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EXCELLENCE IN CONSTRUCTION AWARDS – COMMERCIAL 2021 IEC NATIONAL AWARDS
COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION CATEGORY D
WEIFIELD GROUP
CONTRACTING
IEC Rocky Mountain
Wells Precast Denver Project
Weifield started our Brighton, CO Wells Precast Denver design- In total, Weifield installed over 50,000 feet of underground pipe –
assist project with PCL Construction in August 2019, involving much of which was contained to the building footprint. One of the
the relocation of two Wells Concrete Denver structural most complex areas of the project were the indoor and outdoor
and architectural plants to a new, single 65-acre office and casting bays where Wells does concrete pours for their walls and
operations site in Brighton, Colorado. The company’s new concrete products. The climate-controlled indoor casting area
122,673 square-foot-location facilitates efficiencies across was 980 feet long and large enough to house two overhead,
a three-story office building housing 150 employees and 15-ton cranes to remove the concrete walls outside of the building;
adjacent 87,748-square-foot production and operations area. the interior is the production area where they pour architectural
The driver behind the project was to enhance Wells Concrete’s pieces and columns in the casting bay. Mobile cranes assist with
capability and flexibility while increasing capacity with long hoisting products from the outdoor casting area, a structural yard
line prestressing forms for the Denver market. (exterior set of casting beds) where they pour floor panels, wall
panels, and structural beams. Weifield installed all of the electrical
There was a huge amount of work to complete in a short for the indoor casting to be able to cast all their precast walls –
amount of time. The project scope included brand-new the scope also included fire alarm and integration to the exhaust
electrical service – one 4,000-amp and one 3,000-amp fans to regulate CO2 levels and O2 levels.
service – as well as electrical for all new buildings.
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