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onstruction is fertile ground
for complications. Begin-
ning with the basic on-time/
on-budget obligations despite
circumstantial uncertainties
like weather, and material and
subcontractor availability, general con-
tractors assume a fair amount of risk long
before ever breaking ground. Mix in the
need to truly understand and achieve the
owner’s long-term vision and the process
of working with architects, engineers,
stakeholders and the various authorities
having jurisdiction on a particular jobsite,
and myriad potential hurdles grow ex-
ponentially. While every contractor’s ap-
proach is unique, few would disagree that
collaboration is essential.
For Adolfson & Peterson Construction, a
national firm with a Colorado presence for
more than 30 years, collaboration is more
than just a process, it’s a promise. The latest
evidence of the success of A&P’s approach is
the CoBank Center located adjacent to In-
terstate 25 in the Denver Tech Center. This
new 11-story, 296,000-square-foot Class A of-
fice building will serve as the headquarters
for CoBank, a national cooperative bank
serving vital industries across rural America
from agriculture to water, and communica-
tions to power resources. Under the leader-
ship of national developer Shea Proper-
ties, A&P was contracted as construction
WORDS:
Clinton Waiz
Collaboration
paves the way
for seamless
design and
construction
on the new
CoBank Center
