Jensen Infrastructure

In 1960, a high-school student in Reno named Donald Jensen began casting concrete parking curbs as a side venture; eight years later, having briefly bought and then sold a septic-tank business, he founded the firm that would become one of the largest independent precast concrete manufacturers in the western United States. Sixty years on, Jensen is still family-owned, still headquartered in the city it started in, and as of February 2025 trades under the name Jensen Infrastructure to reflect the expansion of its work beyond precast concrete into metal, fibreglass, and polymer infrastructure components.

The firm designs, manufactures, and installs precast concrete and composite infrastructure for civil, utility, transport, and stormwater applications across the western United States — vaults, manholes, retaining walls, sound walls, drainage structures, and the modular concrete assemblies that, once buried or fenced from view, carry the operational weight of the cities and highway systems above them. Twelve manufacturing yards serve customers in Nevada, California, Arizona, and Hawaii. The corporate headquarters and the original yard remain in the Reno area; the firm operates further yards in Sacramento, in the Central Valley near Lodi, and elsewhere in the western states.

What distinguishes Jensen Infrastructure among western-US precast manufacturers is the combination of scale and continuity. The firm has been family-owned since founding and is run by the second generation of the Jensen family; very few independent precasters of comparable scale have remained outside private-equity or public ownership. The 2025 rebrand from Jensen Precast to Jensen Infrastructure marked a deliberate widening of the firm’s product line beyond concrete, but the centre of gravity of its operation — heavy industrial casting, finishing, and freight-out from yards close to the works that consume the parts — has not changed.

The practice has worked with Jensen Infrastructure across the firm’s Sparks/Reno manufacturing yard, the Sacramento yard, the Central Valley yard near Lodi, and the corporate headquarters in Reno on Lean process implementation across yard operations and corporate functions.