Pre-fabrication

Lagina Plumbing helps ensure quality control and completion of projects on or before deadline through its prefabrication shop.

We devote 8,500 square feet of our Milwaukee facility to prefabrication, giving us efficient access to materials needed for each plumbing system, and letting us put those systems together in a controlled environment -- unaffected by the vagaries of Wisconsin's weather nor the unpredictable conditions of a job site.  Customers benefit by getting more reliable plumbing systems delivered in a more cost-effective manner.

Following are just two of our projects that benefited from prefabrication.

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Clinics - New Berlin

When general contractor C.G. Schmidt wanted to ensure a timely design and installation of plumbing systems for the new Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Clinics -- New Berlin,

it chose Lagina Plumbing of Milwaukee.  Lagina Plumbing was able to meet the contractor's requirements and ensure high quality in the plumbing systems because of the capabilities provided by

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its 4,000-square-foot prefabrication shop. The 74,000-square-foot clinic was recently built in a 35-acre medical office park along Beloit Road in the Milwaukee suburb of New Berlin.

 

Lagina Plumbing installed complete interior plumbing systems to handle numerous medical labs in the comprehensive medical facility.

Lagina’s work included installation of medical gas, air and vacuum systems for the pediatric primary and specialty clinic.

“Our fabrication shop really helped us meet the tight schedule laid out for this project by two terrific companies, C.G. Schmidt and Irgens Development, while ensuring quality through the controlled environment of our prefab shop,” said Jim Lagina, president of Lagina Plumbing.

Park Lafayette

When the general contractor of a dramatic condominium project in Milwaukee needed a commercial plumbing partner capable of overcoming logistical challenges and experienced in complex jobs, Lagina Plumbing was the sub-contractor of choice.

The project was the 20-story, two-tower residential condominium Park Lafayette development on Milwaukee’s east side, completed in the summer by general contractor Hunzinger Construction for Renaissant Development Group LLC.

With 291 condo and townhouse residential units, two fitness centers and other common spaces, the towers required an extensive and complex plumbing system. Lagina Plumbing’s experience in multi-unit residential structures and its prefabrication shop gave it the edge for this highly visible project.

Lagina Plumbing’s residential experience includes EastCastle Place Assisted Living in Milwaukee, the Waterfront Condominiums in Milwaukee, St. Anne’s Respite Center in St. Francis, the Jackson Square Apartments in Milwaukee and others.

The commercial plumbing company’s 4,000-square-foot prefabrication shop adds efficiency and quality control, but also helps reduce congestion on job sites where multiple trades are working at the same time.

The size of the buildings in the dense urban neighborhood demanded a special storm water system, which Lagina Plumbing also has expertise in. The company installed a Storm Trap retention system, which holds rain water in underground concrete tanks. After city storm sewer capacities are restored, the retained water is slowly released.

“This really is a beautiful development that will offer residents incredible views of Lake Michigan and the city,” said Lagina Plumbing President Jim Lagina. “We’re proud to be part of this great development, and glad that our plumbing prefabrication shop helped ensure quality and helped keep the construction process flowing smoothly.”

Project developer Warren Barr, of Chicago-based Renaissant Development Group LLC, said Park Lafayette residents enjoy a slice of Chicago luxury living along with the conveniences and amenities of the east side neighborhood, which overlooks McKinley Beach and McKinley Marina.