The city of Thornton built a single-story public safety center to house both its fire and police departments, with components tailored to each group’s specific needs. The police station includes a holding area, office space, detective stations, field training and interview rooms. The fire station houses a kitchen, day room, sleeping rooms, showers, tool rooms and a decontamination room with specialty equipment to clean firefighting gear after an emergency response. The departments share a workout area, locker rooms and a community room.

One month into construction, crews unearthed what turned out to be the most complete and preserved torosaurus fossils on record, a discovery that brought with it lots of media attention—and big delays. Although it was an exciting find, the project team had to scramble and refocus its efforts to stay on schedule.

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