Knutson Construction’s Iowa City Office Adds Superintendents, Project Engineer

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Three new associates have joined Knutson Construction Services at its offices in Iowa City, Iowa. Kevin Knoll has been named general superintendent. He will work closely with Richard Mills, who has been added as superintendent. Justin Holthaus also has been hired as a project engineer.

“We are pleased to have Kevin, Richard and Justin on our team. Together, they bring a wealth of construction experience and strong leadership skills to our clients and our organization,” said Brad Johnson, Knutson Construction’s vice president and general manager.

Kevin Knoll, General Superintendent
Drawing from nearly three decades of construction experience, Knoll has worked on countless projects concentrating on healthcare and higher education facilities. He has been involved with such notable projects for the Shriners Hospitals for Children — North California unit in Sacramento, Calif., the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s Palmer Drive Life Sciences Complex and Bronson Methodist Hospital in Michigan.

Most recently, Knoll worked as a general superintendent with Iowa-based construction company Carl A. Nelson & Company. Prior to this, he worked in Michigan as a project director for Triangle Associates, Inc. He also has served as a project manager and superintendent for Skanska USA Building and for Barton Malow Company. He earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Brown University in Rhode Island.

Richard Mills, Superintendent
With more than 30 years of experience in Iowa’s construction industry, Mills enthusiasm for construction runs deep. For the past seven years, he worked at Iowa-based general contractor City Construction Group as a general superintendent. While there, he oversaw such projects as South Slope Cooperative Communications” building, Borlaug Elementary School, Lone Tree Community School’s building additions and multiple projects at the University of Iowa, including medical centers and suites, library and media center and athletic facilities.

Previously, Mills served as the steel erection supervisor at Carl A. Nelson & Company working on several agricultural and seed buildings for Monsanto and other companies across the Midwest. Along with his accumulated professional knowledge, he studied welding and structural documentation at Muscatine Community College.

Justin Holthaus, Project Engineer
Holthaus joins Knutson Construction from InVision Architecture, where he worked as an assistant project manager. He prepared schematic estimates, construction documents and building information modeling. During college, he worked as an estimator with Spahn and Rose Lumber Co. and also gained field experience as a laborer with Wicks Construction, Inc.

An alumnus of University of Northern Iowa, Holthaus graduated with a bachelor’s degree in construction management and earned his associate’s degree from Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, Iowa.