ABC Scholarship Awarded to CSU Student/ASAC Earns National Recognition/LEED 2009 Passes Member Ballot

CSU Student Chapter Leader Earns ABC Scholarship

The Associated Builders and Contractors National awarded Angie Brownlee, a junior at Colorado State University majoring in construction management, a $5,000 scholarship.

Brownlee is the current president of ABC Rocky Mountain Chapter’s CSU chapter. She recently served on the competing team that went to San Juan, Puerto Rico earlier this year for the ABC 2008 National Conference. She will also serve on the 2009 competing team in Hawaii later this month.

To be considered for an ABC scholarship, students must be enrolled in a construction-related undergraduate degree program, a current member in an ABC student chapter or employed by an ABC member firm.

They must have successfully completed at least one year in an associate’s or bachelor’s degree program, with at least one full semester left, and must have a minimum overall GPA of 2.85 and a GPA of 3.0 in the major.

HCC Announces Political Achievement, Community Advocate Award Winners

Guillermo “Bill” Vidal and Jerry Morgensen are the winners of the Hispanic Contractors of Colorado’s annual political achievement and community advocate awards, respectively. The association will present the honors at its 19th Annual Banquet on March 7.

Vidal, a Colorado registered professional engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the public sector, is public works manager for the city and county of Denver and also serves as the city’s deputy mayor.

During his city tenure, Vidal negotiated a $50-billion, 20-year franchise agreement with Xcel Energy, introduced the largest street and bridge construction program in city history and developed the city’s first storm sewer and sanitary sewer master plans.

Morgensen, chairman and CEO of Greeley’s Hensel Phelps Construction Co., has strengthened the small business economy in Colorado through his ethical and inclusive business decisions, advocacy and industry involvement, HCC said.

HCC is also honoring Morgensen for leading the establishment within Hensel Phelps of a commitment to minority, women and small business enterprises, subcontractor utilization, joint venture partnerships and small business outreach programs.

ASA of Colorado Earns Exemplary Chapter Award

On Sept. 15, the American Subcontractors Association honored ASA of Colorado with a 2007-08 Exemplary Chapter Award, recognizing the chapter’s highly effective operations, including effective delivery of services to its members.

ASA 2008-09 President William J. Olmo III, Fedco Construction, Santa Rosa, Calif., presented the award at a ceremony held in conjunction with the ASA Champions Academy 2008 in Arlington, Va.

“The term exemplary means ‘deserving imitation because of excellence.’ Thus, ASA exemplary chapters are the ones to which the rest of us look for fresh ideas, model programs and leadership,” said ASA Task Force on Recognition Chairman Chip Rohrbach, F. A. Rohrbach Inc., Allentown, Pa.

The task force, composed of ASA members and chapter executives from across the country, selected ASA of Colorado for the honor on the basis of its self-evaluation of chapter management practices. ASA of Colorado was the sole ASA chapter to meet all of the evaluation’s minimum requirements in 2006-07. The chapter re-certified its compliance with the minimum requirements in 2007-08.

LEED 2009 Resets Bar for Green Building Standards

LEED 2009, the long-awaited update to the internationally recognized LEED green-building certification program, has passed the member ballot and will be introduced this year as the next major evolution of the existing LEED rating systems for commercial buildings.

It includes a series of major technical advancements focused on improving energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and addressing other environmental and human health outcomes. It also includes regional credits—extra points that have been identified as priorities within a project’s given environmental zone.

Coupled with a credit alignment structure designed to create a more elegant and harmonized rating system, LEED 2009 will reset the bar for the certification of high-performance green buildings.

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