Westates Mechanical, becoming CEO/President and co-owner.
Nigel Cowan - Vice President Operations
Nigel began his career with Scott Co. in 1997 as a fire protection designer. His background as a designer and his eagerness to learn and grow helped Nigel to advance and he was promoted to positions including estimator and project manager at Scott Co. His prior experience has given Nigel an excellent base for estimating and managing Design/Build as well as Plan and Spec projects of all types including high rise buildings, various BART projects, large multi-family residential buildings, hospitals, parking structures, retail centers, multi-use buildings and various Tenant Improvement projects. Nigel came to Westates in 2004 to establish and develop the Fire Protection Division to give Westates an edge on their competitors. He was promoted to Vice-President of Operations in 2007 and became a minority shareholder in 2008.
Employee Summary
Westates Mechanical Corporation currently employs in 50+ individuals that work directly for the Company. However, at any given time the Company has an additional 20 to 30 temporary union employees working on different jobs. The Company currently works directly with Union Locals 38, 104, 159, 342 and 483. Since the Company is a union shop it has very good availability to a trained labor pool allowing it the flexibility to ramp up or down based on the workload and job mix.