Weitz Crew Helps Save Slice of Local History /IES Chapter 11 Reorganization Complete/Mortenson Wins BIM Award for DAM Work

With the help of The Weitz Co., the city of Aurora and the Aurora History Museum salvaged a historic trolley discovered in a home set for demolition. The car was recovered by crane from the farmhouse and taken to a city facility for restoration.

Weitz Crew Helps Save Slice of Metro History

The city of Aurora and the Aurora History Museum led the effort to recover a historic trolley car from Aurora and Denver's trolley days. The car was discovered in an Aurora home scheduled for demolition.

With the help of The Weitz Co., the trolley trailer was recovered by crane from the farmhouse this summer and relocated by flatbed trailer to a city facility for restoration.

The Denver Tramway Co.'s Trolley No. 610 - built in 1913 or 1914 by the Woeber Car Co. in Denver - measures approximately 8 ft wide by 40 ft long by 8 ft high.

The farmhouse that protected the trolley car for the past 56 years was slated for demolition to make way for future development when officers from the Aurora Police Department realized its potential historic significance and notified the Aurora History Museum.

William Perrott, son of Edwin Perrott and property owner, donated the trolley to the museum, which is coordinating salvage efforts.

Kirkham Michael Acquires Associated Design Professionals

Kirkham Michael acquired the Colorado Springs consulting firm Associated Design Professionals Inc. in July.

Kirkham Michael is an integrated engineering and construction services firm specializing in transportation systems, water and wastewater systems, water resources, municipal infrastructure and land development.

Founded in 1995 by principals Michael Bartusek, PE; and Guenther Polok, PE; ADP specializes in private sector work - specifically, land development - as well as public sector projects with the city of Colorado Springs, one of its primary clients.

With the merger, Kirkham Michael's Colorado Springs office will now be based out of ADP's former office space, located at 1861 Austin Bluffs Pkwy., Suite 101, Colorado Springs, 80918.

Reorganization of Riviera's Parent Company Complete

Integrated Electrical Services Inc. - the parent company of Littleton's Riviera Electric - announced this summer that it and all of its subsidiaries have emerged from Chapter 11 reorganization.

The news concludes the restructuring of the company's balance sheet and eliminates $173 million in debt.

In 2005, IES announced its intention to strengthen and de-lever its balance sheet to improve overall capital structure. As part of the initiative, the company wanted to reduce its long-term debt to help increase cash flow. The plan was designed to free up additional liquidity, improve the firm's credit rating and enhance its bonding capability.

Mortenson Wins BIM Award for Museum Expansion

Denver's M. A. Mortenson Co. was awarded the American Institute of Architect's Building Information Model Award for the Frederic C. Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum.

Mortenson earned the award as the lead general contractor, along with architect Studio Daniel Libeskind and Davis Partnership PC, a Joint Venture.

Seven projects were honored out of more than 40 submissions.

Boulder's Studio NYL Moves into New Office

Studio NYL Structural Engineers relocated this summer to a larger office to accommodate its continued growth.

The firm is now located at 4440 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 101, Boulder, 80303. All telephone/fax number and e-mail addresses remain the same.

Broomfield Roofer Receives Firestone Award

Arapahoe Roofing & Sheet Metal Inc. is a recipient of the 2006 Partner in Quality Award from Firestone Building Products Co.

The award recognizes contractors who have installed a minimum of four warranted Firestone roofs in each of the past five years, maintained at least one million sq ft of Firestone roofs under warranty and achieved an annual quality incidence rating - or QIR - of 2.0 or less.

Firestone's recently created QIR measures each contractor's quality performance based on warranty repair incidences per million sq ft under warranty.

Provident Construction Moves to New Offices

Provident Construction Co. relocated in July to a new 10,000-sq-ft office at 12424 E. Weaver Pl., Centennial, 80111-5663.

All of the company's phone and fax numbers remain the same.

ASCG Designs 30 New Homes for Uintah-Ouray Reservation

ASCG Inc. is handling the architectural and engineering design of 30 new homes for the Tava Mi Weesa subdivision on the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in Fort Duchesne, Utah.

Construction on the Tava Mi Weesa project is scheduled to start this fall.

In addition to providing architectural design services for new construction and selective demolition of existing and partially completed homes, ASCG is also handling boundary and topographic surveying, including re-platting of subdivision, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering services for new construction, civil engineering and landscape architecture. Construction inspection and administration services may also be included.

Earthtec is handling foundation investigation and geotechnical reports.

AE Seven Will Design New Embassy Suites

AE Seven LLC in Greenwood Village was selected by Stonebridge Companies of Englewood to design the new Embassy Suites in Anchorage.

The 149,000-sq-ft, 169-guest room hotel will include meeting and conference rooms, a business center, spa, exercise room and pool facilities, a commercial kitchen, bar and marketplace.

The project is expected to be complete by the first quarter of 2008.

FCI Constructors Awarded Elementary School Project

Longmont's FCI Constructors Inc. broke ground in August on the new 12th and Taft Elementary School in Cheyenne for Laramie County School District #1. FCI is serving as construction manager/general contractor for the $7.5 million project, which is set for completion in August 2007.

The single-story, 48,000-sq-ft building will be a steel and masonry structure with a masonry and metal-siding exterior. It will feature extensive daylighting and other sustainable design features.

The team of architects includes Pappas & Pappas of Cheyenne, Denver's Lantz-Boggio and Perkins+Will.

W.E. O'Neil Wins Wild Oats Project

W.E. O'Neil Construction Co. was awarded the second phase of the Wild Oats corporate office building, an 84,000-sq-ft tenant improvement to an existing structure.

The project features high-end finishes, two water features, a test kitchen, food lab and network room, as well as open office landscape and private perimeter offices.

The contract is set as a cost-plus GMP format with a scheduled completion before Thanksgiving.

W.E. O'Neil also handled Phase I, the core-and-shell work for Westcor. Both phases totaled $6.25 million.

Phase I was designed by Durrant Architects; Petersen Staggs Architects designed Phase II.