Mortenson to Provide Design-Build Services for NREL/Drexel, Barrell Comes to LoDo/Northstar Project Management Team Adds DLR Group

Mortenson Provides D-B Services for National Renewable Energy Lab

Mortenson Construction recently announced that the company’s Denver office has been selected to provide design-build services for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility in Golden.

Mortenson’s design-build partners include H+L Architecture of Denver, Merrick and Co. of Aurora and Flad Architects of Madison, Wis. The team will deliver a facility that includes a high bay area, new and modified laboratories and a new administration area housing 30 NREL employees.

The $17-million facility will break ground in March 2009, with a 10-month construction schedule.

Drexel, Barrell & Co. Opens Regional Office in LoDo

Photo by Terry Shapiro

Colorado-based Drexel, Barrell & Co. recently opened a new office in Denver as part of the company’s increasing Colorado presence.

The office is located in the Lower Downtown district at the corner of 17th and Market streets, at 1350 17th St., Suite 210. Denver, 80202.

The Denver office is led by Ann T. Bowers, who has more than 20 years of engineering experience, representing clients in communities throughout Colorado.

DRL Group Named to Northstar Project Management Team

The Northstar Project Management Team has added DLR Group as a consultant member for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s design-build project, the Research Support Facility.

Photo courtesy of GE Johnson Construction Co.

Northstar was selected in September by the U.S Department of Energy as its design-build owner’s representative for the $64-million, 800-person office building that will be designed to LEED-Platinum standards.

The Northstar Project Management Team is comprised of the DLR Group, MKK Engineers and the Farnsworth Group. The design-build contract was awarded to Haselden Construction and RNL, both of Denver. Construction is estimated to be complete in 2010.

DCI Donates Gold Tourney Proceeds To Partners Mentoring Youth Group

During the closing ceremony of Dohn Construction Inc.’s annual Superstars Sports Challenge at Fossil Creek Park in Fort Collins, the company presented Partners Mentoring Youth with a check for $20,840.

The donation was made possible by proceeds from the First Annual DCI Charity Golf Tournament, which took place at Pelican Lakes Golf and Country Club in Windsor in July. Thirty-six teams participated in the tournament, which was one of the few sold-out golf events of the summer, according to Pelican Lakes’ tournament director.

Partners Mentoring Youth of Larimer County is a Northern Colorado volunteer program that provides one-to-one mentoring relationships between adult volunteer role models and youth facing challenges in their personal, social and/or academic lives.

Weitz Employees Raise $10,000 for Mile High United Way

Employees of The Weitz Co. Rocky Mountain Business Unit held their second annual silent auction in September to benefit Mile High United Way.

The company-wide fundraiser brought in $10,000 to support local educational programs that improve lives in the Denver community.

As part of a long-standing relationship with United Way, The Weitz Co. Rocky Mountain Business Unit began the tradition of a silent auction in 2007. Weitz employees and subcontractors were challenged to donate items for sale, and employees came together to bid on those items at an after-work barbeque.

Big-ticket items were donated by Encore Electric, Rocky Mountain Prestress, A&D Reprographics, Shea Properties, CTL|Thompson, Proline Construction Supply Experts and Contractor Supply Inc.

Since the inception of the silent auction in 2007, Weitz employees have raised just under $18,000 for the Mile High United Way.