Articles by Jim Parsons

Owned by Denver Public Schools, the 28,000-sq-ft commercial greenhouse is the first facility of its kind dedicated to providing public school students with fresh produce.

Funding from a successful education construction referendum came just in time to address aging facilities such as the 80-year-old Skyline Vista Elementary School, which had far outlived its usefulness.

Republic Plaza, downtown Denver’s tallest building for nearly 30 years, has been revitalized with an updated patio, planters, bleacher seating and a sunshade structure. The new centerpiece of the lobby is a contemporary 30-ft-long LED chandelier installed over the main escalators.

The Lincoln Crossing project transformed a 27,000-sq-ft lobby into a modern open-plan space with ceiling heights increased to 30 ft through more than 14,000 sq ft of renovations to the exterior facade.

This multifaceted project for the University of Wyoming’s west campus sought to ensure that a large reserve of chilled water would be available during summer’s hottest months, thus reducing demand on the existing chiller systems and eliminating the risk of an unexpected outage.

What was previously an outdated and crowded Depression-era building has been revitalized into a technologically savvy facility to support Colorado State University’s cutting-edge agricultural education and research programs.

Foundation work for the three-story, 42,000-sq-ft concrete and steel building atop an active parking garage was already underway when a new city council requested significant programming changes to accommodate a larger number of employees.

Accelerating population growth in the filter plant’s service area led to its first major capacity upgrade in nearly 20 years. To increase capacity to 60 million gallons per day from 45 million, the project included construction of two new flocculation and sedimentation process trains, rapid mix piping, a 1.5-million-gallon chlorine contact tank and the expansion or adjustment of more than 30 different yard pipelines up to 72 in. in diameter.      

Because the 11,000-ft-long, 150-ft-wide grooved asphalt general aviation runway and its adjacent taxiway connectors are in near constant use, the rehabilitation needed to make the most of a 90-day closure window while still meeting standards for quality, safety and long-term durability.

A 72-in.-dia sewer pipe called the Delgany Interceptor forms the backbone of the nation’s largest wastewater heat recovery (WHR) system, providing the National Western Center’s seven-building campus with 90% of its heating and cooling needs.