APRIL | MAY 2013

Top Utah Architectural Firms Firms Ranked by 2012 Revenues Also: Owner Spotlight: The Boyer Company ABC Utah, IEA Awards

Don Finlayson Roger Jackson Steve Crane Kevin Miller Peggy McDonough Architectural Nexus FFKR Architects VCBO Architecture GSBS Architects MHTN Architects

UC&D Utah Construction & Design Table of Contents

6 Publisher’s Message

9 GOED Column

13 Construction Law/Legal Matters

16 Industry News

18 Design Trends: Schools

20 A/E/C People

Features

22 Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center

26 Owner Spotlight: The Boyer Company

33 Layton Construction 60th Anniversary

38 Utah Electrical Firms, Individuals Honored at 28th Annual IEA Awards

42 Association Spotlight: ABC Utah

48 Utah’s Top Architectural Firms

On the cover: Top executives from Utah’s Top 5 ranked Architectural Firms (based on 2012 revenues). From left to right: Don Finlayson of Architectural Nexus; Roger Jackson of FFKR Architects; Steve Crane of VCBO Architecture; Kevin Miller of GSBS Architects; Peggy McDonough of MHTN Architects. See page 48 for a complete ranking of all firms who participated in this year’s survey. (Photos by Dana Sohm, Sohm Photografx)

Apr | May 13 | UTAH CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN | 5 < Publisher’s Message UC&D Top Utah Architect Rankings a Positive Sign for the A/E/C Market Utah Construction & Design Magazine 4516 South 700 East, Suite 205 Murray, UT 84107 A quick glance at our publication’s debut rankings of O: (801) 747-9202 Top Architectural Firms in Utah indicate that firms are Brad Fullmer M: (801) 433-7541 holding steady after weathering numerous challenges of the www.utahcdmag.com ‘Great Recession’. In chatting with the five executives shown on our cover from the state’s top five revenue-producing firms, I got a sense that they all were encouraged Bradley H. Fullmer about their firm’s future, and grateful to be looking at the recession in the rear-view Publisher/Managing Editor mirror, even if the economy isn’t even close to being as robust as it was in the Halcyon [email protected] days of 2004-2007. Ladd J. Marshall These executives oversee design firms who for many years have been at the top Advertising Sales Director of the local market in terms of annual revenues year-in and year-out, a veritable [email protected] alphabet soup of names including FFKR (Roger Jackson), MHTN (Peggy McDonough), VCBO (Steve Crane), GSBS (Kevin Miller), and Architectural Nexus (Don Finlayson). When Jay Hartwell the recession fully hit at the end of 2008/beginning of 2009 many firms had to make Art Director brutally painful decisions in order to keep their doors open for business long-term, including laying off staff, which is arguably the most emotional move any employer must make. And while these firms have not fully rebounded to their peak years, the positives of what is to come for the Utah market far outweigh any negatives. In addition to the Top Architect Rankings, this issue of Utah Construction & Design includes informative guest columns, including an analysis of why Utah is attracting businesses, and one on Preconstruction Service Liens. We look at the Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center, a visually stunning, highly sustainable LEED Platinum project that was designed by Salt Lake-based ajc architects. We also offer an inside perspective on The Boyer Company, one of Utah’s most prominent and Utah Construction & Design is published eight (8) times a year. Postage successful commercial real estate developers, in addition to paying homage to Layton paid in Salt Lake City, UT. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. Subscriptions: Construction, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary. $64.00 per year. Subscribers: If Postal Service alerts us that magazine is undeliverable to present address, we need to receive corrected As always, we appreciate the growing support of our publication from the local address. Postmaster: Send address changes to 4516 S. 700 E., Suite Utah A/E/C industry, both from an editorial and advertising standpoint. Each of your 205, Murray, UT 84107. To subscribe or contribute editorial content, or for reprints, please call (801) 433-7541 or email bfullmer@utahcdmag. firms plays a vital role in the success of the design and construction market and we com. For Advertising rates/Media Kit, please call (801) 872-3531 or encourage you to contact us regarding unique, informative projects, topics and people [email protected]. Vol. 1 No. 3 that our readers should know about.

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> GOED Boeing Expansion: Is it Because of Utah’s Strong Performing Economy, or its Business-Friendly Culture?

By Andrew Gillman

n the aftermath of the Great Recession, nationally-recognized and growing IT sector. Ithere has perhaps been no news quite so We know business is thriving in Utah. encouraging to economists as the broad With 4% job growth, Utah is outpacing rebound in construction, in particular the the nation by a factor of 2.5. With housing market. Yet, in some ways, Utahns unemployment hovering close to 5%, were sheltered from the sheer desolation Utahns are finding work, or reentering experienced by other states in the entire the active job search thanks to the state’s construction sector. Instead, we have had nation-leading economic outlook (read: a capital city skyline perpetually graced #1 for five straight years according to the with active tower cranes, thanks to savvy, American Legislative Exchange Council). responsible investments that have driven The private sector has the opportunity nation-leading projects like downtown Salt to confidently risk growth capital thanks Andrew Gillman Lake’s City Creek Center, the NSA project, to a stable, fiscally prudent government and the reconstruction of I-15 in Utah that promotes efficient collaboration. In Cabinets) with a new large facility in West County. Thoughtful collaboration has also fact, the success of Utah’s private-public Jordan was decidedly impacted, resulting helped drive industry growth across Utah’s partnerships has captured the imagination in that firm consolidating operations most important sectors, headlined by the of the nation’s thought leaders. elsewhere. The company had received a recent expansion of The Boeing Company Our growth assistance model is post-performance Economic Development in West Jordan, as an addition to its Salt sustainable and stable. For example, when Tax Increment Financing (EDTIF) incentive Lake plant. the housing bubble burst, a major national from the Utah Governor’s Office of The City Creek Center project was housing product manufacturer (KraftMaid Economic Development (GOED). >> awarded the Best Retail Development in the U.S. by the International Property Boeing’s decision to Awards in 2012. But more importantly, City renovate the old KraftMaid Creek has risen out of the dust of a once- Cabinet Facility in West antiquated downtown zone, presciently Jordan is a boon for Utah. (photo courtesy GOED) capturing the spirit of Utah’s emergent cultural renaissance and cleanly paralleling Utah’s broader recovery. The City Creek Center also has pushed the “living downtown as a choice” envelope with stately new residential options, and there is significant momentum in aligning Salt Lake’s multiple entertainment assets into a unified entertainment theater/ arts district around a new $110 million performing arts center. Information technology, for example, whose digital media sub-sector has become defined by a top-ranked gaming program at the University of Utah and award-winning animators at Brigham Young University, continues to draw national attention. In Lehi and Draper, Adobe, IM Flash, Twitter, eBay and Oracle round out new additions to our

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Thanks to the post-performance criteria of the State of Utah’s business incentives, Utah did not also lose a major investment. Instead, the company made a significant capital investment in Utah and continued paying state and local taxes even though they shuttered the modern plant. Because of the post-performance incentive process only a few hundred thousand dollars were credited to the company from the taxes they had paid — not the millions they could have earned if the operation had endured the recession.

The private sector has the opportunity to confidently risk growth capital thanks to a stable, fiscally prudent government that promotes efficient collaboration. In fact, the success of Utah’s private-public partnerships has captured the imagination of the nation’s thought leaders.

But the road block hit by one company created an opportunity for another company when the state could market a modern 850,000 SF plant to Boeing. Now hundreds of high paying jobs are returning to West Jordan. Utah’s economic dynamism and vitality were certainly no secret to Boeing when the company began looking for the best opportunity around the country to expand. While it may seem a stretch to imagine a cabinet manufacturing facility shifting to fabrication of composite horizontal stabilizer components for Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliner, it made perfect sense for the company given the proximity of the building to its existing facility, and the stability of Utah’s economic and political climate. While design and construction on the facility’s refurbishing will take a couple of years, the company will begin filling some positions right away. In the meantime, the State remains committed to supporting the renowned business- friendly environment that has elevated Utah to its premier global business destination status. And with Utah’s cultural vitality and unrivaled quality life continuing to underpin the State’s one-two punch of economic and workforce dynamism, it is no wonder Utah’s project pipeline is full of multi-national companies considering expansion in the state. It is these companies, and the hundreds of new, smaller support firms, that will help define Utah’s future economy.

Andrew Gillman is a marketing coordinator for the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED).

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> Construction Law / Legal Matters

Preconstruction Service Liens: A Unique Chapter in Utah’s Mechanics’ Lien Law

By D. Scott DeGraffenried

In 2011, the Utah Legislature made providers were often relegated to an sweeping changes to Utah’s mechanics’ inferior priority position even though they lien laws. One key change included creating performed their services early on. specific lien rights for preconstruction Many considered this unfair. services (e.g., design, architectural, The changes in 2011 were enacted to engineering, and surveying work). This address some of these concerns by article explains why preconstruction carving out a unique priority position for service liens were created, as well as how preconstruction service providers. The they are effectuated. law is relatively new, and many are still D. Scott DeGraffenried unfamiliar with how it works. So before The Push for Preconstruction Service Liens explaining the new priority framework, we Preconstruction service providers have need to understand the process. when they commence work. They lose their always had lien rights. The problem, however, lien rights if they do not meet this deadline. was defining the priority of their liens. A Process for Securing a key issue with mechanics’ liens is whether Preconstruction Service Lien Notice of Preconstruction Service Lien they have priority over other encumbrances, If a preconstruction service provider such as a lender’s trust deed. Under Utah’s Preconstruction Services Defined filed a timely notice of retention and was not pre-2011 statutes, all mechanics’ liens Under Utah law, parties who perform paid for its services, the next step is to file a related back to and took effect as of the date preconstruction services can hold a notice of preconstruction service lien. The visible construction work commenced on a preconstruction service lien. Preconstruction lien must be recorded (1) with the county project. If visible work commenced before services are expressly defined by statute, recorder of the county where the project another encumbrance was recorded, all the but generally include, among others, design is located and (2) within 90 days of when lien claimants had priority over the later work, consulting, estimating, and feasibility the claimant completed its work. Again, if encumbrance. studies. The services must be provided before the lien is not recorded within the 90-day The problem for preconstruction construction begins and for compensation deadline, lien rights are extinguished. service providers was that they that is separate from compensation to be paid After recording their notices of were always subject to construction for construction services. preconstruction service liens, lien claimants must send a copy of their notice to the property owner via certified mail The problem for preconstruction service providers was within 30 days. This is necessary in order for lien claimants to collect attorney fees that they were always subject to construction commencing. incurred in perfecting their liens. Such providers, including architects, were often relegated to an inferior priority position even though they Perfecting the Preconstruction Service Lien The final step is to file a lawsuit to performed their services early on. foreclose the lien, which must be done within 180 days of when the lien was commencing. For example, architects Notice of Retention recorded. In conjunction with the lawsuit, could spend months designing projects, To hold a preconstruction service lien, a lien claimant must record a lis pendens but for priority purposes, their liens preconstruction service providers must with the same county recorder where the were tied to the date when work started. file a notice of retention on the Utah State lien was recorded, giving public notice of Consequently, preconstruction service Construction Registry within 20 days of the lawsuit. >>

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Strict compliance with the foregoing steps is crucial. Any misstep can be fatal to a lien.

