Related Links: Wells Fargo to Expand LEED Pre-certification Beyond New Construction The Bank at Briargate Crossing in Colorado Springs is Colorado’s first Wells Fargo retail-bank store pre-certified for LEED Silver. The bank’s new stores are based on a flexible design model that can be configured to blend with local architectural motifs throughout the country. Briargate Crossing’s light-harvesting system helps cut energy use by 20%. Insulation is manufactured from recycled cotton, primarily denim, and carpets and window treatments are made of 100% recycled materials. Low-VOC paints help improve air quality. Low-flow plumbing fixtures cut water use by 40%. Countertops for the

Related Links: Top 2010 Intermountain Projects Missoula Federal Credit Union Jupiter Bowl 1. Workers Compensation Fund Corporate Office at Towne Ridge Parkway Sandy, Utah $50 million Owner: Workers Compensation Fund General Contractor: Jacobsen Construction Co. Architects: ASWN Architects, EDA Architects Engineers: Dunn Associates Inc., Van Boerum & Frank Associates Inc. Start: Oct. 2008 Finish: July 2010 This project builds a new six-story, high-rise offi ce building and three-level parking structure. The building is a sideplate job, designed to withstand a maximum plausible earthquake. The parking garage is post-tensioned and can accommodate 450 vehicles. 2. Montana State Fund Office Building Helena,

Welcome to Mountain States Construction’s annual ranking of the biggest projects to be completed this calendar year in Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota’s, plus a list of new projects that have broken or will break ground in 2010. 1800 Larimer Related Links: Top 2010 Colorado & Plains Region Projects 1. 1800 Larimer Denver $102 million Owner: Westfield Co. Inc General Contractor: Mortenson Construction Architect: RNL Engineers: JF Sato & Associates, JIRSA Hedrick & Associates, Swanson Rink Among the Subcontractors: Encore Electric, RK Mechanical, Drake Williams Steel, LPR Construction, Four Star Drywall, Harmon Glass, Rocky Mountain Prestress, Otis

Welcome to Mountain States Construction’s annual ranking of the Mountain States’ and Plains’ regions biggest projects completed in this calendar year, plus a list of new projects that have broken or will break ground in 2010. Projects were submitted by firms from Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming using questionnaires e-mailed to them or made available at www.mountainstates.construction.com this spring. Related Links: Top 2010 Colorado & Wyoming Projects Denver Justice Center Complex Boosts Civic Center Profile Top 2010 Intermountain Projects: Key Connection Firms from any segment of the industry were eligible to submit projects,

School and commercial multifamily housing projects are helping to buoy construction firms in Northern Colorado, now in its third year of decline. Rendering credit: The FWA Group Colorado State University�s Research Innovation Center contains a manufacturing center, lab and office space, BSL3 imaging and a vivarium. Those contractors, design firms and developers that are surviving are diversified and conservative, and they have learned a new way of doing business to stay in the black, including going out of state.   “This whole economy has turned our business upside down,” says Terry Drahota, president and CEO of Drahota Construction in Fort

As in the rest of the nation, construction activity in Idaho�s capital city of Boise has struggled with declining state funds and ultra-tight credit markets. �Like everywhere else, there are not a lot of projects to build,� says Bryan Whipple, president of Interior Systems Inc. of Boise and a member of the board of directors for the Idaho Associated General Contractors. �Our approach to dealing with it is traveling to work in other locations and having to adjust our pricing structure in order to be more competitive. �There are a lot of bidders on every project, and it�s gotten to

Southern Wyoming and its construction business are finally feeling the full effects of the depressed national economy. While the rest of the United States fell into recession in recent years, Wyoming remained largely insulated from the cycle, thanks to boom years of energy production. Royalty payments from natural gas extraction padded the state budget with massive surpluses that kept local economies afloat, allowing capital construction projects to flourish at the state and local levels. But the reserve is running dry, as the natural gas industries and coal-mining operations slow down. “The overall outlook is not good. We’re seeing a continuation

Welcome to Mountain States Construction’s annual ranking of the biggest projects to be completed this calendar year in Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota’s, plus a list of new projects that have broken or will break ground in 2010. Related Links: Top Overall Projects Top Commercial/Office/Mixed-Use Projects Top Cultural/Recreation Projects Top Government/Public Buildings Projects Top Healthcare Projects Top Higher Education Projects Top Hospitality Projects Top Industrial/Manufacturing Projects Top Infrastructure Projects Top K-12 Projects Top Military Projects Top Water/Wastewater/Public Works Projects Top New Projects of 2010 Projects were submitted by firms from all six states using questionnaires e-mailed to

Western Utah County in north central Utah has seen big growth during the past 10 years. An area that was once open range and farmland now boasts two towns�Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs�with populations of approximately 20,000. Key Connection: Pioneer Crossing eases growing pains in Central Utah Related Links: Top Overall Projects Top Commercial/Office/Mixed-Use Projects Top Government Projects Top Healthcare Projects Top Higher Education Projects Top Hospitality/Multifamily Projects Top Infrastructure Projects Top K-12 Education Projects Top Water/Wastewater Projects Top New Projects of 2010 Photo courtesy of UDOT The�bridge spans�will be moved into place with self- propelled modular transports. These transport

A longtime Denver dream reaches fruition July 5 with the opening of the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse on the west side of Dale Tooley Plaza opposite the handsome new Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center, dedicated in April. Denver Justice Center Complex Boosts Civic Center Profile Related Links: Top 2010 Colorado & Plains Region Projects Both buildings are located on a two-city-block site bounded by West Colfax, 14th Street, Elati and Fox. The courthouse completes the downtown portion of the Denver Justice Center, a landmark complex linking the central business district via Tremont Street to the Golden Triangle, a neighborhood of galleries, retail, bistros