September 2-September 15, 2015 —
COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
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Construction, Design & Engineering News
Pinkard Construction broke
ground on the town of Wind-
sor’s Community Recreation
Center.
The new addition will include
an indoor pool, new track and
expanded fitness area.
Windsor residents approved
a 0.75 percent sales tax increase,
which will repay the bonds the
city sold in June to fund the
$16.7 million project.
The groundbreaking featured
a sand pile with plastic beach
toys served the dual purpose as
a sandbox for the many children
who attended the event and the
site of the ceremonial shoveling
of dirt – or sand in this case.
Representatives from the town,
Barker Rinker Seacat Architec-
ture, Greenplay LLC and others
stepped up to man the plastic
shovels and buckets and give
the project its official start.
Designed by Barker Rinker
Seacat Architecture, the expan-
sion will add 39,000 square feet
to the existing recreation cen-
ter and will include an indoor
pool with slides and lap lanes, a
spa, and an indoor running and
walking track.
The project is expected to break
ground early next month and be
complete in August 2016.
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The open lawn at the Community Recreation Center will soon be home to the 39,000-square-food expansion
of the facility.
The Boulder Valley School
District recently selected Adolf-
son & Peterson Construction to
build the newDouglass Elemen-
tary replacement school in Boul-
der.
Part of the school’s bond pro-
gram, the district staff deter-
mined it made more financial
sense to replace the building,
which was built in 1952, than to
repair it.
The project will be delivered in
a construction manager/general
contractor format and is expect-
ed to cost $15 million.
Fielding Nair International is
the design consultant who will
manage the visioning and sche-
matic drawings before handing
off final designs to RTA Archi-
tects.
“A&P is grateful and excited
for an opportunity to continue
working with the Boulder Val-
ley School District as they con-
tinue to deliver on their promise
of excellence and equity to the
community and students they
support,” said Tom Stone, A&P
project executive.
In line with BVSD’s commit-
ment to sustainability, the school
will follow the district’s Sustain-
ability Management System and
the Sustainable Energy Plan.
These requirements include new
schools and buildings designed
to meet 2009 LEED for Schools.
In addition to this, new build-
ings will be designed as zero
net energy or zero net energy
capable, targeting 25Btu per sf.
Projects will be designed to max-
imize LEED points for indoor
environmental quality.
Construction is expected to
begin in June 2016 with comple-
tion the following summer.
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Golden Triangle Construction
Inc. completed renovations for
Golden View Classical Acade-
my, a new K-12 Jefferson Coun-
ty charter school in Golden.
The project is a remodel of
21,000 square feet in an exist-
ing three-story office building
and build out of an additional
20,000 sf of existing warehouse
core and shell for classrooms
and administration.
Scope of work on the project,
designed by Zeiler-Pennock,
Inc./OHA, also included struc-
tural framing, new doors and
frames, new entrances and
storefronts, drywall, acoustical
ceilings, HVAC and electrical,
and miscellaneous finishes.
In Arvada, GTC is now com-
pleting work on a new office
tenant build-out for Com-
munity First Foundation. The
organization is a 40-year-old
community foundation helping
donors and nonprofits improve
quality of life and create posi-
tive change in Jefferson County,
the Denver metropolitan area
and beyond.
Preconstruction consisted of
designing a fire protection sys-
tem, design assist for HVAC
and design assist for electrical
and audiovisual/data system.
Construction included interior
renovations of an existing one-
story 16,288-sf office building
and repair and replacement of
existing sitework and landscap-
ing. Mark Hoskin Architects is
the designer for the project.
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Studio Architecture recently
celebrated the topping out of
the Wencel Building, currently
under construction at the cor-
ner of 13th and Walnut streets
in downtown Boulder.
Studio Architecture designed
the Class Abuilding, expected to
comprise approximately 60,000
square feet. W.W. Reynolds Cos.
is developing the project being
built by Wyatt Construction.