Priority for Preconstruction Service Liens Now that the mechanics of the law have been addressed, it is important to understand the unique priority rights for preconstruction service liens. Like the old law, which had a triggering point for priority purposes (the actual commencement of construction), preconstruction service liens now have a unique priority-triggering mechanism. All preconstruction service liens relate back to and take effect as of the date of the first notice of retention, and are deemed superior to subsequent encumbrances. This priority, however, is qualified. It can be bifurcated if there is an intervening, “bona fide loan.” Any preconstruction services provided after the loan are subordinate to the loan. This will likely most often apply in the context of construction loans. While priority for preconstruction service liens is not absolute, it gives preconstruction service providers more rights than they previously had. It offers them a clear, ascertainable priority point, no longer subjecting them to an ill-defined priority scheme

Conclusion This law is relatively new, and it is still subject to application in the construction industry and judicial interpretation. Nonetheless, the efforts behind it demonstrate an active approach to cure a perceived unfairness. Preconstruction service providers just have to make sure they satisfy all the requirements so they can take benefit from it. .

D. Scott DeGraffenried is an attorney at Salt Lake-based Babcock, Scott & Babcock, P.C. His practice focuses on construction litigation. He is a member of both the State Bar of Arizona and the Utah State Bar. He graduated from Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in 2007.

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> Industry News

Granite Construction to Open New Asphalt Plant in Utah County

Hughes garners national AGC award for Ogden High Auditorium; Jacobsen breaks ground on doTERRA Corporate Campus; Kilgore acquires Westroc; Komatsu opens Rock Springs location.

Granite Construction Company of Salt Lake City is set to open its new Talon Cove asphalt production facility in May in Eagle Mountain, Utah, as part of its efforts to expand operations across the Wasatch Front. The new plant features six 180-ton silos and will have a capacity of producing 400 tons of asphalt per hour. “Our customers had asked for years when we were going to come to the Utah County market,” said James Inglis, Sales Manager for Granite. “It’s going to help them grow their businesses because they can reach further into that market. We put a lot of effort into the retail sales side of asphalt paving in addition to our own paving operations. We want to help our Granite opens its new Talon Cove facility in May in Utah County. customers get work and become more efficient.” Granite Construction will host an open grown to include 293 employees in three Inglis said the new plant will give house at the facility June 15. states. KEC sells and services equipment Granite a permanent asphalt production to support industries that rely on heavy plant in each of the largest counties along Komatsu Opens Rock Springs Branch equipment machinery, including highway, the Wasatch Front, with facilities in West Salt Lake-based Komatsu Equipment infrastructure, residential, industrial, utility, Haven in Weber County, and Cottonwood Company (KEC) recently announced the energy and mining in Utah, Nevada, and Heights in Salt Lake County. opening of its new service branch in Wyoming. “Utah County is the fastest growing Rock Springs, WY. The18,000 SF building KEC is a subsidiary of Komatsu county in Utah and is an emerging market is located on five acres and features the America, the U.S. manufacturer for for us,” added Inglis. “It will give us more latest technology for equipment repair. The Komatsu, Ltd, which is the world’s second efficiency in our overall operations. Our facility includes five service bays; wash bay; largest manufacturer and supplier of customers are excited for it to open.” warehouse; 15-ton x 60-ft span overhead construction, mining, and compact The plant will produce UDOT mix crane; 5-ton jib crane; computerized central construction equipment. designs, APWA/FAA mix designs, and other lubrication system; parts, service, and commercial and custom mixes. It is the rental counter, administrative offices; and Kilgore Acquires Westroc only asphalt plant in Utah that has reached equipment display and demonstration Kilgore Companies of Salt Lake City, a a ‘Partner Level’ with CleanU tah, a new areas. division of Washington, D.C.-based Summit program offered by the Department of KEC was formed in 1997 through the Materials, announced the acquisition of Environmental Quality that encourages and merger of Rocky Mountain Machinery Westroc, Inc., an aggregate and ready-mix rewards business and other permit holders of Salt Lake City and Pioneer Equipment concrete supplier in Utah. Based in Pleasant to go beyond compliance to help preserve of Reno, NV. Utah operations originated Grove, Westroc operates two aggregates and protect Utah’s environment. in 1952 with 15 employees and have sites and seven ready-mix concrete plants

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along the Wasatch Front. Palm Springs, Calif. The project was given High School and its timeless auditorium, Westroc was established in 1987 and the ‘Building Under $10 Million Renovation which was originally built in the late 1930’s, serves Utah, Salt Lake, Juab, Sanpete and Award’, in part for the auditorium’s incredibly was funded partly through a grassroots Granite Construction to Open Sevier Counties with ready mix concrete ornate décor, in addition to the technical community effort. Making the auditorium and aggregate products. Westroc’s existing seismic upgrade challenges. seismically safe without damaging the New Asphalt Plant in Utah County management team will remain in place and “It really is a community triumph,” said artistic flourishes on both interior and continue to develop and grow the business Dan Pratt of Hughes. “Without the support exterior walls was an extraordinary as part of the Kilgore group of companies. of the people of Ogden, this restoration construction feat. Pratt said his firm’s goal Hughes garners national AGC award for Ogden High Auditorium; Jacobsen “We are delighted to welcome Westroc would have never taken place.” was for visiting alumni to remark “It’s just and its employees to Summit,” said Summit Pratt said the restoration of Ogden the way I remember.” n breaks ground on doTERRA Corporate Campus; Kilgore acquires Westroc; CEO Tom Hill. “The addition of Westroc is a Komatsu opens Rock Springs location. great fit with Summit’s existing business in the Salt Lake area, and we are excited about the combined strength of the operations.” “The acquisition will expand our footprint into Central Utah,” said Kilgore CEO Jason Kilgore. “Westroc is a well-run company with an excellent management team and a highly skilled group of employees.”

$60 M doTERRA Corporate Campus Underway Salt Lake-based Jacobsen Construction broke ground in March on a new $60 million, 200,000 sq. ft. corporate campus for Utah-based doTERRA, a company specializing in the production and distribution of essential oils. Designed by VCBO Architects of Salt Lake City, the campus will include four buildings, building connectors and an arrival center. Two four-story office buildings will be constructed, each totaling 60,000 sq. ft. In addition, a call center, cafeteria, retail store, auditorium, conference and meeting rooms, receiving area, and fitness center will be housed in a pair of two-story, 25,000 sq. ft. buildings. doTERRA’s expansion will aggregate the operations of the company, which has seen extraordinary growth since its inception in 2008. The building is slated to be completed in Summer 2014.

Hughes General Contractors Earns Coveted National AGC Award The accolades continue to pour in for Ogden High School’s stately auditorium renovation project, as the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America honored Hughes General Contractors of North Salt Lake with an Alliant Build America award at its annual convention March 7 in

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New Elementary School Prototype for Davis County SD

When it comes to educating 21st Century students, old-school teaching methods – along with traditional classroom functionality – are going the way of the Dodo bird. The three R’s of yesteryear – Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic – have given way to Rigor, Relevance, and Relationship, says Jeanne Jackson, a principal with Salt Lake-based VCBO Architecture. “Kids are not the same as they used to be,” says Jackson. “Look at emerging technologies of the past decade. Young people today spend an average of six hours a day listening to music, surfing the web, texting, and watching TV. The world is more complex and it’s all happening rapidly.”

“Our goal is to have a building that is the least expensive to operate over its life cycle, which includes maintenance, custodial, energy, and any replacement costs to the Endeavour Elementary in Kaysville is an example of a shift in how students are educated in a school environment. structure itself,” Large open rooms with moveable furniture are replacing rigid, four-walled classrooms. (photos courtesy VCBO —Gary Payne Architecture) The prototype offers more open theme is on space, with different wings of Jackson says this technological space, with bright, bold colors and a fun classrooms named after different galaxies. revolution is dictating new approaches environment. Rooms are open and students learn in when it comes to designing schools. Sitting “The question we ask is ‘How do we varying group sizes. The first year students in a four-wall classroom at a desk with 30 design schools to enhance (collaborative) had the highest test scores in math and other students and reading from text books learning?’” says Jackson. “No more egg science in the district, and the following year doesn’t synch with kids who utilize laptop carton classrooms with kids on a grid. You had the highest scores statewide in those computers, smart phones, and tablets. want to have the ability to move furniture subjects. Architectural firms are responding to in rooms to accommodate large and small Jackson said the new prototype will the challenge by designing schools with learning environments; rooms that open up have different wings and giant roll up doors classrooms that emphasize collaboration where students can work with other groups in a central classroom that will offer great and interaction. An example of this is a and do different activities.” flexibility as learning environments evolve. A new elementary prototype designed by Endeavour Elementary in Kaysville, new type of furniture is also being designed, VCBO specifically for Davis County School which opened in 2010, is an example of along with tables with whiteboards that fold District (DCSD). collaborative design. The schools main up and roll out of the way.

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In addition to different classroom layouts, school districts are keen on building schools that are highly sustainable and energy efficient. DCSD is having the new elementary prototype designed to LEED Gold standards, according to Gary Payne, DCSD Administrator of Facilities, Management and Planning. “Our goal is to have a building that is the least expensive to operate over its life cycle, which includes maintenance, custodial, energy, and any replacement costs to the structure itself,” said Payne. “That to me is sustainable. LEED helps with the entire process. It can be a little expensive regarding the paperwork side, but most of our buildings would have qualified for LEED Certification. The reason we’re going for LEED this time is that the public wants to know. In the past 10 years we have reduced our energy consumption by 8% while adding a million square feet of space.” “We aim for LEED but we’re also getting close to NetZero,” added Bryan Turner, Director of Architectural Services for DCSD. “LEED is a good program to get people to think that way. We’ve had that mind shift into how we design.” n

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Hal Clyde, Former W.W. Clyde Executive, Dies at 85 Colvin names new leadership; Steel Encounters promotes Brad Hardy; VCBO’s Jackson named FAIA; Reaveley announces new engineers.

Hal M. Clyde, who worked at Springville- He graduated with a Bachelor of integral part of family folklore. based W.W. Clyde & Company for more Science degree in civil engineering from “The industry lost a great supporter,” than 50 years, passed away January 24, the University of Utah in 1950, and pursued said David Hales, former President/CEO 2013 at the age of 85. Clyde was devoted to a career managing diverse construction of W.W. Clyde Company, who worked with the construction industry on many levels, projects for W.W. Clyde throughout the Clyde for some two decades starting and served as President (now Chairman) West for more than 40 years. Among the in 1970, and recalled his love of flying of the Associated General Contractors of most memorable projects he worked on airplanes. “He was tenacious and loved Utah in 1973. were the two award-winning structural what he was doing. He displayed a passion Clyde was born in Springville, Utah, steel arch bridges on Highway 95 over the for the business that few had.” February 13, 1927, to Edward Clyde and Colorado River and the Dirty Devil River “Hal spent his life working to make Hannah Mendenhall Clyde, the same year between Hanksville and Blanding above our community a better place to live,” said W.W. Clyde & Company was organized by Hite, Utah. The settings were unique and Wilford Clyde, President/CEO of Orem- his uncle, Wilford, and his father, Ed, to preceded the formation of Lake Powell. based Clyde Companies. “He dedicated do heavy/civil construction. He began his These bridges, and the subsequent highway, his life building dams, highways, bridges, career with W.W. Clyde & Company in 1943, opened the otherwise inaccessible and other heavy construction projects in unloading cement bags from rail cars at Hill terrain to travelers. The adventures and Utah and throughout the Intermountain Air Force Base. recollections of those years became an Area during his career at W.W. Clyde & Company. He was always looking for a solution to solve today’s challenges both in construction and in life. He will be missed at Clyde Companies.” “Hal was a great champion of the construction industry,” added Rich Thorn, President/CEO of the AGC of Utah. “He was passionate about making the industry better and that is evident by his service and long career.” Following his retirement, Clyde served as a Commissioner for the Utah Department Hal Clyde Steve Connor Roger Hamlet of Transportation for 12 years. He also served as chairman of the Civil Engineering Advisory Board for the University of Utah when the department was challenged with internal conflict and even outside attempts to eliminate civil engineering in the College of Engineering. The advisory group prevailed and today the department is thriving. In 2011, Clyde was named Distinguished Alumni of the College of Engineering. Clyde is survived by his wife, Aileen, of Springville, and his sons and their wives, Bret Christiansen Brad Hardy along with many grandchildren and great-

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grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother Norman. He also has two sisters, Pauline and Martha, and three other brothers, Grant, Calvin and Roger, who are deceased.

