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The contract is one document
A line-item scope with a draw schedule attached. It names one party, and that party is the one you call when something is wrong.
We run our own crews and hold our own contracts.
Advanced Design And Development is a design-build general contractor in Reno and Sparks. Drawings and construction sit inside one agreement, so there is nobody to hand the blame to when the two disagree.
- What we contract for
- Whole-home remodels, additions, ADUs, kitchens and baths, commercial build-outs
- Trades we self-perform
- The building work our licence classifications cover, with every specialty trade going to a separately licensed subcontractor
- Talk to us
- (775) 200-0648, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
01What a general contractor owes you
A contractor is a set of obligations, not a truck with a name on it.
Anyone can print the words on a door. What separates one firm from the next is which obligations it takes into writing. These six are ours, and they live in the contract.
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The schedule has one author
Every trade is booked against a calendar we publish and update. You never forward a plumber's text to a framer.
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The permit set is ours to file
We prepare it, submit it to the jurisdiction your parcel sits in, and meet the inspector. Reno, Sparks and Washoe County each review differently.
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Drawings precede demolition
Dimensioned plans, elevations and a selections list with model numbers. You approve a drawing, not a description of one.
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Money moves on paper first
Allowances carry a running balance; change orders are priced and signed before the work happens. A number that moves is a document.
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Close-out is handed over
Approved drawings, the inspection record and manufacturer documentation for what was installed, with a signed punch list.
02Who you deal with
Four roles, and you meet two of them in the first week.
No team page with stock headshots. What we can tell you today is which role owns which part of your job.
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Estimating
The person who walks your property writes the estimate. It is not handed to another desk and returned as a number.
02
Field supervision
One superintendent owns the sequence: books the trades, meets the inspector, and calls you the day a date moves.
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Permits and paperwork
The permit set, change orders, allowance ledger and close-out package are somebody's actual job here.
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The trades
Framing, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, drywall, tile and finish: some ours, some contracted. Section 03 says which.
No names or backgrounds are published here yet. Naming people needs their consent as well as ours. Better a visibly empty slot than a paragraph you cannot check.
03Self-performed and contracted
Ask every bidder which trades are actually theirs.
"Our own crews" means different things at different companies, and it is worth pinning down before you sign anything.
Some general contractors self-perform framing and finish carpentry and buy in every other trade. Some hold no trade at all and coordinate the rest. Both can build a good house. What matters is knowing which one you hired, because it decides who is on your site daily.
Our own split follows the licence rather than a marketing line. Advanced Design & Development, Inc. holds general building classifications B-1, B-2 and B-3, and no specialty trade classification, so the building work those classifications cover is ours, and every specialty trade goes to a separately licensed subcontractor. That is checkable on the Board’s record rather than on our say-so. Four things hold either way.
- Who signs
- One contracting partyEvery subcontract is between that party and the trade. You are not a party to any of them and never pay a trade directly.
- Who schedules
- One calendar, publishedTrades are booked against our sequence, not their convenience. A slip is reported the day it happens.
- Who is on site
- Ours on the work our classifications cover, licensed subcontractors on the specialty tradesThe split follows the classifications on our licence, which are on the Board’s public record.
- Who is answerable
- The party named on the contractAsk for that name in writing, then check it against the Nevada State Contractors Board record before you sign. Do that with every bidder, including us.
04Licences, and how to check them
Every licence on this page is one you can check against the state’s own record.
The first question worth asking a contractor is not how good they are. It is whether they are permitted to hold your job at all. Here is what the corporation holds, what it permits, where it stops, and the free search that settles it in about ten minutes.
Issued by the Nevada State Contractors Board
Nevada contractor license 0077896A
Held by Advanced Design & Development, Inc., the corporation that signs the contract, not a trading name. Nevada requires a contractor’s advertising to carry both the company name and the licence number (NRS 624.720(4)), which is why the pair appears at the top and bottom of every page here.
- Classifications on the record
- B-2, B-3 and B-1B-2 Residential and Small Commercial · B-3 Speculative Building · B-1 Premanufactured Housing
- Monetary limit
- $3,300,000The ceiling this licence sets on a single contract.
- Status and expiry date
- Read them on the record, not hereA status typed into a web page is only true on the day it was typed. The Board publishes both, live, and step 03 below tells you where to look.
Check it yourself, in about ten minutes
Nothing below needs our help, our permission, or an account. Do it for every bidder you are considering, this one included.