The Wencel Building is antic-
ipated to achieve LEED Gold
certification and will incorpo-
rate traditional architectural
characteristics in a contempo-
rary façade that integrates three
adjoining historic structures.
Construction on the Wencel
Building is slated for completion
later this year.
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Saunders
Construction
Inc. and Heath Construction
recently celebrated the one-
year anniversary of the forma-
tion of Heath LLC, a partner-
ship between Saunders, head-
quartered in Centennial, and
Heath Construction based out
of Fort Collins.
“Our approach with this
partnership was to support the
needs of the Northern Colo-
rado market, as well as our cur-
rent and future clients,” said
Greg Schmidt, president and
CEO of Saunders Construction.
“In every way, this partnership
has exceeded our expectations.
The invaluable brand Heath
has created in the Northern
Colorado region, paired with
Saunders’ horsepower, has
allowed us to leverage shared
resources to increase services
and performance across the
board.”
Both companies, however,
remain separate.
“We are able to bring a level
of service to our owners that
would not have been pos-
sible without the partnership
with Saunders,” said Randy
DeMario, president of Heath
Construction. “The market in
Northern Colorado is boom-
ing and Heath has been able to
grow along with it, thanks in
part to the increased efficiency,
broader knowledge and estab-
lished relationships of this
partnership.”
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Hyder Construction com-
pleted construction of a
22,000-square-foot, two-story
medical office building in
Cherry Hills.
It completed work on the
Cherry Hills Medical Plaza,
home to Colorado Outpatient
Eye Surgery Center, Clarity
Laser Vision Center, Proac-
tive Podiatry and Mountain
Midwifery.
Hyder’s work consisted
of demolishing the existing
facility, rebuilding the project
with a new core and shell and
addition, and completing the
site work. The core and shell
work included two lobbies,
restrooms on each floor and
MEP rough-ins for each suite.
During core-and-shell con-
struction, Hyder also com-
pleted the interior finishes
for state-of-the-art surgical
care center Colorado Outpa-
tient Eye Surgery Center. The
6,500-square-foot suite offers
outpatient ophthalmologic
surgeries and procedures
without the inconvenient
overnight stay that hospitals
require.
This project originally was
intended to be a renovation
of an existing building. How-
ever, when work started, the
building was not as struc-
turally sound as anticipated
and had to be completely
demolished. The project team
had to build an entirely new
facility. Despite this unavoid-
able complication, the project
teamwas able to complete the
project just one month past
the original completion date.
Kenney Architects designed
the building, located at 3535 S.
Lafayette St. in Englewood.
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The project was originally intended to be a renovation of an exist-
ing building, however, the building wasn’t as structurally sound as
anticipated and was completely demolished to make way for the new
medical office building.
NV5 Holdings Inc. received two
awards forK-12 educationprojects
recently completed in Leadville.
NV5 won a project achieve-
ment award from the Construc-
tion Management Association of
America for its Lake County High
School Renovation and Addition
project in the category of Renova-
tion/Modernization and aColora-
do Lottery Starburst award for the
best use of Great Outdoors Colo-
rado funds for its Lake County
Intermediate School Playground
project.
The firm currently is managing
five projects totaling $30 million
for the Lake County School Dis-
trict.
“Both of these awards are testa-
ments to our talented staff and our
commitment to exceeding client
expectations and setting the stan-
dard for excellence inour industry.
Congratulations to Lake County
and the NV5 team,” said Bryan
Carruthers, chief operating officer
of facilities program management
at NV5.
Regarding the Lake County
High School Renovation, Chris
Guarino, LEED AP, senior proj-
ect manager at NV5, commented,
“This recognition is an exciting
culmination of a tremendous
amount of hard work on a rather
complicated project. The credit is
shared with the district’s passion-
ate leadership and the great team
of consultants and contractors that
were involved.”
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ʻThe credit is shared
with the district’s
passionate leadership
and the great team
of consultants and
contractors that were
involved.ʼ
– Chris Guarino, LEEDAP, NV5
