Big Plans on Campus

UC+D looks at bustling construction activity at the U of U in Salt Lake, UVU in Orem, and Utah Tech in St. George. 
By B. Garn

Students at Utah’s higher education campuses this fall likely found themselves navigating around construction fencing or finding once familiar pathways to class temporarily blocked as concrete trucks rumbled by and tower cranes cast shadows across campus. 

From the new buildings for the University of Utah’s School of Medicine that are reshaping the upper campus of the state’s flagship university to plans for a major campus expansion at Utah Tech University (UTU) in St. George, a surge of projects planned and funded several years ago are now taking shape on university campuses from Logan to St. George.

DFCM boss takes helm at U of U 

Developments in the planning and construction departments at the state’s college campuses were not limited to concrete and cranes.


In March, Jim Russell, longtime Director of Utah’s Division of Facilities Management and Construction, took over as Associate Vice President of Facilities at the University of Utah. 


With the U of U in the midst of a considerable building boom, Russell said he was brought on board to overhaul management operations in the department and try to simplify and improve the process of planning and building on campus.


“It costs more to build on this campus, and it always has," said Russell. "Some of it has to do with compact sites and campus utilities, but there is also a lot of input from a lot of people. There are Deans, donors and doctors who all have their ideas of how things should be done. We’ve also gotten to a place where contractors don’t believe a budget is a budget because it never is. I’m trying to improve the process overall. We are going to try and do better with setting expectations.” 


Russell said he expects fewer projects to be delivered under CM/GC contracts in the future. The largest new project for the University—a new hospital and health care center in West Valley City— has an estimated budget of $850 million and will be delivered using design-build. 


Russell said he was very familiar with the issues dogging projects at the university before taking the helm at the department. As DFCM Director, he regularly got calls from contractors, architects and university personnel expressing frustration with the process of building on campus. 


“I knew what I was getting into before I came,” he said, flatly, prompting a need to reorganize and streamline facilities and construction operations.


In the last legislative session, U of U President Taylor Randall committed to state leaders a reduction of $100 million in ongoing operational costs at the institution. To that end, Randall launched an “operational excellence initiative" at the beginning of the year that involves a deep dive into procurement at the U, as well as an evaluation of building maintenance and project management teams.


“One thing that strains us is there are a lot of separate project management and facility groups on campus,” Russell said.


“Are we adding value by doing it ourselves? If we’re not, then maybe we should be looking at the private sector for [better ideas].”


Russell has made some organizational changes including combining Construction and Facilities Management into a new, consolidated division known simply as U Facilities. 


“We’ll have a project management group and a facilities management group," he explained. "This way we’ll try and manage the full lifecycle of the building. You can see if things put in place on the design and construction side are being employed on the operational side and providing the value you expected,” he said. 


As for planning the next 100 years of growth, Russell said a team from University of Utah Real Estate and the international design firm NBBJ are at work on a new campus master plan.


Fort Douglass to Become 

Part of U of U Campus

In mid-August, the U.S. Army reserve officially announced its operations would be moving to property near the Utah National Guard’s Camp Williams in Bluffdale. After the move, the approximately 50 acres of property and buildings will become part of the University of Utah campus. 


“That property is key to the future of the university,” said Russell. 


He noted the buildings, primarily in the Officers Circle, which are on the National Register of Historic Places, will be preserved and likely renovated for use by the university. 


Current and Future Building Plans

Russell and his team is also overseeing a considerable number of current and future projects that will soon break ground.  In addition to the new $850 million health care facility in West Valley, the new $150 million Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine continues to rise on the east end of campus. In addition, the $190 million John and Marcia Price Computing and Engineering Building broke ground this spring and the $50 million James LeVoy Sorenson Cener for Medical Innovation on the university’s medical campus is currently under construction and slated to open in 2026. 


At the South end of campus, a new $40 million baseball field and grandstand is taking shape. At the west entrance to campus, a $97 million renovation and expansion of the historic William Steward Building will house STEM courses for the applied sciences program. 


The Huntsman Cancer Institute will add a new facility in the Utah County city of Vineyard, while the Huntsman Mental Health Institute will add a $185 million research facility, along with the $47 million Kem and Carolyn Gardner Crisis Care Center.


Russell says near-term projects will focus on creating more housing on campus to meet President Randall’s goal of adding 5,000 more student beds to the campus by 2030.


Russell says he feels that he was able to develop a sustainable and efficient system during his time at DFCM and wants to do the same in the new position at the state’s flagship research university. 


“It has been a pleasant surprise to find out just how many amazing employees we have here. I want to build a system that can help them keep improving and progress and develop in their careers,” said Russell. “There are good people here, but they haven’t had the training they need, and they haven’t really been trusted to manage their projects. I want to train people and delegate and trust them to make decisions. Trust will be the key to our success.” 


