KL&A Engineers and Builders

As KL&A celebrates its 30th Anniversary in 2024, we are looking back and highlighting 30 influential projects in our history. The W Aspen is a 126,000 sf luxury hotel and private residences that builds on Aspen’s rich history and skiing heritage, inspired by the infusion of a significant number of iconic ski chalets in the area in the 1940s-60s. Designed as a modern day translation and renaissance of the chalet architectural style, the hotel features 88 guest rooms, 11 W-branded residences, and a 12,000 sf rooftop deck with a pool & bar and a 1,600 sf outdoor terrace. Strong levels of coordination were required with the architect, Rowland + Broughton, to achieve the high expectations from the ownership on a tight schedule. This luxurious and complex project required close attention to detail, constant communication, and intricate problem solving, especially when it came to height limits while maximizing space. Having one of our four offices located in the Roaring Fork Valley makes hospitality projects in the region especially influential to KL&A. These buildings bring thousands of travelers into our community every year, being a part of their experience energizes us to deliver a successful product that they will be able to enjoy for years to come. The W Aspen is an iconic project in the city, and a well-known social gathering point that creates the ultimate ski or summer vacation experience. Project Team: Rowland+Broughton Architecture / Urban Design / Interior Design KL&A Engineers and Builders Haselden Construction

As KL&A celebrates its 30th Anniversary in 2024, we are looking back and highlighting 30 influential projects in our history. Kindred is a 224 unit apartment with 5 levels of parking and retail space on the ground floor. This 291,000 sf building features exposed concrete and a playful design to enhance the buzzing social activities and indoor-outdoor amenity spaces. This large multi-family building was the second phase of projects with the same design team, the first being Citizen Apartments located in the adjacent lot. Many lessons were carried over from that project into Kindred, strengthening the trust and good synergy of the team, furthering relationships with SAR+ and Weitz that will create new opportunities in the future. Multi-family housing is influential to KL&A because of the rewarding nature of each project. These projects allow us to have a large impact on our communities, being able to provide housing for so many individuals. There has been a housing shortage in Denver in recent years, Kindred is taking a step towards solving that problem, and with three large scale multi-family buildings in a row in the Golden Triangle neighborhood, KL&A is proud to be a part of the solution as well. Project Team: SAR+ Architects KL&A Engineers and Builders The Weitz Company

Don’t miss Alexis Feitel, P.E. presentation, "Finding Common Ground for Biogenic Carbon in Mass Timber," at the Greenbuild International Conference & Expo on Thursday! Be sure to also connect with Greg Kingsley, who will be attending the Mass Timber Plus Conference. #GreenBuild2024 #SustainableDesign #BiogenicCarbon #MassTimber

We’re thrilled to share that KL&A has been honored with ACEC Colorado's Engineering Excellence Grand Conceptor Award for our work on the Boulder Community Hospital Deconstruction and Steel Reuse Project! This award is especially meaningful, given the caliber of projects recognized this year. When we started this endeavor, we faced many unknowns—could we reclaim steel for structural reuse? As engineers who typically focus on building up, this project challenged us to approach design through the lens of deconstruction, adopting an entirely new perspective. Our heartfelt thanks to the City of Boulder for their leadership in circularity and for creating a path for this pioneering project. To Ameresco and Colorado Cleanup Corporation, your expertise and attention to detail in handling the reclaimed steel were invaluable. This project has truly been a labor of love, providing KL&A the unique opportunity to integrate our engineering, carbon, and construction expertise into a single endeavor. We’re incredibly grateful to our leadership for championing this vision and empowering us to take tangible steps toward embodied carbon reduction. This award is a testament to the creativity, innovation, and teamwork that made this project possible, showcasing the powerful role engineers play in driving sustainable, circular practices. We believe there’s both an urgent need—and a profound opportunity—for engineering expertise to help shape a more resilient, resource-conscious world. Already, teams from across the U.S. and Canada are reaching out, looking to the Boulder Community Hospital project as a model for commercial deconstruction and material reuse. We’re excited to witness the ripple effects of this project and see how the industry will continue to adopt sustainable reuse practices in the years ahead. A big thank you to ACEC Colorado for this honor, for recognizing the importance of carbon reduction, and for supporting our vision of a circular construction future. Special thanks to Julie M. Wanzer, of Business Rewritten, Inc. for your expertise and partnership in helping us tell our story. You’re an invaluable part of the KL&A team, and we’re grateful for your collaboration. Alexis Feitel, P.E. Chris Kendall Greg Kingsley Anli Ni, EIT Zac Brownson Alex Stone Emily Freeman Michele Crane Doug Rutledge Tyler Downes Davis Partnership Architects Leana Evenson