Colvin Announces New Leadership Colvin Engineering Associates, a Salt Lake City-based mechanical engineering consultant, recently named Stephen Connor, P.E., as President of the firm. Connor Jeanne Jackson Clayton Burningham Ryan Hillstrom replaces founder Tom Colvin, who remains as a full-time senior consultant. Colvin also named Roger Hamlet, P.E., and Bret awarded to members who have made Burbidge is known in the industry for Christiansen as Vice Presidents. contributions of national significance to his always upbeat demeanor and character, Connor has been with Colvin for the profession. Jackson, a Partner with and for his passion for golf. He served for 21 years. He graduated from Bucknell Salt Lake-based VCBO Architecture, will many years on the golf committee for the University in 1984 with a B.S. in Mechanical be among 122 AIA members and seven Associated General Contractors of Utah and Engineering. Hamlet has 15 years of international architects to be honored at was a fixture at AGC golf tournaments. He also experience at Colvin. He graduated with the National AIA Convention and Design instilled a strong work ethic at his company a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the Exposition in Denver, Colorado. She is and prided himself on honesty and integrity. University of Colorado in 1991. Christiansen the only woman in Utah with such a high “Dennis brought 35 years of pure joy, is an 11-year veteran of Colvin and studied distinction of accreditation. kindness and happiness to the industry,” Mechanical Engineering at ITT Technical Out of a total AIA membership of said Rick Adams, Burbidge Marketing Institute. All three are LEED AP certified. over 83,000, there are just over 3,100 Director. “It’s all about taking care of the Tom Colvin founded Colvin Engineering distinguished with the honor of fellowship customer and being focused on making in 1986 and serves as Chairman of the Board. and honorary fellowship. sure that things are done right and that we The firm specializes in sustainability, energy For more than 22 years Jackson has live up to what we say we’re going to do.” conservation, design and commissioning specialized in the design of educational “I’ll miss the many great associations of HVAC, plumbing, process piping, CFD facilities. She has extensive experience I had with all those great superintendents, modeling and fire protection systems. in the planning and design of numerous project managers and lead men, and innovative elementary and secondary the people involved with the AGC,” said Steel Encounters Promotes Brad Hardy schools, which have garnered over 50 state, Burbidge. “I’ll miss the crews; I just hope Steel Encounters, Inc. of Salt Lake City national, and international awards. someone will keep bringing them muffins has promoted Brad Hardy to its structural and drinks. That was my forte. They’d see sales division. Hardy previously worked Dennis Burbidge Retires After 35 Years me on the jobsite and come running.” in the firm’s operations division. Hardy Dennis Burbidge, a longtime executive has more than 30 years of experience in at Salt Lake-based Burbidge Concrete Reaveley Announces New Team Members operations and sales and will serve clients Pumping, announced his retirement at the Reaveley Engineers + Associates of Salt throughout the Intermountain West. end of March after working at the company Lake City announced the hiring of two new Hardy joined Steel Encounters in for 35 years. Burbidge and his wife will team members, Ryan Hillstrom and Clayton 2005 and has worked on projects such as serve a mission for the LDS Church in the Burningham. Hillstrom is a graduate of Xactware, Chobani and the Monte L. Bean Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mission. Utah State University and has 15 years Life Science Museum at BYU. “I’ll miss a lot of things,” said Burbidge, experience in structural engineering, whose father, Eugene Burbidge, founded specializing in masonry, steel and precast VCBO’s Jackson First Utah Woman the company in 1972. Dennis’ brothers, concrete design. Burningham is a fourth Granted AIA Fellowship Vaughn and Dave, will continue to run the generation engineer who earned a Phd The 2013 Jury of Fellows from the family business. “I really enjoyed the big from the University of Utah in 2011. American Institute of Architects (AIA) pours that we did; the big hospitals, the big Reaveley also promoted Oliver Burt elevated Jeanne Jackson, FAIA, to its high-rise jobs where we would pump 5,000 and Cameron Empey to Senior Engineers, prestigious College of Fellows, an honor to 9,000 yards of concrete at a time.” and Jesse Malan to Project Engineer. n

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t’s only appropriate that the new Roosevelt in June 1929, Mesa Verde was protects 5,000 known archeological sites, $14.3 million Mesa Verde Visitor created to preserve “the works of man”, the including 600 cliff dwellings. and Research Center (VRC) was first of its kind for the NPS. According to The new Mesa Verde VRC is located in designed to achieve LEED Platinum the NPS, ancient Puebloan people lived in Colorado, approximately eight miles west Certification by Salt Lake-based the area from 600 to 1,300 A.D. Mesa Verde of Mancos and nine miles east of Cortez, ajc architects – after all, the nearly I84-year-old national park means ‘Green Table’ in Spanish. Earning LEED Platinum status, the highest level of sustainable design any structure can achieve through the U.S. Green Building Council’s ‘green’ rating system, required careful planning and unique considerations by the design team, according to project architect Derek Wilson of ajc. “The National Park Service (NPS), obviously because of who they are, they try to protect the environment, resources, and heritage sites like this,” said Wilson. “You have to be sensitive to environmental impacts of the building, but you also have to be sensitive to the cultures that are impacted, the history of the indigenous people, and the history of the park itself.” The new Mesa Verde Visitors and Research Center will accommodate more than 600,000 annual visitors Established by President Theodore and house some three million ancient artifacts. Mesa Verde National Park was established in 1929.

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welcomed by the ‘Cliff Climber’ sculpture plaza which orients the user to an axial alignment with Point Lookout. This axial alignment correlates with the cardinal points which has spiritual significance to Native Americans. To offset the strong axis, a second radial organizational mechanism creates spaces for exhibit and gathering spaces. Using these organizational methods, the building was oriented to minimize heat gain through the expansive at the park’s entrance just off Hwy 160. high pressure water line. Closed loop geo- curtain wall glazing while maximizing the The VRC replaces the antiquated 3,000 coupling wells adjacent to a natural arroyo view of the immediate vista and the La SF Far View Visitor Center and will better were combined with radiant floor heating/ Plata mountain range beyond. accommodate 600,000 plus annual visitors. cooling and chilled beam technology The building veneer includes a The 24,300 SF VRC includes 10,700 SF of to efficiently control the temperature Quartzitic Sandstone harvested from a curatorial space for archives, a repository, throughout the building. To accommodate local quarry, honed CMU, high recycled exhibit mounts, and library, and 7,600 SF the many users, solar water heating is used gyp. board, FSC certified West Red Cedar for interior exhibit space and sales. The to heat water in the comfort stations while ceilings, and a special insulated double film entire facility will house more than three the surplus solar-heated water is used to glass element that has a R-14 value. million archeological artifacts. supplement the exterior plaza snowmelt “It’s nice to design a project with In harmony with the mission of NPS, system. cultural and historical significance,” said the project incorporated several site “On a LEED Platinum project you Wilson. “The NPS are stewards over the technologies. Existing invasive vegetation generally have to look for and find every environment and sustainable design is was replaced with indigenous plants opportunity (for LEED points) and execute something they strive for. They set a great to better harmonize with the natural it,” said Wilson. “There are not a lot of example to the public. This is what we vegetation within the park. The landscape points you can let go and still achieve should be doing collectively.” n was also developed for use of bio-swale LEED Platinum. The biggest element of technology to naturally treat site run-off sustainability is the energy efficiency Project Team and increase groundwater regeneration. of the building. We were sensitive to the Owner: National Park Service Waste is treated on site and the byproduct orientation of windows, solar alignment, Architect: ajc architects, SLC is considered gray water. creating a well-insulated envelope and GC: PCL, Denver Designed to NetZero operation, choosing the right mechanical system. All Electrical Eng: BNA, SLC the facility makes use of a 95KVA photo systems work together to achieve optimum Mechanical Eng: Colvin Engineering, SLC voltaic solar array and also a new Micro efficiency.” Structural Eng: Dunn Associates, SLC Hydro Turbine on an existing gravity-fed, Upon arrival to the building, one is Civil Eng: Stantec, SLC and Ft. Collins

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Owner Spotlight: The Boyer Company

After 41 Years, The Boyer Company Remains as Busy as Ever

26 | UTAH CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN | Apr | May 13 After 41 Years, The Boyer Company Remains as Busy as Ever

Under leadership of President/CEO Jake Boyer, son of founder and Chairman of the Board H. Roger Boyer, company has 40 projects in the works that total more than half a billion dollars.

By Brad Fullmer

In the Sugarhouse area of Salt Lake Jake Boyer, in 2006, but continues to

City sits a modest 20,000 SF building serve as Chairman of the Board and near Fairmont Park. The otherwise still contributes to various aspects inauspicious building is notable in that of the business as he sees fit. “It’s a it was the first project ever developed by risky business, but it’s bite-sizes. Each H. Roger Boyer after he started The Boyer project is an entity unto itself – has Company in 1972. its own PNL and source of equity. We From those humble beginnings, The always try to mitigate risk and reduce Boyer Company stands as one of the it. We haven’t been a big speculative largest commercial real estate developers developer; it’s more the mentality of can in the Intermountain Region, with more we commit somebody to pay rent and than 280 completed projects totaling lease the building. Lenders like to have over 30 million square feet, including commitments from sub-tenants and Left: Executives from The Boyer Company – landmark developments in Utah such as fortunately we’ve had a good relationship pictured at The Gateway in downtown Salt Lake The Gateway, One Utah Center, Huntsman with banks and other lenders.” City – include (clockwise, starting at far right): Craig Brown, Devon Glenn, Jake Boyer (President/ Cancer Institute, and scores of others. The elder Boyer has always been CEO), Paul Kelly, Mike Berry, Brian Gochnour “The funny thing about our business ambitious, and in the case of son Jake, the and H. Roger Boyer (Founder and Chairman of the is we’ve been doing – in many ways – apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree. After Board). (photo by Dana Sohm, Sohm Photografx). the same thing since the beginning,” earning a Masters degree from Harvard Backdrop: Completed in November 2001, The Gateway is perhaps the most prominent and said Boyer, 72, who handed the reigns Business School in 1967, Roger teamed well-known development in The Boyer Company’s of the company over to his oldest son, up with another iconic Utah developer, >> history. (courtesy Boyer Co.)

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Ellis Ivory (founder of Ivory Homes), and We’ve worked together for so long, that – it was a baptism by fire, so to speak,” started Terracor. The firm developed if you separated us and gave us the same said Jake. “I had been in the medical group areas like Bloomington outside St. George problem, we’d likely come to the same and worked on various developments, but and Stansbury Park in Tooele and had solutions. As I’ve taken a more distant role, this was a whole different experience, a great success. Ellis left the firm in 1971, I know Jake’s decisions would be what I complicated, downtown mixed-use project. and a year later Roger started The Boyer think are good decisions.” “We think a lot alike,” he says of his Company. In 1974 he brought Kem Gardner Jake points to The Gateway – arguably father. “He never had to give me any big into the fold as a partner (Gardner left in the firm’s most notable and high profile advice. Fortunately he has trust in me 2004 and started The Gardner Company), development – as a project that taught him and it’s a blessing for me to access him and the firm set about developing a wide many valuable lessons about the business. when I need him. I’ve tried to pattern my array of projects, including retail/mixed- “We worked side-by-side trying to get leadership after the things he implemented use, government, office, medical/life The Gateway off the ground and developed in the company.” >> sciences and residential.

