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A Quarterly Publication Winter 2010 from Layton Construction Company Uintah County Public Safety Complex www.laytonconstruction.com Vernal, Utah
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Let us join your team! The Mother of Invention Problem solving creates satisfied partners President/CEO David S. Layton Salt Lake City Paraphrasing 9090 S. Sandy Parkway the Greek Sandy, UT 84070 philosopher Plato (801) 568-9090 (428 BC-348 BC), “Necessity EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS … is the mother Pre-Construction David S. Layton Steve Bowers of invention.” Mike McDonough In the construc- Chris Smith tion industry, we owe a great deal Bryan Webb of our livelihood to the needs of our customers, working with them Phoenix to find feasible solutions for their (602) 840-8655 facility requirements. Sheriff Jeff Merrell of Uintah EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT County, Utah faced the need of Pre-Construction more space because his exist- Andrew Geier ing jail facility was unacceptably Irvine overcrowded. (949) 453-8300 Something had to be done. But with challenging economic times VICE PRESIDENT and budget shortfalls, how does an Tom Vegh elected county sheriff embark on Hawaii a plan to build a new correctional (808) 742-4161 facility? Layton Construction worked with He had the support of commis- officials from Uintah County (Utah) to Executive VICE PRESIDENT sioners who oversaw the county meet their current needs — and position pre-construction themselves well for the future. Will Summerhays budgets. They recognized the value of partnerships in a regional Boise economy. (208) 429-6740 And so began a project where serves many public agencies. Other local communities have taken the county officials joined the note, and see the benefit of coordinating with the county to have General Manager the use of courtrooms and other meeting facilities without having to Jeff Miller designers and builders to find the most efficient and effective construct their own buildings. Nashville ways to use the limited county Some basic management principles from this project are reflected in (615) 376-6217 resources, yet create a facility that the success of all Layton projects: would meet needs and improve • Listen to and understand the needs of the building owners vice president • Explore all options and study industry best practices Cris Bryant public safety efforts. The commissioners were willing • Interact with end-users of the facilities whose ideas may lead to maximized value and use A publication of The to make hard decisions in the Layton Construction short term for long-term benefits. • Ensure that there is respect among the team where all ideas are Company marketing The outcome is a jail with twice as heard and explored so that best designs and uses are discovered department many beds as originally envi- • Be flexible in addressing issues that arise during the construction Alan Rindlisbacher, Director process Chris Knoles, Manager sioned. Through thoughtful and Loni Morrey, Coordinator wise planning, we were able to • Understand that trust and unity must be developed among all add not only additional cells but team members in partnership with increase square footage with an We serve a wide variety of construction sectors and geographic re- Bennett Communications, Inc. additional floor. gions. Layton is prepared to listen and learn and contribute alongside www.bennettcommunications.net This public safety complex you for the success of your next construction project. 2 | FOUNDATION | Layton Construction Company LAYTON NEWS | NUTS & BOLTS
Harkins Theater remodel will bring dreams to life
Mesa Com- munity College has announced Mesa plans for a former Harkins theater that sits contigu- ous to the MCC campus. The theater occupies a prominent position along I-60 in Mesa, but has been vacant for years. The facility will be Jon M. and Karen Huntsman cut renovated and expanded to the ribbon at the dedication of include a 450-seat perform- the Karen H. Huntsman Library at ing arts theater. Budding MCC Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. performing arts students might realize their dreams in the renovated facility. Layton’s Arizona team will complete the Construction Management at A higher education Risk (CMAR) project. Design is Snow College dedicates 50,000-book research center currently under way. Layton Construction completed the 72,000-square-foot Karen H. Huntsman Library at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, which was dedicated in November 2010. The library houses more than 50,000 books and Layton employees 65,000 digital sources and features numerous study areas, wireless Internet access, two high-tech auditoriums and a café. The Jon M. and Karen Huntsman family contributed financially to the library and participated in go — extra miles the grand opening ceremonies. Two projects noted on this page of Foundation demon- strate the geographic span of projects under construction. It is clear: Layton team members Kauai Community Federal Credit Health Care Expansion Project are earning LEED® Gold certi- ® fications and airline frequent Union deposits LEED Gold Under Way in Pennsylvania flier Gold Medallion miles. Kauai Community Federal Credit Union in Hawaii Layton Construction has begun a significant Distance from Lihue, Hawaii, opened its new Kukui Grove West office in Novem- expansion at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital to Wilkes-Barre, Penn.: 4,917 ber 2010. in Wilkes-Barre, Penn. The project includes miles. Layton Construction built the two-story construction of a new 30,000-square-foot 21,396-square-foot facility. The branch has also emergency department, which will double the earned LEED® Gold certification, and is the first size of existing emergency facilities. Work also LEED®-certified bank or credit union in Hawaii. includes a 60,000-square-foot Heart and Vas- # The branch’s sustainable construction features cular Institute to enhance cardiac care services 5 include photovoltaic laminates on the roof to and an 18,000-square-foot rehabilitation unit convert the island’s sunshine to electricity and a renovation located in the existing hospital. Mountain West Capital Net- bioswale to absorb pollutants before storm water The construction project will be complete in works (MWCN) announced its runoff leaves the site. late 2012. annual “Utah 100” list of Utah’s fastest growing companies. Lay- ton was recognized as the fifth fastest growing company on the list of the top 15 revenue growth companies. Ascend Health Opens Salt Lake Behavioral Health Hospital “Companies can succeed in any industry in Utah if they are Layton’s Interior Construction Specialists has The five-story, 74,000-square-foot freestanding prepared to follow their vision, completed build-out of Ascend Health’s Salt Lake hospital features a full kitchen with a cafeteria to assemble the right resources Behavioral Health facility, a 118-bed inpatient meet the needs of both patients and visitors. A and make the sacrifices that are psychiatric hospital. Ascend Health is a leading beautiful lobby and overall hospital design that required to achieve economic behavioral healthcare provider offering a full features rich, warm colors and materials serve as success,” says John Knab, range of inpatient and day hospital services. an inviting welcome. MWCN director.
