Salt Lake City’s Hunt Electric recently reached two million man-hours worked without a lost-time accident. Hunt Electric employees have worked More than four consecutive years without any job-related injuries resulting in time off. Hunt Electric Human Resource Manager Cathy Stoehr says that employees have been extremely supportive of the company’s efforts to maintain a strong safety culture. Hunt emphasizes continuous safety training, hosts skill development classes and insists upon safety in the field.“We have provided our employees with an opportunity to take responsibility for their work behavior and be an example to other trades around them. It turns around as

Sergio Aguayo, senior photogrammetrist at Aurora’s Merrick & Co., recently won first place in the International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) “LiDAR as Art” contest, announced by GeoDigital International. The awards program, recently established, held its first competition at the end of 2011. Contestants were required to take airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) images and create art from the data. Courtesy of Merrick & Co. Aguayos inspiration for the picture came from imagining driving on a road under a dramatic night sky with a light source illuminating his way home. Aguayo’s submittal entitled “Lighting Up the Night” consists of five

Greeley-based Roche Constructors received an Eagle Award in the Commercial $10-25 million category of Associated Builders and Contractors’ national Excellence in Construction Awards for its work on Target Store No. 2717 in Lakewood. The award was presented to Dale Cook, director of safety and health for Roche, on Feb. 22 in Phoenix. Photo courtesy of Roche Constructors Roche built the retail store 20 ft above ground to provide under-store parking for nearly 300 vehicles. Roche incorporated space-saving elements to make the most out of a 5.64-acre site, including building the retail store 20 ft above ground to provide under-store parking

The Abo Group Inc. and B+Y Architects PC, both of Denver, have merged, effective February 27, to provide expanded architectural design, planning and project management services. For over 30 years, The Abo Group has focused on a broad range of public and commercial work, with clients that include Denver International Airport, the city of Denver, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory.“With our recent award of the DIA South Terminal Construction Management contract, The Abo Group needs additional resources to continue to provide a high level of service to our clients,” said Ron Abo, president, The

Flatiron’s first Bridges to Prosperity volunteer team of 2012 has successfully completed a much-needed footbridge in Santa Lucia, Condega, Nicaragua. Flatiron, a Firestone, Colo.-based transportation and infrastructure contractor, has partnered with the nonprofit Bridges to Prosperity since 2009. More than 50 Flatiron employees have helped design and build footbridges over impassable or life-threatening river crossings in rural areas of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and now Nicaragua.At each bridge site, Flatiron sponsors a multi-disciplinary team of employees—engineers, supervisors, laborers and support staff. These employees also act as onsite trainers for the local residents, teaching design, construction and maintenance fundamentals.
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Associated Builders and Contractors Rocky Mountain Chapter held its annual chapter awards dinner and political action committee fundraiser on February 16. More than 100 ABC members and guests attended the event. Courtesy of ABC Mark Latimer, CEO/president of ABC Rocky Mountain (second from right) presents the Dick Goodman Community Service Award to (from left) Jeff Van Es, Darren Hinton, and Bryon White of Milender White Construction Co. During the PAC Fundraiser, held before the Chapter Awards earlier in the evening, $24,000 was raised. The funds will go to support political candidates and political endeavors that further promote and defend the

Salt Lake City will add another landmark building to the greater downtown area with completion of the $125-million Public Safety Building, scheduled to open in spring 2013. It will replace the current building occupied by public safety administrators since 1958. Continuing a west-to-east line of civic buildings that includes the state's Matheson Courthouse, the historic City and County Building and the Moshe Safdie-designed Salt Lake City Public Library, the new Public Safety Building will fulfill a multitude of needs, including consolidating the administrative offices of the police and fire departments, central dispatch and a disaster/emergency operations center. It also will

A software system developed by two Denver-based managers at Kleinfelder Group Inc. is saving the city's Eagle P3 project time and money and enhancing the cutting-edge technology used on the $2.1-billion public-private partnership. The Eagle P3 commuter rail is a key component of the Regional Transportation District's (RTD) nearly $8-billion, 12-year FasTracks program to expand bus and rail service in the Denver area. The 36-mile project will provide the metro area with its first regional commuter rail lines, including long-awaited rail service from downtown Denver to Denver International Airport.Longtime collaborators Danny Bennett, a Kleinfelder project manager, and Kevin Zirlin, a

The State Transportation Commission recently presented Colorado Dept. of Transportation (CDOT) Maintenance Section 3 staff with the department’s 2012 Environmental Award. Maintenance Section 3, headquartered in Durango and covering six counties in southwest Colorado, received one of just three awards given. Section 3 crews won for their in-house production of a salt brine as a liquid deicer.“Traditionally, CDOT uses magnesium chloride as the base product for snow and ice operations,” CDOT Section 3 Maintenance Superintendent Kyle Lester said. “We began experimenting with the use of salt brine as a liquid deicer in 2006 in an effort to reduce the concentration

SMPS Colorado convened a panel of Denver health-care facilities experts for its “Health-care Reform and Its Impact on Delivering Services” discussion in Denver on Feb. 8. Photo by Joel Eden Photography, courtesy of SMPS Colorado The SMPS Colorado health-care facilities panel shared its expertise and market outlook with luncheon attendees on February 8. Panel members included David Howard, director of facilities and construction for Penrose-St. Francis Health Services; Greg Gauna, director of planning, design and construction for Memorial Health System; Todd Koechlein, project manager for The Children’s Hospital; and Bruce Fong, director of planning and construction for Exempla Healthcare.“Design-bid-build is