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Lowry Redevelopment Partnership Established/Haselden Creates Innovative Mobile Training Center/M+O+A Honors Clients, Partners
Redevelopment of the Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range includes more than 3.200 acres of mixed-use buildings, featuring a regional town center, open space and nearly 13,000 residential units built over the next 30 years.
Lend Lease Partners on Lowry Redevelopment
The Colorado State Land Board and Lend Lease Communities
LLC will partner on the development of the former Lowry Bombing
and Gunnery Range.
Lend Lease was selected from among three finalists to develop
the $1.5 billion Lowry Range project. The plan will include
more than 3,200 acres of mixed-use development.
Lend Lease will provide for the creation of a regional town
center, residential village and a portion of the community
open space during the first phase of development.
Planning and pre-development are under way, with phase one
construction scheduled to begin in 2010. The timeline for
complete build-out is 30 years.
The Lowry Range master plan calls for the development of approximately
13,000 residential units between Quincy and Yale avenues west
of Watkins Road. The community design includes a number of
self-contained "villages," or neighborhoods, each
anchored by its own school, parks and small-scale, walkable
convenience retail.
Colorado Company Honored with National Award of Excellence
Concrete Works of Colorado Inc., based in Lafayette, was
honored at the ACPA's 43rd Annual Meeting in Orlando.
The company received the American Concrete Pavement Association's
National Award for Excellence in Concrete Pavement for the
Grand Avenue Paving Project in Glenwood Springs in the Category
of Municipal Streets and Intersections over 30,000 sq yds.
Haselden Hits the Road with New Training
Facility
Haselden Construction has launched the first-of-its-kind
mobile training facility in Colorado, which it unveiled in
December at the Occupational Safety & Health Administration
office in Englewood.
The solar- and generator-powered trailer is equipped with
a computer-based interactive learning center used for apprenticeship
development, new-hire orientation, safety training, career
development, client services training and even CPR training
for employees and family members.
Haselden also uses the facility to provide more intensive
safety training to its subcontractor base.
FCI Constructors Awarded UW Library Project in Laramie
FCI Constructors' Longmont office was named the construction
manager/general contractor for the Information Library and
Learning Center at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
The expansion project consists of a 95,000-sq-ft, four-level
structure that will house the administrative space and classrooms
and renovation of the existing 183,200-sq-ft Coe Library.
The $38 million project is in the preconstruction phase, with
construction scheduled to begin in August and finish in 24
months.
The architects are GSG Architecture of Casper and Ruffcorn
Mott Hinthorne and Stine of Seattle.
Turner Construction Moves Office to Denver Tech Center
Turner Construction relocated its Denver office in December
to the Denver Tech Center in Greenwood Village.
The company's new address is 5690 DTC Blvd., Suite 515 East,
Greenwood Village, 80111. All phone and fax numbers remain
the same.
BonaKemi USA Moves to Expanded Aurora Location
BonaKemi USA, the North American subsidiary of BonaKemi AB
in Sweden, relocated its Aurora offices in December to a new
space at 2550 S. Parker Road, Suite 600, Aurora, 80014. Its
toll-free number remains the same: 800 872-5515.
The company's new offices - located on the fifth and sixth
floors of the building - are 37,000 sq ft larger than its
old space. The move is in direct response to the company's
anticipated growth and follows the addition of a new production
facility in Monroe, N.C.
BonaKemi USA's training center will move to the North Carolina
location, while the Bona Service Center for sanding machine
repair and maintenance will be housed in the old Bona Training
Center at 3551 N. Chambers, Suite E, Aurora, 80011.
M+O+A Names Its Firms of the Year
M+O+A Architectural Partnership named the recipients of its
2006 Dimensions awards, established to recognize its clients,
consultants and contractors who demonstrate the highest regard
for the firm's core values. They are:
Client of the Year - Jefferson County Public Schools, for
which the firm is designing the new Bear Creek K-8 and Bear
Creek High schools;
Contractor of the Year - Gerald H. Phipps Inc., with which
M+O+A has worked on several recent projects, including the
Discovery Canyon K-12 campus in Colorado Springs and Bear
Creek High; and
Consultant of the Year - Envision Mechanical Engineers Inc.
