KL&A Engineers and Builders

A group from KL&A's Loveland office took to the pavement on the 4th of July to run the Loveland Liberty 5K! Congrats to all who stepped up and completed the run!

Please join KL&A's Greg Kingsley and AIA Utah on July 16th for a webinar on An Intro to Mass Wood and Cross Laminated Timber. This presentation will introduce CLT with information on manufacturing, specification and code-related considerations, and how it can be used as an alternative to concrete, masonry and steel in many building types. For more information and to register for the event, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gnX-rkh6

As KL&A celebrates its 30th Anniversary in 2024, we are looking back and highlighting 30 influential projects in our history. In collaboration with Colorado Village Collaborative, The Women’s Tiny Village at Clara Brown Commons features fourteen relocatable tiny homes. Traditionally in the unhoused community, the attitude is to get yourself cleaned up and then get a house, the idea of this project is to flip that, give a home to get themselves together. These wood framed tiny homes are big enough to fit one person and were designed to be moved from site to site to allow multiple homeless people to live in these spaces. Because they are designed to be moveable, they don’t have a traditional foundation system, instead these homes are basically on stilts and able to be put on forklifts. This design required a lot of research on trailer homes and non-standard foundation systems. Everything in this project was donated, KL&A provided pro bono design and detailing services, SAR+ and Whiting Turner donated their services, all materials were also donated with high school students from Cherry Creek Innovation Campus constructing the homes. Giving back to our community and making a difference with built structures are two pillars of KL&A’s culture. This project is influential for the opportunity given to collaborate with trusted partners and being a part of the solution to the homelessness crisis in Colorado. Working with high school students was inspiring, to see them build something that is normally built by adult professionals, and to directly impart wisdom onto them while teaching how they can give back to their community. We are proud to have been a part of this project and hope to be a part of the replicated models into other communities outside of Denver. Project Team: SAR+ Architects , KL&A Engineers and Builders, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

KL&A's Carbondale office recently volunteered with Habitat for Humanity on the Wapiti Commons build site in Rifle! Thank you to Habitat for Humanity of the Roaring Fork Valley for the great work they do and for allowing us to be a part of the solution to the affordable housing crisis!

Join Chris Kendall at the Mass Timber Group Summit as he speaks about Mass Timber in Multi Family Buildings. In this seminar, you will learn the impact of construction type selection, building height limitations, and associated fire resistance ratings; what multi-family programs and geometries are a good match for mass timber, and the challenges with routing MEP systems and acoustic performance. For more information and to register, please visit https://lnkd.in/gh_chhMN

As KL&A celebrates its 30th Anniversary in 2024, we are looking back and highlighting 30 influential projects in our history. Denver Water’s civic campus was designed to effect change for smart water use and bring them closer to the vision of becoming the nation’s number one water utility. The Denver Water Administration Building serves as the heart of the campus, linking eight new and renovated facilities, including a new warehouse, meter shop, trades, and fleet buildings, all designed and constructed by this project team. The administration building is 187,000 sf, embodying the One Water initiative, Denver Water’s holistic plan for water efficiency and reuse that promotes the right water source for the right use. The design strategy involves onsite wastewater treatment and recycling for toilet flushing and irrigation purposes, through an extensive system of internal planter beds and external landscaping that serve double duty as both systems infrastructure and key biophilic elements. This award-winning project is influential to KL&A as it speaks to our ability to design an iconic building that truly meets the owner’s goals for the function & cost of the building. Collaboration has always been a key to KL&A’s success on projects – this project specifically had multiple teams working together to bring the owner’s goals of a Net Zero Energy and LEED Platinum certified building to the forefront. Denver Water’s sustainable features include onsite solar, the country’s first radiant slab powered by the complex’s central utility plant, a high-efficiency triple pane-glazed window system, and biophilic design. As you drive on I-25, it’s easy to spot this iconic building that is emblematic of what Denver Water stands for, a sustainable building that gives back to its community with its inhabitants working every day to meet a necessary need for our city. Project Team: RNL Design (now Stantec), KL&A Engineers and Builders, Mortenson

Join KL&A's Greg Kingsley as the keynote speaker at the Mass Timber Group Summit from July 31 to August 2, 2024, at the Denver Art Museum! Co-produced by Mass Timber Group and ULI Colorado this event is set to bring together over 400 AEC professionals for three days of learning, networking, and hands-on experience with mass timber projects. For more information and to register, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gh_chhMN

Join KL&A's Greg Kingsley as the keynote speaker at the Mass Timber Group Summit from July 31 to August 2, 2024, at the Denver Art Museum! Co-produced by Mass Timber Group and ULI Colorado this event is set to bring together over 400 AEC professionals for three days of learning, networking, and hands-on experience with mass timber projects. For more information and to register, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gh_chhMN

KL&A's All Company Meeting & Annual Picnic took place last week, filled with presentations, activities and socializing our four offices and their families together. We look forward to our all company meeting days throughout the year, always leaving inspired for the days, months and years to come, surrounded by an especially talented group of people.

KL&A's Greg Kingsley was featured on CBS News Colorado earlier this week to discuss the future of Mass Timber buildings in the city and county of Denver, and the country! The segment also features Shiling Pei's mass timber shake table, which tested a 10 story mass timber building against multiple earthquake simulations. Greg Kingsley then discusses the appeal of mass timber buildings inside the KL&A designed Burwell Center for Career Achievement on the University of Denver's campus. The use of renewable materials and the speed of mass timber construction has grown Denver to be ahead of nearly every other city in the country when it comes to mass timber buildings. To see the full segment and read the full article, please visit: https://lnkd.in/d_J4MTRY