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The Kaiser Permanente Lakewood, Colo., Medical Offices project has been selected as an Excellence in Sustainability Award of Merit winner.
ENR Mountain States & Southwest recently announced the main category winners for the Mountain States Best Projects competition, which recognizes the best in design and construction in two separate contests: one for projects located in Colorado/Wyoming, and one for projects located in the Intermountain area of Idaho, Montana and Utah. In addition to those awards, experts in safety and sustainability have selected winners for those special awards as well.
A panel of safety experts selected the Excellence in Safety winners, with a special emphasis on safety programs, cultures and results. Judges did not score projects their firm worked on or any projects with which they had a conflict. Our safety panel judges are:
Josh Murphy, Hensel Phelps
Matt Ogle, JE Dunn
Rick Zellen, Holder Construction
Colorado/Wyoming Safety Awards
Excellence in Safety Winner: US-50 Emergency Repairs, located in Gunnison, Colo. Submitted by Kiewit Infrastructure Co.
Award of Merit: University of Wyoming New Student Housing & Dining, located in Laramie, Wyo. Submitted by JE Dunn Construction
Award of Merit: The Avant, located in Centennial, Colo. Submitted by PCL Construction Services Inc.
Intermountain Safety Awards—No projects awarded
Another panel of experts selected our Excellence in Sustainability award winners, with a focus on projects that exceeded sustainable design and construction goals. Our safety panel judges are:
Elizabeth Gillmore, Energetics Consulting Engineers
Matt Schlageter, Martin/Martin
Courtney Tucker, GH Phipps
Colorado/Wyoming Sustainability Awards
Excellence in Sustainability: Clayworks Building B3, located in Golden, Colo. Submitted by Holder Construction
Award of Merit: Kaiser Permanente Lakewood Medical Offices, located in Lakewood, Colo. Submitted by DPR Construction
Award of Merit: La Porte Avenue, Phases I and II, located in Fort Collins, Colo. Submitted by SEMA Construction Inc.
Intermountain Sustainability Awards
Excellence in Sustainability: Seraph, located in Salt Lake City. Submitted by Big-D Construction
Award of Merit: National Reactor Innovation Center Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments, located in Scoville, Idaho. Submitted by Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
This year’s winning project teams will be recognized at breakfast programs in Salt Lake City on Dec. 2 and in Denver on Dec. 4. Click here for more details about the events and to register for the awards celebration in your area. Congratulations to all the winners!
ENR Senior Editor Jennifer Seward covers the Mountain States & Southwest region, which includes Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. She has more than two decades of experience writing for the AEC industry and reports from Denver.
