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IntermountainDave Love, president and CEO of New Star General Contractors, has been nominated to join Park City’s Peace House board of directors. Peace House is a nonprofit dedicated to breaking the cycle of domestic violence through education, support services and help from the Peace House Shelter, which New Star helped build in 1995 by donating labor and materials. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" LOVE Love was elected as Peace House’s eighth board member. He has owned New Star for 24 years. During his career, Love has managed construction projects ranging from Deer Valley’s Stein Eriksen Lodge, Talisker Park at

Vince Izzo has been named director of environmental services for HDR’s global transportation program. In his new role, he will oversee delivery of environmental planning and compliance services for transportation infrastructure projects around the world. Izzo is based in HDR’s Missoula office. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" THOMPSON IZZO Wayne Thompson recently joined CTL|Thompson where he will oversee the firm’s Longmont and Boulder, Colo., operations. Thompson comes to CTL with more than 12 years of experience in the structural and foundation engineering field and two years experience in construction estimating for a Longmont-based concrete contractor. Josh Oakeson and Brian

FKP Architects’ senior associate and project designer, Mezio S. Zangirolami, AIA, LEED AP, was recently named among the Houston Business Journal’s 2010 “40 Under 40” honorees. The annual awards program identifies 40 leaders on the rise who excel in their industries, are respected business leaders and show leadership in their communities. Zangirolami graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. TEXO, the combined chapter of the North/East Texas Chapter of the Associated General Contractors and the Associated Builders and Contractors North Texas, named Hank Mouser of Balfour Beatty Construction, its 2010 Safety Professional of the Year.

Denver architect John B. Rogers will be remembered for his dynamic leadership as well as his dedication to his clients. But his legacy also includes a devotion to the firm he co-founded in the 1950s and to its current and future leadership. Photo Courtesy of RNL One of Rogers’ favorite projects was his work on the original Colorado History Museum and Colorado Supreme Court Building in downtown Denver. Photo courtesy of RNL For Rogers, an architect was much more than his drawings. It was about meeting and exceeding his clients’ needs. Rogers, co-founder of Denver-based architecture firm RNL, died July

Founded in 2003, Multivista is already a recognized leader in photographic construction documentation for projects ranging from high-rise office buildings to bridges to single-family homes. Working from 37 offices throughout North America, Multivista has documented approximately 100 million sq ft on more than 20,000 projects. The company opened its first Colorado office in mid-2008. High-resolution images taken onsite are indexed (identified and organized) according to their position on interactive blueprints and floor plans created by Multivista using proprietary software. This comprehensive photographic record of construction activity and systems installation is quickly and easily accessed by users. On larger projects, as

The media perception is that engineers are not as in tune with sustainability concepts as other professionals. But that’s not the case. Engineers tend to downplay their role in the innovation and development of sustainable efficiencies, but they have made big contributions. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" In 1908, engineer-geologist William A. Smith said, “Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least

When the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden released its 506-page RFP for a non-negotiable LEED-Platinum-certified office building, it wasn’t clear how something jammed full of sustainable elements would take shape. The RFP laid out not what the building should look like but how it should perform; it was up to the design-build team to come up with the rest. At 222,000 sq ft, the Research Support Facility, completed in June, is the largest net-zero-energy building in the nation, and is supported by a matrix of innovative features, most of which were designed by NREL scientists.

This summer the Idaho Transportation Dept. is building a wildlife underpass near milepost 18.2 on Idaho 21 along what is known as the Ponderosa Pine Scenic Route. The bridge and wildlife fencing will help get deer and elk safely across Idaho 21. Photo Courtesy of CSHQA The restoration and expansion of the 200,000-sq-ft Idaho State Capitol is the largest public works project in the state’s history and recently received an award for Best Fire-Life Safety Upgrade from the city of Boise’s 2010 Building Excellence Awards. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Federal stimulus funding is being used to construct the

In July, Denver Health broke ground on its newest health-care facility, Pavilion M at 7th and Delaware streets in Denver. Rendering courtesy of Heery International The four-story, 78,000-sq-ft Pavilion M will include an outpatient dialysis center, an outpatient procedure center, enrollment services and a floor dedicated to inpatient and outpatient adolescent psychiatry. The four-story, 78,000-sq-ft facility, slated for completion in late 2011, will include an outpatient dialysis center, an outpatient procedure center, enrollment services and a floor dedicated to inpatient and outpatient adolescent psychiatry. The 16-bed Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatric Unit will serve children and adolescents between 8 and 17 years