Engineering

The American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado (ACEC Colorado) recently installed its 2022-23 Board of Directors, whose terms started May 1, 2022, and officially announced its new executive director. Gray Clark, PE (Muller Engineering Company – Lakewood) will serve as president and accept the gavel from Past President Bill …

The Anschutz Foundation, OZ Architecture and GH Phipps have officially broken ground on the new Anschutz Engineering Center on the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) campus. The 21,000-square-foot facility is part of a two-building project that will also include a Design and Prototyping Center constructed behind the current Engineering and Applied …

Boulder-based real estate investment, management and development firm Conscience Bay Company (CBC) has announced the selection of several key project team members for the development of a new two-story, state-of-the-art life sciences and technology building on Walnut Street in Boulder that will replace an inefficient warehouse building. Commercial real estate developer Prime West, …

Following a milestone year in 2021, Arizona-based civil engineering firm EPS Group recently held a ribbon-cutting event to celebrate the opening of its new market office at 3760 E. 15th St. in Loveland. EPS Group, which has operations in California along with Arizona and now Colorado, is also making progress on …

Mortenson celebrated the topping out this week of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)’s new facility, called the Research and Innovation Laboratory (RAIL), on the South Table Mountain Campus. The fourth project Mortenson has undertaken with NREL, RAIL represents a first-of-its-kind research laboratory on the campus …

Ware Malcomb, an award-winning international design firm, recently completed a 197,000-square-foot manufacturing plant at 1801 S. Rollie Ave. in Fort Lupton, for Basalite, one of the largest suppliers of concrete masonry products in Western North America. The facility was built to manufacture concrete masonry units and pavers. Ware Malcomb’s Denver and Pleasanton …

By Arben Kalaveshi, P.E., associate principal/senior project engineer at Kumar & Associates, Inc. Tribometry, the measurement of the surface friction between two materials, sounds like an exercise from a high school physics lab. But the measurement of friction is also a real-world test and is an important aspect of finished floors at …

Katharine (Katie) A. Courtright, PE with JVA, Inc. has been awarded the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) Susan Ann “Susie” Jorgensen Presidential Leadership Award. This award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership potential through their activities within NCSEA and/or their SEA. Katie was recognized with this award on Wednesday, Feb. …

By Anna Schmidt, marketing/business development manager R&R Engineers-Surveyors, Inc. In an industry becoming more female inclusive, it is imperative that a company’s culture be clear and deliberate to attract and retain talent. As of 2021, women made up only about 10% of the construction industry’s workforce. Specific to engineering, only 17.2% of civil engineers …

According to the Colorado School of Mines, construction on the long-awaited Labriola Innovation Hub, on the Colorado School of Mines campus, began last month. The hub is projected to open by January 2023. The 37,000-square-foot building, located near 13th and Maple streets, is the state-of-the-art centerpiece of the Mines Entrepreneurship …