ABC and AGC Honor Colorado Contractors/HCC Names Annual Award Winners/ACEC/CO Recognizes Top Women Engineers

Colorado fared well this year at the national conventions for both the Associated Builders and Contractors and the Associated General Contractors of America. Two projects in the state received ABC Excellence in Construction awards while AGC honored several Colorado contractors with Aon Build America and Willis Safety Awards.

ABC Honors Colorado Projects, CSU Among the Top of 2005

Two Colorado projects were recognized earlier this year by Associated Builders and Contractors as among the nation's top 2005 construction projects.

The University of Denver's Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium and New Life Church in Colorado Springs were named winners of Excellence in Construction awards at the 2006 ABC National Convention in Las Vegas.

Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium won in the Institutional - Under $5 Million category. Denver's Pinkard Construction Co. was the contractor, with design by TSP/David Owen Tryba Architects.

Spacecon Specialty Contractors won for New Life Church in the Interior Contractor category. The project was designed by James W. Nakai and Associates.

Colorado State University's student chapter of ABC was also honored at the convention - it won the association's 2006 Student Chapter Award of Excellence.

MTECH Mechanical Technologies Group in Denver was named a 2005 national safety excellence award winner in the SIC 17 - Specialty Construction category.

Colorado Companies Win AGC Aon Build America Awards

Eighteen projects, including five by Colorado contractors, won 2006 Aon Build America Awards at the Associated General Contractors' 87th annual convention in Palm Springs in March.

The winning projects built by Colorado contractors were:

Design-Build Renovation

• Beartooth Highway Emergency Repairs, Red Lodge, Mont. - Kiewit Western Co., Littleton; and JTL Group Inc., Belgrade, Mont.
• Atlas V SLC 3E Activation, Vandenberg AFB, Calif. - Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Greeley

Building - New

• Colorado Convention Center Expansion, Denver - Hensel Phelps/Walker/Alvarado, a joint venture

Highway- New

• Cooper River Bridge, Charleston, S.C. - Palmetto Bridge Constructors, a joint venture of Tidewater Skanska Inc., Virginia Beach, Va.; and Flatiron Constructors Inc., Longmont

Environmental - New

• Benicia Wetlands Mitigation, Benicia, Calif. - Flatiron's California subsidiary, FCI Constructors.

Safety Awards

Four Colorado companies were named winners of the seventh annual AGC/Willis Construction Safety Excellence Awards, also presented during the association's convention. They were:

• MTECH Mechanical Technologies Group, Denver - first place, Specialty Contractor, 100,001-300,000 work hours;
• Haselden Construction LLC, Centennial - second place, Building Division, 300,001-700,000 work hours;
• RK Mechanical Inc., Denver - third place, Specialty Contractor, over 1 million work hours; and
• Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Greeley - third place, Building Division, over 1 million work hours.

HCC Presents 16th Annual Awards

The Hispanic Contractors of Colorado honored Denver Councilman Rick Garcia at the association's 16th annual awards banquet earlier this year.

Garcia received the Community Advocate Award for his ongoing efforts to include business training and contracting opportunities for minority/women/small businesses in economic revitalization efforts, access to new transit projects and business development.

He was also cited for his contributions to the T-REX SBE/DBE Incentive Program and his support of the ballot initiatives for the FasTracks and Denver Justice Center projects.

Other awards presented by HCC were:

• Board Member of the Year - John C. Olson Jr., AMI Mechanical Inc.;
• General Contractor of the Year - Pinkard Construction Co.;
• Subcontractor of the Year - AMI Mechanical Inc.;
• Service Company of the Year - CRS Insurance Brokerage;
• Supplier Company of the Year - United Rentals;
• Emerging Business of the Year - LEI Companies Inc.
• Large General Contractor Safety Award - J.E. Dunn Construction Co.;
• Small General Contractor Safety Award - Torix General Contractors;
• Large Subcontractor Safety Award - AMI Mechanical Inc.; and
• Small Subcontractor Safety Award - LEI Companies Inc.

Pinnacol Assurance sponsored the HCC Safety Awards, with the winners selected by the HCC Group Workers' Compensation Program Safety Committee.

HCC also presented the Past President's Award to Leneé Koch, LEI Companies; Board Service Award to Juan Alvidrez, Plaza Construction; and 10-year membership awards to Compass Insurance/Olson & Olson Division and Lockton Companies.

CSI Launches MasterFormat.com

The Construction Specifications Institute launched MasterFormat.com and kicked off the MasterFormat Maintenance Program during the 50th annual CSI Show and Convention, held last month in Las Vegas.

Putting MasterFormat on the Web at www.MasterFormat.com allows the resource to be updated in real-time and provide an easily searchable database for quick and thorough reference.

MasterFormat.com's sponsors include McGraw-Hill Construction, Reed Construction Data, ARCOM and Building Systems Design Inc.

ACEC/CO Honors Women and 'New Faces'

The American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado recognized Colorado's Outstanding Women in Engineering and New Faces in Engineering at the close of this year's Engineering Week festivities.

ACEC/ CO honored two Outstanding Women in Engineering this year - Marvinetta Hartwig and Patricia Flood.

The association also named its "New Faces": Mary Presecan, project engineer, Leonard Rice; Laura Girard, water resources engineer intern, Ayres Associates; Gwendolyn Zuber, engineer-in-training and project engineer, Richard P. Arber Associates Inc; Donald Frick, water resource engineer, Applegate Group Inc.; Lisa Farmer, also a water resource engineer at Applegate Group; and Craig Ullmann, PE, Applegate Group.

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