In July, Denver Health broke ground on its newest health-care facility, Pavilion M at 7th and Delaware streets in Denver. Rendering courtesy of Heery International The four-story, 78,000-sq-ft Pavilion M will include an outpatient dialysis center, an outpatient procedure center, enrollment services and a floor dedicated to inpatient and outpatient adolescent psychiatry. The four-story, 78,000-sq-ft facility, slated for completion in late 2011, will include an outpatient dialysis center, an outpatient procedure center, enrollment services and a floor dedicated to inpatient and outpatient adolescent psychiatry. The 16-bed Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatric Unit will serve children and adolescents between 8 and 17 years
In July Vestas opened an engineering site in Louisville to support Vestas Global and enhance Vestas’ wind-power production capabilities throughout North America. Vestas moved 46 employees into 47,675 sq ft of space on Centennial Parkway in Louisville on July 7 and will expand the team to include up to 125 highly skilled engineers within a year’s time. The Vestas engineering site enhances the firm’s ability to integrate product development by placing it close to the company’s three factories—a blade factory in Windsor, a nacelle-assembly factory in Brighton and tower factory in Pueblo—said Finn Madsen, president Vestas Technology R&D. The Vestas
Diamond City, a nearly forgotten Montana ghost town will be rebuilt 11 mi north of Helena, Mont. The planned equine development has received an influx of global financial interest with its announcement to develop 15,000 acres into America’s first LEED-certified community. Once complete, the town will be the most sustainable carbon-neutral community on a large scale in the U.S. Robert Rule, chief executive officer of Premier II Development Group LLC of Helena, Mont. says sustainable technologies have advanced so rapidly over the past few years that a project of this scale is realistic. “Diamond City will set the example on
In 2011, residents of Daybreak, a 4,200-acre master-planned community in South Jordan, Utah, will drive, bike or walk across the $2-million Brookside Bridge, which is made almost completely out of recycled materials. By then, project officials hope an environmental rating system for infrastructure will exist to quantify the bridge�s eco-friendliness. Photo Courtesy Of Kennecott Land Precast arches made out of recycled concrete were built on site, not shipped. Photo Courtesy Of Kennecott Land Builders of a Utah community bridge want a green rating. This June, contractor Ralph L. Wads-worth Construction, Salt Lake City, took two days, 500 worker-hours and twin
ColoradoWindsor-based McCauley Constructors Inc. added Jerry Grandt, Lindsey Crisanti and Scott Ready as superintendents and Tonya Deter as a project coordinator. Rendering courtesy of Architectural Nexus Architectural Nexus� new design center houses staff and offers a place for those seeking practical knowledge and applications for sustainability and preservation. Photo courtesy of Hunt Electric Jay Behunin, right, accepts Skanska USA�s March 2010 Safety Team Award from Cullen Copenen, Skanska Safety Superintendent. Grandt has more than 20 years of experience in the construction industry. In that time, he has completed the Bioenvironmental Research Building for Colorado State University and several assisted-living facilities.
Related Links: University Hospital Plans a $400-Million Expansion In June the Regional Transportation District�s Board of Directors voted unanimously to award its single-largest FasTracks contract, a public-private partnership known as Eagle P3, to the Denver Transit Partners consortium. The group will design, build, operate and maintain the commuter rail lines to Denver International Airport, Arvada-Wheat Ridge and south Westminster for the next 40 years. Denver Transit Partners� proposal came in at $2.085 billion�$300 million lower than RTD�s estimate of $2.385 billion. The proposal also included opening the central line between Denver and DIA by January 2016, 11 months ahead of
Construction completed in April on a new solar-powered meetinghouse for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Farmington, Utah, its first in the Northern Hemisphere. Photo courtesy of Jacobsen Construction The 20,000-sq-ft Farmington Meetinghouse is one of five prototypes developed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is only the second LDS building to achieve LEED-Silver certification. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The 20,000-sq-ft meetinghouse is one of five prototypes developed by the church to showcase its environmental stewardship, according to church officials. The church is constructing four similar LEED-certified prototypes in Utah, Arizona
Related Links: Denver Transit Partners Selected for $2B FasTracks Project The University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora unveiled expansion plans in May that include construction of a $400-million, 12-story patient tower. The hospital will also spend $20 million to expand the University of Colorado Cancer Center to meet a substantial increase in demand for hospital services. UCH�s hospital expansion will create a 660,000-sq-ft building dedicated to inpatient and emergency care and renovate 60,000 sq ft of existing space. The new tower will house a four-story, critical-care wing containing a new emergency department, a cardiac and vascular center, and a six-story
In March, a group of students from Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, spent their spring break building disaster-resistant dome homes in Mexico. Groups of students from SUU have been traveling to Mexico for the past seven years, donating time and resources to build homes, but this was the first time they used the new technology to build dome houses. Last winter, SUU Construction Management Prof. Boyd Fife met with David South, Monolithic Dome Institute president, to discuss the possibility of transitioning from building conventional homes to the dome structures. The dome design makes the homes more resistant to
UtahIn April, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneer s held a multi-million-dollar grand opening auction in Tooele County, the company’s first in Utah, marking the opening of its 22nd auction site in the United States. More than 1,600 people from 24 countries, including 46 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces registered to bid in person or online on more than 1,100 heavy equipment items being sold at the auction, held on the new 37-acre regional auction unit 20 miles west of Salt Lake City at Salt Point Commerce Center in Lake Point. The next Salt Lake City auction is scheduled for this month.
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