Silver: Westminster City Center ParkSubmitted by Colorado Hardscapes Inc. The City of Westminster wanted to pay tribute to its sister city in England by developing a park that reflected one of its more famous landmarks, Westminster Abbey. Westminster City Center Park Westminster City Center Park Related Links: Back to Gold Hard Hat Awards The design called for a central courtyard with specialized finishes to mimic the streets of the city and the river that flows through it. Rock artisan Philip di Giacomo worked with the city to create an interactive play structure that would make this park not only a
Bronze: Woodbury Library RenovationSubmitted by Humphries Poli Architects Among the first of Denver’s Carnegie Branch libraries, this 1912 building was updated in 2009 to accommodate the city’s Learning and Language Service Style. Woodbury Library Renovation Woodbury Library Renovation Related Links: Back to Gold Hard Hat Awards Located in West Denver’s Highland neighborhood, the Woodbury branch serves young families and professionals, and through this renovation continues the neighborhood trend of revitalization. Special care was taken by the design team to ensure the building’s lasting preservation while modernizing to meet today’s user needs by taking what it called a “less is more”
Gold: Blue Valley High SchoolSubmitted by Crossland Construction Co. Inc. Located in Overland Park, Kan., Blue Valley Unified School District 229 commissioned Perkins & Will with HTK Architects and NSP Architects to program and design the district’s fifth high school to be ready for the 2010-11 academic year. Photo By Patty Jessee Photography Blue Valley High School Related Links: Back to Gold Hard Hat Awards Evie Garrett Dennis Campus at Green Valley Ranch Sited on a sloping 112-acre site, the 300,000-sq-ft high school will serve 1,600 students in grades 9 through 12. The design is organized around a courtyard, with
Photo by Scott Dressel-Martin Denver Botanic Gardens Capital Improvement Projects Related Links: Back to Gold Hard Hat Awards Phipps Gallery Gold: Denver Botanic Gardens Capital Improvement Projects Submitted by GH Phipps Construction Cos. The Denver Botanic Gardens Conservatory is one of Denver’s most recognizable landmarks. Since its dedication in 1966, interest in the attraction has grown considerably, which led to parking congestion in the surrounding neighborhoods. For many decades, plans were explored and developed to approve the facility and alleviate parking congestion, but it wasn’t until 2007 when Denver voters approved the Better Denver Bond program that several of the
Gold: City of Rifle Regional Wastewater Reclamation FacilitySubmitted by Stanek Constructors Inc. The city of Rifle serves as the gateway to western Colorado’s energy reserves. As such, the city has seen a tremendous impact from this sector in the form of increased permanent residents, transient workers and commercial-service demands. This influx also coincided with more stringent regulations on the Colorado River. To meet these challenges, the city needed to construct a new wastewater treatment facility. The Regional Wastewater Reclamation Facility project constructed a new 2.0-MGD wastewater treatment facility with the ability to expand to a 4.0-MGD plant. The new facility
Gold: Community Support CenterSubmitted by MW Golden Constructors The Community Support Center built for the Women’s Crisis Family Outreach Center is a 7,800-sq-ft, wood-framed structure adapted from an existing building design and reworked to meet the needs of the WCFOC and the community to be aesthetically pleasing and match exterior elements and colors of existing buildings in the area. The WCFOC also wanted to preserve existing features of the property and incorporate those natural elements into the design. Community Support Center Related Links: Back to Gold Hard Hat Awards Soldier Family Assistance Center U.S. 34 Upper Big Thompson Bridges The
Gold: Copper Mountain Fire Station & Administration Building Submitted by Pahl Architecture The 26,000-sq-ft Copper Mountain Fire Station & Administration Building provides space for firefighters, and cable television, water, sanitation and administrative services provided by the Copper Mountain Consolidated Metropolitan District. Copper Mountain Fire Station & Administration Building Space Innovation and Development Center Headquarters Related Links: Back to Gold Hard Hat Awards CDC � Building No. 401 CDC � Building No. 401 The fire station features a four-bay, drive-through apparatus area; sleeping rooms and facilities for 24/7 firefighters and ambulance personnel; a tower for training, including a search area, repelling
Gold: Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse Submitted by klipp Denver�s new 317,000-sq-ft, five-story Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse is located within the Denver Justice Center complex in the historic Civic Center District. The courthouse has 35 courtrooms, including one special proceedings jury courtroom with spectator seating for 120, and houses both criminal and juvenile state and county courts. Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse Related Links: Back to Gold Hard Hat Awards Photo by Lacasse Photography DeLuise Residence University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Science and Engineering Building This modern civic building�s exterior is clad in Alabama limestone and granite with a folded glass curtain wall that encloses the building�s
Gold: Denver Health & Hospital Core Remodels Submitted by GH Phipps Construction Cos. When the mission is to save lives in a renowned trauma/emergency department, nothing can interfere, not even a total remodel of core facilities—the hospital’s heart. The assignment was to completely remodel the emergency department and reception area as well as the lower-level kitchen and cafeteria and add a new pediatric emergency department at Denver Health & Hospital, the oldest hospital in the Denver metro area. Denver Health & Hospital Core Remodels Related Links: Back to Gold Hard Hat Awards Photo by David Patterson Yampa Valley Medical Center
Wally Prebis knows as much about structural concrete as one person can. Related Links: Back to Gold Hard Hat Awards Prebis has spent his entire career, 41 years, telling anyone who would listen that prestress concrete is one of the best building materials around and why it should become a staple of the construction industry. PREBIS Now, Prebis, 79, who founded and led the Colorado Prestressers Association as its executive director for four decades, retired from the job this fall, and his calm, confident voice will be sorely missed. As the CPA leader, he convinced an entire industry, from owners
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