UVU gets is Kicks; Plans for Vineyard Expansion

The state’s largest public university—Utah Valley University—continues to expand its enrollment and footprint. The main campus in Orem is landlocked, but beginning in 2011, the state began purchasing property approximately six miles north and east in Vineyard to accommodate future growth. UVU now owns 240 acres in Vineyard, and a master plan envisions the space being used for athletic, health care and student housing, with a goal of integrating well with the neighboring community. The site currently hosts four athletic playing fields and according to Kurt Baxter, UVU Senior Director of Engineering and Space Management at UVU, the school’s Health Professions building is expected to break ground on the site in the near future. 


On the Orem campus, the $100 million Scott M. Smith Engineering and Technology building, named for the Qualtrics co-founder, broke ground in 2023 with an expected completion early 2025. 


A new 22,000 SF soccer stadium on Clyde Field, which will serve the men's and women's soccer teams, broke ground in April with completion expected August 2025. Designed by Salt Lake-based Method Studio, the stadium will have seating for 3,000 with locker rooms, concessions, restrooms, a press and broadcast box, and eight VIP suites. 


“According to our athletic director, it will be one of the nicest facilities in the western United States,” said Baxter. 


Also in the athletic realm, Baxter said Salt Lake-based VCBO Architects was recently selected to program a new Student Athlete Center. With an expected budget of $25 million, construction is expected to begin early 2025. 


Baxter said a 6,319 SF expansion of the McKay Education Building is currently underway and should be complete by end of the year. The project added a one-story addition to the existing building and will include a welcome area, study spaces and additional classrooms. 


Adding Beds and Land at Utah Tech

Like UVU, Utah Tech in St. George is a landlocked campus that recently purchased nearby land for future expansion. Jon Gibb, Director of Facilities Planning and Construction for the state’s southernmost higher education campus, said Legislative funding allowed the school to to purchase 183 undeveloped acres 8.5 miles south of the main campus, near the Desert Color neighborhood. Gibb said a recently completed masterplan by VCBO lays out the framework for future campus growth.


“We started with the intent of master planning the new acreage, but quickly realized we still have lots of opportunity on the main campus," said Gibb. "We decided to finalize a plan for the main campus and then have a proposed 20-year plan for that new property we are calling South Campus. We expect to accommodate 18,000 students on the main campus, which is about 110 acres. We can’t grow out, but we can grow up. Once we get past what we can accommodate, things will go to the south campus, that we envision to be an innovation district for research and programs for more advanced degrees.”


Gibb said part of growing the current campus involves creating more student housing, like the newly completed Campus View Suites III. The 164,000 SF, 563-bed residence was designed by Method Studio and completed in June by Sandy-based Layton Construction. It includes private study rooms on each floor and a small grocery store on the street level. Gibbs said the project was delivered using a design-build contract, which he said worked well.


“We did design-build on Phase I because we needed housing quickly,” said Gibb. “We loved the results so much we just did it for the next phases as well. If you do your leg work up front to specify what the minimums are, the architect and contractor can work together to deliver it. We got everything we wanted—and more.”


Gibb said CM/GC delivery is being used for two other large-scale projects on campus, the General Education Building at the center of campus, which is currently underway, and the renovation and expansion of the 1980’s era America First Performing Arts Center, formerly the Cox Auditorium. 


“It will be a $23 million renovation of the auditorium to accommodate traveling shows and concerts that need high quality performance space,” said Gibb. “We’re upgrading everything and adding practice spaces and improving the lobby.”

Gibb said efforts are also underway to improve the general campus infrastructure.


“We don’t want to get behind on that—we spend about $5-6 million a year upgrading and expanding infrastructure. We’ll connect our heating and cooling tunnels into a loop in the coming year, which will increase our efficiency.”



Gibb said the school recently upgraded its chiller system from three to five towers. In addition, UVU is focusing on small conservation improvements that offer a high return, like changing lighting to LEDs and installing low-flow plumbing fixtures. 

Black Desert Oasis

By Brad Fullmer • October 15, 2025
When Lehi-based Reef Capital Partners (Reef) initially announced plans in 2018 to build a sprawling, estimated $2 billion mega-resort with a championship-caliber golf course on 600 acres covering parts of Ivins and Santa Clara—small towns with just over 15,000 combined residents at the time—it was difficult to fathom what a project of that magnitude might look like. Fast forward seven years, and Black Desert Resort is indeed a shining oasis amidst Southern Utah's famed red rock cliffs, sitting atop an ancient lava field, with buildings strategically carved into the land to produce a resort unlike anything else. "This is the biggest project we've ever done—we feel really good where we are," said Brett Boren, President of Real Estate for Reef, acknowledging the general completion of the $290 million, 806,000-SF resort center, along with significant ongoing work—including a 1,298-stall parking garage, condominiums, and a private water park. As of September, all aspects of the main resort center were open and fully complete, with the hotel celebrating its first official year in business after partially opening in September 2024 as it hosted the inaugural PGA Black Desert Championship October 10-13. The second installment of the tournament—now dubbed the Bank of Utah Championship—is slated for October 23-26, with a third tournament signed for 2026.

