Colorado State University’s teams are known as the Rams, but recently, the school’s unofficial mascot might as well be the construction crane. The fast- growing university—chosen as ENR Mountain States’ 2016 Owner of the Year for Colorado and Wyoming—is engaged in a three-year, $700-million campus improvement program.
Current work includes a $220-million on-campus stadium with an office complex and academic facility, a $112-million student-apartment village, a $70-million biology building, a $59-million health and medical center, and a $55.4-million chemistry building.