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FALL 2016

HOTELS HOSPITALITY ROUND-UPHOTELS HOSPITALITY ROUND-UP

FEATURE: THE SOURCE HOTELFEATURE: THE SOURCE HOTEL

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06| Publisher’s LetterMike Branigan

08 | Construction NewsOn The Boards

11 | Construction NewsGood Works

12 | Construction NewsProject Updates

16 | Construction NewsIndustry News

20 | Construction NewsPeople

26 | Hospitality Round Upby Sean O’Keefe

38 | Monroe & Newell Engineers Inc.25 Years of Making Dreams Come True

40 | Boutique Hotel in RiNoby Julie Wanzer

48 | ColumnistsConstruction Law, CCIG, ACEC, ULI, AIA, Ready2ACT, RTD

58 | AGC ColoradoInside AGC

66 | Parting ShotsIndustry Events in Colorado

70 | Advertiser IndexCC&D Partners

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On the cover: Denver Botanic Gardens Science Pyra-mid was built to house special exhibitions and interac-tive displays rooted in the relationship between people,plants and the environment. This complex, 5,258-square-foot structure – a design-build project involvingGH Phipps Construction Companies; BURKETTDE-SIGN, Inc., and Studio NYL Structural Engineers – fea-tures an exterior covered in honeycomb-shaped panelsmade of the cementitious composite panel materialcalled Swisspearl. Light-sensitive electro-chromic glassis installed on a swath down the middle of the pyramidand in windows and skylights.

Cover Photograph © Frank Ooms

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The River North Art District, colloquially referred to as RiNo, has received ample attention as of late with OZ Architecture’s

latest release of a rendering that exemplifies the visionof what RiNo will look like in 2020. Brighton Boulevardtakes center-stage for this development with a mix of adaptive re-use projects and new construction. Per JLLResearch’s Horizon 2016 Report, RiNo is a substantialinvestor area of focus and highlights Denver as the nation’s second largest concentration of hotel supplyunder construction.

The Source Hotel

Boutique Hotel EnliveningBrighton Blvd in RiNo by Julie Wanzer

LEED AP

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“The biggest challenge on this project is thelogistics because we’re on such a tight site.We have to be very strategic about staging.”

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The Source Hotel

One of these new construction hospitality projects includesThe Source Hotel, an 88,226 SF, eight-story hotel that willconnect to the existing retail hub, also called The Source. KyleZeppelin, principal of Zeppelin Development, one of the mainpartners of 3330 Brighton Blvd, LLC, the named developer ofthe hotel project, comments, “The success of The Source created the momentum for us to offer a 24-hour experience,which includes a 100-room hotel and an expanded markethall of accomplished, independent culinary producers.” Whenasked about how the development team determined thatRiNo was ready for a boutique hotel, Kyle responded, “RiNohas emerged as a hotbed of innovation, attracting the biggestconcentration of high-tech and creative business, surroundedby the state's largest art district and a center for new generation retail and food and beverage.”

The project team for The Source Hotel includes the following:• Contractor: Alliance Construction Solutions• Design Architect: Dynia Architects• Architect of Record: gkkworks• Structural Engineering: KL&A• MEP Engineer: M.E. Group• Electrical Contractor: Berg Electric• HVAC: Hytek Air• Plumbing Contractor: Utal Mechanical

Russell Clark, Alliance’s Project Manager for The SourceHotel, commented, “We built a qualified team where we holdeach other accountable. To me, we can’t do our job withoutour subcontractors.”

L to R: CCD Reporter Julie Wanzer, Superintend-ent Jeff Noffsinger, Project Manager RussellClark & Project Engineer Flinn Fowler on-site.

Foundation walls are currently going in on TheSource Hotel site.

PM Russell Clark demonstrates how each boardrepresents one-week in the Last Planner® system used on the site.

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With an average of 45 workers on-sitecurrently, ramping up to about 100 workers once finishes are being addedin, technology plays an important factorto keeping all parties up to date on theconstruction progress. Per Mr. Clark, Al-liance is utilizing PlanGrid for documentcontrol with RFI’s (Requests for Informa-tion) posted directly on the drawings. Theteam is also making use of Raken – adaily reporting system that functions inreal-time where users can post progresspictures, check on the weather reportand verify the number of man-hourslogged to date. All Alliance employeeshave iPads on this job with about 60%-70% of the subcontractors using iPadsdaily with access to PlanGrid.

Despite the proliferation and advance-ments in technology, construction is stillvulnerable to challenges that need to besolved by actual people. One such obstacle The Source Hotel project teamencountered was that the bedrock wasnot at elevation as shown on the soils report; it was actually 5 – 6 feet deeper.Due to the further depth, new rebar hadto be brought on-site. This delivery ofnew materials at first may seem trivial inthe long run, but according to Alliance’sStructural Superintendent, Jeff Noff-singer, “The biggest challenge on thisproject is the logistics because we’re onsuch a tight site. We have to be verystrategic about staging.”

Above & Below: Rebar serves as a tension device in the reinforced concrete that Alliance Constructionis self-performing.

“With our pull-planning schedule, we can ensure everyone is working towards the same goal,” PE Flinn Fowler (on L).

The Source Hotel

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Another noted challenge for this 100-keyhotel project is the design of the hotel it-self. According to Stephen Dynia, FAIA,Founder and Design Director of DyniaArchitects, “The Source Hotel is a tallbuilding in a low rise industrial context.The form of the hotel is one of stackedboxes shifted east and west - this shiftingcreates overhead protection of alternatefloors with garage doors that open thehotel rooms to the landscape and cityviews.” This custom boutique hotel design has proved challenging to theconstruction such that nothing is standard. “It’s a complicated build, a-symmetrical in shape with cantileverslabs,” commented Russell Clark. Headds, “Alliance likes these complicatedjobs. We identify the issues and work tosolve them. We’re not firemen putting outfires; we plan and stay ahead of them.”

The boutique hotel, designed to beLEED certified, will include a pedestrianbridge on level two of the hotel connecting to the existing Source market. Dynia Architects’ design narrative describes other amenities to include a “food-centric retail space withtwo distinctive restaurants, a New Belgium brewery, a knife shop, and centrally located kiosks featuring rotatingvendors in the podium levels.” The hotelbroke ground in July of 2016 and is expected to be completed in the Fall of 2017.

Renderings by:Dynia Archtects

Photographs by: Jackie ShumakerMike Branigan

Dynia Architects designed innovative layouts oriented out towards the views of city and mountains.

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