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Table of Contents

Features

24 WSU Lindquist Hall Complex restoration stripped original 24 structure at Weber State University in Ogden down to original double-T precast columns before transformation into state-of the-art educational facility.

28 Wallace Bennett Building T.I. $12.3 million renovation for GSA

provides exciting new home for 220 USDA employees.

32 Super Size The largest precast concrete girders in Utah's

history ? an eye-popping 203 ft. each ? were recently placed on

the I-15 Tech Corridor project in Lehi.

36 Sustainability/Green Building ULI's Grayson talks

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`The Business Case for Healthy Buildings'.

38 AGC of Utah 97th Annual Convention Utah's largest association enjoying prosperous times across the state with 500+ members.

40 2019 Economic Outlook University of Utah economist Natalie Gochnour says Utah's economy is diverse and solid

46 UMC 2018 Excellence in Masonry Awards Troy Hales Masonry earns top awards for work on Q90 in Payson.

50 Paving a Road to Success A record 1,100 people attended the two-day 2019 Conference for the Utah Asphalt Paving

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Association, illustrating UAPA's growing presence in the state.

52 A/E/C Profiles Bup Minardi has carved out a unique niche in the heavy equipment world the past 15 years with Mountain Regional Equipment Solutions.

On the cover: Workers place giant 203 ft. long precast concrete girders ? the largest precast beams in state history ? on the I-15 Tech Corridor project in Lehi. (photo by Don Green Photography)

Corrections: The December 2018 issue of UC&D did not give proper credit to Mechanical Service & Systems, Inc. (MSS) for work performed on Mountain View Village (2018 Most Outstanding Commercial/Retail Project). Also, Van Boerum & Frank Associates (VBFA) was not recognized for work that they performed on One Empire Pass (2018 Most Outstanding Hospitality/Resort Project) and Intermountain Healthcare Alta View Hospital Campus Reconfiguration (Most Outstanding Large Healthcare Project). We regret the oversight and congratulate MSS and VBFA on their contributions and success as part of these winning projects.

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MACU HQ Dazzles South End of SL Valley

Been on I-15 through the southern end of the Salt Lake Valley lately?

If not, you haven't seen the new 11-story, 327,000 SF Mountain America Credit Union (MACU) headquarters, an impossible-to-miss, modern high-rise in Sandy City's Cairns District (think downtown). What sets this building apart is its glass curtain wall system, a dynamic, one-of-a-kind exterior that rivals any glass building in the state, or elsewhere, for that matter.

The 106,000 SF unitized curtain wall system was designed by Salt Lake-based Steel Encounters, Inc. (along with international firm Euro-fa?ade Tech), fabricated by Steel Encounters, and manufactured by Oldcastle Building Envelope.

The four-sided structural glazed system required no exterior metal, allowing the glass to read more `flat and true', offering ultimate reflectivity, the ability to mitigate glare and heat gain, while reducing noise from highway traffic on I-15. All of those were critical factors in meeting ? even exceeding ? the owner's requirements.

I took a tour of the building in December with architects Marbe Agee and Amber Lake of method studio, along with Chris Tapia with MACU, and it is indeed a mind blower! Panoramic views from the upper floors, and exterior views from even the innermost core areas. Most employee workstations are located on perimeters, with offices toward the middle. Top executives on the top floor have nice offices, but only President/CEO Sterling Nielsen has the proverbial `corner office' on the 11th floor ? as well he should, being the leader of the second largest credit union in Utah (ranked in the Top 20 in the U.S.) with a reported $7.5 billion in assets, 740,000 members, and 90-plus branches.

It's amazing to see the level of detail designers put into so many seemingly minute details ? well, minute to the average person who doesn't consider columns integrated into corners before final drywall is done, support backs on chairs lining up with window mullions so as to not obscure clean lines and views, cabinets with trash bins having the base attached, and many other fine details that came about via thorough extensive client interviews and surveys during programming phase.

It's a building worth seeing up close, and no doubt many will get that opportunity given its location next to Hale Center Theatre (MACU is graciously sharing its mammoth 1,743-stall above-ground parking structure (after normal business hours) with the theater patrons, and the local community in general. MACU's cafeteria is definitely worth checking out, a space with a variety of hip seating options for future Millennial and Gen Z workforces (Agee pointed out that an estimated 20% of the workforce will be Gen Z by 2020).

This issue of UC&D (you're getting a double dose of our publication to close out an extraordinarily busy and productive 2018, so enjoy the early year reading!) also looks at the timeless Salt Lake City and County Building restoration, as well as Intermountain Healthcare's newest $164 million hospital in Layton. Other content includes ACEC Utah's annual awards, AIA Utah's new headquarters in downtown Salt Lake, Construction Law, and Design Trends in the resort/hospitality market.

