A History of Success: Our Process, Your Way.

Today and Beyond

Rotondo Weirich was founded on the principle of creating the Best Way to provide the Best Quality product for the Best Price.  The RW Team is dedicated to creating the precast modular solution that best fulfills the needs of each client.  During the last two years, RW's Project teams have produced over 5000 precast units for Federal, State and Private Clients.  Over our history, we have produced more than 50,000 modular units for our clients. We take pride in our product, our team and the relationships we build through the design and construction process.

We are excited to bring our process and product to new clients as much as we value the lasting relationships we have established with the nation's premier Contractors and Architects.

The RW Team began bringing our product to your jobsites over 15 years ago and we continue to lead the industry in providing the Best Quality product for the Best Price, through the Best Way for our clients' Correctional, Residential and Military Housing needs.
 
       

1994

With over 50 years combined precast concrete construction experience, RW owners Steven J. Weirich and Mario Rotondo committed to finding a better way to produce & 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 1994 & 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.

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 City, UT for the Salt Lake County Adult Detention Complex and another 1,280 in the Mojave Desert for CCA’s California City.

1998

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. This project began
RW's lasting and successful relationship with the Client.  To date, RW has been awarded the precast modular cell package for nine Federal Bureau of Prisons' facilities.

2000

The turn of the century brought RW back to
their home state to produce 1,216 cells, on-site, for the SCI- West Penn facility in Fayette County, PA. 2000 also had RW setting up shop in the hills of Preston Co., WV to produce 888 cells and the entire structural package for the FBOP USP-Hazelton facility.

2003

RW took its prefinished module to the residential market producing 144 kitchen and bathroom additions for
the Mystic River Renovation project. Each module was fully equipped with all bathroom fixtures and accessories as well as kitchen cabinetry and fixtures prior to being erected on to the existing apartment buildings.
The project would go on to receive the “Innovation in Sustainability” Award from PCI.

2005

RW’s staying power in the industry results from the repeat business of satisfied customers. 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. 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.

2008










RW expanded the scale of its onsite casting model to produce 3500 precast units in one year's time for the Corrections Corporation of America.  The cells were produced over 4 casting locations.  RW's teams mobilized to Oklahoma, Arizona, Mississippi and Tennessee to cast the modules for CCA.

2009

The new year brought new opportunities, and a new economy.  With the surge in local opportunities for the Pennsylvania Department of General Services and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, RW's Estimating & Pre-Construction teams set out to provide the best construction solution strategies for prospective clients.  The RW Operations Team moved ahead on RW's 8th FBOP project in Aliceville, AL and looks forward to kicking off the 9th in Yazoo City, MS. 

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