2012 Top Starts Show a Healthy Mix of Public and Private Projects
This list includes complex infrastructure and energy projects, plus large-scale commercial and multifamily buildings in the private sector.

New Union Station Transit Hub Remakes Denver
The expansion of Denver Union Station into a regional transit hub is also spurring growth in lower downtown Denver and the Central Platte Valley.

Sturgeon Electric Selected as 2012 Specialty Contractor of Year
The Colorado-based electrical contractor had a 2011 self-reported revenue of $156.1 million, up from $137.6 million the year before.

Regional Icons Claim Top Spots in Annual Best Projects Competition
This year's Best Projects competition in the Mountain States region featured more than 100 entriesâ??our largest number to dateâ??in a dozen different categories from which the judges selected nearly 70 winners.

Regional Designers Push for More Diverse Services and Help Clients With Project Funding
Design firms in the Mountain States share the same concerns about industry growth as their colleagues and competitors elsewhere in the U.S.: uncertain support for public infrastructure and shaky financing in the few private-sector markets showing signs of life.

Mountain States Specialty Contractors Looking Ahead to Better Times
Despite forecasts for modest gains in construction activity and employment in Utah and Colorado next year, the region's top specialty contractors remain only "cautiously optimistic." They are hoping for the best and doing what they can to prepare for whatever lies ahead while they deal with lower margins and less work.

Kiewit Selected as 2011 Contractor of Year in the Mountain States
Kiewit, founded in 1884 in Omaha, Neb., as a masonry contractor, has grown into one of the largest construction firms in North America, boasting total revenue close to $10 billion for 2010, with Mountain West regional revenue of $417 million.

HDR Selected as ENR Mountain States Design Firm of the Year
HDR, an architecture, engineering and consulting giant headquartered in Omaha, Neb., is perhaps best known for its highway, transit and water projects. The firm employs more than 7,800 professionals in 185 locations worldwide.

University of Utah Builds a Community
New master plan for the Salt Lake City campus aims to increase density, boost mass transit and encourage more students to live and gather

Six Companies to Watch
With many industry economists predicting slow but steady improvement for construction this year and next, firms may see more work coming their way. But as stimulus funding runs out and the industry faces uncertain infrastructure funding from Congress and overburdened state governments, few contractors and designers can rest easy.

Solar Flares
Solar energy projects continue to shine in Colorado, but there may be clouds on the horizon.

Intermountain Best of 2010 Awards
The best projects of Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming

Gold Hard Hat Awards
The Best Projects of 2010 From Colorado & The Plains

Solving the Human Equation
The first two projects to be built under the Utah Science Technology and Research initiative are under construction, with one project slated for completion in the fall and the other about halfway done.

And the GC of the Year Goes To…
This issue of ENR Mountain States features our 2010 Intermountain and Colorado Contractors of the Year.

Top Mountain States Projects of 2010
Welcome to ENR Mountain States’s annual ranking of the Mountain States’ and Plains’ regions biggest projects completed in this calendar year, plus a list of new projects that have broken or will break ground in 2010.

Colorado Owner of the Year
Centura Health, Colorado’s largest health-care provider, has contributed significantly to the health and well-being of Colorado’s residents and the economic vitality of the state in managing 12 hospitals, seven senior-living communities, numerous medical clinics, hospices and home-care services.

Top Mountain States Building Contractors
This issue of ENR Mountain States contains our annual ranking of the region?s largest building (vertical work only) contractors, called Top Mountain States CM/GC Firms.

A Real Blast: Moving mountains to bring Las Vegas to Black Hawk
Nevada-based Ameristar Casinos Inc. acquired far more than a single-story casino when it purchased the Mountain High Casino in Black Hawk, Colo., from Windsor Woodmont Black Hawk Resort Corp. for $114 million in mid-2004.

2010 Forecast: A Tough Year Ahead
After three years of declines, the construction market may be eyeing a rebound in 2010 thanks to a much-improved residential market, but for designers and contractors in other building sectors, it could be too soon to celebrate.

Intermountain Best of 2009
The annual “Best of” is a competition to determine the best projects completed by firms in Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Firms involved in any aspect of the project could submit entries, and there is no charge for submissions.