Outstanding Engineering Design Project:
Silver Hard Hat Award

Limelight Lodge
Submitted by KL&A Inc.

The Limelight Lodge and Residences were built concurrently on adjacent sites in downtown Aspen. The project was a redevelopment of the venerable Limelite Lodge, a long-time Aspen hotel, by the existing family ownership. Because of the difficult climate for elevated concrete in Aspen, the general contractor, R.A. Nelson of Avon, selected steel as the material of choice for schedule and cost benefits. This decision was made despite the relatively low floor and floor heights, 10 ft in the case of the lodge, which required a dramatically heightened level of mechanical/structural coordination, since the two systems occupied the same place.