The Denver office of AECOM Technology Corp. has carved out a major niche in the region's transit boom. The multidisciplinary consulting giant recently completed work, along with Kiewit Infrastructure and SOM, on the $500-million transformation of Denver's Union Station (DUS) into a regional transit hub. DUS celebrated its grand opening in May.
AECOM is continuing design work on the $350-million I-225 Light Rail line in Aurora, Colo., that is also being constructed by Kiewit as part of the Regional Transportation District (RTD)'s FasTracks program. "Those projects helped us build our transportation group in Colorado from 40 to around 100," says Rick Romig, AECOM's deputy project manager at DUS and the project manager on I-225 for the first six months of the job. "The jobs drew some of our best [AECOM] people here from across the country," he says.