Layton Construction Company | FOUNDATION | 3 CLIENT PROFILE | Uintah County Public Safety Complex
In preparation for construction on the $43 million Uintah County Public Safety Complex, Layton Construction arranged visits to numerous other similar facilities, giving Uintah County officials a first-hand experience to what they could build.
The Foreseeable Future Uintah County Public Safety Complex meets needs for numerous agencies
he citizens and cies including the county attorney, emergency management, central officials in Vernal, dispatch, adult probation and parole and the Utah Highway Patrol. The Details Utah, have learned Uintah County Public the importance of MEETING THE need safety complex T sticking together to Using money from both mineral-release funds and a public bond, get things done. the Uintah County commissioners developed a complex that would Start Date April 2008 Being isolated does that. not just take care of current public safety needs, but would serve the Vernal is three hours from the county for years to come. Completion Date closest city of significant size For example, Uintah County had room for 54 inmates before the March 2010 (Salt Lake City). In fact, Vernal new jail was built, but the county was routinely called on to house as Total square footage is about three hours away from many as 120 inmates. The new jail can house up to 384 inmates. The 170,000 most places. surplus space enables the county to contract with other agencies to Cost This ingenuity and unity was house their inmates. $43 million especially important when then- Costs were kept down by using a pod system made up of precast Design new sheriff Jeff Merrell came to concrete cells shipped by rail from Georgia to Salt Lake City and then JWL Architecture & the county requesting a new jail. trucked to Vernal. Babcock Design Group When all was said and done, inmate beds Merrell — and the citizens of Working together 384 Uintah County — got a public In the spirit of teamwork, the various agencies involved in the pro- Other agencies located safety complex that includes a cess found efficient ways to get the project put together. in the complex County attorneys, emergency new jail, county courts, and ad- And it started with Kelly Hays. services, central dispatch, ministration offices that house Hays, the facility and construction manager for the county, was the adult probation and parole, a number of government agen- one point of contact to work with Layton Construction. Sure, others Utah Highway Patrol
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The WOW Factor
In March 2010, the county sponsored an open-house event that allowed 204 people to spend a night in the jail before inmates arrived. Amazingly, interest was so high that the county had to turn people away.