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Ritchie Group Gearing Up for `West Quarter' Groundbreaking in May

Plaza on State Street in the works; Downtown convention hotel discussed; Big-D Acquires Boise-based GC; Provo City Center Temple earns national ACI award.

Speaking to a group of ULI Utah young professionals February 20 at the AC Hotel in Salt Lake City, Ryan Ritchie said difficult lessons learned during the recession beginning in 2007-08 helped shape the development approach of The Ritchie Group of Salt Lake City, as the firm readies itself for the groundbreaking in May of Phase I of its ambitious ? and long-awaited - development on Block 67 in downtown Salt Lake City.

Ritchie, a Principal with the 46-yearold firm, said the project is being dubbed `The West Quarter', a 6.83-acre mixeduse development that he said will bring a new vibe to Salt Lake with a dynamic mix of residential, hotel, office and retail properties adorning one of the more coveted pieces of real estate in the downtown area.

"It's an amazing piece of land, and the way it's being designed it will be a key connector to the west side," said Ritchie, whose firm was selected by Block 67 owner Ted Mitchell, who had purchased the property as a 1031 investment in 1986. The two sides negotiated a 99-year lease signed in December 2016, and The Ritchie Group has been patiently wading through myriad red tape challenges the past year. Phase I (Block A) will include an 11-story residential tower, with Block B featuring a dual-branded hotel by Marriott ? Loft and Element. Salt Lake-based Jacobsen Construction is the general contractor.

"This is transformative real estate," he said, displaying a distinct excitement about the project, particularly in describing an 85,000 SF section of street level retail ? an eclectic mix of restaurants and shops ? on

Rendering of the `West Quarter' development on Block 67 in downtown Salt Lake, an ambitious multi-phase project slated to break ground in May that developer Ryan Ritchie said promises to revolutionize the social fabric of the entire neighborhood near Vivint Smart Home Arena. (courtesy The Ritchie Group)

Overhead perspective of `West Quarter' development that will build out over the next 5-7 years in downtown Salt Lake.

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a winding, permeable, pedestrian-auto street called `Quarter Row' ? with curb-less sidewalks and slot drains, in the same vein as the recently renovated Regent Street, with its own unique feel.

"We're trying to bring that type of environment, have it be part of a future sports entertainment district in Salt Lake City," he noted, with its location directly across from Vivint Smart Home Arena. Phase I is a planned 26-month construction schedule, with Phase II slated to begin immediately after completion. Other aspects of the project will include a 20-story residential tower, a second dual-brand 300key hotel, a 450,000 SF office tower and a 20,000 SF neighborhood grocery store.

As a company, he said The Ritchie Group was founded in 1973 by his father, James Ritchie, and specialized for years in subdivision developments, with a portfolio of more than 10,000 lots over 30 years in 13 states.

In 2003, Ritchie said the company started to diversify, and they looked at investing in the Branbury Apartments in Orem, a 380-unit property. Ultimately they did not invest, and instead began working on a high-end resort project called Koloa Landing at Poipu Beach, a 323-unit luxury condominium resort project on Kauai's south shore. It took three years to get through various entitlement processes, so when the recession starting affecting the market by 2007, the project "didn't transpire as we had planned," Ritchie said, although having good capital partners allowed them to ultimately complete the project, and he said last year it's "in the black" for the first time. Meanwhile, the Banbury project would have yielded significant gains during that same period, possibly tripling in value from $20 million to $60 million.

"It's hard to predict future markets," he said. "It was a great lesson for us. We learned that we want to be in the types of real estate driven by shelter, food, and need ? demand-driven property. No matter what the economy is like, people will need that service."

The Ritchie Group has several other projects in its Utah portfolio, including Element 31 (208-unit multi-family housing) in

the Brickyard area of Salt Lake, Midtown 360 (9-story mixed-use development with 286 completed apartment units, 60,000+ SF of retail) in Orem and The Rivulet in American Fork (252-unit multi-family).

TRAX to Lehi, Mt. View Corridor Extension Being Discussed

According to a report released in January by Envision Utah's Point of the Mountain Development Commission, a $2.5 billion transportation funding plan has been created that will be a critical catalyst in aiding future development from Sandy to Lehi, particularly the Point of the Mountain area straddling the line between Salt Lake and Utah Counties, which includes the 700acre site of the current Utah State Prison in Bluffdale.