- Open the Board’s public search. It sits at
app.nvcontractorsboard.comand is free. The Board spells it the American way, license. - Search the number first. Entering 0077896A tells you who actually holds it, which is the one thing a number printed on a website cannot tell you. It should return ADVANCED DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT INC, the way the Board prints our legal name.
- Then read five fields. Status, classifications, monetary limit, expiry date, and the qualified individual (the person whose experience the licence rests on).
- Then search by name. That tells you whether the company you are talking to appears at all, and under which trading names.
- Compare it to your paperwork, and keep a copy. The legal name should match the contract and the payee on your cheque character for character: “Inc” and “LLC” are different legal persons, not styling. Save the record as a PDF the day you read it.
The longer version of this check (what the surety bond and the Residential Recovery Fund actually cover, what the record cannot tell you, and the five documents to ask for before you sign) is written out in how to verify a Nevada contractor licence.
What those classifications permit, in plain language
B-2
Residential and Small Commercial
The general building classification, and the one most of this site describes. It is what lets a single contractor hold a whole-house scope (structure, envelope and the trades beneath them) rather than one trade inside somebody else’s contract.
B-3
Speculative Building
Building on our own account, on speculation, rather than under contract to a named owner. It is a builder’s classification rather than a homeowner’s. It is listed here because it is on the record and you will meet it there.
B-1
Premanufactured Housing
Housing built in a plant and completed on the site, as distinct from a house framed from scratch on the lot. The separate Nevada Housing Division licence below sits alongside it.
Those are plain-English readings, written to be useful rather than exact. The Board’s own wording is the authority, and it is on the record you just looked up.
The other licences the corporation holds
- City of Reno
- R151107A-LICBusiness licence, contractor.
- City of Sparks
- S086388A-LICBusiness licence, contractor. Sparks is where the office is.
- Washoe County
- W002529A-LICCounty business licence.
- Nevada Housing Division
- B1669Manufactured Housing: General Serviceperson, Installation.
A contractor licence is state-wide; a business licence is issued per jurisdiction, which is why there is more than one. Two of those records are filed under fictitious firm names the corporation registered years ago: the Sparks licence under Sierra Construction Services, the Housing Division licence under Affordable Homes. If you look them up and a different name comes back, that is why, and the article linked above explains why a filed trading name is ordinary and what it would mean if a name were not filed at all.
Where this licence stops, and what it does not prove
The B classifications are general building. They are not general engineering: excavation, grading, paving, underground pipe and sewers sit in the A classifications, and this licence does not permit the corporation to hold that work. If your project needs it, it belongs to a contractor licensed for it, under that contractor’s own number. Ask to see that number the same way you just checked ours.
The $3,300,000 limit is the ceiling on a single contract. NRS 624.970(2)(a) already requires a residential improvement contract to state the classification and the monetary limit, so you would meet the figure at signing whatever we did here. It is on the page early because a number you discover late reads as a number that was withheld, and because a project sitting above that ceiling is a conversation to have before anybody pays for drawings.
Finally, a licence record proves permission, not performance. It says nothing about whether a company answers its phone, holds a schedule or writes things down, and nothing at all about insurance coverage, which never appears on the record and has to be requested as a certificate, from the agency, by you. There is no rating in this section for the same reason there is no star rating anywhere on this site: read the next section.
05What we do not claim
No stars, no counts, no borrowed photographs.
Read four contractor sites in an afternoon and the same items appear on all of them: a star rating, a year count, a project count, and a photograph of a kitchen. Three of those are typed in. The fourth is often bought from a stock library.
This website is new and has no published record, so it uses none of them. No rating, because no reviews have been published here. No project count, because a count nobody can audit is a number rather than evidence. And no bought or borrowed photograph: every plate on this site is one of our own jobs, shot on the site by a photographer we hired or by us while the work was underway.
What is here instead is checkable before you spend anything: an estimate specific enough to set beside a competing bid row by row, and a sequence we will describe on the phone in the order it happens.
- PROJECT
- SCOPE OF WORK
- REV / DATE
- SHEET
06Start a conversation
Judge us on the estimate, not on the website.
Tell us the house and the scope. If it is a job we should be running, you get a walkthrough and a written, line-item number. If it is not, you get told that on the phone rather than three weeks later.
Fastest way to reach us
(775) 200-0648
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. A person answers, and it is somebody who has been on a job site. The form goes to the same place, one business day behind the phone. Full contact details are on the contact page.
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We will call you back within one business day to set the walkthrough. If you need us sooner than that, call (775) 200-0648 now: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.