The design-build team for Denver’s Central Platte Campus project, led by Lakewood’s Pinkard Construction Co. and architecture firm RNL, Denver, recently received a Design-Build Excellence Award from the Design-Build Institute of America. Photo by Ed Lacasse The $28-million, 105,000-sq-ft campus service center provides state-of-the-art public works facilities for the City of Denver. The $28-million, 105,000-sq-ft campus service center provides state-of-the-art facilities for the City of Denver’s fleet maintenance, solid waste management, street maintenance, traffic engineering and right-of-way enforcement services. The project also includes an office/warehouse, vehicle maintenance building, covered and heated vehicle storage, fuel and wash facilities, and salt and

Editor's Note: The following story is an architect's perspective on Denver's new Clyfford Still Museum, published in Architectural Record magazine before the building opened to the public on Nov. 18. Photo by Ed Lacasse The $29-million, 28,500-sq-ft Clyfford Still Museum sits directly adjacent to Daniel Libeskinds flamboyant 2006 addition to the Denver Art Museum. Rendering by Allied Works Architecture The museum's reception lobby is long and low, with a 10-ft ceiling. Brad Cloepfil walks through the second-floor galleries of Denver’s new Clyfford Still Museum, taking it all in. It’s the first time the founding principal of Portland, Ore.-based Allied Works

The new 40,000-sq-ft Robert and Carol Berry Center for Natural History and Conservation on the campus of the University of Wyoming in Laramie recently opened. It will become an interdisciplinary focal point for both research and teaching and aims to be an important resource for both faculty and students. Courtesy of NJRA Architects The new Berry Center is intended to advance the understanding of natural history and conservation. Courtesy of NJRA Architects The type of research undertaken in the center relates specifically to the natural history and environment of the northern Rocky Mountain region. The new center is intended to

ACEC-Montana honored the following projects at the Montana Engineering Honors Banquet held in conjunction with the Joint Engineers Conference on November 2 in Helena.
Recipients of Honor Awards in their respective categories are eligible for the 2012 ACEC-National Engineering Excellence Awards competition. Courtesy of ACEC-Montana Celebrating the winners at ACEC-Montana's Awards Banquet are, left to right: Tom Adams, City of Bozeman, water reclamation superintendent; Coralynn Revis, HDR design engineer; Dan Harmon, HDR project manager; and Nancy Cormier, Morrison-Maierle Inc. project manager. ACEC-Montana Grand Project AwardHDR Engineering Inc. and Morrison-Maierle Inc.Bozeman Water Reclamation FacilityIn a tough economy, innovative design and bidding methods were used on

Wheeler Machinery Co. celebrated 60 years in business in November with an afternoon visit from Utah Gov. Gary Herbert at the company’s Salt Lake City headquarters. Wheeler has been a fixture in the Utah construction and mining marketplace as the exclusive dealer and service center for Caterpillar equipment. Photo by Brian Fryer Rob Campbell, president of Wheeler Machinery (left), talks with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert during Wheeler's 60th anniversary celebration in November. Current company president Rob Campbell led the governor on a short tour of Wheeler’s repair and service shop. Herbert watched as technicians in the company’s Component Rebuild Center

Denver Health recently celebrated the opening of Pavilion M, a new outpatient facility built by Denver’s Mortenson Construction. Courtesy of Mortenson Construdtion The new pavilion houses adolescent inpatient/outpatient psychiatric units, enrollment and dialysis centers and an outpatient surgical procedure unit. Denver Health is the Rocky Mountain Region’s Level 1 academic trauma center, and the safety net hospital for the Denver area. The facility is located at 7th Avenue and Delaware Street and houses adolescent inpatient/outpatient psychiatric units, enrollment and dialysis centers and an outpatient surgical procedure unit. It also features 16 beds dedicated to inpatient adolescent care, and the full

Fireclay Villages, a 26-acre, $80-million transit-oriented development, recently started construction. It is one of the largest developments ever to be built in Murray City, Utah. The project is a joint venture between Strategic Capital Group (SCG) and Miller Development Co. (MDC).  The project is located at 4400 South and 100 West in Murray. Courtesy of Miller Development Group Fireclay Village is a mixed-use development that will include 400 apartments, 268 income-restricted units and anticipated future phases that will include retail, restaurant and office space. Fireclay Village is a mixed-use development that includes 400 apartments, 268 income-restricted units and anticipated future

The American Council of Engineering Cos. of Colorado honored its 2012 Engineering Excellence Awards winners on Nov. 7 at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. Excellence-level winners and the Grand Conceptor Award winner will be entered into the national ACEC competition early next year. Photo courtesy of URS Grand Conceptor Award: The Elwha River Restoration in Port Angeles, Wash., began with the passage of the Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Act in 1992, determining that the river be restored to its natural condition and ecosystem. The winning projects are:Grand Conceptor Award• The Elwha River Restoration Project, City of Port

The Associated General Contractors of Colorado presented its annual ACE Awards to AGC-member companies on Nov. 4 at the Hyatt Regency Denver Colorado Convention Center Hotel. Courtesy of GE Johnson Construction Co. The new state-of-the-art St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood has 671,154 sq ft of space for patients, including 272 private patient rooms, 30 isolation rooms, 72 ICU rooms, 24 operating rooms, two nuclear medical rooms, two CAT scans, one MRI area and three helicopter landing pads. The project was voted the Jack Mincher Peoples Choice winner for contractor GE Johnson Construction and mechanical subcontractor RK Mechanical Inc. in this

GE Johnson Construction Co., Colorado Springs and Denver, recently surpassed an industry milestone of 5 million man-hours worked continuously without a day-away-from-work injury. That equates to every hour worked on more than $2 billion worth of projects since 2005. Courtesy of GE Johnson Construction Co. GE Johnson Construction recently celebrated a major safety milestone of 5 million man-hours worked without a day-away-from-work injury. “This milestone reflects our culture of valuing our employees and ensuring that every member of our team returns home to their families each day unharmed,” said GE Johnson President and CEO James M. Johnson. “While we have