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With R&O Construction hard hats and gold shovels in hand, children of St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church took part in a March groundbreaking, and then placed the first stones decorated by them into the foundation of their new church. Photo: Intermountain Catholic of the Catholic Diocese Children of St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church placed stones decorated by them into the foundation of a new church being constructed by R&O Construction. Related Links: Interstate 15 Express Lanes Spectrum Academy Charter School The dirt from the groundbreaking will be placed under the new altar. St. Joseph the Worker is located

Construction is underway in North Salt Lake on the Spectrum Academy Charter School , a two-story, 32,200-sq-ft public school for grades 9 through 12. It will address the educational and social needs of students with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome. Related Links: Interstate 15 Express Lanes St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church The new facility, designed by i.Design, will accommodate 300 students, with future plans for vocational training. Construction is planned to be complete for the 2010-11 school year. Spectrum Academy will lease the building while generating the funding needed to purchase the building and furnishings. The approximated $5.5-million capital

Studies show that wildlife-vehicle collisions have doubled in the past 15 years in the Intermountain West, says Rob Ament, ecology program manager for the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University in Bozeman. Ament says the reasons for collisions can vary from the presence of high-quality habitat at the road’s edge to animals moving from winter to summer ranges. Another factor is winding roads with poor visibility. The increase in collisions has spurred transportation agencies to identify major wildlife corridors and engineer solutions to prevent accidents. One solution includes wildlife crossings that connect habitats divided by highways. The crossings involve

The opening of St. Anthony Medical Campus will usher in a new era in Colorado health care and give the city of Lakewood its first-ever full-service hospital. Photo: Time Frame Photography The new St. Anthony Medical Campus consists of a three-story orthopedics building and a seven-story main hospital tower. It is the city of Lakewood’s first-ever full-service hospital. Related Links: Colorado Owner of the Year The $426-million complex begins accepting patients on June 7 when phase one—the 150,000-sq-ft, 48-bed Ortho Colorado orthopedic hospital ($52 million)—opens. Phase two, the advanced St. Anthony Hospital, will open in June 2011 and replace 100-year-old

Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare has invested more than $1.2 billion in new and upgraded medical facilities since 2005, including four new facilities in Utah stretching from Tremonton in the north to St. George in the south.

The University of Utah is looking to renovate its 40-year-old College of Architecture + Planning building into the nation’s first institutional facility to meet net-zero-energy standards. Photo courtesy of the University of Utah The announcement was made by Brenda Scheer, dean at the University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning, and Joerg Reugemer, associate professor, during their presentation at a sustainability conference in Salt Lake City on April 8. The university’s concrete building was constructed with single-pane windows during a time when energy was cheap, Scheer says. “Our plan is to cut the building’s energy use by 80%, improve

After working for CTA Architects Engineers for more than 35 years and rising to principal and president of the internationally known firm, Jim Shepard still displays an old rejection letter on the wall of his office. The letter is from CTA, which hired Shepard two years after initially rejecting him. “I came to the firm as a student intern, and they treated me wonderfully,” he says. “I was lucky enough that they said, ‘If we have work, you have a job.’ I call myself the ‘oldest student intern,’ since I never had to submit a portfolio.” Shepard’s long tenure with

Every year, Mountain States Construction asks dozens of Colorado and Wyoming contractors to provide revenue totals for their previous fi scal year. Information for this year’s rankings was gathered through online questionnaires completed by individual firms in January and February. Related Links: Top Heavy/Highway Contractors - Colorado Top Heavy/Highway Contractors - Intermountain Top CDOT Projects This section also features a list of the top 20 largest ongoing or recently completed projects statewide from the Colorado Dept. of Transportation. If your firm did not complete an online questionnaire or wants to correct information on the lists, call the editorial department at

The $1.725-billion Interstate-15 CORE project in Utah County – the largest and most expensive highway job in the Beehive State’s history – officially kicked off at the end of March at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. The mammoth design-build project is being built by a four-firm consortium called Provo River Constructors and could not have come about at a better time for the local construction industry, which has been struggling for nearly two years. Photo: Don Green Photography Photo: Don Green Photography The Interstate 15 CORE project will expand freeway capacity from Lehi’s Main Street to Spanish Fork’s Main Street by