“No one can predict the future, but we’re cautiously optimistic about the direction things are headed. We feel like a lot of companies on the sidelines are starting to make decisions and have more confidence in our market. Construction costs are more competitive than they were and it’s a good time to build.” – Jake Boyer

Jake followed in his father’s footsteps, mainly because he shared Roger’s passion for development. Jake started with the company in 1995 part-time while in college and has been full-time since earning an undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University and a Masters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The 41-year-old Boyer became President in 2006, and was named President/CEO in 2011. “I’ve always known I wanted to be in this business,” said Jake. “My father never put pressure on me to be involved, but it got in my blood. Many times dad and I would be on a trip and he’d want to look at office buildings, shopping centers, developments – it was always part of our life. It’s been a great experience.” “We’re very much alike in how we think,” Roger says of Jake. “We’ve said to each other that his mind is my mind, and visa versa. I don’t think I’ve ever had to The Boyer Company’s expertise includes trendy retail shopping centers like the Sugarhouse Commons (above) and sit down with Jake and give him advice. plush high-rise office buildings like One Utah Center (right). (photos courtesy Boyer Co.)

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Roger’s son Nate Boyer, who is 10 years development, total $551 million and more “No one can predict the future, but we’re younger than Jake, also works in the firm’s than 2.75 million SF. The company also cautiously optimistic about the direction government properties and office division. manages more than 15 million square feet things are headed,” said Jake. “We feel like Although the company is owned of commercial space. a lot of companies on the sidelines are by the Boyer family, it has many key “We have projects in Billings, Montana, starting to make decisions and have more executives who have a wealth of McAllen, Texas, Las Vegas, and Kansas confidence in our market. Construction costs individual and collective experience in City, Missouri, for example, so we have are more competitive than they were and it’s real estate development. Both Roger and a lot going on,” said Jake. Current local a good time to build. We feel good about the Jake acknowledge that they are only as projects include a new headquarters for direction of our economy.” successful as the good people who work L-3 Communications off I-215 in Salt Lake, with them. a recently finished building for the IRS in Valuable Relationships “We have a unique company model,” Ogden, and a renovation of the old Questar with A/E/C Firms said Jake. “Even though the company is Building in Salt Lake. Another notable Both men realize the family business family-owned, as we do new projects, the project which broke ground in March is could not be successful without the project managers share in the equity of the 101 Tower in Salt Lake, east of the old long-term, valuable relationships The that project. If the project manager finds Questar Building. The 101 Tower is a $38 Boyer Company has developed with firms a new deal, they become a partner in million, 7-story, 146,000 SF office building working in the architectural, engineering, that specific project. It’s helped us to be that was designed by Salt Lake-based and construction (A/E/C) industry. successful.” Babcock Design Group and is being built by “Those firms basically carry out the The Boyer Company has completed Jacobsen Construction of Salt Lake. ideas we have and make sense out of projects in 20 states, and of the firm’s Jake Boyer believes the future is them,” said Roger. “I think we have good 40 projects currently in its pipeline, 25 bright, particularly in the Beehive State, relationships with those professionals. Our are outside of Utah. Jake said those 40 and hopes the recession from a few years role is the team leader, where we bring in the projects, which are in various stages of ago remains a distant memory. players and have them coordinate and work

30 | UTAH CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN | Apr | May 13 Owner Spotlight: The Boyer Company well together. We’ve tried to be transparent done work in the past with The Boyer looking for qualified firms,” said Jake. “We and fair with the professionals we deal with Company are welcome to throw their recently did a building in Park City with and hope they want to do business with us hat into the ring, provided they have the a contractor we had never used before. over the long haul. We like to have access to experience and qualifications for a certain If they’re good at what they do, we value the best professionals that are available and type of project. that. It’s a win-win situation. We’re open we try to be fair with them.” “Sometimes it’s easier to take the path to contractors and architects who are “We’re looking for innovation, people of least resistance and go with somebody creative and want to get their foot in the who keep up with technology, accuracy you’ve worked with, but we’re always door.” n in drawings, and creativity,” said Jake. “We like people who come up with new ideas and bring solutions to the table on both the contractor and architect side. We try to engage contractors early on to mitigate cost issues when it makes sense. The biggest thing we dislike is surprises in construction. We live and die by our numbers and set lease rates from those numbers. We want accuracy and a contractor who is honest. No one likes to get nickel and dimed on little things.” Jake said his firm has done projects via various procurement methods, including low-bid and design-build. Consultants and contractors are typically selected on past performance, what each firm’s strengths are, and the type of project that is being developed. “We obviously have past history with almost every architectural firm in the state; each has different strengths and weaknesses,” said the younger Boyer. “We try to match up strengths with the projects we’re doing. For projects out of state we usually go to bigger firms who are suited for that kind of work. We’re doing 25 projects in other states right now and in each of those instances we try to select the best contractor in that market. On Utah projects, we lean towards staying within the state and selecting local firms. “We look at each project and the timelines involved,” he continued. “If we have the luxury of time we’ll try to move the drawings as far along as we can without bringing in a contractor. If it’s a highly technical project, where we need contractor feedback, we’ll bring someone on early. A lot of contractors argue that it’s best to select them early on, and I agree with that sometimes. We’ve been burned at times when we brought someone in and the bid came in higher than we expected.” He added that firms that have not

Apr | May 13 | UTAH CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN | 31 With headquarters in Utah and branch offices in six other states, Layton Construction has built hundreds of projects in a wide array of markets during its 60-year history. Projects pictured include the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City (top), a Larry H. Miller Dealership in Surprise, Ariz. (bottom left), and Boise State University’s Bronco Stadium in Boise (bottom right). (photos courtesy Layton)

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Company President/CEO David Layton confident firm is heading in the right direction By Brad Fullmer By Brad Fullmer Photos by Alan Blakeley; Courtesy ajc architects David Layton is a confident man. people and I think we’ve consistently done that,” As President and CEO of Sandy-based said Layton. “And not necessarily take care of Layton Construction, it’s a good characteristic them just at work, but take care of them at life.” to have, and one he’s displayed throughout Employee well-being has been a hallmark his career at the now 60-year-old firm, for Layton Construction since Alan W. Layton which celebrated its most recent milestone founded the company in 1953 at the age of 35. anniversary on February 13. In fact, when the senior Layton stepped away Layton’s father, Alan W. Layton, started from the company to serve an LDS Mission with the company nine years prior to David’s birth, his wife Mona in 1985, he wrote a letter from so construction is really the only type of career the mission field to his sons Alan S. Layton and the younger Layton has ever known, and one David, and other key employees, outlining 12 in which he started working in at an early age. key points for keeping the company moving And it suits him just fine. forward. Those 12 points, known “I started as a youth, at Layton’s ‘Timeless Values’, under the age of 10, digging included this: ‘Get involved with holes, pushing a wheelbarrow, all employees; let them know cleaning up, moving gravel,” you care about their well-being.’ Layton recalls. “As a teenager “They couldn’t have been I started working as a laborer, better to work for – I’ve told carpenter helper, and carpenter. Alan (S.) that 100 times,” said It was a mystery to me at the Dick Shipley, who worked for the time, but it was important company from 1987 to 2002 as a to my dad for his sons to get project superintendent, and was exposed to every aspect of the on the LDS Conference Center business. We got a lot of field project which was completed experience early in our lives and in 2000. “I wish I would have I understand now why it was started my career with them; David Layton important.” I never would have worked for That hands-on experience has proved to another company. Alan S. was like a brother be a great benefit long-term to Layton. Even to me. He always treated people fairly and he though he traded in his tool belt and Carhartts believed in letting the subcontractor make an long ago for a suit and tie, he knows first-hand honest living.” what it’s like for his employees to pour concrete Layton clients, many of whom are repeat in freezing temperatures or pound nails in customers, say the company is focused on 100-degree heat. And that understanding is attention to detail and providing owners with key for a man who criss-crosses the country the best bang for their buck. overseeing a workforce that is building “We enjoyed working with Layton everything from state-of-the-art medical Construction on our new recreation center,” facilities to massive industrial warehouses to said Provo City Mayor John Curtis. “They quickly high-end commercial and institutional buildings. became an important team member and added “One of dad’s values was to take care of significant value to the project.” >>

Apr | May 13 | UTAH CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN | 33 “(Layton Construction) and their continually, not just at work.” in Houston. Alan S. visited a large subcontractors did an excellent job; they Layton’s LAPS program also applies to construction company headed by a friend stayed within budget with relatively few the jobsite. Any person on a jobsite – not of his dad and was struck at how the changes that weren’t directed by the just Layton employees, but subcontractors firm was organized. That insight was the owner,” said Robert Jones, Manager of as well – are to have personable beginning of the transition from a small, Accounting and part of the corporate team responsibility for a 30-foot sphere around family-held construction company to a that oversaw the construction of Questar’s where they are working. major business that applied principles of new corporate headquarters in downtown “If that worker sees something that is organizational structure and management. Salt Lake City, on which Layton performed not safe, we want them to intervene and A foundation was established that would tenant improvement work. “They also not wait for a safety technician to deal allow Layton to grow immensely in the helped us with the value engineering with the circumstance,” Layton added. “It’s coming decades. process and had suggestions that were a concept of I’ve got your back and you’ve The firm waded through Utah’s beneficial.” got mine.” sluggish economy in the early-to-mid- David Layton said 10 years ago the 80’s, and opened its first branch office in company took its safety program to a new Explosive Growth Phoenix in 1987. It was an opportunity to level by establishing the Layton Personal diversify geographically and pursue work Safety Zone (LAPS) program, which places Alan S. Layton took over as President of in a market with different economic forces emphasis on e mployees taking their safety Layton Construction in 1979, marking than Salt Lake. awareness home with them and making the first major transition of company The decade of the ‘90’s and the first safe living a priority. leadership. He took the move in stride. ten years of the 21st century marked “It’s taking safety from the jobsite “The day after I became President was significant growth for the company. to their whole life – it’s a 24-hour, 7-day no different than the day before,” said Alan Since 2004, Layton Construction has been commitment,” said Layton. “It’s inconsistent S. “Dad was still very much the boss. And in recognized nationally by Engineering for an employee to ride a motorcycle my eyes, I couldn’t even conceive of what a News-Record (ENR) magazine as a ‘Top without a helmet, to text while driving, to president did.” 100’ commercial contractor on its Top 400 stand on the top rung of a ladder at home. Later that year the two men attended commercial contractors list. Despite the We want every employee to practice safety a national construction conference significantly weakened economy of >>

