Thirty-four construction professionals recently received a first-ever national accreditation in the use of building information modeling. The new professional accreditation, which is being offered by the Associated General Contractors of America, is the first assessment-based credential to recognize construction professionals on their ability to use the BIM process. Nearly three dozen construction professionals nationwide tested successfully to receive the new professional accreditation, the Certificate of Management-Building Information Modeling (CM-BIM). Candidates first had to complete the BIM Education Program, a series of four courses the association developed to help construction professionals learn the use the construction process. To date, more than
Construction manager/general contractor Pinkard Construction Co., Lakewood, recently completed Graland Country Day School’s Commons Building and Foundation Center project. Courtesy of Pinkard Construction The new Commons Building is steel-framed with a cast-in-place basement walls, storefront and a brick exterior. The $5.6-million phased renovation and addition included razing the Gates Science Building to make room for a new Commons Building; a major renovation of Graland’s Foundation Center; and a 440-sq-ft elevator and lobby addition, plus extensive mechanical and electrical upgrades. The new Commons Building is steel-framed with cast-in-place basement walls, storefront and brick exterior, and a reclaimed-ludowici-tile roof It includes a
ACEC-Montana honored the following projects at the Montana Engineering Honors Banquet held in conjunction with the Joint Engineers Conference on November 2 in Helena. Recipients of Honor Awards in their respective categories are eligible for the 2012 ACEC-National Engineering Excellence Awards competition. Courtesy of ACEC-Montana Celebrating the winners at ACEC-Montana's Awards Banquet are, left to right: Tom Adams, City of Bozeman, water reclamation superintendent; Coralynn Revis, HDR design engineer; Dan Harmon, HDR project manager; and Nancy Cormier, Morrison-Maierle Inc. project manager. ACEC-Montana Grand Project AwardHDR Engineering Inc. and Morrison-Maierle Inc.Bozeman Water Reclamation FacilityIn a tough economy, innovative design and bidding methods were used on
Wheeler Machinery Co. celebrated 60 years in business in November with an afternoon visit from Utah Gov. Gary Herbert at the company’s Salt Lake City headquarters. Wheeler has been a fixture in the Utah construction and mining marketplace as the exclusive dealer and service center for Caterpillar equipment. Photo by Brian Fryer Rob Campbell, president of Wheeler Machinery (left), talks with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert during Wheeler's 60th anniversary celebration in November. Current company president Rob Campbell led the governor on a short tour of Wheeler’s repair and service shop. Herbert watched as technicians in the company’s Component Rebuild Center
Denver Health recently celebrated the opening of Pavilion M, a new outpatient facility built by Denver’s Mortenson Construction. Courtesy of Mortenson Construdtion The new pavilion houses adolescent inpatient/outpatient psychiatric units, enrollment and dialysis centers and an outpatient surgical procedure unit. Denver Health is the Rocky Mountain Region’s Level 1 academic trauma center, and the safety net hospital for the Denver area. The facility is located at 7th Avenue and Delaware Street and houses adolescent inpatient/outpatient psychiatric units, enrollment and dialysis centers and an outpatient surgical procedure unit. It also features 16 beds dedicated to inpatient adolescent care, and the full
Fireclay Villages, a 26-acre, $80-million transit-oriented development, recently started construction. It is one of the largest developments ever to be built in Murray City, Utah. The project is a joint venture between Strategic Capital Group (SCG) and Miller Development Co. (MDC). The project is located at 4400 South and 100 West in Murray. Courtesy of Miller Development Group Fireclay Village is a mixed-use development that will include 400 apartments, 268 income-restricted units and anticipated future phases that will include retail, restaurant and office space. Fireclay Village is a mixed-use development that includes 400 apartments, 268 income-restricted units and anticipated future
The U.S. Senate voted 95 to 0 on Nov. 10 to repeal the 3% withholding mandate. This follows the recent House repeal by a 405 to 16 margin. Had the 2009 federal tax withholding measure been allowed to take effect as scheduled in 2013, it could have undermined construction hiring and punished taxpayers, according to multiple industry analyses of the topic.“An overwhelming, bipartisan majority of Senators understand that repealing the 3% tax withholding mandate is essential to boosting economic growth” says Steve Sandherr, AGC of America CEO. “With construction activity down by $400 billion and the industry’s unemployment rate at
New construction starts in September receded 1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $419.5 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill Cos. Both nonresidential building and housing fell back after their improved pace in August. Meanwhile, the nonbuilding construction sector, comprised of public works and electric utilities, strengthened for the second month in a row after weakening in early summer. For the January-September period of 2011, total construction starts on an unadjusted basis were reported at $314.1 billion, down 5% from the same period a year ago.The September statistics lowered the Dodge Index to 89 (2000=100),
The Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife and the Colorado Dept. of Transportation are reminding people that late fall is prime time for animal-vehicle collisions around the state. In Summit County alone, vehicles have collided with at least six moose this year, including a young bull moose killed near I-70. Wildlife mitigation efforts on I-70, however, have increased in recent years. CDOT and the Federal Highway Administration, collaborating with Rocky Mountain Wild, ECO-resolutions LLC and other partners, recently completed the I-70 Eco-Logical Project, a comprehensive analysis of wildlife mitigation for the I-70 Mountain Corridor from Golden to Glenwood Springs. Researchers
As most green experts know, LEED credits frequently hinge on routine construction tasks. Consider the contractor who must obtain indoor environmental quality (EQ) credit 4.2 as part of his contract with the owner but employs a subcontractor who uses high volatile-organic-compound paint for touch-up and punch-list work, dropping the project down a level of certification. If the credit was critical to achieving LEED Silver, which the owner needed to take advantage of tax credits exceeding $500,000, the contractor may be liable to the owner for significant damages.Under such circumstances, contractors must take steps to ensure subcontHere are four steps contractors
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