Nolte Associates Inc. recently announced a new contract with Denmark-based Grontmij/Carl Bro, a subsidiary of the Dutch firm Grontmij, one of the largest European consulting firms.

Nolte will serve as the owner’s representative providing construction management, design and related services for Grontmij/Carl Bro’s European clientele that develop projects in America.

Grontmij, with annual revenues of $1.2 billion, employs 7,000 staff worldwide and performs a broad range of international consulting services. Areas of concentration include building, transportation, environment, water, energy and climate, industry, development and globalization.

Keeping pace with the rising demand for urban transportation solutions, transit-oriented development, and re-creation of urban places, Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin recently announced the opening of its newest regional office in Denver.

The Orlando-based community planning and design firm selected Denver because of the city’s commitment to transforming itself into a transit-friendly metropolitan hub. The Denver team is currently managing a variety of public and private transportation and urban-design projects along the Front Range and in major cities throughout the West, including Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Sacramento, and Edmonton, Alberta.

The Denver office is located at 1523 18th St. in LoDo.

JHL Constructors Inc. is the general contractor for Douglas County High School’s Sports Venue Relocation. The project includes relocation of the baseball and softball fields, the addition of six new tennis courts, removal of the old asphalt track and the relocation of Hangman’s Gulch storm drainage swale.

LKA Partners is the architect for the $2-million project, which started in April.

Plasma TVs, digital signage and video conferencing capabilities are just some of the high-tech highlights in GH Phipps’s new offices, located at Interstate 25 and Orchard Road, where the Denver contractor moved earlier this year.

“We remodeled an existing building with energy efficiency, accessibility to light rail, convenience to metro locations and modernized technology,” says GH Phipps CEO Charlie Graft.

The choice to leave the city and county of Denver was difficult, but an important decision in the evolution of the company, Graft says. The firm has also launched a new logo to address its new branding.

Under terms of the biggest contract in company history, Denver-based Ohlson Lavoie Collaborative will serve as the architect-of-record on the design of the Cairo Financial Center in Egypt. With its 8.1 million sq ft of office, conference, hotel, retail and parking space, the project will equal the size of three Empire State Buildings spread out across 667,000 sq ft, or about 15 acres.

The first stage of the $730-million CFC is scheduled to open at the end of 2010 and will include a 3,000-car underground parking structure, a 16-screen theater complex, 600,000 sq ft of office space and 950,000 sq ft of retail shops.

The second stage is due to open by 2013 and will include 3,000 additional underground parking spaces, 1.1 million sq ft of office space, 800,000 additional sq ft of retail space, a 100,000-sq-ft exhibition and conference center, a health club and a five-star, 450-room hotel.

The project will surround 160,000 sq ft of open plaza highlighted by water features, a Roman amphitheater for outdoor performances and shopping arcades.

OLC has 76 employees, 18 of whom are assigned to the Cairo office. Currently, the office is purchasing additional space in anticipation of doubling its present staffing level.

Merrick & Co. Wins Engineering and Construction Contracts at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Aurora-based Merrick & Co. recently signed two contracts with Los Alamos National Security LLC to provide architecture, engineering and construction services for modifications to systems and facility features at Technical Area 55 at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

The total potential value of the two 14-year contracts is $105 million.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security LLC. TA-55 is the principal DOE facility used in plutonium research and weapons development. Work at TA-55 supports multiple national security missions of the United States. Under the two contracts, Merrick will provide multi-discipline engineering design and construction services for modifications to TA-55.

Merrick & Co. will execute the work with JB Henderson Construction of Los Alamos and Albuquerque.

This spring, members of Denver’s studioINSITE helped to clean up Denver’s Edward J. “Eddie” Maestas Park—the triangle-shaped park located at the intersection of Broadway, Park Avenue and Lawrence Street. studioINSITE worked with the city and county of Denver Parks and Recreation Department to pick up trash, weed, mulch and prune the park’s trees.