34 | UTAH CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN | Apr | May 13 the ‘Great Recession’ the past four years, for saying there is a recovery,” Layton have yet to be discovered, even though Layton has continued to maintain its continued. “It’s hard to have a vibrant there is discovery ongoing. I think we position as one of Utah’s top three revenue construction industry, whether you’re in have a promising future. I’m not ready to producing general contractors. The firm the residential side or the commercial side, say we still don’t have some stagnation reported 2012 revenues of $420 million. without speculative opportunity in the in construction. In today’s political and David Layton took over as company marketplace. When speculative projects regulatory corporate America there are a President/CEO in 2004, making him the third come back – spec homes, spec office, retail lot of reasons Utah makes sense like it has Layton to lead the firm in its history. Under – when developers are risking their capital, for many decades, but even more so now. his watch Layton Construction has opened to me that’s the sign of a true recovery.” We’ve been able to maintain some sanity five additional branch offices nationwide He added, “Utah is a great place to and rationalism in terms of the business including Boise, Idaho, Lihue, Hawaii, live, to work, and to recreate. In part, we community.” n Irvine, California, Nashville, Tennessee and Orlando, Florida. Significant Layton Projects in Utah since 2000 Museum of Fine Arts at University of Utah Optimistic About Future Montage Resort at Deer Valley South Towne Exposition Center Utah Bishop’s Central Storehouse Layton says the construction industry Utah Olympic Oval hasn’t come close to fully rebounding from Herriman High School Rio Tinto MLS Soccer Stadium the recession that hit at the end of 2008, JL Sorenson Recreation Center Great Lakes Cheese Distribution Facility but he has considerable optimism that his Huntsman Cancer Hospital firm is in a good position to keep moving Taylorsville City Hall University of Utah Orthopedic Center forward, and that the Utah market is poised Utah State University Space RiverPark Corporate Center Office Buildings for a promising future. Dynamics Laboratory LDS Conference Center John A. Moran Eye Center “In today’s political and regulatory corporate America there are a lot of reasons Utah makes sense like it has for many decades, but even more so now. We’ve been able to maintain some sanity and rationalism in terms of the business community.” – David Layton

“We’re going to see some growth in 2013,” said Layton. “For our firm there are potentially some exciting opportunities out of state right now. We’re seeing some movement upwards in Arizona, which is long overdue, but we think it’s real. Arizona has either been ice-cold or white-hot and it looks like it’s moving back toward being hot. We have a distribution facility underway that is a 1.3 million sq ft facility. A few years ago there was speculation there wouldn’t be office or warehouse space built in that market for five or 10 years, so that’s a good sign. “Utah is probably a bit of a tick up, but until the developers come back to the market, I don’t believe there is a basis

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Utah Electrical Firms, Individuals Honored at 28th Annual IEA Awards

GSL Electric founder Craig Taft recognized for lifetime industry contribution.

After nearly a half century of working in the electrical contracting industry, Craig Taft, 66, was honored with the Delamar Holt Service to the Industry award during the Intermountain Electrical Association’s (IEA) 28th annual awards banquet March 1 in Salt Lake City. Taft, who retired December 31, 2012, co-founded Sandy-based GSL Electric in the spring of 1981 with brother Don Taft Jr. and Guy Moore, and served as the firm’s top executive since 1995 when Moore retired. Taft credits his wife, Meg, his family and GSL employees for their contributions to his career success. Two sons work the firm; Joey Taft is an electrical engineer, while Andrew Taft serves as a foreman. Craig Taft (left) receives IEA’s Delamar Holt Service to the Industry award from 2012 IEA President Kelly Quinton. “I’m very honored to receive this (all photos courtesy IEA) award from the Intermountain Electrical The firm, which currently has 450 of high profile building projects that Association; I owe a lot to the good people employees, opened an office in Las Vegas bring him satisfaction, including the LDS around me,” said Taft. “Without their in 1986 and has had a strong regional Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois, Phase II of the support and hard work our company would presence throughout the western United Huntsman Cancer Center, the Salt Lake not have the success it has had, so I’m very States during its history. GSL is licensed to Library, and the Millrock Park Corporate appreciative of that.” work as both an electrical contractor and Center. The firm is wrapping up work at According to Craig Taft, GSL has electrical engineer in eight states. It started the Utah Data Center, as well as the LDS completed more than 2,300 projects to see exponential growth in the latter part Temple in Ogden. during the firm’s 32-year history, totaling of the 90’s, and has maintained average Taft continues to go into the office over 15 million man hours and $1 billion annual revenues in the $60 to $70 million on a daily basis, partly because he’s still in revenues. Taft started working for his range the past 15 years. a prominent stockholder (one of 19 GSL father, Don Taft Sr., in high school in the “The company really exploded in 1997,” partners with ownership in the company), mid-60’s, and earned an engineering degree said Taft. “We went from 100 employees to but also because he has a mountain of from the University of Utah in 1971. Upon over 400 in two years. Part of the reason paperwork still to file through. graduation he went to work at the Salt was we got the LDS Conference Center, “You don’t just walk away from Lake western regional office of Howard P. which required almost 300 employees. something you created from nothing,” Foley Electric, a huge national electrical Even after that job ended we were able to Taft said. “My main reason for staying on contractor, and spent 10 years with that maintain that level.” is that we do a lot of bonded work, and firm before deciding to help launch GSL Taft said GSL (which stands for Great until I’m not the largest single stakeholder, Electric in 1981. Salt Lake Electric) does approximately our bonding company wants me to stay “We started with virtually nothing,” 70% of its business in the industrial on. I’ll still serve as Chairman of the Board Taft recalled. “We had one used truck and infrastructure markets, including and probably will for a few more years. and $2,000 worth of tools, and took out a work for Kennecott/Rio Tinto, mines in There are some great projects coming up $50,000 loan that we paid off within our northern Nevada, and municipal water that we anticipate getting. We have great first three months. We’ve been going ever and wastewater owners. Besides the LDS employees and I’m excited about the future since.” Conference Center, he points to a number of the company.”

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2012 BEST PROJECTS Communications Industrial Adobe Lehi Campus IMFT Campus Commercial – Private Electrical Contractor: Wasatch Electric Electrical Contractor: Wasatch Electric Merit Medical Systems The communications and data center This project included the retrofit of a Production Facility aspect of this project was monumental for 65,000 SF building at IM Flash Technologies’ Electrical Contractor: GSL Electric Adobe, since it handles both local traffic Lehi Campus into a state-of-the-art full This 400,000 SF, three-level facility as well as global information to support clean room for the manufacture of NAND required careful electrical coordination the firm’s large-scale customer service flash memory chips. The scope of work due to a unique 70,000 SF clean room, and needs. There are required a new power distribution system a large number of owner-specified change 12 communication with two 4,000 amp services, four 2,500 orders at the beginning of the project. GSL rooms throughout kVA medium voltage transformers, a 1,200 spent more than four times normal man the campus, kW generator with two transfer switches, hours ensuring that all wiring and cabling in addition to a 300 kVA UPS for critical systems, a 75 kVA could be fit into ceiling spaces. The project multiple lab areas, UPS for life safety systems, and associated includes nearly 950,000 LF of electrical wire, which has enough lighting and power for general use. Wasatch 370,000 LF of systems and V/D cabling, 3,000 cable to stretch provided electrical and control/data LF of fiber optic cabling, 4,460 light fixtures, the entire length cabling for 39 new manufacturing tools two UPS systems, two 4,000-amp services, of the State of and also installed an extensive, structurally 17 transformers, and 71 panel boards. Utah. Wasatch designed catwalk system under the FAB also installed high fidelity and resolution floor to support electrical, mechanical, and cabling for an advanced Audio-Visual process piping systems and components. System, including tele-conferencing, theater-style productions, full conference room interaction, monitors, displays and touch screen technology. The AV cabling manages over 100 monitors and displays.

Design-Build Commercial – Public Brigham City LDS Temple City Creek Center Electrical Contractor: GSL Electric Electrical Contractor: Wasatch Electric LDS Temples always present unique The electrical challenges to the construction team. The challenges were ornate design of this particular temple had Residential many for what was considerably more lighting fixtures than Custom Residence at one of the largest other temples of a similar size. Because the Montage Deer Valley Resort commercial public ceilings were hard lid, it meant a limited Electrical Contractor: Wasatch Electric projects in the amount of space for GLS to work in, and This one-of-a-kind, 7,000 SF luxury nation. Wasatch required the job to be completed right the vacation residence includes an awe- provided demolition first time and for the contractor to carefully inspiring surround-sound music system, services in addition consider all routing conduits without state-of-the-art lighting control systems to traditional exceeding the number of allowable bends. with dimming controls throughout electrical contractor The 35,626 SF building includes 353,000 LF and a specially designed iPhone app to services, which required the need to keep of installed wire, 106,000 LF of conduit, and create myriad custom lighting levels. >> large portions of Block 75 up and running nearly 2,300 fixtures. It marks the 14th LDS during demolition time. At one point Temple completed in Utah. Wasatch had to suspend a bus duct in midair to keep Key Bank Tower powered up. After the demo of Block 75, two 4,000 amp bus ducts were installed. Wasatch provided electrical services to Nordstrom’s and Macy’s department stores along with the Cheesecake Factory, along with other tenant improvement spaces.

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Approximately 300 custom designed lighting Outstanding Factory Direct Outstanding Electrical fixtures were installed, with many requiring Salesperson of the Year Distributor Inside Salesperson on-site conversions. These fixtures were Allan Wursten, Eaton Electrical Jesse Hoffman, CED connected to just over 100 dimming zones, Kristin Laws, Codale which allows the owner an infinite range of Outstanding Electrical Reed Farnes, Crescent lighting ambiance options. Lighting types Engineering Firm of the Year included LED, tungsten halogen MR16s, BNA Consulting, Inc. Outstanding Electrical Distributor and various fluorescent and incandescent Envision Engineering Purchasing Agent fixtures. Along with customary electrical Jay R. Holt, Codale loads, power was required for restaurant grade kitchen equipment, balcony snow melt Salt Lake Area Outstanding Electrical Distributor mats, flip down TVs, and other myriad high- Quotations Manager end electronics. Outstanding Electrical Max Marler, EWS, SLC Distributor Firm Codale Electric Supply, SLC 2012 Awards Finalists Outside Salt Lake Area Outstanding Electrical Outstanding Electrical Distributor Manager Outstanding Electrical Manufacturer’s Rep of the Year Todd Saunders, CED, SLC Distributor Firm Lyle Williams Company Royal Wholesale Electric, Ogden Outstanding Electrical Distributor Outstanding Lighting Outside Salesperson Outstanding Electrical Manufacturer Rep of the Year Brian Bown, Crescent Electric, SLC Distributor Manager JRC Chad Barney, Codale Kent Chadwick, Codale, Ogden Quantum Lighting Chad Shepherd, CED UC&D Utah Construction & Design

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Outstanding Estimator of the Year Ben Homer, Wasatch Electric

Outstanding Design-Build Individual or Team Jake Taft, GSL Electric n

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ABC Utah Experiencing Solid Growth, Has Bright Future

