Architects for the new Utah Unified State Laboratory project chose exterior materials that would reflect the building’s mission and have low maintenance costs for the state.
As 2016 comes to a close, Salt Lake City-based general contractor Big-D is putting finishing touches on the final phase of Utah’s new Unified State Laboratory complex in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville.
Aerial daredevil Nik Wallenda took just 25 minutes to walk across a 2-in.-thick high wire strung 200 ft above Niagara Falls in June 2012, but the event required months of innovative planning.
Specialty contractors in the Mountain States face another good-news, bad-news scenario next year: plenty of work available in most markets and an ongoing struggle to find enough qualified people to do it.
Now in its 101st year of business, Utah electrical contracting giant Cache Valley Electric Co. has settled comfortably into not just one market niche, but several.
An Oct. 20 decision of the Colorado Court of Appeals promises serious consequences to the local construction industry as well as its liability carriers.