When Crestone Charter School was awarded a $5.7-million Build Excellent Schools Today grant, community leaders in this remote Colorado town decided to build a new facility. The old school consisted of four dilapidated rental buildings on leased land with outdated HVAC, plumbing systems, inoperable windows and air-quality concerns. The design and construction teams worked closely with the community to build a sustainable, LEED-certified and solar-supported school that could also be used as a community gathering place. Photo courtesy of Beaudin Ganze Consulting Engineers Inc. The LEED-certified and solar-supported school can also be used as a community gathering place. Related Links:
The new 384,000-sq-ft Garden City High School was built to hold more than 2,000 students. Designed more like a community college than a traditional high school, the facility is segmented into four distinct academies, providing an incubator for real-world job skills. Photo courtesy of Adolfson and Peterson The school is designed more like a community college than a traditional high school. Related Links: A&P Earns National ABC Award for Garden City High School A&P Breaks Ground on Two Arvada Police Stations The project scope included a 121-acre campus with 120 classrooms, a 750-seat auditorium, 750-seat commons area, 500-seat auxiliary gymnasium
The new Granger High School, the largest high school in Utah, replaced an aging 1950s building that was too small and outdated and that did not meet building codes to withstand a major earthquake. The 440,000-sq-ft replacement facility features three hallways that allow students to be grouped in learning communities in order to attend classes with others in the same grade or with those who share interest in the same field, such as health and medicine. The new school opened with about 1,700 students in fall 2013. Photo courtesy of Jacobsen Construction The school's amenities rival and even exceed those
This year's Best Projects competition in the Mountain States region featured more than 80 entries. As in past years, projects were judged on design and construction quality, their contribution to the community and industry practice, and how well teams overcame unusual challenges through collaboration and innovation.
Once little more than several blocks of deteriorating public housing, the new Mariposa District in Denver now boasts energy-efficient apartments and townhomes, a local café, computer center, youth music studio and fitness circuit—all a short walk from the 10th Avenue and Osage Street light rail station. The affordable, workforce and market rate apartments are 95% pre-leased. Photo courtesy of Denver Housing Authority Crews continue work on new apartment buildings at DHAs Mariposa Development south of downtown Denver near Lincoln Park. On October 4, the Denver Housing Authority (DHA) celebrated the grand opening of this nationally recognized development. The event marks
Phase 1 of Craig Hospital’s $90-million expansion and renovation in Englewood, Colo., has gone vertical. The existing 135,034-sq-ft building will expand to 219,934 sq ft. Due to changing codes since the original building was erected in 1969-70, all utilities had to be re-designed to meet current code standards. Sixteen months after the start of programming and design, Clarkson Street in Englewood is permanently closed, the sitework, foundation and updated utilities are complete and the structural-steel frame is now being erected. The hospital is projected to be complete late in 2016.RTA Architects partnered with SmithGroupJJR and GE Johnson Construction to resolve
The Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, Colo., opened on Sept. 3. The new four-story, 87,600-sq-ft building, designed by Denver’s Davis Partnership Architects, complements the existing EGSMC campus and provides a state-of-the-art health care facility where patients and families can receive treatment in a caring environment. The Cancer Center’s first two floors are dedicated to comprehensive cancer care—including radiation oncology, medical oncology and alternative therapies—consolidating all cancer-related services at the EGSMC Campus into one location for the comfort of patients and their families. The upper two floors will be leased physician office space.The Cancer
At a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $490.2 billion, new construction starts in August advanced 2% relative to July, it was reported by McGraw Hill Construction, a division of McGraw Hill Financial. Residential building stayed on the upward track, and nonbuilding construction (public works and electric utilities) rebounded after its loss of momentum in July. At the same time, nonresidential building retreated from its improved July amount, continuing the up-and-down pattern present during 2013. For the first eight months of 2013, total construction starts on an unadjusted basis came in at $329.4 billion, up 1% from the same period a
The Colorado Dept. of Transportation selected on Sept. 23 four additional contracting teams to begin repairs on three major corridors as well as the highways east of I-25 that sustained damage during the floods. The goal is to complete temporary or permanent repairs to restore mobility on these state highway routes by December 1. The first three contractors were selected among 14 proposals, and the S.H. 72 contractor was selected among five competitors. All four contractors will begin work by conducting a full assessment of the areas this week with the help of CDOT engineers and bridge inspectors.The contracts are
Construction materials prices rose only 0.3% in August and are up 1.4% year-over-year, according to the Sept. 13 Producer Price Index release by the U.S. Dept. of Labor. In addition, nonresidential construction materials increased 0.5% for the month and are 1.2% higher than one year ago. “In a world characterized by additional looming warfare, fluctuating global currencies, rising U.S. interest rates and plunging gold prices, one would expect much more volatility in materials prices,” said Associated Builders and Contractors Chief Economist Anirban Basu. “Despite all of those shifting factors, construction materials prices remain remarkably stable, which is noteworthy given the
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