Green building report examines barriers, best practices
POSTED: Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Boise State University, green building
All over the world, individuals, corporations and nations are pledging to “go green,” but progress too often is slowed or stopped by lack of information, resources or precedent. A team of researchers at Boise State University has addressed these challenges in a new report titled “Green Building in the Pacific Northwest: Next Steps for an [...]
OSHA cites firm following trenching fatality in Pocatello
POSTED: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 11:36 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Construction, OSHA
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Boise Area Office has cited Bowman’s Inc. of Mountain Home for violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act related to unsafe working conditions in trenches, resulting in a fatality at a Pocatello worksite.
“Unprotected trenches can become deathtraps in an instant when cave-ins occur,” said [...]
Boise State construction management students impress at regional competition
POSTED: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 10:24 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Boise State University, Construction, Education
Construction management (CM) students in Boise State University’s College of Engineering received awards in four categories at the recent Associated Schools of Construction Inter-Scholastic Regional Competition and Conference.
Boise State entered teams in eight divisions, winning second place in Design-Build, Commercial and Heavy Civil, and third place in Risk Management. The winning teams competed against [...]
Two construction bills postponed until 2011
POSTED: Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 10:58 AM PTBY: Dani Grigg
Tags: Associated Builders and Contractors, Construction, John Goedde, Kate McCaslin
As Idaho’s legislature plows through proposed legislation, trying to avoid a repeat of the record-length session of 2009, time is becoming scarce for new bills to be introduced.
Two bills falling victim to time constraints were being pushed by the Associated Builders and Contractors, a group that fights for the interests of non-union construction companies.
A few [...]
Report predicts 2013 return to normal for Boise homebuilding 
POSTED: Monday, March 1, 2010 at 10:03 AM PTBY: Dani Grigg
Tags: City of Boise, residential construction
While some parts of the economy are finding their way back on track, homebuilding is still far from normal.
A new report from BuildIdaho.com and Organizational Genetics looks at trends for 20 different performance measures - some local and some national - and analyzes what those say about the future.
It seeks to give some context to [...]
TVCC building topped out in Caldwell
POSTED: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 09:26 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: City of Caldwell, CSHQA, LEED, Petra, Treasure Valley Community College
The 39,000-square-foot building that will house a Caldwell branch of Treasure Valley Community College is externally complete.
Representatives from TVCC, Oppenheimer Development Corp., Petra Construction, architect CSHQA, Caldwell East Urban Renewal Agency and the city of Caldwell planned to gather Feb. 24 to celebrate the building’s “topping out.”
Officials see the project as a catalyst for more [...]
New hospital opens in Gooding
POSTED: Monday, February 22, 2010 at 12:12 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: City of Gooding, Layton Construction, North Canyon Medical Center
Construction is complete on the 50,000-square-foot North Canyon Medical Center in Gooding, and officials are preparing to open the doors to patients on March 2.
Sandy, Utah-based Layton Construction, which has an office in Boise, began construction on the new hospital in September 2008. The architect was Salt Lake City-based Architectural Nexus.
The total cost for the [...]
Bill to give ITD ‘design-build’ authority revived
POSTED: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 11:05 AM PTBY: Simon Shifrin
Tags: design-build, Frank Henderson, Idaho Legislature, Idaho Transportation Department
A House committee has voted to print a bill that would give the Idaho Transportation Department power to hire contractors through a “design-build” bidding process, allowing administrators to forego a “lowest bidder” approach if it might save time and money.
A similar measure passed both chambers of the Idaho Legislature last year by wide margins but [...]
University of Idaho science building nears completion
POSTED: Monday, February 15, 2010 at 01:08 PM PTBY: Robb Hicken
Tags: University of Idaho
Work on the Life Sciences South, an 80-year-old building on the campus of University of Idaho in Moscow, is near completion.
Project manager in facilities services Guy Esser said the main focus of this project was to replace the most badly degraded pieces, and to ensure that any cast stone above building entrances was [...]
Regional Briefs – February 2010
POSTED: Monday, February 15, 2010 at 11:25 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Roundup
Nuszer Kopatz Urban Design Associates has joined Stanley Consultants, one of Denver’s largest consulting engineering firms. Founded in 1913, Stanley Consultants is a multi-discipline firm that provides engineering, environmental and construction services throughout the United States and around the world. Stanley Consultants has offices in Boise. Stanley Consultants President Gayle Roberts said, “The acquisition will [...]