The two firms are working together on the Hinkley High School
addition and renovation project for Aurora Public Schools
and both Bear Creek schools.
CH2M Hill Hits Safety Milestone for Alcoa
Bohai Project in China
CH2M HILL has completed 500,000 work hours without injuries
on its Alcoa Bohai Aluminum Industries project in Qinhuangdao,
China. The milestone is significant because of the project's
remote location and the lack of construction personnel thoroughly
trained in systematic construction safety practices.
Denver-based CH2M Hill, which is providing engineering and
construction management services for the Alcoa project,
has a staff of 28 professionals onsite. The team is expected
to grow to 35 staff this year. Firm officials said they
expect approximately five million field craft hours will
be spent on the job.
In addition to this project, CH2M Hill has completed three
projects for other Alcoa business units in China and is
working on a new Alcoa architectural products facility to
be built in Suzhou.
Front Range Airport Hangar Developer Spreads
Wings
HangarsUSA and Meheen Engineering, both of Denver, were
awarded a $3.1 million contract to design and build a 33,325-sq-ft
hangar at the Greybull, Wyo. airport. The facility, which
will contain both maintenance and office floor space, will
be the largest hangar located at Greybull.
Meheen Engineering will design the hangar to perform the
refurbishing and maintenance of large military and civilian
aircraft.
Nuszer Kopatz Wins Fifth Community of
the Year Award
Nuszer Kopatz and Village Homes received the Community
of the Year award from the Home Builders Association of
Metro Denver for Idyllwilde, a master-planned community
in Parker - the fifth consecutive year the team has won
this award.
Nuszer Kopatz was recognized for its land planning, landscape
architecture and community visioning work at Idyllwilde
for the second year running. The firm also received the
Best Signage and Landscape Design awards.
ASCG Wins Design for Kalispel Tribe
ASCG Inc. in Lakewood will design a 10,000-sq-ft fire station
and public safety building for the Kalispel Tribe of Indians
in Usk, Wash.
The firm's services will include site selection, programming,
design services, construction inspection and administration.
The construction budget is estimated at $1.5 million.
Drahota Awarded Crossroads Towers Project
in Loveland
Drahota Commercial LLC was awarded Crossroads Towers,
an office building project at the northeast corner of Crossroads
Boulevard and Interstate 25 in Loveland.
A joint venture between Martin Lind of Water Valley Land
Co. and Stuart MacMillan of Everitt MacMillan Development,
the project will include two 6-story office buildings, each
approximately 75,000 sq ft.
Construction on the Vaught Frye Architects-designed project
will begin this spring.
Monte Vista Picks Nolte for Downtown Revitalization
Nolte Associates in Colorado Springs was selected by the
city of Monte Vista to develop the preliminary plan for
its Downtown Business District Revitalization program.
The plan for a five-block project area on First Avenue between
Monroe Street and U.S. Highway 285/South Broadway Street
will address traffic-calming measures, including potential
traffic lane reductions and pedestrian-related features.
The goal is to promote a walking environment to create more
of a "downtown experience" for residents and visitors.
Planning began in November and preliminary plan design recommendations
are expected within six months.
As part of the process, Nolte will conduct a "sustainable
assessment" of the area, extensive photo documentation
and solicitation of input from downtown property owners
and other stakeholders.
HomeSphere Sells Two Product Lines
Lakewood-based HomeSphere has sold its Builder 360 and
BuildSoft back-office software product lines to Toronto-based
Constellation HomeBuilder Systems Inc.
With the sale of these products, HomeSphere will focus on
providing supply-chain services to builders and building
material product manufacturers. The company has a customer
base of 900-plus home builders and a suite of supply-chain
services that includes the building materials rebate tracking
programs BRI and AllTrackT.
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