'See Forever Village' Going Up in Telluride

The Weitz Co. is building the $33 million See Forever Village next to The Peaks Resort and Golden Door Spa in Telluride.

See Forever will sit on top of a 10,000-ft ridge line overlooking Telluride with views of the San Sophia and Wilson mountain ranges. The 133,000-sq-ft project will include two condominium buildings, four log cabins and a heated underground parking structure. It was designed by O'Bryan Partnership Architects for Abrams Development Group Inc. and is financed by Capital Resource Group LLC. Construction will begins this month.

Ken O'Bryan, lead architect of the project, said this is the last project in the master plan for developing the northern area of Telluride. The condominiums will feature floor-to-ceiling glass walls, arched ceilings and private elevators for direct access into each unit.

UNCC Moves Into New Facility in Golden

The Utility Notification Center of Colorado has moved into its newly built facility at 16361 Table Mountain Parkway in Golden. UNCC is the state messaging center for all excavation locate requests.

The 12,000-sq-ft facility houses a statewide operation of 60 in-house professionals as well as supporting numerous remote personnel. The building also incorporates redundant systems for communications and data, ensuring fast responses to utility outages and eliminating potential system down times. The state-of-the-art facility is located in the Coors Technology Center and is the first one to be owned by UNCC since it began operations in 1987.

Before digging or starting any job where earth is moved, a call must be placed to the Utility Notification Center of Colorado at 1-800-922-1987. The call is free and can be made Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The call should be placed three days in advance of the proposed excavation.

OZ Designs Lake Tahoe Project

The Village at Northstar at Lake Tahoe, Calif., celebrated a January grand unveiling at a special event in San Francisco. Some 100 units of luxury ski-in ski-out condominiums in three buildings - valued at $130 million - will be available for occupancy for the 2005-06 ski season.

Designed by OZ Architecture, the new buildings include Iron Horse North and South and Great Bear Lodge. The lodges blend condominiums, retail, a members-only club lounge and underground parking.

OZ and East West are applying for LEEDTM certification of the project from the U.S. Green Building Council. The new buildings at The Village at Northstar could become the first resort village to receive certification.

The Village at Northstar is being developed by East West Partners and Booth Creek Ski Holdings.

The Durrant Group Joins U.S. Green Building Council

The Durrant Group Inc. has announced its membership in the U.S. Green Building Council. This is a milestone for the architecture, engineering and project delivery firm, which has tripled in size over the last decade.

One of the hallmark traditions of the USGBC is its consensus-oriented approach to ensuring an effective balance between state-of-the-art concepts and technologies and established green building practices. The council's premier project offering is the LEEDTM Green Building Rating System.

"Clients are demanding energy-efficient and environmentally friendly materials in their buildings," said Clyde Fuhrmiester, PE, CEM, LAP, a LEED-accredited engineer with Durrant. "Membership with the USGBC adds to our capability to lead the drive toward sustainability in the design community."

Nielsons Skanska Inc. Wins National Award for Quality in Asphalt Paving

The National Asphalt Pavement Association has announced that Nielsons Skanska Inc. of Cortez has won a 2003 Quality in Construction Award for excellence in construction of an asphalt pavement. The company received its award at a special ceremony at the association's 49th Annual Convention in Phoenix.

Nielsons Skanska won the award for the milling, overlay and leveling of Durango-La Plata County Airport Runway 2/20. The company limited impacts to the community - including ensuring the availability of the runway for fire-fighting airplanes - by cooperative project planning and construction. The company's crews worked 14- and 15-hour single shifts, double shifts and Sundays to further accelerate an already shortened paving schedule.

Nielsons Skanska used asphalt paving to correct the grade problems with the existing runway, allowing it to meet current FAA safety standards without total reconstruction. The runway also met all smoothness criteria.

Ash & White Wins Contract for Expo Recreation Center

Ash & White Construction Co. has been commissioned to complete the remodel of the City of Aurora's Expo Recreation Center and an addition to the facility. The project began March 22 and is scheduled to be completed in October 2004. The architect on the project is Lewis Himes Associates Inc.

Bryan Construction Moves to New Headquarters

Bryan Construction Inc. has moved into a new office building. Located near the intersection of I-25 and Woodmen Road, the company's new headquarters are at:

7025 Campus Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80920

The Bryan Construction facility service group has been renovating the two-story, 10,000-sq-ft child care facility into a quality office space. After the demolition of virtually the entire interior space, a variety of products and finishes can be seen, including accent walls, color schemes, hand-painted lobby, maple flooring, glacier and sandrift ceiling tile and indirect lighting.

Each group within Bryan Construction has its own identity. First floor north houses the commercial, preconstruction and estimating departments. First floor south houses Bryan facilities services. Second floor north is the federal projects group, and administrative, marketing and financial services are on the second level south.

Pahl-Pahl-Pahl Honored

At the Hilton Hotels Corp. "Seize the Day" Owners' Conference in New Orleans, Pahl-Pahl-Pahl pc Architects/Planners was honored as a member of the Hilton Architect's Roundtable - 2004.

Pahl-Pahl-Pahl has provided architectural design services to the hospitality industry for more than 20 years. The firm is presently working on two hotels in downtown Denver and two hotels in Florida.

Lantz-Boggio-Designed Project Completed in Kansas

Lantz-Boggio Architects PC has completed the Heartland Cancer Center in Great Bend, Kan. The specialty medical office building, designed for the Central Kansas Medical Center, houses a linear accelerator with treatment area and chemotherapy space.

The building incorporates both a modern and urban appearance with a metal entry vestibule surrounded by tall curtain walls. The curtain walls frame the front and rear of the lobby space.

The various treatment areas of the facility were created to allow generous amounts of natural light to create a more therapeutic environment for patients.

The building is the second facility within a medical office park planned to contain several other specialty medical office buildings in western Kansas. local subcontractors were selected by Lantz-Boggio to help boost the local economy. The 11,000-sq-ft facility was completed on budget in nine months.

Grainger Opens New North Denver Location

Grainger, a leading broad-line supplier of facilities maintenance products, has opened a new location in North Denver at 6935 Broadway, near 70th and Broadway and close to the Boulder Turnpike.

Customers in North Denver can now place their orders and pick them up at the new Grainger Express location the same day. Orders will be shuttled to the new facility four times a day from Grainger's full-service branch on Tejon St., which stocks a broad selection of products such as HVAC, electrical and safety items.

Grainger's new facility is part of the company's market expansion initiative in Denver and 24 other major metro markets across the United States. Grainger also plans to open an area specifically tailored to the needs of contractors at its full-service branch on Tejon St. in Denver.