UDOT began installing in March the new electronic payment system for the Interstate 15 Express Lanes . When installation is complete, the electronic payment system will run from Lehi Main Street to 2300 North in Salt Lake City and from State Street in Farmington to the south Layton interchange. Related Links: Spectrum Academy Charter School St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church When I-15 reconstruction in Utah County is complete at the end of 2012, the system will extend further south to U.S. 6 in Spanish Fork. Installation consists of drilling foundations and replacing median barriers to install electronic signs, sensors

With R&O Construction hard hats and gold shovels in hand, children of St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church took part in a March groundbreaking, and then placed the first stones decorated by them into the foundation of their new church. Photo: Intermountain Catholic of the Catholic Diocese Children of St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church placed stones decorated by them into the foundation of a new church being constructed by R&O Construction. Related Links: Interstate 15 Express Lanes Spectrum Academy Charter School The dirt from the groundbreaking will be placed under the new altar. St. Joseph the Worker is located

Construction is underway in North Salt Lake on the Spectrum Academy Charter School , a two-story, 32,200-sq-ft public school for grades 9 through 12. It will address the educational and social needs of students with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome. Related Links: Interstate 15 Express Lanes St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church The new facility, designed by i.Design, will accommodate 300 students, with future plans for vocational training. Construction is planned to be complete for the 2010-11 school year. Spectrum Academy will lease the building while generating the funding needed to purchase the building and furnishings. The approximated $5.5-million capital

Boise commercial real estate pioneer Winston Moore says he learned the commercial real estate business by the seat of his pants and says it seemed that the harder he worked the luckier he got. Slide Show When Moore got into the commercial real estate in 1977, the western edge of Boise was Cole Road. To the west lay acres and acres of beet and onion farmland dotted with pheasants. Today, Idaho’s Boise Valley is a top-ranked business mecca, much of which has been developed by Moore in a simple fashion. He buys the land, improves the property, then builds and

EngineersJoel DeYoung recently joined Kumar & Associates Inc.’s Denver office as a project scientist. DeYoung has more than 14 years of experience in the environmental consulting field, extensive knowledge of environmental regulations and procedures and a strong background in environmental science. Chad Van Kampen, a senior preconstruction engineer at The EnCon Cos., has earned LEED accreditation for Building Design and Construction. The new LEED credential is awarded to professionals who have demonstrated advanced knowledge in green-building practices and concepts while practicing in a specific field of interest. He joined EnCon Cos. in 2005, bringing expertise in the preconstruction phase of

Colorado & WyomingThe General Services Administration selected a design-build team in March to modernize the Byron G. Rogers Federal Office Building in Denver. Photo courtesy of Reaveley Engineers + Associates The O.C. Tanner Flagship renovation converted the 1900-era building into a new home for a jewelry store in Salt Lake City. Photo courtesy of W.W. Clyde & Co. The $24-million Spanish Fork Canyon Pipeline�Reach 1 project won �Best Utility Project of the Year� from the Associated General Contractors of Utah. The team includes Mortenson Construction of Denver, serving as the design-builder; Bennett Wagner & Grody Architects, Denver, as the architect-of-record;

The pedestrian bridge at 18th Street in Denver’s Central Platte Valley opened March 5, providing a second connecting point to Riverfront Park and Commons Park from Union Station and Lower Downtown. The bridge is a 170-ft-long span with a copper-clad elevator tower at each end. It was financed by the Central Platte Valley Metropolitan District through mill levies on Central Platte Valley property owners east of the Consolidated Main Line. 68West Engineering Inc. facilitated and coordinated the design team and managed construction, Edward Kraemer & Sons served as the general contractor, OZ Architecture was the designer, and S.A. Miro did

W.W. Clyde & Co. has been awarded the contract for a $2.7-million overpass construction project in Twin Falls. Photo courtesy of IDOT The new Twin Falls overpass will tie into the U.3. 93 Twin Falls Alternate Route project, currently under construction, that takes the place of an originally proposed stoplight. The new overpass will tie into the U.S. 93 Twin Falls Alternate Route project, another W.W. Clyde-led project currently under construction. Both projects are expected complete in the fall. The flyover takes the place of the originally proposed stoplight, which was part of the U.S. 93 Alternate Route project when

Construction is underway on a new state-of-the-art, 20,000-sq-ft library in Magna, Utah. Rendering courtesy of Komatsu Komatsu�s new headquarters in Salt Lake City will include 10 service bays plus a wash bay, a paint bay, an additional track shop and expanded rebuild area. The new facility is being built by West Jordan-based ONYX Construction in the heart of downtown Magna at 8940 West 2700 South and will double the size of the existing library. Designed by Salt Lake-based architectural firm CRSA, the library will serve as a focal point for the community, providing an anchor to the walkable retail district

Hanging more than 200 ft over a jobsite in downtown Kansas City, Mo., James Hague doesn’t seem to notice the tiny people and equipment below his feet. Photo: Tudor Van Hampton Hanging from a protective harness, Hague uses a dial gauge to check for excessive play in the crane�s rotator gear. The senior technician is intently fiddling with a dial gauge that measures the amount of play in a crane turntable—the giant gear that rotates the jib. “A bearing could go bad,” says Hague, suspended from a full-body harness. “And that’s something we want to know before the top falls