Current leaders of the Utah chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC Utah) are excited about the growth the chapter has achieved in the past 18 months, and expressed great confidence that things will continue to get better. Led by President/CEO Chris Hipwell, who took over the chapter reigns in November 2009, and current Chairman Ron Hadley, ABC Utah achieved 26% growth in 2012 and is already halfway to its goal of adding 30 Chris Hipwell Ron Hadley Dave Hill new members in 2013. The association held its annual State Convention April 10 in Salt having access to the jobsite without being programs, legislative representation and Lake City – which was attended by nearly harassed by unions,” recalled Cameron. “We member discounts from vendors on goods 250 people – where it handed out a bevy of brought ABC to this market to try and level and services. ABC has partnered with the awards to various ABC members. the playing field in 1978. By ’83 the Utah Utah Labor Commission and the local “The growth of our Utah ABC chapter State Legislature made Utah a right-to-work OSHA office to improve upon its services. is a result of our leadership and their state, one of seven in the U.S. at that time to Hipwell also said it’s important that firms desire to become a stronger voice in the have that legislation passed. It was a very understand that any member of ABC can industry for both general contractors and big achievement.” serve in leadership and executive positions. subcontractors,” said Hipwell. “This success “ABC stands for principles that “Our board reflects a diverse is a result of promoting the value that focus on your company being allowed leadership group including general ABC offers in terms of helping members to do business and not get hammered contractors, subcontractors, professionals win work and perform that work safely, by government regulations and through and suppliers,” said Hipwell. “Equal ethically and profitably. By focusing on the unfair competition,” added Dave Hill of representation is our niche. ABC tenants of safety, workforce development, Cameron Construction, who is the 2013 membership is about being part of a and legislative representation, we will Chairman Elect. “Utah is a great place to collective voice – we are much stronger developer a stronger industry.” endorse that philosophy and we have to collectively than any one company can be “From our perspective the Utah chapter keep championing that. We want to make as a stand-alone.” is doing a fantastic job,” said Michael sure Utah is protected. It’s as much an “What’s nice about ABC is that all of Bellaman, President/CEO of ABC National opportunity for others to come into the our members have the opportunity to since February 2011, which represents 72 market as it is to protect yourself. There is serve on the board and other leadership chapters across the U.S. “We have a great a place for merit shop philosophies and a positions,” echoed Hadley, a 39-year board, great staff leadership and engaged place for unions to exist. We need to keep veteran with Jack B. Parson Companies members who believe in the merit shop that in balance and respect each other.” who has been involved with ABC for more philosophy and deliver great work. Chris has “We believe in a system of free than three decades. “We’re also getting been on board for over three years and she’s enterprise and we work hard to support and some young people involved to carry on one of our best chapter presidents.” defend that system,” said Hipwell. “We also for some of us who are a little older. We’re The ABC Utah chapter was created believe in the right of every owner to choose excited about the long-time members we in the late 1970’s by several firms who whether or not to belong to an open shop have and the new ones coming into the believed in the merit shop philosophy, organization or a union shop organization. chapter. I like the way ABC believes in the including John Cameron, founder of This philosophy encourages open right to work and freedom of choice. We’ve Salt Lake-based Cameron Construction. competition and a free-enterprise approach made a strong investment in our chapter’s Cameron said in 1978 his firm was having to construction based solely on merit.” future and we expect it will provide a union issues on the Crossroads Mall project, In addition to membership growth, good return on that investment as we and realized that bringing the ABC to this ABC Utah has worked on improving its core move forward. We have a goal to increase market could be a great resource for firms. programs and services, including safety membership by at least 30 members and “I was concerned about my employees

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we’re already halfway to that goal.” construction laborers, according to Bureau directors is that they subscribe to the same Bellaman said he and other executives of Labor Standards, and Utah has added principles as ABC’s founders,” she said. at ABC National look at Utah as one 4,900 construction jobs from February 2012 “Ron’s 2013 initiative is to visit every single of the strongest, economically-sound to February 2013, which is sixth highest. ABC member and talk with them about their construction markets in the country. It’s also the second highest in overall membership value. He is passionate about “Utah is a very business-friendly employment growth. So from a statistical his leadership role in the industry, both on state, a free enterprise, merit state, which perspective, Utah ranks very nicely.” a local and national level, and his vision is good,” he said. “Utah is the third most Hipwell expressed appreciation to her is in line with the national ABC founding cost-effective state to construct a building, chapter’s current board and leaders. principles. With his large personality and 14.2% below national average costs. Utah “The strength of our leadership group, passion for ABC and our members, he is a also has the third highest concentration of Ron and Dave and my entire board of strong voice for ABC.”

ABC Honors Firms, Projects at Annual State Convention

Award Category: Exterior Clearfield Care Center was a was divided into five areas of three floors Project Name: Scheels renovation of an existing rehabilitation each with only one area being taken out of Winner: IMS Masonry and skilled nursing home facility in service at any given time. The Scheels project is 220,000 SF of Clearfield, Utah. The remodel consisted upscale retail space in Sandy dedicated of 24% of the 8,000 square foot building. to the sports and outdoor enthusiast. The The project was phased to accommodate

IMS Masonry team incorporated a perfect the patients and staff of the facility and Utah) ABC courtesy photos (all combination of soldier courses, ribbons of made schedule management of the project headers and stack bonds as they completed critical to ensure that interruptions were the intricate arched masonry assemblies. kept at a minimal. The project required The interface between the brick and a fast paced schedule to accommodate precast masonry accent trim as well as the Owner’s need. In addition, the team the soaring glass arches sets the stage for worked hard to maintain sensitivity to long lasting beauty and quality of a true patients’ privacy and comfort during the Award Category: masonry exterior and interior project. phases of the project. Renovation Over $5 Million Clay brick masonry used for this project Project Name: Millcreek Community Center included 250,000 brick units, 1,700 precast Award Category: Winner: Big-D Construction concrete units, 175 bags of mortar and 4” x Renovation $2-5 Million Architect: Architectural Nexus 4” x 12” utility brick. Scope of masonry on Project Name: Radisson Hotel Renovation The Millcreek Community Center is a 64, the project was $1.8 million dollars. Winner: Cameron Construction 583 sq. ft. recreation center with library and Architect: Degen & Degen senior amenities that integrates a cohesive The $2.5 million Radisson Hotel project entity providing a space for all ages. The consisted of the renovation of 254 guest center was designed and constructed with a rooms, 12 corridors as well as the entire LEED certification of Gold and incorporates lobby. While the project itself was straight several sustainable design elements forward, the project schedule came with including the use of low SRI roofing its own distinct set of challenges. The materials, plumbing fixtures, solar panels entire project schedule allowed for 58 and geothermal walls which will assist in days for completion which ran through heating building water, construction waste the three biggest holidays of the year, management and emphasis on recyclable Award Category: Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. and low emitting materials. Renovation $2 Million Crews worked 20-hour days, 7 days a week, Project Name: Clearfield Care Center to successfully complete the project on Award Category: Honorable Mention: Pentalon Construction time. Through very close coordination Healthcare Under $5 million Architect: ACM Architects with the hotel management the hotel Project Name: Sugarhouse Medical >>

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Winner: Pentalon Construction Award Category: Specialty which houses the indoor pool facilities. The Architect: SL&A Architects Construction project was designed and constructed to Sugarhouse Medical is constructed of Project Name: Falcon Hill Phase 1 meet all Anti-Terrorism Force Protection dimensional wood framing over concrete Winner: R&O Construction (ATFP) requirements including blast slab on grade. The exteriors are comprised Architect: Architectural Nexus resistant windows, exterior door design, mainly of a hard coat stucco system. Falcon Hill is the first public-private roof access control, air intake locations, The facility was designed for medical/ partnership at Hill Air Force Base and the emergency air distribution shutoff, dental use totaling 7,000 SF. The project largest enhanced-use lease (EUL) project in equipment bracing, and mass notification. was completed early giving owners an the history of the United States Air Force. additional one month of revenue. The project is a five-story steel-framed office Award Category: building that includes site development and Industrial Over $5 Million complete interior finishes. The steel structure Project Name: Swire Coca-Cola has a curtain wall system with special blast Winner: Big-D Construction mitigation design. There is a footprint of Architect: Architectural Nexus approximately 24,000 SF which includes Big-D completed Swire Coca-Cola USA the basement level plus five additional additions to its corporate headquarters levels each approximately 25,000 SF. The warehousing and distribution center in Anti-Terrorism Force Protection facility was Draper. A 346,842 SF addition was added built with 30% more steel which controls a to an existing 402,577 SF facility. Project collapse, blast-proof glass, a window apron requirements involved working on an 87.63 and an 82-ft setback barrier with bollards to acre site while keeping the daily operations prevent crashes into the building. The facility of the facility uninterrupted. Major utility houses the Northrop Grumman Building, the services had to be relocated along with Award Category: Security Forces Squadron office building and upsizing one electrical service while adding Specialty Construction the West Gate House. a second electrical service. The facility is Project Name: MultiLing Tenant Build Out certified with LEED which was added to all Honorable Mention: Pentalon Construction 4 sides of the building that was originally Architect: Ken Harris Architects built in 1998. The MultiLing project was a Class A tenant improvement project located in the new Zions Financial Center in downtown Salt Lake. The project totaled 17,200 SF and was completed one month early.

Award Category: Specialty Construction Project Name: Tracy Aviary Visitors Center Honorable Mention: Big-D Construction Architect: ajc architects Tracy Aviary first opened to the public Award Category: in 1938 through a charitable act by its Institutional Under $5 Million founder, when he donated his private Award Category Industrial Project Name: St. Francis of Assisi bird collection to the city and its children. Over $5 Million Winner: R&O Construction This design-build project included new Project Name: 47th BCT Physical Fitness Architect: Sparano+Mooney education and guest services spaces, Facility, Fort Carson, CO Saint Francis of Assisi was constructed plazas, and extensive site work. The Honorable Mention: Creative Times, Inc. (CTI) for the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. building’s façade consists of patterned Architect: Architectural Nexus The project included a 1,000 seat chapel, metal panels contributing to the buildings CTI performed as the prime contractor pastoral offices, a gymnasium, kitchen and sustainable efforts. In addition, the panels on this $32 million design-build project classrooms for a total of 20,300 SF. Saint are one of several means used to reduce located at Fort Carson, Colorado. The Francis was constructed with a masonry bird death due to impact on the naturally 85,000 SF multi-story physical fitness exterior and a steel deck and wood roofing reflective glass. The panels provide a non- facility houses five different modules for system. What appear to be exposed wood organic pattern and literal block that is cardiovascular fitness, aerobic exercise, beams are actually pre finished laminate recognizable to birds as something not to climbing, racquetball, weight training, a panels stained to look like wood beams. fly in to or through. gymnasium, a theatre and a natatorium The church has unique curved wood

