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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
— March 16-April 5, 2016
Construction, Design & Engineering News
by Jennifer Hayes
Denver-based Shaw Construc-
tion broke ground on a trio of
new projects across Colorado,
including a 99-unit senior apart-
ment property in Denver’s
Uptown neighborhood.
Work began in February on
5280 Senior Housing, a six-story
building at 1615 Pennsylvania St.
The 170,954-square-foot project
will feature an exercise room,
a card room, a cyber café and
library, great room for entertain-
ment and outdoor patio space
with built-in gas grills.
OZ Architecture is designing
the project for developer/owner
16th and Pennsylvania Residenc-
es LLC (The Burgwyn Co.).
It is slated for completion in
July 2017.
Shaw construction also broke
ground last month on Brighton
Village Phase II. The 63-unit inde-
pendent senior housing project
will be attached to the exist-
ing Brighton Village apartment
building at 197 W. Southern St. in
Brighton.
It is slated for a January com-
pletion.
Miles-Lambert Architecture
designed the 57,015-sf addition
for owner HC Brighton Senior
II LP.
Shaw Construction also
recently broke ground on Colo-
rado Mesa University Health Sci-
ences Center in Grand Junction.
The project is on the campus of
Colorado Mesa University and
includes classrooms and faculty
offices for the health sciences and
nursing programs at the college.
The
54,774-sf
building,
designed by Davis Partnership
Architects, is owned by the uni-
versity.
The expected completion date
is spring 2017.
Together, these projects bring
more than 300 jobs to Denver and
Grand Junction.
“It’s always exciting to break
ground on newprojects that posi-
tively impact our communities
like building more senior hous-
ing for the baby boomer pop-
ulation and also creating more
spaces for younger generations
to continue their education,”
said Steve Meyer, CEO of Shaw
Construction. “We are glad to be
involved in such important proj-
ects in Denver and Grand Junc-
tion, both cities where we have
an office and that we are proud
to call home.”
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The 5280 Senior Housing project in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood will feature 99 units.
RMG Engineers of Colorado
Springs earned a National Rec-
ognition Award for exemplary
engineering achievement in the
American Council of Engineering
Companies’ 49thannual Engineer-
ing Excellence Awards for design-
ing facilities for the Broadmoor
Hotel’s Cloud Camp in Colorado
Springs.
The project called for incorpo-
rating remnants of the original
1926 Broadmoor lodge into the
new camp’s cabins, lodge and fire
tower cabin atop 9,200-foot high
Cheyenne Mountain. With only
a century-old switchback road
to access the site, log supports
and other building components
had to be designed for transport
on smaller trucks. A ramp sys-
tem with extensive side stairs for
worker access and a cable pulled
“trolly” were installed to haul
materials to the remote fire tower
suite. Numerous potholes were
dug into the rugged terrain to
determine the precise length for
building foundation supports that
extend through loosedecomposed
granite to reach bedrock, accord-
ing to RMG. Due to the difficul-
ty in excavating into the granite
surface, the finish basement floor
elevationdepthswere coordinated
to bear directly onto this material,
avoiding the need for excavation.
ACEC recognized 151 projects
throughout the nation and the
world as preeminent engineering
achievements, and all were eli-
gible for top national honors. Win-
ners of the top national awards
will be announced inApril.
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World Trade Center Denver
and its development partner
appointed OZ Architecture to
master plan their new global
campus, located in the River
North neighborhood, near the
soon-to-open 38th Avenue and
Blake Street commuter rail stop.
OZ Architecture assisted WTC
Denver with the visioning for
the project and is developing
the master plan for the extensive
campus, which will be anchored
by a flagship hotel. The develop-
ment will also include approxi-
mately 250,000 square feet of
best-in-class office space for both
large and small businesses from
around the world, an interna-
tional business and conference
center, a flex-work environment,
an array of multicultural res-
taurants, diverse retail, an art
gallery and a parking structure.
The WTC Denver campus is
expected to break ground in
2017 with the first phase com-
pleted in 2019.
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Adolfson & Peterson Con-
struction recently celebrated the
opening of the City of Aurora
Police and Fire Safety Training
Center, a joint state-of-the-art
training center.
The 23-acre campus project
includes four separate build-
ings: a 43,366-square-foot
education and training build-
ing with office and conference
areas; a new 7,000-sf, five-story
drill tower structure; an on-site
pump house; and a 3,500-sf
Class Aburn building.
The design-build team also
included architect Studiotrope
and engineer Elliott, LeBoeuf
& McElwain. The campus now
serves as a joint-training facility
for the city of Aurora’s fire and
police departments. These pub-
lic safety entities are now able
to train and operate together to
be more effective as a team on
the drill field when responding
to emergency scenes. In addi-
tion, the site location is next
to Arapahoe County’s driving
track and sheriff’s office for
future collaborative training
opportunities with other agen-
cies.
The site will accommodate
future growth plans including
a 7,700-sf tactical/search/res-
cue structure; a 34,500-sf five-
building tactical village; and a
training site that will include
vehicle extrication, trench simu-
lation and hazmat training. The
property is located just north of
Aurora Reservoir.
“To have a facility our fire-
fighters and police officers can
walk into every day to feel
proud and supported will only
make their job even better to
provide service to our commu-
nity,” said Aurora Police Chief
Nick Metz.
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The 23-acre City of Aurora Police and Fire Safety Center includes a
43,366-square-foot education and training building, 7,000-sf drill
tower structure and a Class A burn building.
The design-
build team
also included
architect
Studiotrope and
engineer Elliott,
LeBoeuf &
McElwain.
