Nashville Firm Acquires GGA/CFC Awarded River Park at New Castle/Pacific Western Wins $233M EPA Contract

Denver's Gordon, Gumeson and Associates was acquired earlier this year by Smith Seckman Reid Inc., an engineering design and facility consulting firm based in Nashville. The firm will operate as SSR/GGA for a one-year period. Afterward, it will be known as SSR.Nashville Firm Acquires Denver's GGA

Nashville Firm Acquires Denver's GGA

Smith Seckman Reid Inc., an engineering design and facility consulting firm based in Nashville, has acquired Denver's Gordon, Gumeson and Associates - a move that resulted from a marketing alliance between the two firms that began more than 18 months ago.

Richard Gordon, principal and founder of GGA, said his firm's shareholders were unanimous in their approval.

Founded in 1985, GGA provides mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering design services to a wide range of commercial, institutional and government clients. GGA has 35 employees in Denver and two in Cheyenne.

GGA employees will remain with SSR/GGA, becoming part of a combined force of more than 420 engineers in nine SSR offices across the country. GGA's management team will play a key role in the office's leadership and the firm's clients will continue to work with the same team they already know.

CFC Awarded River Park at New Castle

CFC Construction in Golden was awarded the River Park condominium project in New Castle.

The $22 million project will consist of 153 units in 18 three-story buildings, plus a a common area with a swimming pool and a playground. It was designed by Eric Smith & Associates PC for Wintergreen Homes.

River Park at New Castle is scheduled for completion in January 2008.

Nuszer Kopatz Wins Work in Broomfield and New Mexico

Nuszer Kopatz in Denver was selected by Hibernia Holdings to provide landscape architecture and project management services for a site development plan in Broomfield. The plan calls for a 116-unit urban townhome and condominium project on 5.66 acres at the Broomfield Urban Transit Village at Arista.

The overall master-planned community at Arista includes the Broomfield Events Center - now under construction - mixed-use office/retail development, an urban Main Street connected to a future RTD park-n-Ride and a variety of residential neighborhoods.

The firm has also been retained by Turtleback Mountain Partners to provide entitling, master planning, neighborhood planning and design, community visioning and landscape architecture services for a 1,050-acre, master-planned resort/community in Elephant Butte, N.M.

Klipp Selected to Design New Weld County Libraries

By a unanimous vote of the Weld Library District Board of Trustees, Denver's klipp was awarded two new libraries to be built in southwest Weld County.

The 35,000-sq-ft Carbon Valley Regional Library in Firestone will provide library services for the residents of Firestone, Frederick and Mead. The 272-acre site - named Firestone Central Park - will eventually contain a new cultural campus and municipal complex.

The 20,000-sq-ft Erie Branch Library will be built in Erie Commons, a new residential community adjacent to Old Town Erie.

The two projects will be developed concurrently, with construction expected to start this December and be completed in December 2007.

Pacific Western Technologies Lands $233M Contract with EPA

Lakewood-based Pacific Western Technologies Ltd. was awarded a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 RAC2 contract. The 10-year, $233 million contract for environmental remediation services was signed on Jan. 13.

PWT and its subcontractors - Tetra Tech EMI Inc. and E2 Consulting Engineers Inc. - will provide technical and management services for environmental clean up and oversight at Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund) sites throughout EPA Region 8.

Contract work also supports states and communities in preparing responses to the release of hazardous substances, as well as counterterrorism.

Kpff Consulting Engineers Relocates to New Office

Kpff Consulting Engineers moved its office earlier this year to a new location in the Denver Tech Center at 7887 E. Belleview Avenue, Suite 350.

The Denver office of the Seattle-based structural and civil engineering firm was established by Elizabeth Jones in July 2004.

Flatiron Wins Major Design-Build Contract

Longmont-based Flatiron Constructors has secured in joint venture with United Contractors a $192 million contract to build the new Washington Bypass in North Carolina. Flatiron will lead the joint venture with a 60 percent share. Earth Tech is the design consulting engineer.

Flatiron will use a new patent-pending variation of the top-down construction technique, a span-by-span method that uses the newly constructed permanent structure for personnel access and material deliveries. The process features a self-contained piece of equipment capable of performing all tasks associated with the bridge construction, including driving the precast piles, building the bent caps, erecting the 120-ft-long precast girders and pouring the deck.

All of these operations will be performed without the use of temporary access trestles, significantly reducing environmental disturbances. Design and permitting will simultaneously occur over the first year, with construction beginning in February 2007 and lasting approximately three years.

ASCG Ranked Among World's Top 200 A/E Firms

The Swedish Federation of Consulting Engineers and Architects has ranked ASCG Inc. No. #184 on its list of the World's Top 200 Consulting Engineering and Architectural Groups in its annual sector review.

Based in Anchorage, ASCG has 18 offices in 10 states, including one in Lakewood.

Results of the review, conducted by the trade and employers' organization for Sweden's architectural and engineering consultancies, were published in December.

Neenan Co. Employees Raise Money for Charity

The 160 employees of The Neenan Co. donated more than $60,000 to the Fort Collins Area United Way and the American Cancer Society in 2005.

Neenan employees raised $41,255 for the United Way in 2005, an 18 percent increase over 2004. Employees raised funds through an employee golf tournament, a silent/live auction and the annual United Way pledge drive.

The American Cancer Society Relay for Life of Fort Collins recently named Neenan as its top fund-raising team in Larimer County. During its 2005 campaign, employees raised approximately $20,000 through two key events - the annual 18-hour Relay for Life and a softball tournament.

Stapleton to Feature Denver Brownstones

Forest City Stapleton recently announced plans for the Denver Brownstones at Central Park by Touchstone Homes LLC, which will be located across the street from Central Park. Meant to recall historic mansions of the 1920s, combining old-world charm with modern amenities, the brownstones will feature three private terraces in front of each home.

The Denver Brownstones were designed by Godden/Sudik Architects of Centennial, and Amirob & Associates, a Denver interior design firm.

Homeowners will enjoy views of Central Park from their terraces. Opening next year under a design by EDAW Inc., the 80-acre space will be one of the city's foremost parks, as well as Stapleton's major gathering place.