DECKER Douglas E. Decker, vice president and chief operating officer of White Construction Group, a Denver-based commercial general contractor, was recently elected president of the Hispanic Contractors of Colorado. He has more than 30 years of experience in the construction industry and joined White Construction in 1990. Shane Newman has joined the Denver office of Beaudin Ganze Consulting Engineers Inc. as a mechanical engineer. He has nine years of industry experience designing mechanical and plumbing building systems and will focus on HVAC design and energy modeling for the firm. Newman is currently working on a new police substation for Arapahoe
Article toolbar The 2010 Top Starts list is dominated by public-sector work, as expected, with big projects in transportation, federal building rehabs and college and university campuses. Only two commercial projects made the list. Regional readers should note that one large project not on the list is Utah’s new $1-billion-plus National Cyber Security Center, because it officially broke ground early this year, not in 2010. Rendering: Craig Holmes Expanded Care The 356,000-sq-ft addition to The Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colo., will be home to cancer care, heart and rehabilitation medicine and an advanced maternal/fetal medicine center. Leading the 2010 list
Article toolbar In the foothills above Salt Lake City, a surge in construction activity at the state's largest university is creating much-needed space for students and faculty. In 2009, University of Utah officials unveiled a new master plan and launched an ambitious capital building program that has completed more than $300 million in projects in the last few years. Photo: The University Of Utah RESEARCH MAGNET The new $17-million Thatcher Building for Biological and Biophysical Chemistry. Overall, the university will build just over $1.1 billion worth of new projects, $780 million of which are currently under way, with another $45
Article toolbar The Denver Housing Authority is redefining the image of affordable housing and how to create it. Photo: Denver Housing Authority Transit Developments DHA is planning for more sustainable projects that have easy access to mass transit. In order to thrive, people need “vibrant, healthy and sustainable communities,” says DHA Executive Director Ismael Guerrero. For DHA, that means assuming the role of “community builder as much as a housing developer,” he adds. Joseph Poli, a principal at Denver-based Humphries Poli Architects, which has worked with DHA on several projects, says, “They're not just fulfilling the mission someone else has
Article toolbar Denver Water is halfway through an $18.3-million modernization of the city's Cheesman Dam, with the underwater portion of the project complete and bidding for the second phase under way. Photo: Denver Water Control Room Engineers aboard the barge monitor dive operations from a live video feed sent by the divers. The two-year job, which began last spring with construction of a 1,200-sq-ft control building on the crest, is the 105-year-old dam's first major rehabilitation. The main goal is to upgrade the original outlet works system with new hydraulic valves and pumps that provide more reliable upstream control over
SnapShot April 25, 2011 Submitted By: Jackie Shumaker The Pueblo Airport Generation Station project in Pueblo, Colo., reached peak construction in January. The facility will consist of four units—two utility-owned, natural-gas-fired LMS100 units and two Black Hills Colorado IPP-owned, high-efficiency combined cycle units. Each of the combined cycle units will consist of two 40-MW natural-gas-fired LM6000 turbines and one 20-MW steam turbine. Photographer: Jackie Shumaker
On The Scene April 25, 2011 Urban Land Institute of Colorado Denver mayoral candidate Chris Romer was among six mayoral hopefuls who answered questions from members of the Urban Land Institute of Colorado at a March 10 political panel in downtown Denver. Topics ranged from the local economy to zoning changes, job creation and the city’s budget deficit. Romer told the audience that Denver is “losing too many hospitals now,” referring to the departure of St. Anthony’s and the University of Colorado Hospital System from the city. “We need to treat them well,” he said. Joining Romer in the mayoral
WOLF To prevent parties from pursuing claims in court or arbitration that are stale because of the passage of time when witnesses and exhibits may be unavailable, various statutes of limitations (SOL) exist that limit times for starting legal proceedings.�The Colorado statute applicable to construction defect claims against construction industry participants (contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, etc.) requires that suits be started within two years after construction defects have been or should have been�in the exercise of reasonable diligence (care)�discovered.�There are limited exceptions.�On top of that, a Colorado statute of repose bars all such claims if not started within six years.�However,
It was certainly the largest oversize load that Interstate 15 in Utah County had ever seen or likely ever will see, as the Utah Dept. of Transportation�s I-15 CORE team moved the 354-ft, four-ton Sam White Bridge into place over the new freeway overnight on March 26. Photos: UDOT The event near the town of American Fork on a misty, cold Saturday night was not only a milestone for UDOT’s accelerated bridge construction (ABC) program but also the largest bridge in the western hemisphere to be moved using self-propelled modular transporters (SPMTs). Transportation officials from across the United States and
The American Institute of Architects Colorado Chapter presented 13 awards and honors as well as 17 scholarships and grants during its annual Young Architects Awards Gala on April 8 at Cluster Studios in Denver. The AIA Colorado Young Architects Awards Gala is held annually in celebration of Colorado Architecture Month. Photos: Charles Kennedy The following awards and honorable mentions were selected from 67 entries submitted by firms, designers, students and young architects (licensed 10 years or less) from across the state. The entries were judged by a jury of architects and community leaders, facilitated by Mark Gelernter, Ph.D., dean of