FORTE SPECIALTY CONTRACTORS WINS SILVER NUGGET AWARD

Fresh off a Silver Nugget Award for best design and architecture of a custom home, Forte Specialty Contractors keeps raising the bar with its latest projects. The luxury builder won the award for its $13 million, 13,500 square-foot home built in The Summit Club in Summerlin. Titled “Cascade,” the fourbedroom, eight-bath home was named because of the way its architecture cascades modularly and its landscape blends with the surrounding desert, overlooking the golf course through floor-to-ceiling windows. It was built for a prominent business executive and art collector, taking 13 months to complete, according to Forte CEO Scott Acton. The home was designed by Las Vegas-based Tal Studio.

“A lot of it was built with a tolerance of ten thousands of an inch in the stainless steel and stone reveal. All the travertine (banning) flows in one direction. The art gallery goes down the hallway. All the walls are floating on an art railing. There is no penetration at all. A lot of the walls are upholstered. It’s all hung like in an art gallery off a cable.”

Forte was a brainchild of the economy, Acton said. It started in 2010 at the bottom of the market and their ability to do design-build, value engineering, and maintain the experience of the developer’s visions, while at the same time-saving costs.

“As we developed that process, the luxury residential market started to take off and a lot of our visionary customers we were doing commercial work for wanted us to do luxury homes for them,” Acton said. “We did Cascade in 13 months because of our ability to self-perform a multitude of trades from framing and drywall to architectural metals, stone, and tile. We’re able to produce these luxury homes at a high level of finish.”

Forte builds about 10 to 12 custom homes a year for clients, such as former casino mogul Steve Wynn and business tycoons from around the world, who want to move to the valley. Forte is finishing up three homes in The Summit Club, the resort development in Summerlin, after which they will build five others. Forte will also be starting one in Ascaya in Henderson and Southern Highlands in the south valley.

The most expensive one under construction, about three months from completion, is named “Palladio” at $25 million. Designed by Daniel Chenin

Forte is leading the construction industry into the future by leveraging 3D printing technology. Forte’s 3D printer is one of the largest west of the Mississippi and is used to considerably speed up the production process.

“Vegas is seeing a remarkable boom from interesting families that have built amazing businesses,” Acton said. “It’s very interesting what is happening to Las Vegas right now.”