44 | UTAH CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN | Apr | May 13 ABC Utah Excellence in Construction Awards pews constructed by the Amish and was used throughout and on sunny days no The Village at the South Campus of BYU constructed as an old mission style church artificial lighting is necessary. The building University is the first of its kind. This new with arches and clay tile roof. also features many insulation techniques Provo Development is a mix of housing, that reduce heating and cooling loads. professional offices, commercial and retail Award Category: businesses. The village includes for a total Institutional Over $10 Million Award Category: of 371,686 SF and 190,000 SF of podium. Project Name: Utah Valley University Commercial Under $2 Million The parking deck is cast-in-place concrete Science Center Project Name: Rolex by OC Tanner capped by a post tensioned concrete podium Winner: Big-D Construction Winner: Big-D Construction that is the base of the building. The first Architect: GSBS Architects Architect: GSBS Architects level of each building is masonry and steel Big-D Construction recently completed Rolex by O.C. Tanner is a small construction with wood frame construction the new 160,000 SF, three- story academic project in terms of square footage but on levels 2 through 5. This project includes building at Utah Valley University. Within large and magnificent in terms of design 236 units and 500 parking stalls, which was the facility are 27 lab/classrooms, 18 lecture and finishes. This 760 square foot space roughly 50,000 cubic yards of material to be rooms, 400 seat auditorium, faculty offices, has close to $1 million dollars in finish Excavated. 14,000 cubic yards of structural 12 research labs, a human performance work. Rolex has selected approved backfill was brought onto the site and 628 lab, 2 anatomy labs, and support spaces manufacturers to build all Rolex specific tons of steel was needed. for teaching. A large 3-chamber glass casework and wall finishes. The casework greenhouse caps the building providing and wall manufacturer for the project Award Category: Commercial Over visual cues to the science and discovery was Redwood Interiors from Singapore. $5 Million/Multi-Family Housing mission of the project. The structure is Careful coordination with designers, Project Name: Sienna Villa Apartments steel with Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete fabricators and installers resulted in a Winner: Pentalon Construction and curtain-wall skin. BIM was used for unique scheduling approach that kept the Architect: Carpenter Stringham Architects mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire project on schedule. Big-D carpenters self- Siena Villas out of Orem is constructed protection and steel fabrication. performed 10% of the project including all on dimensional wood framing over concrete casework and wall panel installation and slab on grade. The exteriors of the 3 building concrete flatwork. project is comprised, complete of hard coat Stucco systems to incorporate the Italian Award Category: Commercial Over Architecture. With 81 residential units $5 Million/Multi-Family Housing the Siena Villa masses a total of 83, 670 SF. Project Name: Rendon Terrace Senior Housing Materials included finishes such as 9 foot Honorable Mention: Pentalon Construction ceilings, granite countertops, Ceramic tile Architect: Harold P. Woodruff Architects and Euro-style glass shower enclosures. The The Housing Authority of Salt Lake City exterior incorporated a technique of over- had the dream to re-develop a property grouting to give an aged, old world look. in the older section of Salt Lake at Capitol This project used green Energy Star efficient Hill and the Rendon Terrace was born of appliances. that dream. The project accommodates a 70-unit senior housing development. The Award Category: complex which sits on 2 acres is 72,000 Commercial Over $5 Million Award Category: square feet and comprised of one and Project Name: City Creek West Block Retail Commercial Under $2 Million two bedroom units. This project was Winner: IMS Masonry Project Name: Intermountain Bobcat constructed of dimensional wood framing IMS Masonry performed masonry Headquarters over concrete slab on grade with CMU stair work on City Creek’s entire west retail Honorable Mention: Hughes General towers. Brick façade, wainscot and hard block. IMS first faced the challenge of Contractors coat stucco system made up the exterior. providing a design that would comply Architect: Richardson Design Partnership This project was built under the compliance with the high category D seismic Intermountain Bobcat’s new for Energy Star rating and meeting requirements of a downtown structure. headquarters was constructed of exposed Enterprise Green Communities criteria. Due to complexity of the wall envelope, architectural tilt-up concrete with concrete the bricks were designed as structural walls, polished concrete floors and an Award Category: Commercial Over brick Veneer to sustain a need for 100 year exposed steel roof structure. All of these $5 Million/Multi-Family Housing life. It was critical to the overall success elements combined create an architectural Project Name: The Village at South Campus of the building envelope that thermal expression of durability like the equipment Honorable Mention: R&O Construction bridging and wall tie penetrations be it houses. Natural lighting techniques were Architect: Ken Harris Architects eliminated or drastically reduced. Rigid >>

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Masonry materials had to comply with the Award Category: ductile, drift requirements and multi-story Commercial Over $5 Million buildings. Earthquake design dictated that Project Name: U of U Conference Center each heavy precast concrete panel would and Guest House be incorporated into the brick walls which Honorable Mention: Big-D Construction would require unique support conditions. Architect: Jacoby Architects The structural brick veneer system was This project included adding a new designed like a precast concrete wall wing, fire line and paving for the 35,000 SF panel. The bricks became the form for the 4-story structure. The wing facilitates 51 grout and reinforcing. Special wall systems new guest rooms, a large meeting room, and details were developed to capture two stair towers, a new elevator and new the architectural charm while providing entrance for both new and existing meeting durability. rooms. Some challenges Big D faced was to overcome egress from the existing building which was to be maintained open during the entire Construction process. Some materials used were structural steel, concrete, wood The Ogden High School Historic framing, stone and masonry façade, curtain Renovation project was unique and walls and punch windows. The complete demanding. The team had the singular construction of this project was of high challenge of creating a structural quality and resulted in a nice finish. The renovation plan to increase the level of exterior stone and masonry added to the safety for the occupants while preserving appearance of the existing structure. the many historical elements both inside and outside. In 1936, the auditorium Award Category: Landscape portion of the building was constructed Project Name: West Valley City of unreinforced brick masonry walls with Fairbourne Station custom built steel trusses and metal deck Winner: Wadman Corporation for the roof. Extensive cracking, fading, Architect: GSBS Architects and water damage had occurred on the The West Valley City Plaza and ornate plaster, paint, and leafing. Decades Promenade at Fairbourne Station is a of deterioration resulted in significant Award Category: high traffic Utah Transit Authority TRAX damage, delaminating, and sagging of Commercial Over $5 Million hub. The plaza includes a performance the ceiling system. This extraordinary Project Name: Westminster On The Draw stage, hardscape and water features, building was in need of massive repairs, Honorable Mention: Big-D Construction and a large shade structure and lighting seismic upgrades, and restoration in order Architect: VCBO Architecture to accent the project. The project had to preserve its iconic nature and maintain Westminster’s 87, 439 SF, 7-story custom scopes of work that involved functionality. mixed-used project offers students specialized out-of-state subcontractors, Effective center coring of the walls housing, classrooms, restaurants which posed a scheduling challenge at produced significant savings over other and shops. The project schedule was times. Cast-in-place concrete vaults were seismic upgrade options. The real value exacerbated by the tightness of the site. constructed 40 feet underground as well was in preserving the artistry without The building and the garage were built as underground power lines running any damage whatsoever. Micro-piles were to the property limits on three sides and underneath both sides of the rail tracks installed using specialized equipment to unforeseen site conditions. Adjacent between the plaza and the promenade. The that could travel down the hallways in the owner preferences, adjacent simultaneous project transformed Fairbourne Station building instead of large drilling rigs. And, construction projects and weather were into a beautiful community plaza designed historic finishes on the auditorium walls all challenges that were faced. This college to accommodate daily public use and precluded conventional methods of seismic town model follows the growing national community oriented activities. reinforcing. Water could not be used for trend of building vital communities by any saw cutting of core drilling operations. integrating business districts and college Award Category: ABC Champion of Due to the brittleness of the slender brick campuses. Material used included concrete the Year & Historical Renovation walls, all holes had to be drilled without structural steel, wood framing, typical Project Name: Ogden High School percussion. Massive foundations, shear finishes, glass and handrail academic stair, Renovation walls, slabs, and beams were required in masonry façade, metals panels, curtain Winner: Hughes General Contractors several locations, but could not impact the walls and punch windows. Architect: Edwards & Daniels Architects historic finishes. n

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Top Architectural Firms < UC&D

Utah Construction & Design is pleased to publish a list of the Top Architectural Firms in Utah based on revenues generated in 2012 by a firm’s offices located in Utah. Projects outside of Utah that are billed to Utah-based offices were included. Firms who chose not to disclose revenues (DND) are ranked after revenue-disclosing firms in order based on number of employees. Every effort was made to contact respective firms and encourage their participation.

Firm Name Phone Year Est. Top Executive Years Largest Project from 2012 # Employees 2012 2011 2010 Top Markets % Address Website Title at Firm Largest Project in 2013 # Lic. Archs # LEED AP

FFKR Architects (801) 521-6186 1976 Roger Jackson 29 City Creek Underground Parking 110 $22.36 $18.25 $17.53 Civic/Inst. 33% 730 Pacific Ave. www.ffkr.com President Hartford, Conn. LDS Temple 42 Higher Ed 19% SLC, UT 84104 16 Comm/Retail 17%

Architectural Nexus (801) 924-5000 2003 Don Finlayson 17 Huntsman Cancer Hospital Ph. IIB 85 $21.8 $31.6 $19.4 Healthcare 29% 2505 Parley’s Way www.archnexus.com President Cornerstone at Cottonwood Corp. Center 31 Civic/Inst. 23% SLC, UT 84109 28 K-12 11%

MHTN Architects (801) 595-6700 1923 Dennis Cecchini 33 Utah Valley Convention Center 62 $16.9 $11.9 $14.5 K-12 35% 420 E. South Temple www.mhtn.com CEO University of Utah Student Life Center 27 Healthcare 25% SLC, UT 84111 13 Higher Ed 20%

VCBO Architecture (801) 575-8800 1973 Niels Valentiner 40 Tegucigalpa, Honduras LDS Temple 83 $16.85 $15.67 $14.39 K-12 25% 524 S. 600 E. www.vcbo.com President doTerra Global Corporate Campus 27 Higher Ed 20% SLC, UT 84102 16 Healthcare 15%

GSBS Architects (801) 521-8600 1978 Kevin B. Miller 23 UVU New Science Building 74 $15.8 $16.2 $13.1 Higher Ed 27% 375 W. 200 S. Ste. 100 www.gsbsarchitects.com President/CEO USU Huntsman School of Business 26 Office 26% SLC, UT 84101 35 Civic/Inst. 11%

CRSA (801) 355-5915 1975 Allen Roberts 37 Ogden High School Remodel 63 $11.2 $5.8 $5.2 Higher Ed 45% 649 E. South Temple www.crsa-usa.com President Confidential Client 11 Civic/Inst. 44% SLC, UT 84102 12 Industrial 6%

NWL Architects (801) 355-5959 1952 Ross L. Wentworth 22 Buenos Aires LDS Temple 45 $11.15 $9.31 $9.14 K-12 55% 336 S. 400 W. www.nwlarchitects.com President Hillcrest Jr. High School 16 Civic/Inst. 30% SLC, UT 84101 8 Higher Ed 5%

Think Architecture, Inc. (801) 269-0055 1980 James F. Allred 33 Cobblegate Senior Housing 33 $5.83 $4.56 $4.35 Multi-Fam 30% (ASWN + JSA) www.thinkaec.com CEO Silver Lake Resort 10 Civic/Inst. 15% 5151 S. 900 E. Ste. 200 (Rebranded 2012) 1 Office 15% SLC, UT 84117

Sandstrom Associates (801) 229-0088 1963 Stephen Sandstrom 26 Provo Peaks Elementary School 18 $2.8 $3.1 $2.9 K-12 90% 845 S. 220 E. www.sandstromarchitecture.com Principal Architect West Lehi Elementary School 4 Office 5% Orem, UT 84058 5 Comm/Retail 3%

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FFKR Architects (801) 521-6186 1976 Roger Jackson 29 City Creek Underground Parking 110 $22.36 $18.25 $17.53 Civic/Inst. 33% 730 Pacific Ave. www.ffkr.com President Hartford, Conn. LDS Temple 42 Higher Ed 19% A Look at the SLC, UT 84104 16 Comm/Retail 17% Numbers

