Roadrunner Drywall Corp.

In 1977, with little more than a pickup truck and a single apprentice, Mark and Bev Nuessle started Roadrunner Drywall. Today, with hundreds of employees throughout Arizona and Nevada, Roadrunner is one of the Southwest’s major drywall and painting companies. Over the years the business has grown, built on a reputation for honesty and hard work.

Roadrunner Drywall’s target markets include single-family, multifamily, custom homes and commercial work with major developers and homebuilders in Arizona and Nevada. Roadrunner Drywall works with large regional and national homebuilders. The team has numerous ongoing single-family home projects with these important business partners. Roadrunner Drywall also partners with developers and property managers for installation work in the multifamily residential and commercial markets.

A diverse portfolio

 “Custom home work is a valuable percentage of the company’s revenue,” says Mark, president of Roadrunner Drywall. His team works on a number of these homes each month, which are typically more creative and complex than tract homes.

 “The single-family home division is our largest, followed by multifamily, then custom homes,” Mark elaborates. “Commercial work is our smallest division, though still significant. We have a different division for each type of project. While each is equally important, the divisions are managed independently because they are not the same drywall to drywall.

“Our team members are specialized by the projects on which they work,” Mark continues. “Custom homes take additional supervision because each requires a great deal of detail. Multifamily projects are more complex because they have firewalls and shaft liners, etc. Because of the technical aspects, we constantly review these plans in detail with the project manager to assure all specs are being met.”

Roadrunner Drywall has several ongoing contracts in all four departments. “We presently have several ongoing apartment projects,” Mark shares. “We complete the full drywall phase, install, tape and texture—and in some cases painting as well.

“The rollover with continuous projects comes from longtime relationships with our key general contractors,” Mark adds. “We have been working with a large group of contractors for the past 38 years. These are associations forged on courage, honesty and integrity…getting the job completed correctly, on budget and on time.”

Building and maintaining relationships

Like many in the Southwest’s construction industry, Roadrunner Drywall faced the 2008 economic downturn head-on. “We are a tight knit group, and it was difficult to make cuts,” Mark laments. “Fortunately, the market is turning around —money is becoming more accessible to developers and home loans are becoming more attainable for most Americans.” Mark sees opportunities opening up in all markets.

“Each year since the downturn has been a little better than the previous year,” Mark shares. “We are seeing more building with more commercial jobs coming back and the residential market continues on the upswing.”

As the company grows with the market, Mark and his team remain focused on service, quality and efficiency. “We have a great team, many of whom have been with us for more than 25 years,” he explains. “We have employees who have spent their entire careers with Roadrunner Drywall. The Roadrunner team believes in exceeding customer expectations and works to do so every day.”

“We’ve developed our reputation on doing the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons—taking care of our customers and our employees. We believe that integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based upon values rather than personal gain. Through the economy’s ups and downs over nearly 40 years, Roadrunner Drywall Corp. continues to build strong business relationships constructed of honesty, integrity, and, Mark adds, a bit of drywall and paint.