Firms Compete for 'Canstruction' Honors/Spacecon Acquires Sprehe Assets/White Construction Group Relocates

"The Chuck Wagon," a can creation made by staffers from Anderson Mason Dale Architects, KL&A Inc. and Swinerton Builders, was named Juror's Favorite-Best in Show at the Society for Administration's 2006 "canstruction" design-build competition and food drive in January.

'Chuck Wagon' Hauls in Top Canstruction Honors

The team of Anderson Mason Dale Architects, KL&A Inc. and Swinerton Builders took top honors at the 2006 "canstruction" design-build competition, held in January at the National Western Stock Show. Their entry, "The Chuck Wagon," was named Juror's Favorite-Best in Show.

Other winners of this year's competition were:

• Best Use of Labels - The RMH Group Inc. for "Harvesting for the Hungry," re-creation of a barn and silo;
• Best Meal - Intergroup Architects Inc. for "Spaghetti Western," stagecoach structure;
• Structural Integrity - 4240 Architecture Inc. for "Million Dollar Cowboy Bar Sign," a cowboy with a hat on a bucking horse.

Honorable mentions were presented to Monroe & Newell Engineers Inc. for "Make Hunger History: One CAN at a Time," an oversized can of chili; and Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture for its can-made KYGO radio station logo.

The competition, which raises food for and awareness of the Food Bank of the Rockies, was sponsored by the Denver Chapter of the Society for Design Administration.

Alliance and McKee Medical Center Receive Safety Awards

Loveland's Alliance Construction Solutions and the employees and staff of McKee Medical Center were recognized with a Commendable Safety Performance Award from Liberty Mutual Group and the Banner Owner Controlled Insurance Program Safety Award from Ashton Tiffany LLC.

The honors were given for the contractor's work on the McKee Medical Center Legacy Project in Loveland. The project's lost workday averages were 0.86 per hundred employees, one-third of the national average.

Spacecon Acquires Sprehe Interior Construction's Assets

Spacecon Specialty Contractors LLC's previously announced acquisition of assets from Sprehe Interior Construction Inc. was completed on Dec. 31.

As of Jan. 1, all of Sprehe's construction management employees - including field operations managers, project managers, estimators, safety managers, superintendents, foremen and warehouse personnel, together with most of Sprehe's non-construction support staff - became part of the Spacecon organization.

Spacecon Specialty Contractors is a newly formed subsidiary of Irex Corp., one of the nation's 50 largest specialty contracting organizations. Irex currently owns a controlling interest in 10 contracting subsidiaries doing work throughout the United States and Canada.

Paul Sprehe, Sprehe Interior Contractors' owner and president, is retiring from the interior construction business. Spacecon is based in Colorado Springs, with a division office in Denver.

Coover-Clark Selected for Fish and Wildlife Service Contract

Denver's Coover-Clark & Associates has signed a five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide multidiscipline architecture and engineering design services for Region 6.

To prepare for the project, the firm has assembled a team of project personnel and subconsultant-teaming partners with direct experience working for the USFWS on similar Region 6 contracts. They include Anderson Mason Dale, J.F. Sato, Robert Peccia and Associates, The RMH Group, EDAW Inc. and Yeh & Associates.

White Construction Relocates to New HQ

White Construction Group has relocated to its new headquarters at 18 S. Wilcox St., Suite 100, Castle Rock, 80104.The new building was completed in time for the company's 20th anniversary.

For a listing of White's new direct phone numbers, go to www.whitecg.com.

MKK Consulting Launches New Identity

MKK Consulting Engineers Inc. rolled out a new corporate identity meant to reflect an energy and corporate focus that builds on the strengths of the firm's 45-year history. The new logo symbolizes the firm's renewed commitment to its founding principles and captures the essence of the firm's vision and direction.

The firm's new graphics package was created by Campo Design of Denver. It refreshes MKK's visual identity with a new logo, color palette and redesign of corporate communication documents.

Olsson Associates Lands Contract With GSA

Olsson Associates has been added to the General Services Administration schedule, making it easier for the firm to provide services to the federal government.

OA's contract services are environmental planning services and documentation, environmental compliance services, waste management services and software and remediation services

These listings on the GSA schedule are significant because agencies can now directly acquire the firm's environmental services without lengthy proposal and pricing procedures.

A&P Achieves Major Safety Milestone

Adolfson & Peterson Construction of Aurora surpassed a major milestone in the construction industry - one million consecutive man hours worked with no lost-time accidents. The million-hour mark was hit on Dec. 16, the second time in five years that A&P has accomplished this goal.

Thissen Lands Three Northern Colorado Projects

Thissen Construction Corp. of Greeley is remodeling the New Frontier Bank in Longmont, set to open on July 1.

Thissen was also selected for two other projects in northern Colorado:

• The Educational Services Building - Chiller Replacement project for Weld County School District #6, which includes replacing the current non-functioning cooling system for the district offices in Greeley; and
• A design-build contract for the new HDTV transmission tower control building to be built near Frederick. The control building will provide conditioned space for housing for the transmitters for a new 1,180-ft-tall transmission tower.
  

Keller Homes Lands Gold at NAHB Gathering

Keller Homes in Colorado Springs was awarded several gold awards in January at the National Association of Home Builders conference in Orlando.

The company received Best Detached Home ($400,000 - $650,000) and Detached Community of the Year for La Bellezza at Peregrine. Other gold and silver awards Keller received for the community included Best Interior Merchandising of a Model ($650,000 - $1 Million); Best Design Center and Best Single Detached Home ($400,000 - $650,000); and Best Landscape Design for a Detached Project.

Alliance Awarded Thompson District Renovation Projects

Alliance Construction Solutions was selected by the Thompson School District for renovation and addition projects at Centennial and Winona elementary schools in Loveland.

The projects will provide more classrooms, gymnasiums, administration and commons areas to the campuses, both more than 30 years old. The work includes the addition of approximately 20,000 sq ft with 12 new classrooms, plus core upgrades to meet elementary education specifications.

The total estimated budget for both schools is $7.98 million.