Canyon Country Discovery Center is the headquarters of the Four Corners School of Outdoor Education, a nonprofit that promotes learning about the Colorado Plateau through educational, service, adventure and conservation programs.
Ascent Construction built the first LEED Gold-certified building in Utah. So it was important for the contractor to make its own headquarters a showcase for green building.
Significant challenges accompanied R&O’s construction of a new 125,000-sq-ft corporate compound—offices, manufacturing plant and a warehouse—for military contractor KIHOMAC in Clearfield, Utah. Heavy snow and winter winds made safety critically important.
The airport in Hanksville, Utah, was built in 1947, and in the post-World War II years served as an emergency landing strip for planes traveling between Denver and Los Angeles.