Submitted by Hogan & Associates Construction This 160,000-sq-ft school on Layton’s west side is the latest generation of the award-winning Davis Middle School prototype. Originally designed to create a state-of-the-art learning environment that buffers middle school students from the stress and fragmentation associated with the typical large junior high school experience, the new school has been revamped to achieve a number of additional goals. Photo: Paul Richer/Richer Images Photo: Paul Richer/Richer Images Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 The energy demand of the building has been drastically reduced through the use of energy-efficient lighting and improved daylighting, and the mechanical
Submitted by Big-D Construction Newpark Town Center is a live, work, play community located six miles from Old Town Park City, a half-mile from the Olympic Village, four miles from the Canyons and seven miles from Deer Valley. The Town Center is on the western edge of the 1,100-acre Swanner Nature Preserve. Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 The project consists of four separate buildings with two parking structures, as well as a new South Center Drive roadway, complete with utilities and infrastructure to support the new buildings. Project Team: Park City, Utah, $24.2 million Owner: Newpark Town Center Associates
Submitted by Okland Construction Co. The new Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple is built on a bluff on the edge of the Daybreak development in South Jordan, Utah. The edifice features a single stone-clad spire soaring to a height of 171 ft, topped by a 13.5-ft statue of the angel Moroni. Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 Located on an 11-acre site, the temple sits at the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains that form the western edge of the Salt Lake Valley and face east toward a panoramic view of the Wasatch Mountains. From the site, temple visitors are able to
Submitted by VCBO Architecture The new Park City High School is a combination of renovation, addition and new construction. The school was designed to meet the growing needs of the district and to replace an aging, inefficient, outdated facility built in the early 1970s. Photo: Dana Sohm/Sohm Photographx Photo: Dana Sohm/Sohm Photographx Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 Project planning began in 2002 and construction was completed in fall 2008. The outcome of the extensive planning process was a design centered on an improved level of flexibility, energy efficiency and current and future pedagogical shifts that will ensure the building
Submitted by Okland Construction Co. This new healthcare facility consists of a 97,000-sq-ft wellness center and at 152,000-sq-ft medical office building wing. The medical center contains 25 beds, surgery rooms, an intensive care unit with advanced emergency/trauma services, a new helipad, administrative offices, dining area and office space for doctors. Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 Differing from other medical designs, the SCMC has pitched roofs and multiple window systems. Construction included use of local stone for the extensive exterior cladding and a showcase of natural materials and colors schemes in the interior to enhance its Western design. The site
Submitted by Big-D Construction This project consisted of new construction of a concrete, steel-framed receiving and processing plant that increased Idaho Milk Products processing to more than 3 million lb of milk per day. Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 The new building holds not only the processing and receiving areas but also houses warehouse space and an administrative support facility. Interior finishes include office finishes, dairy tile, insulated metal panel ceilings and walls in process areas, sealed concrete walls, galvanized structural steel in the dryer towers, and epoxy-coated steel in other wet-process areas. Project Team: Idaho Falls, Idaho, $49.3
Submitted by Jacobsen Construction and Spectrum Engineers The Riverton Hospital medical campus comprises 350,000 sq ft among four connected buildings. One is a 200,000-sq-ft inpatient hospital housing six operating rooms, diagnostics, imaging, an emergency department, labor and delivery and acute care beds. There is also a four-level patient tower, which includes patient rooms and education, dining and administration spaces. Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 Next door is an 80,000-sq-ft medical group building for physicians’ offices and clinics and the outpatient facility for Primary Children’s Medical Center, a specialty pediatric center with clinics, physicians’ offices, four operating rooms and a
Submitted by The Engineering Co. The Rock Springs WWTP project installed $1.3 million worth of process equipment and constructed a new oxidation ditch to facilitate wastewater transfer, which assisted in the retrofit of existing facilities. Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 With its retrofit, Rock Springs WWTP implemented a state-of-the-art wastewater and solids reduction process called the Siemens Cannibal Solids Reduction process. Less than 20 plants in the United States employ this technique. Project Team: Rock Springs, Wyo., $13 million Owner: City of Rock Springs Contractor: Alder Construction Co. Design Firm: The Engineering Co. Start: Aug. 2005 Finish: June 2009
Submitted by Hughes General Contractors This project consisted of new construction of a 17,300-sq-ft events and training center for Lincoln County in Kemmerer, Wyo. The building was designed with enough flexibility to accommodate a variety of events such as exhibits, concerts, trade shows, conferences, business meetings and performing arts programs. Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 The building has four large rooms that can be opened, closed and combined in multiple ways to serve different functions. The facility can seat up to 650 for lectures or be divided into smaller training and conference rooms. A large roll-up door was provided
Submitted by Alder Construction Co. The South Valley Water Reclamation Facility’s Project 4C increased the facility’s average water flow from 38 million gal. per day to 48 million gal. per day, added structures to the campus and was completed while the current wastewater plant was online. Related Links: Intermountain Best of 2009 Project 4C consisted of many different complicated structures. The main structure houses a 6.6-million-gal., cast-in-place concrete aeration basin. Aside from the concrete work, a complicated array of mechanical components, such as sluice and slide gates, floating mixers, an electrical control room, splitter box with galvanized flumes and a
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