Wolff Lyon Honored by AIA and HUD/Mortenson Wins Prairie Gateway Contract/Boulder Associates Moves to Pearl Street

Wolff Lyon Honored for Main Street North

Boulder's Wolff Lyon Architects is the 2005 winner of the Mixed-Use/Mixed-Income Development Award given annually by the American Institute of Architects and the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Wolff Lyon was recognized for designing and developing Main Street North in Boulder.

The award was presented on May 20 during the AIA's national convention in Las Vegas.

Located on the site of an old drive-in movie theater, the $7.6 million mixed-use project includes 38,500 sq ft of restaurants, personal use services and offices coupled with 14 loft-style residences, 30 percent of which are deed-restricted affordable units.

The project consists of six individual buildings that form the entrance to the new 330-home Holiday neighborhood in north Boulder.

WeatherSure Lands Pueblo Mall Project

WeatherSure Systems Inc. of Englewood has been awarded a $1.1 million contractor for reroofing the Pueblo Mall.

The new Derbigum roof is being installed as part of a multi-million renovation of the regional mall, which first opened in 1976.

The roofing consultant is Roofing Consultants Ltd. of Waukesha, Wisc.

Martin/Martin's Kansas City Office Finalizes Merger

Martin/Martin Inc. has announced the name change of its Kansas City branch office from Martin Harper & Associates to Martin/Martin Inc. Consulting Engineers.

Founded in 1997 as part of the Martin Associates Group-Los Angeles, the Kansas City office merged in 1998 with Martin/Martin Inc.-Denver. The name change signifies the final step in the merger process, affirms the company's professional evolution and formalizes its identity.

Swinerton to Work on New Belgium Brewery

Swinerton Builders has been selected to provide preconstruction and construction services for a 76,000-sq-ft steel and concrete bottling and packaging plant expansion for New Belgium Brewing Co. in Fort Collins.

The plant will include an assembly line, cold storage, warehouse and shipping dock. As an addition to the nation's first wind-powered brewery, the project will feature many sustainable design elements. It's being designed by BNIM Architects of Kansas City, Mo.

McGraw-Hill Construction, ReproMAX Form Alliance

McGraw-Hill Construction and ReproMAX Inc. have formed a national alliance to develop and market a set of integrated products and services to increase the efficiency of document management and distribution for the construction industry.

The agreement will also provide improved collection of project information, enabling faster availability to the industry.

The new partnership leverages both companies' expertise to provide integrated solutions that help businesses in the AEC community better manage their business process workflow to become more productive and competitive.

The agreement provides customers with the ability to either order plans online for next day availability or visit their local Plan Room Center to view plans. ReproMAX will also provide document scanning services to McGraw-Hill Construction, enabling document availability via the McGraw-Hill Construction Network.

FCI Wins AGC of Calif. Partnering Award

The Associated General Contractors of California honored FCI Constructors with the 2005 Excellence in Partnering Award for its work during construction of the 7th Street Extension in downtown Sacramento.

FCI extended Sacramento's 7th Street underneath operating railroad tracks, forming a new connection between downtown Sacramento and Richards Blvd. FCI added 3,500 ft to the existing 1,500 ft of grade-separated roadway.

Building 67 Renovation Wins GSA Recycling Award

The $7 million renovation of Building 67 at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood won a national General Services Administration Environmental Award in the recycling category.

In addition to recycling 941 tons of concrete - 40 truckloads - for use in new construction, the renovation introduced energy measures that will save the government about $75,000 annually on natural gas and $100,000 on electric bills.

In 2002 and 2003, GSA oversaw an exterior makeover by a team that included OZ Architecture, OZ Product Delivery Services, Lantz-Boggio Architects, DRG Construction and Centerre Construction Inc.

The 14-story Building 67 was originally designed by HOK Inc. of St. Louis. It opened on April 26, 1967, and was declared a landmark of Modernist architecture in the region.

Woolpert Acquires Denver-Based Mountain Surveying and Mapping

Woolpert Inc. recently announced the acquisition of Mountain Surveying and Mapping Inc., a full-service surveying firm.

Woolpert President and CEO Rex Cowden said the acquisition was made as part of the firm's overall growth strategy.

"We wanted to establish a surveying group in Woolpert's Denver office," he said. "Instead of building from scratch, we thought merging a great firm like MSM into Woolpert would be the best way to make it happen.

Mortenson Awarded Prairie Gateway Project

M. A. Mortenson Co. was awarded the new construction management contract for the $66 million Prairie Gateway project on behalf of Kroenke Sports Entertainment and the city of Commerce City, a 917-acre redevelopment north of the ongoing Stapleton redevelopment.

Proposed features include a new soccer stadium for the Colorado Rapids and practice fields, components of the Denver Justice Center and numerous retail and mixed-use projects.

Mortenson was selected to redevelop the site infrastructure, which includes road widening, site utilities installation, earthwork and landscaping.

Swanson Rink Donates PCs to DPS' 'TechKnow' Program

This spring, Swanson Rink Inc. donated computers to the Denver Public Schools' TechKnow, an after-school program that provides middle school students with the opportunity to earn their own computer by completing 40 hours of intensive hardware and software training.

