Project News AGC of Utah’s new 9,000-sq-ft, $3.7-million facility was built by more than 270 AGC member firms that donated their time, crews, materials and money. The new HQ was built in the West Valley section of Salt Lake City, several miles west of downtown. It opened in mid-November. AGC of Utah’s members donated $2.2 million to construct a new 9,000-sq-ft, $3.7-million headquarters that opened in November. Related Links: Cheyenne Airport Runway Reconstruction Nears Completion/Denver Zoo Breaks Ground on Asian Tropics Exhibit IDOT Selects Contractor for U.S. 95 Reconstruction Project/Edge Construction Supply Opens New Office in Idaho Falls Rich Thorn,

Project News Interstate Concrete and Asphalt of Coeur d’Alene is the low bidder on a project that will eliminate a two-lane, two-mile bottleneck on U.S. 95 north of Hayden. Related Links: Cheyenne Airport Runway Reconstruction Nears Completion/Denver Zoo Breaks Ground on Asian Tropics Exhibit IDOT Selects Contractor for U.S. 95 Reconstruction Project/Edge Construction Supply Opens New Office in Idaho Falls The project will widen a two-lane section of U.S. 95 between Wyoming Avenue and the Idaho 53 junction to connect with four-lane segments on both ends. Widening the highway will create four continuous lanes from Coeur d’Alene to north of

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The airy offices of klipp in downtown Denver contrast mightily with the drab �slice of an office� that founding principal Brian Klipp describes as his first. Slide Show Brian Klipp In 1979, when he was 29, Klipp launched his own practice, hiring only a part-time receptionist, making the drafting tables himself and furnishing the remainder of the office from his apartment. “Yes, ignorance is bliss,” he says. “I charged in.” Klipp also set the phone book on his desk and started calling possible contacts and clients, A to Z. Now, 30 years later, Klipp and his architecture, planning and interiors

Engineers MORGAN Brent Morgan of Nolte Associates Inc., Centennial, Colo., was recently appointed to associate. Morgan serves as an engineering manager with Nolte’s civil design/land development group in Salt Lake City. With eight years of civil engineering experience, he has managed and designed a variety of water, stormwater and sewer utility systems for various site development projects. He is one of eight employees firm wide who have been recently appointed to associate or vice president. Photo: Tyler Jones Photography The entire Kittredge Complex on the CU-Boulder campus is being renovated to create a better residential college experience. Bennett Wagner Grody

Tim Balas, vice president of estimating; Brad Schmahl, project manager; Ben Stellor, project manager; Aimee Clode, project engineer; Scott Priebe, estimator; and Dale Hartman, superintendent; of JHL Constructors Inc. of Englewood, Colo., recently became LEED-certified professionals by the U.S. Green Building Council. Photo: Dohn Construction Dohn Construction's Golf Committee presented Northern Colorado food banks with the firm's donation of $17,844. Pictured left to right: Nate Brock; Annie Brinker; Brian Blake; Michael Brown, development director for the Weld Food Bank; Brett Brown; Heather Buoniconti, development director for the Food Bank of Larimer County; and Dave Stringer. Raj Bistaiah, a senior scheduling

From humble beginnings as a one-man, one-room architect�s office established in 1889, Boise�s CSHQA has grown to become a 100-person architecture and engineering firm with additional studios in Sacramento, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City and Roseburg, Ore. Photo by John Rogers CSHQA namesakes: Cline Smull Hamill Quintieri Associates. Seated left to right: Glen Cline, Neil Smull, Robert Hamill, and standing, Allen Quintieri. The studios are designed to address specific market sectors, including aviation; corporate/office; education, sports and recreation; government/civic; health care; housing and mixed-use projects; and retail, restaurant and hospitality in a “soup-to-nuts” approach, says Jeff Shneider, CSHQA’s

W.W. Clyde & Co. will hire a majority of the craft workforce it needs from Twin Falls and the surrounding area to complete the Twin Falls Alternate Route project. To date, W.W. Clyde & Co. has secured contracts with 16 Idaho-based firms as subcontractors or suppliers for the project. The firm anticipates that more than 90% of the work will be completed by a local workforce, with less than 10% coming from the company’s Springville, Utah, office. Upon completion, the project will provide an alternate route for motorists and commercial traffic traveling past Twin Falls. According to the Idaho Dept.

Despite current economic times, MHTN Architects, Van Boerum & Frank Associates and Reaveley Engineers + Associates recently raised $23,500 for the United Way of Salt Lake City and collected nearly 400 lb of food donations for the Utah Food Bank. Rio Tinto recently promoted the following people: Kelly Sanders (left), president and CEO, Rio Tinto; Clayton Walker (middle), chief opperating officer, Kennecott Utah Copper; Andrew Harding (right), Rio Tinto Executive Committee. All employees of the firms were offered the opportunity to pledge a donation to the United Way. Employees were also encouraged to participate in a lunch to kick off

Crews started construction in September on the Utah Air National Guard�s Composite Fire Station, Mobility Processing and EOD Facility in Salt Lake City. Related Links: Road Improvements Continue on 7800 South Construction has begun on the Brick Stone on 33rd Apartments Construction Under Way on Moab School Science Building at Utah Valley University in Orem The new building will be used for fire services, deployment of an explosives ordnances disposal group and as a base gym. Zwick of Salt Lake City and PGA&W Architects of Murray have teamed for the $7.2-million project, which will be two stories totaling 37,300 sq