Performance as Promised
Colorado Construction Magazine, November 2005 (reprinted with permission)
Residential site development continues to be an active market for many excavation contractors.
"It's been a busy year," said Lloyd Kuehn, CFO for Scott Contracting Inc., an infrastructure contractor currently preparing land for KB Home's new Canyon View development in Golden. The estimated $3 million project may not be the contractor's biggest job, but it is an important one because Scott Contracting has taken a turnkey approach.
"It's a little different because we're funding construction for a little bit of time," said Lloyd Kuehn, Scott Contracting's CFO. "We're doing everything but the dirt work and the landscaping; we're subcontracting that out."
Crews began crushing rock at Canyon View in late August. They're expected to turn over the first lots for model homes by the end of this month.
Meanwhile, the company has also worked on two communities in Aurora - Adonea and Blackstone Country Club.
Scott won the bids for Filings 1 and 2 of the three-part, $11 million Adonea project, a 500-lot residential development with some major sitework features. They include a 30-in. sanitary sewer that will go to a depth of 45 ft; a 30-in. steel trunk line to service the site and beyond; and three large box culvert structures, two of them off 6th Avenue, and the other off 3rd Avenue.
Work began there in November 2004 and could finish by the end of this month.
The $16 million site development project at Blackstone Country Club - also set to finish soon - includes an onsite recycled water storage facility for an 18-hole golf course.
"All the stormwater will be recycled through a series of settling ponds," said Project Manager Graham May.
"We also built two very large conveyances for golf carts with sewer lines running underneath them," he said.
Taylor Kohrs recently completed horizontal construction work for the final phase of the Steeplechase residential subdivision in Windsor.
The work included infrastructure and utility preparation for 52 two-acre residential lots on behalf of Fiest & Associates.
"We understand that not everything touches the sky in commercial construction, and that some of the most important building projects remain at ground level," said Scott Kohrs of Taylor Kohrs.
Some of the company's most recent horizontal projects
include Arista, Country Club Village, Somerset Village Shopping
Center, Quebec Square at Stapleton and the Ranch Reserve II.
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