Mountain States

The Salt Lake City International Airport (SLCIA) Terminal Redevelopment is a $4.1-billion investment that replaced the city’s old airport with a LEED Gold certified and operationally improved facility.

This year’s contest includes an emphasis on green projects with a new award called Excellence in Sustainability.

Innovative geothermal field will help the university achieve its long-term goal of achieving 100% clean electricity by 2030.

Mergers, awards and company news from around the Mountain States region.

Events from around the Mountain States region.

Updates about construction professionals in the Mountain States region.

The Thornton Water Treatment Plant was designed to replace an existing plant constructed in 1955 that was near the end of its useful life.

Castle Rock has developed a water supply system that can use renewable sources to meet the town’s growing demand. Burns & McDonnell developed a unique drinking water plant that treats both groundwater and surface water sources and helps the town add advanced treatment systems to the plant.

The South Suburban Parks and Recreation District has provided recreational opportunities for nearly 160,000 residents in six cities and towns throughout Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson counties for nearly 40 years.

Few projects have the power to impact an entire city; however, Weidner Field not only serves as the permanent home for the Colorado Springs Switchbacks Soccer Club but also is designed to help reinvigorate the city’s core.

Every bullet, grenade, artillery shell and explosive used at Fort Carson will pass through new blast-proof facilities designed to contain live ammunition.

Denver’s Lower Downtown has been transformed by the new mixed-use development McGregor Square.

The U.S. 36 Mile Point 8 project near Estes Park rerouted the Little Thompson River from alongside the highway back to its original alignment passing under U.S. 36 through Muggins Gulch.

The Springs Rescue Mission provides food, shelter, clothing and services to the Colorado Springs homeless population.

The 860,000-sq-ft McGregor Square project is a vibrant mixed-use development in Denver adjacent to Coors Field, the home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team.

As the gateway to Snowmass Base Village, the 165,000-sq-ft One Snowmass complex near Aspen sets the tone for what visitors can expect from their experience in the village and beyond.

Just when it seemed Denver’s Cherry Creek North shopping and business district had reached the height of swank, along comes the Clayton Members Club and Hotel.

Constructed in 1892 as Telluride’s First National Bank, the iconic Nugget Building once featured a majestic tower that rose high above Main Street.

Sutherland plus Park equals S’PARK, a 434,000-sq-ft new neighborhood in the heart of Boulder that’s built on the notion that retail, office and residential spaces work best when they coexist and collaborate. 

The Blue Federal Credit Union World Headquarters development in Cheyenne covers more than eight acres, spans five buildings and features Class A office space, retail and commercial suites. 

The goal for this remodeling project was to upgrade the capabilities of this decades-old facility by adding several new systems, bringing them up to code and creating three new data center pods that incorporate hot-aisle containment technology—all while minimizing critical downtime.

The 58,000-sq-ft Intersand cat litter manufacturing facility was built on a 6.5-acre site in Windsor, Colo.

This project is the fourth design-build project in the city of Denver’s history, and the third design-build project for which SEMA was selected as design-build contractor by the Denver Office of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI).

Expanding a 34-acre high school campus occupied by nearly 2,000 students is no easy task. However, despite the onset of COVID-19, this project was completed in just 12 months, five months earlier than planned. 

FutureForward at Washington Square is the newest Career and Technical Education (CTE) campus for the Adams 12 Five Star School District in Thornton, Colo.

The project team that built outdoor retailer VF Corp.’s new downtown Denver headquarters came back together to deliver a fresh and fun look for the building’s interior spaces.

The city of Fountain wanted safer connectivity and traffic progression in a fast-growing part of town. As ground zero for a planned major residential development, the area also is a main route for both the school system and provides the only access to the regional landfill.

This freeway expansion project added a third travel lane in each direction along an eight-mile section of the toll road between Quincy Avenue and Interstate 70. 

The College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder is one of the country’s top public music programs. However, its facilities were dated, crowded and disconnected.

The University of Denver’s new Dimond Family Residential Village and Community Commons is designed to improve the student experience by providing a space that reimagines community, connection and learning. 

The new Denver Health Outpatient Medical Center increases the hospital’s patient capacity and provides advanced outpatient care while addressing the needs of a growing city.

The HCA Centennial Medical Center Tower Addition is a 90,000-sq-ft, three-story vertical hospital expansion to the Centennial Medical Plaza.

The city of Thornton’s 29,000-sq-ft design-build Fire Department Administration Headquarters includes offices, conference rooms, break rooms and work areas on the second floor, along with four large pull-through apparatus bays, 10 bunk rooms, a large dayroom and kitchen space, decontamination areas, locker rooms and an indoor-outdoor fitness center on the first floor.

