Omaha
Reconditioning
Center
The Omaha Reconditioning Center (ORC) is designed to streamline and optimize handling new and used vehicles for H&H's dealership network. This innovative facility centralizes inspection, reconditioning, and photography, enabling efficient vehicle preparation while freeing up valuable technician resources and creating an ideal environment for intake, repairs and detailing.
For the design of the Omaha Reconditioning Center (ORC), H&H hired RDG to envision an entirely new way to handle new and used vehicles coming into their dealership system. In the old paradigm, car transports would arrive at the dealership and get unloaded. They would need to be inspected on the lot, and then any repairs or aftermarket add-ons would be done in the shop, taking valuable technician and service bay time. All new or used cars will pass through the intake center in the new ORC model. All inspections are performed indoors under ideal lighting conditions and climate control. Should any repairs or add-ons be necessary, cars can easily be pulled off the inspection floor into service bays. A second part of the building is an appearance shop. Any used car that enters the H&H system gets a full cleaning and detailing, including paint touchups in a new paint booth, before moving on to the final stop, a high-tech photo booth where final photos are taken to post to the website and other online sales locations. Additional support areas include parts and replacement tire storage, offices, training rooms and staff lockers. Every new and used car that enters the H&H dealership system makes a first stop at the ORC. The design of the building was very intentional - it is meant to visually be a background building for the rest of the H&H structures in Steel Ridge and purposefully not call attention to itself, but it might be considered the most important building on the site.