McCarthy Building Companies Names Rick Tavelli Director of Client Services, McCarthy NM

June 14, 2012 - PRLog -- McCarthy Building Companies Inc. recently named Rick Tavelli the Director of Client Services for McCarthy NM, a division of McCarthy Building Companies (www.mccarthynm.com) based in Albuquerque.

In this role, Tavelli will serve as the market leader in New Mexico, serving a vast array of current and prospective clients throughout the state. Prior to this position with McCarthy, Tavelli served as the Director of the Construction Industries Division for the state of New Mexico.  

“Rick has nearly four decades of experience in the construction industry in New Mexico and will be a tremendous asset to our business development team in the state,” said Bo Calbert, president of McCarthy Southwest, which includes McCarthy NM. “His vast array of construction expertise – ranging from office buildings and medical facilities to historic preservations, schools, casinos and multifamily housing – will serve him well in this position.”  

Tavelli spent 31 years with a New Mexico-based construction company, where he retired in 2006 as senior vice president. During his tenure there, he oversaw the construction of Isotopes Stadium, the Albuquerque Aquarium and Botanic Gardens, the restoration of Montezuma’s Castle (Las Vegas, NM) and the Genoveva Chavez Community Center (Santa Fe, NM), along with more than 100 other projects.

Tavelli has also served as construction manager for the Mesa del Sol New Urbanism Development south of Albuquerque and acted as owner’s representative for the Arch Diocese of Santa Fe on the construction of the Church of the Incarnation in Rio Rancho, NM. He also served as construction manager for the College of Santa Fe and as a conceptual estimator and constructability consultant for several of the major Albuquerque design firms as well as the City of Albuquerque.

Tavelli earned a bachelor’s degree of University Studies with a major in architecture from the University of New Mexico. He has served on the Ronald McDonald House Building Committee, the Albuquerque Green Build Task Force, the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance, and the Samaritan Counseling Center Board of Directors.

About McCarthy NM
Founded in 1864, McCarthy is one of the oldest and largest privately held construction firms in the nation. McCarthy’s Southwest Region has divisional offices in Albuquerque, Las Vegas and Tempe, Ariz. The company is the nation’s 8th largest domestic general contractor (Engineering News-Record, May 2012). In addition to the firm’s offices in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, McCarthy also has offices in Newport Beach, San Diego, Sacramento and San Francisco; St. Louis; Dallas; and Atlanta. McCarthy is 100 percent employee owned. For more information, visit www.mccarthynm.com.