Colorado Real Estate Journal - May 6, 2015
The Denver Union Station Transit Improvements received two awards from The Association of General Contractors of America and Alliance Insurance Services Inc. for the development of Denver Union Station. Kiewit Western Co., joined by Trammell Crow Co., attended the award presentation at AGC’s 96th Annual Convention. DUS was designated the winner of the Design-Build Highway and Transportation award and the merit winner in the Partnering Excellence category for 2015. The Alliant Build America Awards honor projects that build the nation's most impressive construction projects ranging across the building, highway and transportation, utility infrastructure, and federal and heavy divisions. The Partnering Excellence category recognizes projects best epitomizing the principles of partnering. “We are pleased to accept this award which exemplifies the true definition of partnership,” said Trammell Crow Co.’s Denver Business Unit Senior Managing Director Bill Mosher. “An integral aspect to the success of the project was creating a design-build team of landowners, developers, designers, engineers, and landscape architects familiar with working on complex intermodal projects. Through our partnerships with the Regional Transportation District, the city and county of Denver, the Denver Regional Council of Governments and our entire development team, we believe we have delivered a truly multimodal community for the city of Denver.” DUS is the hub of the RTD’s FasTracks Program, an expansion plan to build 140 miles of new commuter rail, light rail and bus rapid transit to serve over 25 million annual passengers in Denver. The project has transformed 42 acres of former rail yards centered on historic Union Station in Lower Downtown into a community of mixed-use development organized around a 21st-century transportation infrastructure in an exemplary sustainable urban environment. The consortium assembled as a single-purpose nonprofit known as the Denver Union Station Project Authority included representatives from the RTD, the city and county of Denver, the Denver Regional Council of Governments, Colorado Department of Transportation and private citizens appointed by the mayor. TCC served as the owner representative for DUSPA. The designbuild team included: Kiewit Western Co., AECOM, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Hargreaves.