Architectural Nexus (801) 924-5000 2003 Don Finlayson 17 Huntsman Cancer Hospital Ph. IIB 85 $21.8 $31.6 $19.4 Healthcare 29% 2505 Parley’s Way www.archnexus.com President Cornerstone at Cottonwood Corp. Center 31 Civic/Inst. 23% Gauging by 2012 revenues, Utah- based architectural firms are slowly SLC, UT 84109 28 K-12 11% crawling their way out of the ‘Great Recession’ that hit in 2009, or are MHTN Architects (801) 595-6700 1923 Dennis Cecchini 33 Utah Valley Convention Center 62 $16.9 $11.9 $14.5 K-12 35% maintaining the level of work they had 420 E. South Temple www.mhtn.com CEO University of Utah Student Life Center 27 Healthcare 25% from the previous two years. SLC, UT 84111 13 Higher Ed 20% UC&D’s inaugural ranking of Utah’s Top Architectural Firms includes 14 VCBO Architecture (801) 575-8800 1973 Niels Valentiner 40 Tegucigalpa, Honduras LDS Temple 83 $16.85 $15.67 $14.39 K-12 25% firms who disclosed annual revenues, 524 S. 600 E. www.vcbo.com President doTerra Global Corporate Campus 27 Higher Ed 20% and six firms who did not disclose. Our staff contacted nearly 50 architectural SLC, UT 84102 16 Healthcare 15% firms, including even small firms with just a single architect. We appreciate GSBS Architects (801) 521-8600 1978 Kevin B. Miller 23 UVU New Science Building 74 $15.8 $16.2 $13.1 Higher Ed 27% those firms who participated, and 375 W. 200 S. Ste. 100 www.gsbsarchitects.com President/CEO USU Huntsman School of Business 26 Office 26% encourage more firms to participate SLC, UT 84101 35 Civic/Inst. 11% next year. We believe it’s a good way for firms to supplement their CRSA (801) 355-5915 1975 Allen Roberts 37 Ogden High School Remodel 63 $11.2 $5.8 $5.2 Higher Ed 45% marketing and public relations efforts. 649 E. South Temple www.crsa-usa.com President Confidential Client 11 Civic/Inst. 44% Our readers are interested in this SLC, UT 84102 12 Industrial 6% information, many of whom are owners and key decision-makers. Regarding firms who disclosed NWL Architects (801) 355-5959 1952 Ross L. Wentworth 22 Buenos Aires LDS Temple 45 $11.15 $9.31 $9.14 K-12 55% revenues from last year, all but two are 336 S. 400 W. www.nwlarchitects.com President Hillcrest Jr. High School 16 Civic/Inst. 30% based in Salt Lake City, the exceptions SLC, UT 84101 8 Higher Ed 5% being Orem-based Sandstrom Associates and Murray-based PGAW. Think Architecture, Inc. (801) 269-0055 1980 James F. Allred 33 Cobblegate Senior Housing 33 $5.83 $4.56 $4.35 Multi-Fam 30% FFKR Architects moved into the top (ASWN + JSA) www.thinkaec.com CEO Silver Lake Resort 10 Civic/Inst. 15% spot with revenues eclipsing $22.3 5151 S. 900 E. Ste. 200 (Rebranded 2012) 1 Office 15% million, up more than four million from 2011. Architectural Nexus was SLC, UT 84117 close behind at $21.8 million, down considerably from the previous year, Sandstrom Associates (801) 229-0088 1963 Stephen Sandstrom 26 Provo Peaks Elementary School 18 $2.8 $3.1 $2.9 K-12 90% but almost $2.5 million ahead of 2010 845 S. 220 E. www.sandstromarchitecture.com Principal Architect West Lehi Elementary School 4 Office 5% revenues. >> Orem, UT 84058 5 Comm/Retail 3%

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Firm Name Phone Year Est. Top Executive Years Largest Project from 2012 # Employees 2012 2011 2010 Top Markets % Address Website Title at Firm Largest Project in 2013 # Lic. Archs # LEED AP

AE Urbia (801) 746-0456 2003 James M. Williams 10 Brick Canvas @ Thanksgiving Point 15 $2.67 $2.42 $1.63 Comm/Retail 20% 2875 S. Decker Lake Dr. #275 www.aeurbia.com President AIR SLC and Polynesian Marketplace 2 Multi-Family 20% SLC, UT 84119 2 Hospitality 20%

NJRA Architects, Inc. (801) 364-9259 1977 Selvam Rajavelu 22 Midvale Elementary School 14 $2.3 $2.3 $2.2 K-12 52% 370 E. 500 S. Ste 101 www.njraarchitects.com Stansbury Elementary School 5 Healthcare 43% SLC, UT 84111 4 Higher Ed 3%

PGAW, Inc. (801) 266-4669 1963 Art Pasker 50 Deseret Industries ñ Sugarhouse 14 $1.72 $2.17 $2.33 K-12 29% 5263 S. Commerce Dr. www.pgaw.net President C.R. England Transportation Office 8 Civic/Inst. 20% Murray, UT 84107 1 Office 20%

Dave Robinson Architects (801) 272-0242 1994 Dave Robinson 19 IMAT ñ Intermountain Healthcare 7 $550,000 $1.43 $870,000 Comm/Retail 80% 6465 S. 3000 E. Ste 102 www.daverobinsonarchitects.com President Centrepointe Building C 1 Industrial 15% SLC, UT 84121 1 Office 5%

Smith Hyatt Architects (801) 298-1100 1977 Thomas G. Smith 36 Bountiful Main Street 6 $410,000 $420,000 DND Multi-Fam 22% 845 S. Main St. www.smithhyatt.com President Orchard Pines Development 1 Comm/Retail 20% Bountiful, UT 84010 0 Healthcare 20%

Firms that Did Not Disclose Revenues (ranked by # of employees)

EDA Architects (801) 531-7600 1954 Peter Emerson 32 Ogden High School Restoration/Addition 30 DND DND DND Higher Ed 35% 9 Exchange Place Ste 1100 www.edaarch.com Principal Cottonwood Country Club 11 Sports/Rec 20% SLC, UT 84111 4 Office 15% ajc architects (801) 466-8818 1991 Jill Jones 22 Mesa Verde National Park VCR 20 DND DND DND K-12 30% 703 E. 1700 S. www.ajcarchitects.com President Petzl North American Headquarters 7 Higher Ed 30% SLC, UT 84105 5 Civic/Inst. 10%

Prescott Muir Architects (801) 521-9111 1976 Prescott Muir 37 N/A 14 DND DND DND Multi-Family 18% 171 W. Pierpont Ave. www.prescottmuir.com President N/A 4 Comm/Retail 18% SLC, UT 84101 Higher Ed 17%

Archiplex Group (801) 961-7070 2004 Ralph Stanislaw 9 Utah College of Applied Technology HQ 10 DND DND DND Civic/Inst. 20% 255 Crossroad Square www.archiplexgroup.com Principal UVU Geneva Fields 3 Higher Ed 15% SLC, UT 84115 1 Office 15%

JRCA Architects, Inc. (801) 533-2100 1982 James R. Child 30 Springville Library 8 DND DND DND Civil/Inst. 60% 577 S. 200 E. www.jrcadesign.com President Midvale Municipal Center 4 Healthcare 35% SLC, UT 84111 3 Industrial 5%

Eaton Architecture Inc. (801) 328-2982 2003 Robert J. Eaton 10 Little Folks Daycare; Navajo, NM 6 DND DND DND Education 48% 77 W. 200 S. Ste 302 www.eatonarch.com President 3 Comm/Retail 23% SLC, UT 84101 1 Civic/Inst. 20%

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Firm Name Phone Year Est. Top Executive Years Largest Project from 2012 # Employees 2012 2011 2010 Top Markets % The next two spots, Nos. 3 and 4, Address Website Title at Firm Largest Project in 2013 # Lic. Archs went to MHTN Architects and VCBO # LEED AP Architecture, who remarkably were AE Urbia (801) 746-0456 2003 James M. Williams 10 Brick Canvas @ Thanksgiving Point 15 $2.67 $2.42 $1.63 Comm/Retail 20% separated by a mere $50,000 – $16.9 million to $16.85. GSBS Architects was 2875 S. Decker Lake Dr. #275 www.aeurbia.com President AIR SLC and Polynesian Marketplace 2 Multi-Family 20% next at $15.8 million, down $400,000 SLC, UT 84119 2 Hospitality 20% from 2011. The next two firms were also NJRA Architects, Inc. (801) 364-9259 1977 Selvam Rajavelu 22 Midvale Elementary School 14 $2.3 $2.3 $2.2 K-12 52% separated by just $50,000. CRSA 370 E. 500 S. Ste 101 www.njraarchitects.com Stansbury Elementary School 5 Healthcare 43% disclosed earnings of $11.2 million, SLC, UT 84111 4 Higher Ed 3% while NWL Architects came in at $11.15. Think Architecture (a 2012 PGAW, Inc. (801) 266-4669 1963 Art Pasker 50 Deseret Industries ñ Sugarhouse 14 $1.72 $2.17 $2.33 K-12 29% merger between ASWN and JSA) was next at just over $5.8 million. 5263 S. Commerce Dr. www.pgaw.net President C.R. England Transportation Office 8 Civic/Inst. 20% From an employee standpoint, Murray, UT 84107 1 Office 20% FFKR has 110, followed by Nexus at 85, VCBO at 83 and GSBS at 74. MHTN, Dave Robinson Architects (801) 272-0242 1994 Dave Robinson 19 IMAT ñ Intermountain Healthcare 7 $550,000 $1.43 $870,000 Comm/Retail 80% which reported 62 employees, had 6465 S. 3000 E. Ste 102 www.daverobinsonarchitects.com President Centrepointe Building C 1 Industrial 15% the highest revenue-per-employee at SLC, UT 84121 1 Office 5% $272,580, just ahead of Nexus which came in at $256,470. Smith Hyatt Architects (801) 298-1100 1977 Thomas G. Smith 36 Bountiful Main Street 6 $410,000 $420,000 DND Multi-Fam 22% Of the firms who did not disclose revenues, EDA Architects has the 845 S. Main St. www.smithhyatt.com President Orchard Pines Development 1 Comm/Retail 20% highest number of employees at 30, Bountiful, UT 84010 0 Healthcare 20% followed by ajc architects at 20, and Prescott Muir Architects at 14. Firms that Did Not Disclose Revenues (ranked by # of employees) Some firms have shown remarkable consistency the past three EDA Architects (801) 531-7600 1954 Peter Emerson 32 Ogden High School Restoration/Addition 30 DND DND DND Higher Ed 35% years, highlighted by NJRA Architects, 9 Exchange Place Ste 1100 www.edaarch.com Principal Cottonwood Country Club 11 Sports/Rec 20% which reported $2.3 million, $2.3 million SLC, UT 84111 4 Office 15% and $2.2 million in 2012, 2011 and 2010. Sandstrom Associates has been within ajc architects (801) 466-8818 1991 Jill Jones 22 Mesa Verde National Park VCR 20 DND DND DND K-12 30% the $2.8 million and $3.1 million range 703 E. 1700 S. www.ajcarchitects.com President Petzl North American Headquarters 7 Higher Ed 30% the past three years. CRSA showed the SLC, UT 84105 5 Civic/Inst. 10% most significant growth, skyrocketing from $5.8 million in 2011 to $11.2 million in 2012 – a 93% jump. Prescott Muir Architects (801) 521-9111 1976 Prescott Muir 37 N/A 14 DND DND DND Multi-Family 18% Another interesting trend is 171 W. Pierpont Ave. www.prescottmuir.com President N/A 4 Comm/Retail 18% market sectors. Education is one of the SLC, UT 84101 Higher Ed 17% most critical markets to many firms. Of the top nine firms who disclosed Archiplex Group (801) 961-7070 2004 Ralph Stanislaw 9 Utah College of Applied Technology HQ 10 DND DND DND Civic/Inst. 20% revenues, six listed either K-12 or 255 Crossroad Square www.archiplexgroup.com Principal UVU Geneva Fields 3 Higher Ed 15% Higher Education as its top market, SLC, UT 84115 1 Office 15% which given Utah’s annually high birth rate isn’t completely surprising. Sandstrom Associates listed 90% of its JRCA Architects, Inc. (801) 533-2100 1982 James R. Child 30 Springville Library 8 DND DND DND Civil/Inst. 60% revenues from the K-12 market. Civic/ 577 S. 200 E. www.jrcadesign.com President Midvale Municipal Center 4 Healthcare 35% Institutional, Healthcare, Office and SLC, UT 84111 3 Industrial 5% Commercial/Retail were the other strongest markets for Utah firms. EDA Eaton Architecture Inc. (801) 328-2982 2003 Robert J. Eaton 10 Little Folks Daycare; Navajo, NM 6 DND DND DND Education 48% listed Sports/Recreation as its second 77 W. 200 S. Ste 302 www.eatonarch.com President 3 Comm/Retail 23% top market, with 20% of its revenues SLC, UT 84101 1 Civic/Inst. 20% coming from that segment. n

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