We’re thrilled to share that KL&A has been honored with ACEC Colorado's Engineering Excellence Grand Conceptor Award for our work on the Boulder Community Hospital Deconstruction and Steel Reuse Project! This award is especially meaningful, given the caliber of projects recognized this year. When we started this endeavor, we faced many unknowns—could we reclaim steel for structural reuse? As engineers who typically focus on building up, this project challenged us to approach design through the lens of deconstruction, adopting an entirely new perspective. Our heartfelt thanks to the City of Boulder for their leadership in circularity and for creating a path for this pioneering project. To Ameresco and Colorado Cleanup Corporation, your expertise and attention to detail in handling the reclaimed steel were invaluable. This project has truly been a labor of love, providing KL&A the unique opportunity to integrate our engineering, carbon, and construction expertise into a single endeavor. We’re incredibly grateful to our leadership for championing this vision and empowering us to take tangible steps toward embodied carbon reduction. This award is a testament to the creativity, innovation, and teamwork that made this project possible, showcasing the powerful role engineers play in driving sustainable, circular practices. We believe there’s both an urgent need—and a profound opportunity—for engineering expertise to help shape a more resilient, resource-conscious world. Already, teams from across the U.S. and Canada are reaching out, looking to the Boulder Community Hospital project as a model for commercial deconstruction and material reuse. We’re excited to witness the ripple effects of this project and see how the industry will continue to adopt sustainable reuse practices in the years ahead. A big thank you to ACEC Colorado for this honor, for recognizing the importance of carbon reduction, and for supporting our vision of a circular construction future. Special thanks to Julie M. Wanzer, of Business Rewritten, Inc. for your expertise and partnership in helping us tell our story. You’re an invaluable part of the KL&A team, and we’re grateful for your collaboration. Alexis Feitel, P.E. Chris Kendall Greg Kingsley Anli Ni, EIT Zac Brownson Alex Stone Emily Freeman Michele Crane Doug Rutledge Tyler Downes Davis Partnership Architects Leana Evenson

Research: Nez Perce-Clearwater Office WBLCA The latest study in our Mass Timber Comparative Life Cycle Assessment Series compares a Type V-B, two-story mass timber/light-frame wood hybrid and a functionally equivalent alternate designed in steel—in terms of embodied carbon, cost, and construction speed. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gK8J2zvx Authors: KL&A Engineers and Builders Team Carbon - Alexis Feitel, P.E.; Jill Porretta; Greg Kingsley PhD, PE Contributors: KL&A Engineers and Builders: Andy Paddock, PE; Brent Kehoe, SE; Robbie Camann, PE; Jack Hupp, PE Mosaic Architecture: Nick Diggins Morrison-Maierle: Eric Heidebrecht, PE, SE Quality Contractors: Gabe French WoodWorks: Erin Kinder, PE, SE, LEED AP; Ashley Cagle, PE, SE This series is being developed collaboratively by KL&A Engineers & Builders / KL&A Team Carbon and WoodWorks with funding from the USDA U.S. Forest Service and the Softwood Lumber Board. ?? Mosaic Architecture / Morrison-Maierle / Photo Heidi Long, Longview Studios

