Our Mission at Work

In today's fast-moving service industry, operating efficiently is crucial. To enable its employees to operate at the highest levels, Houston-based CenterPoint Energy chose us to design and construct a new office and warehouse facility in Golden Valley, Minn. With this optimized building, we're supporting their vision to "Lead the nation in delivering energy, service and value."

CenterPoint Energy is looking forward to enhancing our operational efficiencies in our Golden Valley Service Center. Our new facility will allow us to add value through superior customer service capabilities, new technologies and innovation.

Michael Jenson
Facilities Manager
CenterPoint Energy
Office and Warehouse Facility

With careers growing in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) industries, many educators are providing high-quality STEM education and enrichment to students. When Visitation decided to increase functionality of their entire campus and create a dedicated STEM education area to support their education mission and current initiatives (including an award-winning robotics team), they turned to our expertise to handle the complexities of their building.

We believe that the Visitation Heart and Mind project has created the kinds of learning environments that we need to prepare our students for 21st century success. Bringing the Visitation Heart and Mind project in on time and on budget was no small feat and was hugely appreciated. [Opus] respected that our mission is education, and were masterful in not having construction interfere with it. We loved working with Opus.

Dawn Nichols, Ed.D.
Head of School (Retired)
Visitation School

Efficient logistics and distribution is vital to ConAgra's mission of "making the food you love." When ConAgra needed to consolidate multiple Midwest distribution facilities into one centralized location in Frankfort, Ind., they turned to our team and the nearly 30-year shared history.

With a keen understanding of ConAgra Foods' business model and specific needs, our design-build process enabled completion of the immense build-to-suit project in an expedited timeline—just 52 weeks and six weeks ahead of schedule.

Our mission to make food that people love is important to ConAgra Foods in many ways. The distribution center in Frankfort allows us to stay cost competitive and distribute food at a price that people can afford.

Craig Weiss
Vice President of Supply Chain Planning, Programs and Logistics
ConAgra Foods

When Xcel Energy wanted to expand its downtown Minneapolis campus in order to bring together employees from separate offices and create workforce efficiencies, they chose us, a team with deep experience in corporate campus and urban development and construction.

Opus understood our vision for our downtown headquarters and worked diligently to bring this vision to life. The new Xcel Energy office space supports our business mission, consolidates our workforce and creates a unified campus.

Lawrence A. Bick, CFM, SFP
Sr. Director, Property Services
Xcel Energy

With their sights set on company growth, Freightquote—the nation's largest online shipping broker—began searching for a design-build firm that could meet their non-negotiable move-in deadline for a new headquarters office and main call center. Although others in the commercial real estate industry claimed meeting the deadline was impossible, our team embraced their timeline and budget.

While working closely with Freightquote, our team's deep office expertise and unique construction approach allowed us to develop a new state-of-the-art office space that would meet the company's growing business needs—and the vision of Freightquote's president, Tim Barton.

Opus was able to commit to our rigid deadline when no one else could. Their integrated approach allowed them to fast-track the project so we could move into our new 200,000-square-foot headquarters in nine months.

Tim Barton
Executive Chairman and President
Freightquote

With a growing student population and increasing demand for on-campus housing, Iowa State University chose our design-build team to deliver its first new residence hall in more than a decade on its Ames, Iowa, campus.

The University didn't just want a residence hall; they wanted a building that could foster learning and encourage student interaction and socialization. With that goal driving the process, our team sought every opportunity to integrate features that met or exceeded the goal.

We delivered betterments for ISU that included:

• a front porch for each house and casual collision areas to foster interaction
• maximized bed count (12% more beds at up to 45% lower cost per bed than comparable projects)
• a lobby entrance twice the size of the minimum requirement
• a nearly column-free structure that provides future flexibility
• increased sustainability through LEED Gold level design and construction strategies
• a student-centered design with increased natural light and ample study and social spaces throughout the building.

Our team delivered all of this for over $1 million less than ISU's target budget.

With strong business at MC Machinery Systems Inc., the company's workforce was expanding and on the brink of outgrowing their facility in suburban Illinois. With an eye to the future, MC Machinery turned to us for a new facility to meet the specific needs of their business operations and provide a better customer experience.

The new facility will allow MC Machinery to further expand its capabilities and service a diverse range of industries, including automotive, aerospace, energy, medical, military/defense, agriculture and more.

Our main motivator to build a new headquarters was our employees and customers. We wanted to provide them a new state-of-the-art place to come to work to everyday with updated technological resources that enable us to better serve our customers. We are beyond pleased with how Opus made this vision a reality.

Patrick Simon
Senior Marketing Manager
MC Machinery
Corporate HQ & Showroom
Industrial/Office Build-to-Suit