The complex has a new surveil- lance system that allows for more efficient monitoring of inmates. If I have a similar project in shared opinions regularly, but The results Layton’s team knew the buck “I’ve been told that 48 the future, I stopped with Hays. percent of sheriffs who build “absolutely and “Having one project manager new jails don’t get re-elected,” that coordinated with the other Merrell says. “With the help of without question departments helped streamline Layton Construction, we were would love to the whole process,” Hays says. able to present the project to “The commission realized the the public in a positive way.” work with these importance of having someone In fact, voters showed their minding the store.” appreciation for Merrell’s vision guys again. as well. They re-elected him by Kelly Hays Mutual respect a vote of almost 2-to-1. Facility and Construction Manager The process worked for Lay- “If I have a similar project Uintah County The jail was designed to meet ton as well. Communication in the future, I absolutely and the county’s needs now and was streamlined and decisions without question would love in the future. It includes a full ” were made quickly. Plus, as to work with these guys again,” laundry, kitchen and medical Note this time went on, those working on Hays says. center. the project developed genuine n The jail’s precast cells were constructed in Georgia and friendships fostered by respect. shipped to Utah via rail. The “It’s easy to work with Complex Numbers Tindall cells were also used friends,” says Ed Deffner, in Layton’s work on the The 170,000-square-foot safety complex includes: project manager from Layton Davis County Jail expansion project. Construction. “When you have n 6,800 cubic yards of concrete — enough to cover a football field with three feet of concrete. mutual respect, you can work n Each 13-by-7 foot prefabri- through issues easily.” n 110,000 blocks of masonry. cated unit contains two cells, Merrell appreciated the ex- each containing two bunks n 1,100 tons of steel, including 705 tons of structural steel. and a wall-attached desk and cellent communication between toilet. n 590 doors, 14 acres of drywall and 650,000 drywall screws. all parties as well. “After weekly meetings, I n A small tanker’s worth of paint and sealer (4,000 gallons). n Layton Construction has enjoyed that all minutes and done work in Vernal before, n Enough wire (170 miles) to go from Vernal to Salt Lake City. including completion of the details were e-mailed to me and n Another 50 miles of conduit. 70,000-square-foot Uintah to my jail commander. We al- Community Center that ways felt informed, even when n 25 miles of ductwork, piping and tubing. opened in the summer of I couldn’t be to the meeting.” 2008. Layton Construction Company | FOUNDATION | 5 PRECAST CONCRETE PANELS | CONCRETE CORNER
Using precast con- distribution facility in the Salt manufactured in a warehouse. crete panels enables Lake area. The panels of this The panels are thinner because Layton Construction building will stand as high as they are pre-stressed using to work efficiently through the winter. 10 feet and up to 35 feet wide. reinforcing cables installed Insulated metal wall panels will during the casting process. be placed atop the concrete to Architectural reveals are often take the walls to roof height. added on tilt-up concrete Due to the fast track panels to help control cracking, schedule of the project, the but fewer reveals are necessary precast option was chosen on precast panels because they to allow manufacture of the are pre-stressed. The regulated panels while the site was being temperature of the manufac- prepared. Usually, Layton’s turing facility also allows the concrete teams erect structures producer to include concrete using tilt-up concrete panels admixtures to increase the cast on site. The building’s ultimate strength of the con- concrete floor is placed, upon crete without worrying about which forms are set and tilt-up cold weather concrete curing panels are poured, cured and constraints. Other concrete lifted — or tilted — into place. placement variables are also In the case of this distribu- minimized so consistent color tion center, Layton crews were can be incorporated into the at the site excavating, plac- casting. The cured precast walls ing footings and foundation, can also be backfilled imme- Weather control while the concrete panels were diately after placement, which engineered and manufactured enhances jobsite safety and site Precast concrete panels enable at a production facility 28 miles accessibility. from the construction site. Layton’s subcontractor, building schedule flexibility The structural steel frame and Owell, operates an in-house the roof were constructed early Precast/Prestressed Concrete Winter unleashed its fury in the first couple of months of the season in the project and concrete wall Institute (PCI) quality control in the Salt Lake City area. Mountain ski resorts report November and sections were then attached, department to maintain and December snow totals at 265 inches — 22 feet! — and the Salt Lake created a controlled environ- assure the highest quality International Airport received nearly three feet of snow during the ment in which Layton crews industry standards. same two-month period. Lots of snow pays great dividends for Utah could focus on the placement Between the heavy and tourism, its ski resorts and for the newly opened five-star Montage of the distribution center’s frequent winter storms, con- Resort at Deer Valley just completed by Layton Construction. How- concrete industrial floor, the struction crews have been able ever, snow can wreak havoc upon the quality and timely placement of most critical element of the to erect the building’s 3,350 concrete. facility. To rapidly enclose the linear feet of concrete walls. When winter weather collides with commercial building construc- building, Layton’s construction The project is moving ahead tion, a variety of options to maintain a construction schedule are criti- team leaders described it as the because of the alternatives cal. Because of this year’s extreme conditions, precast concrete panels “rush to the roof.” made possible by using precast have helped enable the construction schedule of a 570,000 square-foot The concrete wall panels are concrete panels.
