Adventure Forest at the Children’s Museum of Denver The Challenge The Children’s Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus added the Adventure Forest as part of an expansion plan to create an outdoor play area. This 500-foot-long aerial course includes climbing, rope swings, bridges, 70-foot slides, a bird’s nest, and a look-out point set at an […]
Sky Ridge Medical Center The Challenge One major hurdle of installing new utilities at Sky Ridge Medical Center is that the ground is already full of utilities. The solution was to construction a new Utility Bridge that stands over 36 feet tall and extends approximately 160 feet between the Central Utility Plant building and the
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Buffalo Trail Elementary The Challenge Oftentimes the challenge with any school project is the schedule – these projects must be started after school lets out in the spring and completed before school starts up again in the fall. With the structural slab replacement at Buffalo Trail, this urgency had no flexibility. This was a structural
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2013 Left hand canyon flood The Challenge In September 2013 Left Hand Creek experience a major flash flood event which created massive debris flows down Left Hand Canyon and caused rapid and extensive realignment of the creek channel north of Boulder. In some locations, the channel relocated thousands of feet to one side or the
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1031 & 1075 Santa Fe Hyder Construction & Colorado Ballet The Challenge DRS had the pleasure to work on these two renovation projects – the south side addition and renovation of 1075 Santa Fe (the new headquarters of the Colorado Ballet) and the awesome renovation of the historical Amick building at 1031 Santa Fe.
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Evergreen Dental The Challenge In a nutshell: fill over sand over gravel underlain by granite with shallow groundwater (that turned out to be flowing rapidly) – – – and a tight budget. Simple Enough: we proposed to install and test one pre-production hollow bar micropile. Well, simple enough until we found the groundwater was
Red Rocks Amphitheater The Project Red Rock Amphitheater is a historic and iconic open-air music venue built in the 1930’s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. After almost 75 years of operation and maintenance the lower portion of the Amphitheatre seating had experienced settlement resulting in pour drainage as well as a less than desired appearance
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