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From a distance, the new Baltic Pointe office building rising on the foothills of Draper about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City doesn’t appear much different from others populating Utah’s tech corridor, known as the Silicon Slopes.
Design firms in the Mountain States are feeling optimistic about the project opportunities forecast for the coming months, but they also are wary about what the future may bring given threats of rising interest rates that could cause market instability.
The current surge in domestic renewable energy development across the ENR Mountains States region is powering demand for SWCA Environmental Consultants from a wide range of clients.
Construction is progressing on a $52-million operations, maintenance and administrative building for Parker Water & Sanitation District (PWSD) near Rueter-Hess Reservoir, three miles west of Parker, Colo.
The reliability of water supplies in the arid and semi-arid Mountain States is a growing concern for the public and the engineering community in the wake of persistent drought and a multiyear downward trend in Colorado River flow and storage. Robust snowpack in early 2023 brought a welcome reprieve, but one good year cannot overcome decades of drought.