Rosetti Opens Denver Office/Mortenson Opens Colorado Springs Office/CH2M Hill Will Design World’s Largest Cement Plant

Rossetti will launch its new Denver office by providing design services for the redevelopment of the Gates factory site at South Santa Fe and Interstate 25—the city’s largest transit-oriented development planned to date.

Rosetti Launches Denver Office with Gates Redevelopment

Rossetti, an architecture firm with offices in Detroit, Los Angeles, Newport Beach and Shanghai, has opened an office at 14th and Wazee streets in Lower Downtown Denver. The firm’s Denver office will provide design services for the redevelopment of the Gates factory site at South Santa Fe and Interstate 25, the largest transit-oriented development planned in Denver to date. The 25-acre parcel—named Metropolitan Gardens—is slated for more than $600 million worth of mixed-use retail, residential and office construction.

Phipps, Heath Partner on CSU Vet School

Gerald H. Phipps Inc. and Heath Construction of Fort Collins will work as the construction management-general contractor to build Colorado State University’s new Diagnostic Medicine Center at the school’s southern campus.

Construction of the center is set to begin this July and finish in December 2008. It will mark the beginning of the first phase of the master plan for Colorado State’s southern campus.

The 90,000-sq-ft project was designed by the team of FWA Group and Hillier Architecture to accommodate future growth. The center will be part of CSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

The project will include consolidation and renovation of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory currently located in the James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital. The renovation is expected to finish in April 2009.

Nielsons Skanska Starts New Year with New Name

Nielsons Skanska Inc. of Cortez has changed its name to Skanska USA Civil.

Founded as Nielsons Inc. in 1950, the company began as a small contractor based in Dolores. Following its acquisition by Skanska in 1998, Nielsons now performs heavy, highway and environmental construction projects throughout the Rocky Mountain states.

Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Skanska operates in selected markets of the United States, Europe and Latin America. Nielsons is one of eight construction firms in the United States that make up Skanska USA Civil, based in Whitestone, N.Y.

As part of the change, Nielsons Skanska President and CEO Curtis Broughton assumed the title of senior vice president of Skanska USA Civil West and general manager of its Rocky mountain district.

Mortenson Opens an Office in Colorado Springs

M.A. Mortenson Co. has opened a new office in Colorado Springs, located at 6 S. Tejon St., Suite 220. The phone number is 719-473-4931.

The contractor’s current southern Colorado projects there include Cornerstone Arts Center at Colorado College and the Fort Carson Company Operations facility.

PCL Climbs on Fortune’s 2007 List of ‘100 Best Companies’

PCL Construction Enterprises Inc. is ranked No. 42 on Fortune magazine’s 10th annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list, up 23 spots from last year.

PCL also ranked No. 18 on the “Best Medium-Sized Company” list.

More than 100,000 employees from 446 companies participated in the survey this year, which asked about attitudes toward management, job satisfaction and camaraderie within the organization.

CH2M Hill Will Design World’s Largest Cement Plant

Denver-based CH2M Hill will provide facility and infrastructure design services for a greenfield cement manufacturing plant owned and operated by Holcim (U.S.) Inc. It will be built on 3,900 acres along the Mississippi River in Sainte Genevieve County, Mo.

The plant will feature the largest single-clinker production line in the world, with a capacity of 12,000 tons per day of clinker and 4 million metric tons of finished cement annually. The facility will also be one of the lowest emission cement plants in the world.

Structural, architectural, electrical and mechanical designs will focus on a pyro-process system consisting of an ILC 5 stage preheater—more than 400 ft high—and a 6.6-m.-diameter, 93-m.-long kiln. Two vertical roller mills will be used for raw grinding and four OK vertical roller mills will be provided for cement grinding. Finished cement will be loaded out by barge, rail and truck.

Commissioning for the plant will take place in 2009, with design complete this summer.

Bowman Buys Two Divisions from Buckley Powders

Bowman Construction Supply Inc. in Denver bought the erosion control and geotextile divisions of Buckley Powder Co. The move frees Buckley to concentrate on its core business of blasting powder while Bowman expands on familiar territory.

As part of the move, Buckley’s Lee Johnson, CPESC, who has 23 years of experience in the industry, has joined Bowman’s sales team.

Besides erosion control materials and equipment and geotextiles, Bowman’s divisions include bridge products; bio products, waterproofing materials and architectural products.

White Wins Aqua Mini-Golf Course and Clubhouse Project

White Construction Group was awarded the contract for new construction and improvements to the City and County of Denver’s Aqua golf facility. Design Edge in Denver is the architect.

The $1.75 million project consists of a 2,024-sq-ft, single-story clubhouse building, ball dispenser shed, parking lot, rough grading for a miniature golf course, infill of approximately 18,000 sq ft of Overland Lake, site irrigation and landscaping.

White’s team includes Courtney White, project manager; Guy Gabrielli, project superintendent; and Lisa Werdel, project coordinator.

Drexel, Barrell & Co. Expands Its Grand Junction Regional Office

Drexel, Barrell & Co.’s Grand Junction regional office has relocated to a larger suite—No. 300—at its current location. The street address and telephone numbers remain the same.

Architects Show ‘Can’-Do Attitude

Intergroup Architects of Littleton has designed and constructed its own version of the Colorado State Capitol Building—using 1,608 cans.

The 7-ft-tall, 1,250-lb creation took 35 donated man hours and $3,000 worth of materials to build. It’s part of a new exhibit showcasing the building’s construction, located in the sixth-floor attic space.

Intergroup staffers were inspired by “Canstruction,” an annual benefit run by the Society for Design Administration, an affiliate of the American Institute of Architects.

Denver Firm Finalizes $50M Cabo San Lucas Deal

HMB Partners Inc. in Denver has finalized a $50 million debt and equity relationship to support the development of custom single-family homes in the Palmilla Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.