Denver Seminary to Relocate/DAM Steel Work Complete/Larkridge Groundbreaking/DU's Chambers Center Opens

Steel work was completed at the Denver Art Museum expansion project last month and construction is progressing into the interior of the addition.

Denver Seminary Moving to 20-Acre Littleton Site

Work has begun on Denver Seminary's new 20-acre campus located along the Platte River at 6399 S. Santa Fe Dr. in Littleton. The multi-denominational school has outgrown its current Englewood campus, where it has been located since 1968.

M+O+A Architectural Partnership is the architect for the $23.5 million project. Saunders Construction is the general contractor.

The $15.5 million, eight-acre educational campus will include classrooms, administration offices, a library, student center, counseling center and chapel. Student housing will be built on an additional seven acres adjacent to the educational area and will cost $8 million.

Construction is scheduled for completion by the 2005-06 academic year.

Steel Work Finished on DAM Building Addition

The Denver Art Museum celebrated the completion of steel construction for the Frederic C. Hamilton Building in early October. Work has progressed rapidly as steel construction - originally slated to be completed in December 2004 - finished in mid-September.

Among other project developments:

• Fifteen percent of the titanium-clad exterior wall is installed and slated to be finished in mid-2005.
• The temporary yellow shoring towers that helped support the steel frame have been removed.
• Interior mechanical duct work is well under way as construction progresses from the exterior of the building to the interior.

DATA Celebrates Opening of New $4M Building

The Denver Arts & Technology Academy celebrated the grand opening in September of its new location near the corner of 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street.

The $4 million charter school project is the result of a design-build collaboration between Hutton Ford Architects of Denver and Ward Construction Co. of Englewood.

The project required a three-story design to accommodate the 40,000-sq-ft school. Due to the sloping topography, both the first and second floors have at-grade access. All classrooms have exterior windows for daylighting.

Ground Broken, More Tenants Announced for Larkridge

Ground was broken this fall for the 240-acre Larkridge development, one of Colorado's largest single retail projects.

Slated to open in October 2005, Larkridge will encompass more than two million sq ft of retail space and combine shopping and dining with an open-air pedestrian village.

Premier tenants will include Office Max, Good Times, Bed Bath & Beyond, Dick's Sporting Goods, Home Depot, Circuit City, PetsMart, Gunther Toody's and one of the six currently planned Sears Grand stores in the nation.

Jordon Perlmutter & Co. is working with Matrix Design Group and MCG Architecture as the engineers and architects on Larkridge.

$8.6M Santo Spirito-Inspired Chambers Center Opens at DU

The $8.6 million Merle Catherine Chambers Center for the Advancement of Women has opened at the University of Denver. Designed by women for women, it houses The Women's Foundation of Colorado, Women's College of the University of Denver and HERS - the Higher Education Resource Services.

Inspired by the 14th century Santo Spirito in Florence, the 32,000-sq-ft building incorporates classical architectural elements with traditional materials such as red brick, Indiana limestone detailing, Hansen sandstone and a copper roof. The front is adorned with a large, round stained-glass window set in a swirl of limestone and detailed with a spiral derived from the mathematical pattern known as the Golden Mean.

Construction began in March 2003. The architect of record was Denver's Bennett, Wagner & Grody. Kiewit Construction was the general contractor.

Ground Broken on New Rec. Center in Highlands Ranch

Ground was broken this fall on the Highlands Ranch Community Association 's new Southridge Recreation Center, a $12.6 million, 71,879-sq-ft facility that will feature a gymnasium, locker rooms, running track, aerobic/workout space, community room and five outdoor tennis courts.

Other features include an indoor activity pool, water walk and current channel, children's pool with zero-depth entry and three-floor geysers, an outdoor adult leisure pool with circular staircases and waterfalls, and an indoor whirlpool and fitness pool.

Pinkard Construction is providing preconstruction, construction management and general contracting services. Sink Combs Dethlefs is the architect.

Nunn Construction Finishes Detention Center Expansion

Nunn Construction Inc. of Colorado Springs has recently completed the 96-bed addition and renovation to the Fremont County Detention Center in Cañon City.

The project was designed by Reilly Johnson Architecture. Chris Holt, Nunn's senior project manager; and Ben Kelly, onsite project superintendent; managed the fast-track project, which consisted of 48 precast, double-bunked cells with a structural steel joist and deck roof framing system.

