The Publication for N Colorado State Employees TIO U TIT UNION AND S N O C July/August 2004 Published by the Department of Personnel & Administration • www.colorado.gov /dpa/stateline Email:
[email protected] CAPITOL LIFE SAFETY PROJECT UNDERWAY BY PHIL DROZDA, DPA INTERN If you’ve been by the Capitol recently, you may work in the third floor offices and chambers due for have noticed the scaffolding next to the building’s completion in December 2004. Future floors will be outside walls. Upon entering the Capitol, you completed during the off sessions over the next would have found more scaffolding, hard hat-only several years. zones, and a closed off third floor: all evidence of the Capitol Life Safety Project. An initiative On the cutting-edge of construction design and ODERNIZING managed by the Department of Personnel & technology when it was built in the 1890s, the M Administration and Capitol was widely COLORADO’S funded through grants thought to be fireproof. provided by the The building followed CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM Colorado Historical the convention that all of BY GOVERNOR OWENS Society, the project is a its stone, brick, plaster, complex and concrete and wrought In June, I signed a bill that opens the door for sophisticated plan iron (all materials that do voters to modernize Colorado government. designed to upgrade the not burn) would protect Although Colorado has moved strongly into the building’s fire alarm and it from any serious fire 21st century in so many ways – from education to protection systems and damage. The designers technology to transportation – our civilservice improve building-wide also believed that system has been stuck in 1918.