The two biggest projects include an extension of UTA's TRAX Blue Line from its current terminus in Draper to Lehi, and the expansion of Mountain View Corridor. Combined, the projects could surpass $3 billion, a sizeable figure.

The area is already hailed for being part of Utah's dynamic `Silicon Slopes' area ? a major catalyst for job growth in the past decade (accounting for approximately 40% of new jobs in the state since 2009), and once the prison is relocated and demolished, it will represent the last significant piece of new developable land in Salt Lake County.

The Commission includes a plethora of stakeholders, including local cities and towns, the Governor's Office of Economic Development, EDCUtah, Salt Lake and Utah Valley Chambers, and existing employers in the area (Adobe, eBay, among others), all of whom have big visions on how this vital property will be developed over the next quarter century.

Two major transportation projects will provide key infrastructure. UTA is investing $800,000 into a yearlong study to determine the best alignment for extending the TRAX Blue Line south from its current terminus in Draper to Lehi. The study will focus on capital and operating costs for a west side or an east side alignment. Current UTA estimates have the east route at $850-$900 million; the west route has a $1.2-$1.3 billion estimate.

Envision Utah is on the third phase of the project, which focuses on public and private funding, along with breaking down costs associated with the different aspects of the vision.

Chicago Firm to Develop `Plaza on State Street'

The evolution of downtown Salt Lake City took another positive step forward recently with the demolition of a project that was abandoned in 2015 at 255 South State, making way for a proposed 14-story mixed-use complex with apartments, retail space and a swanky European-style plaza, titled `Plaza on State Street'.

Salt Lake City's Redevelopment Agency (RDA) purchased the property from Citibank for $4 million in October 2017 (which had repossessed the property two years previously) and is spending an estimated $380,000 to demolish the existing steel and concrete structure.

Once the site has been cleaned up and all construction materials recycled, an appraisal will be used as a basis for RDA to negotiate a sale to Brinshore, a real estate developer from the Chicago area that was selected from a list of nine firms interested in developing the property.

Brinshore's proposal calls for a residential tower with a mix of regular and low-income apartments and rooms for people with disabilities, in addition to retail space on the ground floor.

The RDA also awarded a contract to Brinshore to build a 200-unit mixed-income multi-family project at 1500 West North Temple in Salt Lake.

Construction Costs, Wages Continue to Rise Nationally

Construction costs rose for the 28th consecutive month in February, according to a report March 1 from Ken Simonsen, Chief Economist for the Associated General Contractors of America that referenced information from IHS Markit and the Procurement Executives Group.

Specifically, the report said that "materials and equipment prices rose in February...with price increases recorded in eight of 12 subcomponents. Steel had >>

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weak to flat pricing; inflation-adjusted GDP increased 2.6% at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2018, following a 3.4% gain in Q3.

Wages per hour are also climbing nationally, rising faster than inflation, a result of subcontractors competing in a highly competitive landscape and bidding

on less jobs. Another trend to watch is developers creating their own contracting arms as a way of mitigating project costs.

Downtown Convention Hotel Proposal Approved

The State of Utah's Governor's Office of Economic Development approved a

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proposal late last year for a new $337 million downtown convention centerstyle hotel project, a massive 325 ft. tall, 680,000 SF development that will includes 700-plus rooms, more than 60,000 SF of meeting space and outdoor rooftop amenities.

Located at 200 South West Temple, it will connect directly to the Salt Palace Convention Center. GOED Executive Director Val Hale said the project has been discussed for a number of years, and will be a joint venture between St. George-based real estate developer DDRM, and Portman Holdings, an Atlanta-based real estate development and management firm.

The project will help lure larger, more economically lucrative national conventions and conferences to Salt Lake City, and will likely break in the fall of 2019, with a planned completion sometime in 2022.

Cottonwood Mall Development Battle Could Spawn New Laws

The site of old Cottonwood Mall remains an eyesore, and will continue to remain undeveloped until unhappy Holladay residents and the developers reach an agreement, after residents voted to not approve zoning changes for the 57acre site, which the Utah Supreme Court upheld.

Woodbury Corp. and Ivory Homes are partners in developing the property, with Ivory wanting to build 775 high-rise apartments, more than 200 town homes, and dozens of retail shops and restaurants in a fun, walk-able community.

HB119 is being sponsored by Rep. Brad Daw, R-Orem, to address concerns among many businesses about future referendums that could stunt future developments like this. Leaders of the Salt Lake Chamber are lobbying legislators to make changes in the law.

Salt Lake Chamber executives have stated that zoning by voter referendum is a not a practical or logical answer to approving future development projects.

Another referendum that challenged a student housing project in Orem near Utah Valley University did not pass.