In 1985, Congress created the Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization to destroy the remaining 10% of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile. To date, chemical weapons have been eliminated at six of the eight original storage sites. 

The Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts has become one of the primary venues for local and regional theater as well as a fixture for theater education and for the promotion of the arts in the Denver community.  

The Buell Media Center is the new 93,000-sq-ft headquarters for Rocky Mountain Public Media.

Denver International Airport has grown from  serving 33.1 million passengers a year to more than 69 million since its opening in 1995.

The 10-story 11th & Idaho  tower was constructed with a focus on sustainable work environments, materials and design. 

A key component of the Strawberry Aqueduct and Collection System in northeastern Utah, the North Fork Siphon was a 72-in.-dia, prestressed concrete cylinder pipe at the end of its useful life.

This 32,000-sq-ft renovation and nearly 100,000-sq-ft expansion of a community center transformed a dated facility into a contemporary fitness center.

The key feature of the aquarium’s new Science Learning Campus is its Ecosystem Exploration Craft & Observatory, or EECO, which repurposes a 190-ton, 165-ft-tall metal sculpture that originally served as U2’s stage during the band’s 360-degree tour. 

This new welcome center is also the new home for the university’s outdoor recreation program and highlights its commitment to outdoor adventure and education.

The remodel of this design firm’s space is among the first in Utah to be certified by the Living Building Institute. 

This 149-room Courtyard by Marriott, located at the foot of Utah’s Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood canyons, offers easy access to downtown and the area’s major ski resorts and fills a gap in hospitality offerings in the area. 

The Goldener Hirsch Inn is a European-style mountain lodge originally built more than 25 years ago that offers luxury accommodations for visitors to Deer Valley Resort.

This new corporate headquarters and asphalt batch plant brings operations and administrative functions together in a workplace that showcases an industrial architecture aesthetic.

This expansion and renovation of an existing cold storage warehouse and office building originally built in 2015 added nearly 150,000 sq ft of freezer space and a 24,000-sq-ft cold dock.

This nine-story core-and-shell office tower is the tallest building in West Valley City and includes a solar array as one of its defining architectural features. 

This 350,000-sq-ft corporate headquarters consolidates operations for up to 2,000 employees that used to take place in a variety of spaces. 

This renovation converted an existing warehouse into a food processing and manufacturing plant for oat-based milk foods. 

The first of several planned facilities, BioFire’s new manufacturing plant defines the architectural direction of the future campus. 

This five-acre town square is a multi-use space that accommodates a broad range of year-round activities, including concerts, craft and retail booths, festivals, a weekly farmer’s market and outdoor winter recreation such as ice skating. 

This elementary school addition and remodel provides creative makerspaces for students and is equipped with learning studios and lab spaces to encourage hands-on discovery and creative thinking. 

The new Pierce Park Elementary School replaces the Boise school district’s oldest elementary school, providing a 52,500-sq-ft facility that supports 400 kindergarten through sixth-grade students.

An addition of a new auxiliary lane, a widened 12-ft shoulder and new conduit and utilities along Interstate 80 have improved safety and connectivity for Tooele Valley residents and commuters. 

Now the largest pedestrian bridge in the state, this new connection over Interstate 15 and the Union Pacific and FrontRunner rail lines is a vital connection from the Utah Transit Authority Intermodal Center to the UVU campus, which is home to more than 40,000 students. 

This new building includes simulation labs, classrooms, offices and gathering spaces designed to create a learning environment that provides real-life experience while accommodating state-of-the-art equipment and training that meets the needs of industry partners.

This remodel gives new life to an old 1950s-era campus building by replacing the curtain wall and upgrading the mechanical and electrical systems to achieve better thermal comfort and improve energy efficiency. 

This addition to the Huntsman Cancer Institute provides proton therapy options for patients who need targeted cancer treatment.

The 33-bed, 235,000-sq-ft hospital reduces the distance that patients in this growing community must travel for health care services.

This new fire station for South Davis Metro Fire includes four drive-through garage bays, a fire turnout gear room and a 25-ft-tall fire training stair tower as well as training, fitness and living space for the firefighters.

With a prominent location on Main Street in Lehi, this new public safety and police station was designed to reflect various architectural styles and periods.

The woven bird’s nest pattern in this new performing arts center mimics that of Alta High School’s hawk mascot, and the placement of its 1,400-seat auditorium in the center of the building suggests a hawk’s nest. 

The Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center supports a variety of uses, including theater, children’s theater, dance, music and visual arts for myriad local and national arts groups.