Big-D Construction and Kier Form Partnership

Big-D Construction and Kier Construction have teamed up to form a joint venture company known as Kier/Big-D Construction, L.L.C. The company was created to bring together the expertise of both companies to pursue large multi-unit housing projects.

Ground was recently broken on Kier/Big-D's first project, a luxury timeshare resort in Las Vegas, Nev. for Trendwest Resorts. The project consists of 192 units in 6 buildings along with associated amenities including two large courtyards, pools, Jacuzzi tubs, basketball courts, and putting greens. The $25 million project will be complete in May of 2005.

Bowerman Associates Buys Daw Inc.

Daw Incorporated, a Draper, Utah based specialty construction company, announced today the sale of its business to LD Bowerman Associates, LLC, also of Draper. Daw Inc., a privately held family business established in 1952, is a leading specialty contractor serving the commercial, retail and institutional construction industries throughout the Intermountain West. The company will now be known as Daw Construction Group, LLC, and will continue to provide high quality service and products to its clients, said L.D. Bowerman. Both Ryan and Gordon Daw will remain with the company as managers. LD Bowerman Associates, LLC is a privately held investment entity, led by L.D. Bowerman. Since coming to Draper in 1997, Bowerman has launched several commercial, retail and residential projects in the area as well as other companies in the region. Bowerman worked for 37 years as a manager in the heavy civil/underground construction industry for Peter Kiewit Sons Inc., based in Omaha, NE. Michael L. Skalla will join Daw Construction group as General Manager.

Skalla is a 1988 graduate of Brigham Young University, with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He has worked in construction and real estate development fields for the past 16 years, and has managed the various investment and development projects for LD Bowerman Investments over the past 4 ½ years.

Daw will continue to contract in the commercial, retail and institutional markets for drywall and framing systems, Skalla said, as well as tenant interior finish construction, and hollow metal doors, frames and hardware, as well as wood door products. The distribution of MBI and Batt insulation products will also move forward, he said. In addition, Daw's new residential design center, Stone Creek Design, located in the corporate offices at 12552 S 125 West, will proceed in its new business arena, offering high-end plumbing fixtures, residential door and hardware products, as well as specialty fireplace castings.

Stanley Consultants opens Boise office

In March, Stanley Consultants announced the opening of a new office in Boise, Idaho. The office will initially provide land development services including master planning, commercial development and subdivision development.

Stanley Consultants is a worldwide provider of engineering, environmental and
construction services. Its Salt Lake City office is located at 5353 S. 960 E,
Suite 220.

The new Boise office will be staffed with four former Hubble Engineering employees who have joined Stanley Consultants.

As members of Stanley Consultants, Office Manager Scott Wonders, along
with Ashley Ford, Dean Cardwell, and Everett Earnest will continue to provide
land development services to existing and new clients.

"We're very pleased to provide land development services within the Treasure Valley," says Stanley Consultants Senior Vice President Dick Mettee. "Our new Boise office
provides the opportunity to work closely with Hubble Homes and other clients,
as well as expand into other markets."

According to Mettee, there are immediate plans to increase the number of staff in the office and to begin offering surveying services. Transportation and environmental engineering services will likely be added in the future. The Boise office is temporarily located at 701 S. Allen Street, Suite 110, in Meridian, Idaho. This office joins 13 other domestic offices owned by Stanley Consultants.

Albion Village Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Pentalon Construction of Draper celebrated the completion of two of the three buildings in the new Albion Village mixed-use housing and retail project in Sandy, Utah. The project is designed around the concept of a European Villa with the retail portion located down the main street of the Villa. The project was designed by Soren Simonsen, Principal of Cooper, Roberts Simonsen Architects in North Salt Lake, Utah.
The project manager is Cindy Cummings and the superintendent is Vincent Morgan.

The ribbon cutting attracted such people as, Jeff Bennion, the Director of Fannie Mae Utah Partnership Office who assisted with funding on the project. Along with, the Robert F. Bennett, United States Senator, Mayor Tom Dolan, Sandy City mayor, Dale Gunther, president of Bank of American Fork who also assisted with funding as well as Jason Johnson, Partner of the ARX Group and one of the owners of the project.

Construction of a third building that is part of phase I will begin in spring. The master plan of the community includes 16 buildings and a clubhouse.

Rocky Mountain Prestress Partners to Market Precast Technologies

Rocky Mountain Prestress has partnered with other leading precast concrete manufacturers to form AltusGroup (www.altusprecast.com), the first-ever national partnership of precast companies dedicated to developing, manufacturing and marketing precast concrete technologies.

Rocky Mountain joins four well known names in the precast concrete industry: Oldcastle Precast Inc., Building Systems Division (Edgewood, Md.); HIGH Concrete Structures, Inc. (Lancaster, PA.); precasters JW Peters and Iowa Prestress of Cretex Companies (Elk River, Minn.); and Metromont Prestress Co. (Greenville, S.C.).
AltusGroup will provide national distribution and service. Combined, AltusGroup companies have more than 25 manufacturing and sales locations in the United States; more than 200 specification-oriented sales, marketing and engineering professionals; and revenue exceeding $1 billion in their most recent fiscal years.
The first precast technology introduced by AltusGroup, CarbonCast, replaces the secondary steel reinforcing elements in precast concrete with a high-strength composite carbon grid.

CarbonCast technology uses C-GRIDä composite carbon fiber technology from TechFab, LLC, Anderson, S.C. (www.techfabllc.com), also an AltusGroup founder.
AltusGroup members have an exclusive license to use patented CarbonCast technology and C-GRID in precast products.

Wadman to Build in St. George and Layton

The Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City has awarded Wadman Corporation a $1.2 million construction contract for the Bishop Niederauer Catholic Education Center in St. George, Utah.

The new 14,500-sq ft, three-story addition to St. George Catholic Church will house education classrooms along with office and retail space. Plans for a portion of the retail space will include a thrift store.

The St. George architect firm of Wells & Associates is the architect of record for the project.

The construction schedule is slated to begin in early April with a completion date in the Fall of 2004.

Wadman is currently working on other St. George area projects including the Washington City Fire Station. Projects completing in the area include Santa Clara Library and Hurricane Library addition.

Wadman Corporation will also be constructing a new department store in Layton for Kohl's.

The 92,737-sq ft retail center will take 8 months to complete and is scheduled to open in October 2004.

R & O Begins Work on Highland Place Development

R & O Construction of Ogden has begun work on the Highland Place Shopping Center at 6910 So. Highland Drive. The project consists of the construciotn of a new façade at the north end of the shopping center, construction of a new Wild Oats Market, tenant finish, and new construction of a Tunex and a dry-cleaners. Demolition work and site improvements are also part of the project.

The project must be performed while about a dozen other businesses in the shopping center remain open.