Rotondo Weirich

RW HISTORY
1994 With over 50 years combined plant-cast precast concrete construction experience, RW owners Steven J. Weirich and Mario Rotondo committed to finding a better way to produce and finish precast modules primarily for the corrections construction market. They pioneered the mobile plant concept by setting up a facility in Florida that would produce over 3,500 cells for the Florida Department of Corrections between May 1994 and May 1995.
1995 RW took its “on-site” production and finishing technology beyond the boundaries of the United States by providing a cost effective modular solution to the Argentine Ministry of Justice in Marcos Paz, Argentina.
1996 The state of Virginia began construction on the Red Onion Mountain Maximum Security Prison and RW was there- literally. Creative arrangement of a casting and finishing facility on a very tight site allowed RW to produce the facility’s 704 cells on the mountaintop in Pound, VA.
1997 RW set out to expand the modular market geographically. This would be the year that RW headed west to challenge the elements and the unique seismic characteristics of the western U.S. RW went to extremes in ’97 producing 1026 cells in the snowcapped mountains of Salt Lake, UT for the Salt Lake County Adult Detention Complex and another 1,280 in the Mojave Desert for CCA’s California City.
1998 As the corrections building boom of the late 1990s continued, RW grew with the industry. The on-site module production concept proved to be a winner across the country and internationally. As prison design took an innovative turn with focus on aesthetic architecture, RW showed that concrete modules could take many shapes to fit desired construction designs with the landmark Lexington-Fayette County Detention Center. Its site-cast 284 cells and 100 8-man dorms configured in a semi-circle were constructed so that they are presently barely visible to the locals behind the “horse barn” administration building.
1999 RW returned to Virginia breaking into the federal prison market with the production of 880 cells for the FBOP - Pennington Gap facility in Lee County, VA.
2000 The turn of the century brought RW back to Pennsylvania, their home state, to produce 1,216 cells on-site for the SCI- West Penn facility in Fayette County, PA. Y2K also had RW setting up shop in the hills of Preston Co., WV to produce 888 cells and an entire structural package for the FBOP USP- Hazelton facility.
2001 - 2002 Rotondo Weirich continued to develop a successful onsite setup approach to correctional construction, specifically design/build. RW constructed the 888 cells for the US Penitentiary in Coleman, FL and four juvenile facilities for the state of Georgia. RW also purchased our corporate headquarters in Lederach, PA.
2003 - 2004 Repeat business from satisfied clients has proven RW’s staying power in the industry. In 2003 and 2004 RW returned to the Federal Bureau of Prison’s Hazelton, WV site to add the housing units for a women’s correctional facility adjacent to the existing adult male facility. RW also provided the third phase of modular cell construction for the State of Maryland’s Department of Public Safety at their prison complex in Cumberland, MD.
2005 We are committed to quality control and continue to perform well per PCI and ACI industry standards. Recently on a PCI audit of our precast operation on the project site of the Federal Bureau of Prisons new FCI facility in Pollock, LA, Rotondo Weirich scored an 84.9% out of a possible 85%! We strive to be exemplary in areas of quality, consistency of product, and speed of delivery.
2006 and beyond With each new project, RW further tailors our specialty contractor program to meet the construction application. RW broke new ground in the corrections industry by shipping its mobile operation including molds, crane, and mobile fabrication shop to the Caribbean island of Barbados. Our company is doing what it does best and is set up completely on-site at the prison location.
The company looks forward to tackling more international work and expanding our process to reach beyond the 19 states we have already done business in to include as many new states and markets as possible.