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Big-D Acquires Boise-based McAlvain Companies

Big-D Construction, headquartered in Salt Lake City, recently acquired Boisebased McAlvain Companies, Inc., a prominent Idaho general contractor that was founded in 1980.

McAlvain Companies will continue to be headquartered in Boise, and will operate with the same name and local management team, including Torry McAlvain as CEO (his father Doug founded the company) and Chuck Graves as President.

"Everyone here at McAlvain is extremely excited about this important new phase in our company's history," said McAlvain. "We have strategically aligned ourselves with a company that is a perfect fit with our family culture and core values. It ensures that we will continue to build on the successes that our employees

have provided for us and deliver new opportunities for both our self-performing and construction services divisions. Combining our strengths and aligning our resources with Big-D will reinforce best-inclass customer services and accomplished construction project delivery teams."

Since it was founded in 1980, McAlvain has left its mark on Southern Idaho and the Mountain West via hundreds of unique projects, especially in its most robust markets: Commercial, Industrial, Institutional, Mixed-Use, and Water/Renewable Water Infrastructure.

GOED, UAC Plan `Opportunity Zones' The Utah Governor's Office of

Economic Development (GOED) announced that the Utah Association of Counties (UAC) has been chosen to spearhead `Utah Opportunity Zone' planning and implementation.

UAC will work with GOED in partnership with the Sorenson Impact

Center and Patrick Mullen, a consultant, to help ensure that capital from Opportunity Funds are targeted to Opportunity Zones, including those in rural and underserved communities, throughout the state. UAC and Sorenson's responsibilities will be threefold: engaging and educating rural communities housing Opportunity Zones, developing marketing content and strategies for Opportunity Zone economic development, and connecting local officials and stakeholders with prospective investors.

GOED will utilize UAC and Sorenson's expertise to assist local communities in creating and packaging Opportunity Zone investments for nationwide investors. A GOED grant will be used to fund Mullen's involvement.

"We look forward to working with Patrick, the Utah Association of Counties and the Sorenson Impact Center. The partnerships and alignment of resources will be very beneficial to our rural >>

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communities," said Ginger Chinn, GOED managing director of urban and rural business services.

In Utah, 46 zones were designated as Opportunity Zones, 19 of which are in rural communities. These zones represent areas that are prime for potential investment.

"We have tremendous opportunity to drive significant economic development in our state," said Adam Trupp, Utah Association of Counties CEO. "UAC stands ready and able to work with county economic development directors and others in their efforts to attract business, create jobs and generate positive investments in our counties."

Provo City Center Temple Earns International ACI Recognition

Adding to a lengthy list of local and national honors, the Provo City Center Temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints earned First Place in the Repair & Restoration category for the American Concrete Institute's (ACI) 2018 Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards.

"To be recognized internationally among some of the best of the best throughout the world--contractors who take on some of the most difficult, if not almost impossible projects -- truly is an honor for Jacobsen Construction," said Jacobsen Project Executive Kirk Dickamore. "But it goes even deeper. To take this fire-destroyed tabernacle from a condition that was only worth being torn down and to repurpose and rebuild it into a magnificent, beautiful temple is symbolic of the hope each person can have to rebuild their own life following difficult setbacks."

Concrete mix designs on the project were changed to achieve better concrete placement and an improved finish footing slab. This mix design was also used to strengthen the slab-on-grade.

The project got high marks for innovation, including placing the 6.8 million-pound existing structure on 40-foot-high stilts, about as complex of a process as construction gets.

"The contractors and architects (had)

Salt Lake-based Jacobsen Construction was presented with a 2018 `Excellence in Concrete Construction' award from the American Concrete Institute, First Place in the Repair & Restoration category for the Provo City Center Temple. (courtesy Jacobsen Construction)

worked on similar situations where they have done underpinning, but not at this scale and this height," said LDS Church Project Manager Andy Kirby. "The design of this was a process between the architect, our design team, the structural engineers and the contractors. We came up with multiple options, vetted those out, and then brought on the shoring contractor, and they improved it."

Throughout this project, crews had to meet very tight concrete requirements. Quality and consistency levels were achieved by controlling mix designs with

different admixtures and properties of constituents. Concrete pours averaged 6,010 PSI on a 4,000 PSI design, with 7.5 lbs of macro-synthetic fibers. (The team achieved a standard deviation of 530, which aligns with ACI's standard deviation criteria.)

"A first place award from ACI is high praise for this very complex renovation project -- one that literally rose from the ashes," said Jacobsen President Doug Welling. "The skill, collaboration and ingenuity of our workers is now internationally recognized." n

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