Prime subcontractors included Tindall (precast cells), Sierra Steel (detention equipment), Heating and Plumbing Engineers and Berwick Electric.

Thunder Mountain HarleyCelebrates Grand Opening

Thunder Mountain Harley-Davidson opened its new super store in late September off Interstate 25 north of Loveland.

The 56,000-sq-ft facility is one of the largest such retail outlets in the country and has quickly become an architectural icon for those traveling through northern Colorado. It's designed to recall the character of a rustic Rocky Mountain lodge.

The design-build team of architects-planners Thorp Associates PC and general contractor R.C. Heath Construction Co. worked with owners Todd and Shelley Erdmann to develop a "themed entertainment" retail experience that also provides state-of-the-art service, parts and diagnostic departments.

Premier Lofts Make Official Debut in Denver

Premier Lofts, a luxury rental apartment complex, opened near Coors Field at 2200 Market St.

The all new construction project includes 250 luxury rental apartments, 10,000 sq ft of retail and commercial space and eight street-level townhomes.

The seven-story building sits on the site of the former Premier Tire Co. and features an exterior designed to blend well with the historic architecture of the Ballpark Neighborhood. Some of the materials used in the construction of the original building were salvaged during demolition and incorporated into the project.

Shears-Adkins Architects, RNL Design and Paul T. Bergner, AIA - all of Denver - are the project architects. M.A. Mortenson Co. is the general contractor.

Liberty Wire & Cable Headquarters Completed in Colorado Springs

Nunn Construction Inc. has completed the new Liberty Wire & Cable international headquarters, a 39,000-sq-ft corporate office and manufacturing facility in Colorado Springs. The new facility features 8,500 sq ft of office space and 30,500 sq ft of warehousing, manufacturing and production space.

The project manager was Steve Gassman; the project superintendent was Carl Wohlfert. The project architect was Richard Keetcht.

M+O+A, Larson Plan New DPS School

Denver's M+O+A Architectural Partnership and Larson Architects have completed the schematic design on the Green Valley Ranch Piccadilly School, a $13.3 million facility for pre-kindergarten through eighth grades planned for a 12-acre site in the Green Valley Ranch community of northeast Denver.

The building is a 101,600-sq-ft, two-story concept. The first floor will feature administration offices, music and art rooms, the gymnasium, cafeteria, kitchen and pods for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. The second floor will consist of classroom pods for grades six through eight and the library.

Kevin Sullivan, AIA, CEFPI, is the principal-in-charge of the project, scheduled for completion in May 2006.

Core High School Building Opens at Denver Academy

The Denver Academy's new $4 million Core High School Building opened for class this fall. The two-story, 35,405-sq-ft facility features 12 classrooms, a computer lab, art studio, science laboratory, tutoring rooms, teachers' offices and large faculty and common meeting halls.

Like its neighboring campus buildings, which are built of heavy decorative tripartite masonry and red Spanish tile roofs, the new school features a banded brick facade. White diamond patterns borrowed from the adjacent administration building accent entry ways.

JHL Constructors Inc. of Centennial was the general contractor for the project. Fentress Bradburn was the architect.

Nunn Starts Woodland Park High Addition and Renovation Project

Nunn Construction Inc. of Colorado Springs has begun work on an addition and renovation project at Woodland Park High School in Woodland Park. Scheduled for completion in August 2005, the $9.3 million project will add an auditorium and classrooms to the school.

The project was designed by LKA Partners Inc., which has offices in Colorado Springs and Denver. Chris Holt, Nunn's senior project manager; and Jeff Overman, onsite project superintendent, will manage the job.

Major subcontractors include Ute Plumbing, West Electric and Central States Roofing.

Construction Under Way on Auraria Campus Garage

Bucher, Willis & Ratliff Corp. completed civil engineering and traffic engineering services for a new 819-car parking structure on the Auraria Higher Education Center Campus in Denver. Construction began in early September.

Bucher, Willis & Ratliff - part of the consultant team led by Davis Partnership - has provided programming and design services for the new multi-level parking garage. Programming services included initial evaluation and cost modeling for utilities, drainage, storm water detention, roadway modifications and traffic signal modifications.

R&O Construction Building Two New Maverik Stores

R&O Construction is building two new Maverik Country Stores, one in Powell, Wyo.; and the other in Pocatello, Idaho. Dave Dixon & Associates of Salt Lake City is the architect for the Wyoming store;Timmerman & Associates is the architect for the Idaho store.

R&O's special project's division is managing both projects.

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