Colorado Springs Hospital/DU's Hospitality School/NREL Facility

The 224,000-sq-ft, full-service Memorial North Hospital project in Colorado Springs is under way, with an anticipated 2007 completion.

Located on an 82-acre site, Memorial Hospital North is designed in a unique pod shape with three wings, offering spectacular views of the city lights, the Black Forest and the mountains.

J.E. Dunn Breaks Ground on Colo. Springs Hospital

J.E. Dunn Construction, Jonathan Bailey Associates and Memorial Hospital officials celebrated the groundbreaking for Colorado Springs' Memorial Hospital North this summer.

The new acute-care hospital will include radiology, laboratory services, rehabilitation services, urgent and after-hours care, occupational medicine and physicians' offices. It will be located at the future intersection of Briargate Parkway and Union Boulevard.

The hospital's design incorporates art, music, natural light and a full range of state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment services with an emphasis on creating a healing environment and family-centered care.

The 224,000-sq-ft building - the first of three planned buildings at the site - will be completed in 2007. The entire project is on a 10-year program.

DU Breaks Ground on New Tourism and Hospitality School

Ground was broken in August on the University of Denver's $17.5 million School of Hotel/Restaurant and Tourist Management.

The Weitz Co. of Denver will build the 45,000-sq-ft facility, located at 2030 E. Evans Ave. between Driscoll University Center South and the Evans Chapel.

Denver's Gensler Associates, University Architect Mark Rodgers and HRTM School Director Peter Rainsford collaborated on the design.

The new school will feature a dome of red glazed tiles with gold-leafed accents that cover an east-facing lobby. The lobby entrance will be on the three-story building's second floor because the site slopes to the west. Approximately 60 percent of the first floor will be underground.

The first floor - or garden level - will include a kitchen, dining room, beverage management center and a demonstration amphitheater wired for distance learning. A large dining room will accommodate up to 100 guests

A sunken plaza south of the dining room will be defined by a stone rubble retaining wall - softened by an herb garden where it projects above grade - that will extend into the Tuscan-themed main dining room. The beverage management lab - complete with brick vaults and arched doorways - will resemble a private wine cellar.

Other project team members include structural engineer Martin/Martin Inc. of Lakewood; mechanical engineer Cator, Ruma & Associates, also of Lakewood; and electrical engineer Gordon, Gumeson & Associates of Denver.

The project is scheduled for completion next fall.

Construction Begins on New NREL Facility

Construction is under way on the $30 million Science & Technology Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden - the campus' first major expansion in more than a decade.

The 71,000-sq-ft building is designed to increase collaboration among researchers and speed the time it takes for new technologies to move from the laboratory bench to commercial manufacturing. It's being constructed at NREL's main campus, on a grassy slope of South Table Mesa adjacent to the lab's existing Solar Energy Research Facility.

The Smith Group of Detroit is the architect-engineer.

Construction is scheduled for completion in 2006.

Maxwell Construction Building New Mixed-Use Development

Maxwell Construction of Englewood started work in August on the Town Center Terrace at Hampden Town Center in Aurora, with completion expected in July 2006.

The architect is Englewood's PWN Architects. The owner is Town Center Terrace Inc.

The project features 260 condominiums in 12 two- and three-story buildings on an 11-acre site. It also includes a full clubhouse with a pool, public trail access and attached garages for 50 percent of the units. Building features include brick facades and masonry exteriors and tiled roofs.

Southern Peaks Center Opens in Canon City

A new $10 million mental health facility opened Sept. 17 in Canon City.

The Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center offers individual tailored psychological assessment and treatment programs in a non-detention academic campus setting for 12- to 17-year-old males and females. The state-licensed facility can house up to 192 kids and a staff of about 155.

The general contractor was Roche Constructors Inc. of Greeley. The developer was Western Comfort Inc. of Canon City and the architect is The Durrant Group.

Shaw Construction Building Willow Green Townhomes

After three years of planning, the Rocky Mountain Housing Development Corp. broke ground in late summer on its Willow Green Townhomes project, a 60-unit affordable housing complex located at 6985 Sheridan Blvd. in Arvada. The housing will be available to families whose incomes are 60 percent or more below the area median income.

Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh is the architect and Denver's Shaw Construction is the general contractor.

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