Related Links: NAU Breaks Ground on Health & Learning Center Interactive Children's Museum Exhibit Underway Tubac Fire Station Breaks Ground First Wind Farm Dedicated A.R. Mays Construction Inc. has been awarded a nearly $10-million contract to build the first Cambria Suites hotel in the Phoenix metro area. Located in Chandler at the southwest corner of Chandler Blvd & Dobson, the Cambria Suites is being developed by HP Properties of Birmingham, Ala. for its client Suenos Hospitality LLC. The project architect is Rodriguez & Associates of Kansas City, Mo. The new 137-room, five-story hotel will break ground in early November. Cambria
Nye County�s new $4.7-million Pahrump Justice Facility was designed by JVC Architects. Related Links: CORE Begins New $16.6M School Crystals at CityCenter Achieves LEED Gold United�s Office Awarded LEED Gold Construction has begun on renovations and additions to the Pahrump Justice Facility at 1520 E. Basin Road in Pahrump, Nev. Nye County contracted JVC Architects to design the Pahrump Justice Facility’s building upgrades. As well as a 4,000-sq-ft renovation for the district attorney and clerk’s office, JVC is designing three separate additions – 12,000-sq-ft justice court, which includes a lobby, courtrooms and administration office; 5,000-sq-ft sheriff’s office; and 1,400-sq-ft district
Related Links: Merrick Awarded Sub-Contract at LANL Spaceport Plans T or C Visitor Center Ascension Group Completes Roswell Project Thornburg Campus Achieves LEED Gold Six additional NMDOT projects will be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act with $24 million in surplus money from other stimulus funded highway projects that came in below estimates. The money will be divided up equally between the six transportation districts for pavement preservation projects over a total of 84 miles. Construction will include: I-10 from mile marker 116-124 in Dona Ana County; N.M. 206 from mile 41-68 in Roosevelt County; I-25 from mile
As the 28,000 attendees of the Greenbuild 09 conference depart from Phoenix today, I’m struck by how active and vibrant our green building community is in the Southwest. While some in other regions may question how green Phoenix could possibly be given our sprawl and heat, the fact is we are one of the leaders in green building. Photo: Adolfson & Peterson Construction Seeking LEED platinum, the Tempe Transportation Center embodies a holistic sustainable approach. Located next to a new Light Rail station (right), the building�s green building features benefit the aesthetics, the community and teamwork among the project participants.
Engineers MORGAN Brent Morgan of Nolte Associates Inc., Centennial, Colo., was recently appointed to associate. Morgan serves as an engineering manager with Nolte’s civil design/land development group in Salt Lake City. With eight years of civil engineering experience, he has managed and designed a variety of water, stormwater and sewer utility systems for various site development projects. He is one of eight employees firm wide who have been recently appointed to associate or vice president. Photo: Tyler Jones Photography The entire Kittredge Complex on the CU-Boulder campus is being renovated to create a better residential college experience. Bennett Wagner Grody
Tim Balas, vice president of estimating; Brad Schmahl, project manager; Ben Stellor, project manager; Aimee Clode, project engineer; Scott Priebe, estimator; and Dale Hartman, superintendent; of JHL Constructors Inc. of Englewood, Colo., recently became LEED-certified professionals by the U.S. Green Building Council. Photo: Dohn Construction Dohn Construction's Golf Committee presented Northern Colorado food banks with the firm's donation of $17,844. Pictured left to right: Nate Brock; Annie Brinker; Brian Blake; Michael Brown, development director for the Weld Food Bank; Brett Brown; Heather Buoniconti, development director for the Food Bank of Larimer County; and Dave Stringer. Raj Bistaiah, a senior scheduling
From humble beginnings as a one-man, one-room architect�s office established in 1889, Boise�s CSHQA has grown to become a 100-person architecture and engineering firm with additional studios in Sacramento, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City and Roseburg, Ore. Photo by John Rogers CSHQA namesakes: Cline Smull Hamill Quintieri Associates. Seated left to right: Glen Cline, Neil Smull, Robert Hamill, and standing, Allen Quintieri. The studios are designed to address specific market sectors, including aviation; corporate/office; education, sports and recreation; government/civic; health care; housing and mixed-use projects; and retail, restaurant and hospitality in a “soup-to-nuts” approach, says Jeff Shneider, CSHQA’s
W.W. Clyde & Co. will hire a majority of the craft workforce it needs from Twin Falls and the surrounding area to complete the Twin Falls Alternate Route project. To date, W.W. Clyde & Co. has secured contracts with 16 Idaho-based firms as subcontractors or suppliers for the project. The firm anticipates that more than 90% of the work will be completed by a local workforce, with less than 10% coming from the company’s Springville, Utah, office. Upon completion, the project will provide an alternate route for motorists and commercial traffic traveling past Twin Falls. According to the Idaho Dept.
Despite current economic times, MHTN Architects, Van Boerum & Frank Associates and Reaveley Engineers + Associates recently raised $23,500 for the United Way of Salt Lake City and collected nearly 400 lb of food donations for the Utah Food Bank. Rio Tinto recently promoted the following people: Kelly Sanders (left), president and CEO, Rio Tinto; Clayton Walker (middle), chief opperating officer, Kennecott Utah Copper; Andrew Harding (right), Rio Tinto Executive Committee. All employees of the firms were offered the opportunity to pledge a donation to the United Way. Employees were also encouraged to participate in a lunch to kick off
Submitted by ajc architects and Big-D Construction This project was a historic renovation of the Oquirrh School, which was designed by Richard Kletting and originally built in 1896 as an elementary school. The project includes 52,000 sq ft of space converted into new office space, observation rooms, conference rooms and meeting space for the Children’s Center, a nonprofit providing mental healthcare for pre-school children. The project also included upgrades to the electrical and mechanical systems, along with a new elevator shaft and new elevator to service the building. Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 Project Team: Salt Lake City, $6.7
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