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Schools, Churches, Temples & Gyms

Institutional & Facility Renovation

Schools, Churches, Temples & Gyms

KneppKraft is a licensed General Engineering and Building contractor the institutions that serve their communities keep calling back for decades. Complete HVAC, gym remodels with sport flooring, ADA facility improvements, and full renovations.

20 YearsServing Nishi Hongwanji, DTLA
HVAC · Floors · ADAComplete Facility Work
#547307ABCA Lic. A + B
Since 1985Referral-Driven
A Long-Term Facility Partner

The contractor facilities trust with the whole building.

Schools, churches, temples, and gyms don’t want a different trade for every problem, they want one accountable contractor who knows the building. KneppKraft has served institutional clients for decades, including a 20-year relationship with the Nishi Hongwanji temple in Downtown Los Angeles, and has remodeled gymnasiums, temples, and school facilities across the region.

From a complete HVAC overhaul to a gym floor to ADA facility upgrades, we plan the work around your schedule, your congregation, or your school calendar, minimizing disruption to the people who use the space.

Facility services

  • Complete HVAC renovation, gyms, schools, churches
  • Gymnasium remodels & sport flooring
  • ADA facility access improvements
  • Interior & whole-facility renovation
  • Structural & concrete repair on aging buildings
  • Emergency service repairs
The Hard Part

Mechanical work above a finished floor

HVAC installation in progress at Nishi Hongwanji gymnasium using scissor lift

Protect the floor, then hand the room back

A gymnasium HVAC replacement is mostly a protection problem. The equipment sits at height, the sport floor underneath is the most expensive surface in the building, and the room has to come back ready to play on.

We paper and protect the deck before anything comes down, work off lifts instead of staging on the floor, and phase the work so the space returns in usable blocks rather than going dark for a season. Where the floor itself needs attention, we refinish or replace it inside the same scope instead of handing it to another trade and another schedule.

Rooftop Sequence

Old roof to new mechanical, step by step

1Old built-up roof with blue layout marks and surface-run conduit, temple tile roofs and downtown Los Angeles behind
Old roof, laid out
2New wood-framed equipment platform with OSB decking under construction on a flat roof
Platform framed & decked
3New galvanized ductwork on stanchions across a flat roof with the downtown Los Angeles skyline behind
Duct mains set
4Finished white-coated flat roof with the new ductwork in place, temple tile roof at left and the downtown Los Angeles skyline behind
Coated & complete
Inside Nishi Hongwanji

Rooftop to sanctuary, every part of the building

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Planning a facility project? Let’s walk it.

HVAC, a gym floor, ADA upgrades, or a full renovation, we’ll scope it around your calendar.

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