In order to keep up with the most current technology, Swanson Rink leases computers for two years. At the end of its last contract, the Denver-based consulting engineering firm bought out the lease and donated all 14 computers to TechKnow.

The computers were used this spring at Lake Middle School. Students who earned computers this semester took them home earlier this month.

CTL/Thompson Opens Crested Butte Office

CTL/Thompson has expanded its Glenwood Springs office by opening a satellite office in Crested Butte, a move that reflects the firm's growing presence in southwestern Colorado.

Located at 244 Buckley Dr., the new office is 1,200 sq ft with laboratory space to accommodate pertinent soil and concrete testing. Initially, the office will provide construction observation and material testing services to projects in the area.

The firm also also acquired this spring SECURE Foundations LLC of Fort Collins and SECURE Engineering Denver LLC.

The SECURE firms employ 12 staffers who have completed more than 900 projects involving sites in seven states; they represent a projected 2005 revenue of $800,000.

SECURE's former president, Howard Perko, PE, is now division manager of CTL/T's Fort Collins office. He worked for CTL/T from 1994 to 1999 prior to getting a PhD in civil engineering from Colorado State University.

Roche Wins Phase III at Weld County Jail

The Weld County Commissioners awarded Phase III of the Weld County North Jail Complex to Roche Constructors in May.

Valued between $8 million to $10 million, the project will consist of the construction of a two-story correctional facility with different levels of security and a minimum of 51,200 sq ft. Bley Associates of Greeley will design it.

Robinson Brick Co. Expands Northern Market

Denver-based Robinson Brick Co. opened its newest design and masonry center in May in Bozeman, Mont. - marking the company's second retail operation in Montana and its 15th in the United States.

The store is located at 150 Thunder Rd. near Belgrade, serving the Bozeman and Four Corners areas.

Boulder Associates Moves to New Pearl St. Location

Boulder Associates moved to new offices effective in May. The architecture and interior design firm's new address is 1426 Pearl St., Suite 300, Boulder, 80302. The telephone number is 303-499-7795; the fax number is 303-499-7767.

RNL Continues to Expand Its Middle East Presence

RNL International has expanded its international presence with several new design commissions in the Middle East region.

In addition to the Burj Dubai project, a 24-million-sq-ft, mixed-use development of office, retail and residential components by Emaar Properties, RNL recently completed design for the luxury villas at The Pearl - Qatar, a new island development in the Doha Bay.

The firm is also providing architecture, interior design and landscape architecture services to Laguna Tower at Jumeirah Lakes, a 40-story residential development. The design will be completed this year with construction scheduled for completion in 2006.

Stanley Consultants Wins National ACEC Award

The role that Stanley Consultants has played in master planning the reconstruction of Iraq's infrastructure - described as the single-largest reconstruction program in world history - was honored this spring by the American Council of Engineering Companies.

The firm received a National Honor Award in ACEC's 39th annual Engineering Excellence Awards competition.

Stanley Consultants, teaming with Michael Baker Jr. Inc., worked with the Coalition Provisional Authority and Iraqi ministries to identify and prioritize more than 5,000 potential projects in the areas of oil, electric, public works and water, security and justice, transportation and communications and building and education.

Upon congressional approval of the reconstruction program, the team began preparing more than $4 billion in task orders - including scopes of work and preliminary construction cost estimates - for implementing projects deemed to be most critical to Iraq's recovery.

KL&A Wins AISC Award for Pueblo Library Project

The American Institute of Steel Construction presented Engineering Awards of Excellence to 11 projects at the 2005 North American Steel Construction Conference, held earlier this month in Montreal, Canada.

Doug Rutledge of KL&A Inc. in Golden accepted the Merit Award for the Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library in the $10 to $25 million project category on behalf of the firm.

Swanson Rink Designing AV, Security Systems for UNLV

Swanson Rink Inc. is providing audio-video and security systems design for the University of Nevada at Las Vegas' new student union.

The 135,000-sq-ft facility features a 300-seat theater, ballroom, conference space, meeting rooms, dining and retail areas and a computer lab.

Security design encompasses closed-circuit television and access control systems that will control and monitor access into the building and provide video surveillance of the interior and exterior.

Audio-visual systems have been designed for the theater, ballroom and large conference room.

BVH to Assess Rosemount Museum

Bahr Vermeer Haecker Architects of Colorado Springs has been retained to conduct a formal Historic Structure Assessment of the Rosemount Museum in Pueblo.

The work also includes a project to restore the roof using historically correct copper and red slate, lightning protection and rehabilitation of the foundation drainage system.

The long-term objective is to restore the building to its original condition and appearance and develop an intensive periodic component inspection and maintenance program that will assure it's kept in museum-quality condition.

The Rosemount Museum is the former Thatcher Mansion and curates the family collection of furnishings, papers and art. The centerpiece of the collection is the 24,000-sq-ft mansion and 6,000-sq-ft carriage house built by John and Margaret Thatcher in 1893.

Designed by Henry Hudson Holly of New York, the mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places.