Employee Focus | Steve Shipley Despite being only 19 years old when he started Steve’s work has been steady as well. He’s worked working for Layton Construction in 1983, Steve on a number of high-profile jobs and been given the Shipley was already experienced in a number of freedom to find solutions to complex problems. His areas of construction. Since age 14 he’d been working work on Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of side-by-side with his dad, Dick, who himself would Utah is one of his favorites, especially because he was eventually work for Layton Construction. involved from demolition of the old stadium to punch- “I would work with him all summer doing what- list items on the new stadium. ever needed done,” Steve says. “When I started at Steve has also worked on Primary Children’s Medi- Layton, I was looking for an opportunity at a bigger cal Center in Salt Lake City and Rio Tinto Stadium in company.” Sandy, Utah. And he found what he was looking for. “There are so many projects that I enjoyed being a “The wages are fair, the people are fair and the work part of,” Steve says. “I especially enjoy the ones I get has been steady,” he says. “You can’t ask for more to see from the beginning to the end. There’s satisfac- than that in a construction job.” tion that comes from seeing the whole job through.” Steve Shipley
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Current-ly Doing Great Cache Valley Cache Valley Electric creates a spark when teamed with Layton Electric
Founded Steve Grant (left) and Scott Harrison were 1915 instrumental in getting the Uintah County Public Safety Complex running smoothly. Headquarters Logan, Utah
Type of Work Industrial and commercial electric
Employees About 1,000
High-profile JOBS WITH LAYTON BCS Warehouse (Salt Lake City)
USTAR Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building (Salt Lake City)
Palmdale Regional Medical Center (Palmdale, Calif.)
Corporate Office 875 N. 1000 West Logan, Utah 84321 (435) 752-6405 www.cve.com Building a state-of-the-art public Excellence.” A non-compromising commitment to excellence is what safety building has more complex has made Cache Valley Electric a national leader in fine electrical con- Other offices: Salt Lake City, electrical concerns than your nor- struction since 1915. Combine the company’s ability to do a masterful Portland and Boise mal commercial construction job. job with its team-first approach and there’s no doubt why Layton In addition to the regular electri- Construction enjoys working with Cache Valley Electric. cal work, there are security systems, “Relationships are very important to us at Cache Valley Electric,” There’s a video controls and other automa- says Allison Milne, director of marketing and new business develop- mutual respect tions required to make the jail area ment for Cache Valley Electric. “That’s how we market our business. safe, secure and efficient. You won’t see our ads in trade publications very often. We think the that we share For the work Layton Construc- best way to build our business is to build solid relationships with “with Layton that tion did at the Uintah County contractors and owners.” makes working Public Safety Complex in Vernal, Cache Valley builds relationships by exceeding service expectations. Utah, the company relied on an old For example, Cache Valley offered initial training on the equipment together enjoy- partner — Cache Valley Electric. in the Uintah County Public Safety Complex as described in the con- able, and that “We’d worked with the same tract. However, Scott continues to travel to Vernal to solve problems design team on two other projects and make sure all systems are working and that the staff understands gets tremendous that were similar to this one,” what should be happening. results for proj- says Scott Harrison, controls and Cache Valley Electric is made up of five divisions (electrical con- ect owners. We automation project manager with struction, teledata, Avtec, technology services, and service/specialty Cache Valley Electric. Cache projects), which gives the company the chance to utilize specialized share values of Valley Electric had also previously experts in each area of electrical work. The company invests in hiring doing things the worked on the Cache County and training the best technicians who know what’s best for clients. (Utah) complex and the Sanpete “With this project in particular, there has been a real team feel,” says right way. County (Utah) complex. Steve Grant, electrical construction division project manager with — Allison Milne Cache Valley Electric has thrived Cache Valley Electric. “I’m not a security expert, but Scott is. We each Director of marketing and on the motto, “A Tradition of had our area of strength, and we did our job.” new business development
Layton Construction Company | FOUNDATIO”N | 7 INDUSTRY TRENDS | What they’re saying
Total Construction Starts Annual Percentage Change West National 14% 14% 13% 12.0 12% 8% 8% 8% 5% 4.0 2% 2% 3% 0%
-3% -2% -6.0 -7% -10% -13% -16.0
-23% -24% -24%
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Source: McGraw-Hill Construction; National: Annual Percentage Change for Dollar Volume of Total Construction Starts; West: Annual Percentage Change for Total Construction Starts
Construction Industry ConfidenceI ndex (CICI) General Contractors/Construction Managers/ National Commercial Construction Forecast 2011 Engineer-Constructors Contract value ($ billions)
Declining Stable Improving TYPE OF 2010 2011 % Change CONSTRUCTION Preliminary Forecast 2011/2010 2% 12% Stores & Shopping Centers 12.3 13.9 14 26% 46% Office Buildings 15.4 17.3 13 63% 50% Hotels & Motels 3.2 3.6 13 Other Commercial Buildings 8 10.1 25 Manufacturing Buildings 8.5 9.3 9 72% 46% Educational Buildings 44.1 43.6 -1
33% 38% Healthcare Facilities 21.1 22.9 9 Other Institutional Buildings 38.4 36.2 -6 4% 8% Currently 3-6 Months 12-18 Months 3 Years Source: ENR, 3rd Quarter, 2010 Source: McGraw-Hill Construction Outlook 2011
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