As KL&A celebrates its 30th Anniversary in 2024, we are looking back and highlighting 30 influential projects in our history. Rubey Lot II is a 19,750 sf single family residence located on the slopes of Red Mountain in Aspen, Colorado. Completed in collaboration with SAOTA and Eigelberger Architecture, this residence features exposed timber roofs & exposed steel structure that interacts beautifully with large glass windows, creating the illusion that interior and exterior spaces are one. This was the first project KL&A worked on with SAOTA and Koru Limited, who both pushed us on our structural creativity to achieve the necessary complex conditions. High-end single-family homes are a pinnacle of KL&A’s work, and influential to many of our staff being able to build a structurally safe home that also serves as a piece of art. Rubey Lot II is also one of five homes located on the same street in Aspen that were the last set of lots to be sold that allowed this level of grandiose sized single-family residences. KL&A is proud to have been the structural designer for all 5 of these design teams, and the steel construction manager on 3. Rubey Lot II was an integrated project for KL&A, providing structural engineering, steel detailing and steel construction management, relying on high coordination between the teams to successfully complete the complicated detailing components, driven by the aesthetics of the architect’s vision. Each of these large single-family residences continue to give us new problems to solve that we’ve never encountered before, something that many of our engineers appreciate and allows them to find great pride in the finished product. With a stunning view and a unique location, this single-family home will stand out among the rest for many years to come. Project Team: SAOTA, EIGELBERGER | Architecture and Design, KL&A Engineers and Builders, @Koru Limited

As KL&A celebrates its 30th Anniversary in 2024, we are looking back and highlighting 30 influential projects in our history. Metro State University of Denver’s Student Success Building is a 145,000 sf building that serves as a gateway facility for the students and community. The building is a one-stop shop for enrollment, registration, financial aid and other student services as well as the home of the Center for Advanced Visualization and Experiential Analysis, which combined a theater space with advanced technology, allowing users to visualize decision scenarios and data using computer modeling. The LEED Gold Certified building features high architecture with cantilevers, an element that was required by the design team to add in square footage with a limited amount of space available on the ground. The structure is comprised of structural steel with a complicated metal panel/brick/glass skin. Due to the intricate nature of the skin of the building, KL& was brought on board as both the building engineer and the engineer for the cold form steel design. Higher education projects are particularly influential to KL&A due to the number of students that get to interact with the building, with the purpose to grow and evolve. It is so meaningful to KL&A to be able to work on a project with such a positive impact on our communities and the future generations to come. The student success building is a significant part of the Auraria campus, a campus that serves three separate institutions of higher learning, serving thousands of students every year right in the heart of Denver. Project Team: RNL Design (Stantec), KL&A Engineers and Builders, Saunders Construction

Building for the Future: Reducing Embodied Carbon in Multifamily Construction The "Return to Form" building study highlights the power of Mass Timber structural systems as a game-changer for embodied carbon reduction in multifamily residential construction. When comparing three structural systems—mass timber, cold-formed steel (CFS), and concrete—the findings are clear: Mass Timber reduces the whole building Global Warming Potential (GWP) by 21% compared to CFS and 25% compared to concrete.?Focusing just on the residential structure above the Level 4 concrete podium, the mass timber system's GWP is 73% less than CFS and 83% less than concrete! These reductions are credited to mass timber’s lower manufacturing impact, natural ability to store biogenic carbon, and reduction in finish materials. Mass timber's construction speed is a major advantage! It can be built two months faster than CFS and over four months faster than concrete, cutting both time, cost, and embodied carbon. It is critical to consider holistic construction costs and speed of construction in cost estimating. While the mass timber material had a significant cost premium, when considering the whole building construction cost and speed of construction, the mass timber building premium is only 1.8% compared to CFS and 0.2% compared to concrete. This study illustrates that we don’t need to choose between embodied carbon cost and dollar cost - we can prioritize both. Read more about this forward-thinking approach and download the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gHkvyA4u! Thank you to the Softwood Lumber Board and USFS for funding this work and WoodWorks for the collaboration. #Sustainability #MassTimber #GreenBuilding #ConstructionInnovation #EmbodiedCarbon #netzero2050 #teamcarbon #WBLCA Katz Development, tres birds , Swinerton, Timberlab, WoodWorks, Softwood Lumber Board, USDA Forest Service, Alexis Feitel, P.E. Brent Kehoe Greg Kingsley

A big thank you to AIA Utah for hosting such an incredible conference! It was an inspiring few days filled with insightful presentations, thought-provoking discussions, and the opportunity to connect with so many passionate professionals dedicated to shaping the future of architecture. We’re energized by the ideas shared and look forward to continuing the conversations and collaborations sparked at this conference.? Chris Kendall Jared Bodily, P.E. ETHAN PICKETT, SE