Calder Richards Celebrates 20 Years of Sustainable Evolution

By UC&D • October 1, 2025
In 2005, Calder Richards Consulting Engineers formed after the merger of two smaller structural consulting firms who, interestingly enough, both started in 1986. Calder Richards has provided a steady structural support for Utah’s built environment ever since. As the firm celebrates its 20th anniversary, UC+D spoke with Managing Principals Shaun Packer and Nolan Balls to look back over the company’s history and celebrate what has helped their firm stand out to deliver solid projects in Utah and beyond. Their responses were edited for clarity and brevity. UC+D: What have been some catalytic moments for Calder Richards since that initial merger? SP: Winning the Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona is the first one. The big reason for the merger between Richards Consulting Group and Calder Consulting was to build a large enough company to go after bigger projects like that.” NB: That was my first project when I was hired straight out of college. We helped design the 17-story hotel and casino, a conference center, as well as parking structures, a central mechanical building, and a pool building. Talking Stick helped get us through the downturn a few years later. UC+D: What have been your key market sectors you all have targeted over the last 20 years? NB: We were breaking into K-12 along the Wasatch Front soon after the Talking Stick Resort and it’s been our bread and butter since then. SP: Absolutely, but I credit our firm for always adapting to the current environment. We’ve been fortunate to do so much K-12, but we used to do a lot of office work, and now we are working on conversions like the Ebay Headquarters to CTE/Innovation Center for Canyons School District as the market has shifted away from commercial office. UC+D: Schools have certainly evolved over the last 20 years, how has your work as structural engineers evolved? SP: We are seeing more creative design on the architectural side, certainly. We see many more two-story designs; more windows and daylighting. But we’re utilizing more powerful tools and continually building our understanding of the structural materials that are in use more than ever—tilt-up concrete, steel columns and beams, especially—to be the architect’s trusted partner. NB: Schools have definitely changed, and we’ve had better experience in helping projects move forward successfully when we are involved earlier in the design process. As we got involved early on in West High School’s schematic design, we were able to provide structural solutions and options to accommodate the architects’ design intent. UC+D: How has company growth changed Calder Richards? SP: It’s certainly changed the number of people in our office. We started with around 10 people when we merged, and today we have 27. But we often say that we don’t want to grow just to grow—we want to grow sustainably. We don’t lay people off when works slows down, and we have an expectation that sometimes there will be overtime work, and other times you may be waiting for our next project to begin.

The (Epi)Center of it All

By By Taylor Larsen • October 1, 2025
Nested in the middle of the University of Utah (U of U) campus sits the aptly-named Impact & Prosperity Epicenter, the second living learning community (LLC) project designed on campus by Los Angeles-based Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign. After nearly a decade since their first LLC project, the award-winning Lassonde Studios (UC+D’s 2016 Most Outstanding Public Building over $10 million), Mehrdad Yazdani, the design firm’s Principal and Studio Director, said their work on a sequel was an exciting prospect for the firm, and enlisted Salt Lake-based MHTN Architects and Okland Construction to serve as the respective local architect and general contractor. Today, the Epicenter serves as a striking piece of architecture and construction, one whose curvilinear shape asks users and visitors plenty of questions. But moving from idea to execution has been a work in progress. One query from Yazdani stood out as it relates to students and the built environment, and helped begin the journey to create the Epicenter: “How does your living environment as a student impact your success as a student and as a changemaker?” A Project for an Evolving Campus Katie Macc, CEO of the Sorenson Impact Institute, said LLCs like the Epicenter and Lassonde Studios next door have been massive steps forward in advancing entrepreneurship and social impact. But both play a major role in creating “college town magic”—a phrase coined by University President Taylor Randall that invokes a vibrant campus where students can find community and have one-of-a-kind experiences. With more on-campus student housing in the works, the state’s flagship university is hoping to shed the “commuter school” label and deliver a level of desirability that matches the resources students commit to higher education. “There is some soul searching going on across university campuses,” said Macc of the challenge at hand. “We have to be convincing that going to college matters.” She said overall university enrollments across the nation are decreasing as students grapple with tuition costs, COVID and its isolating aftershocks, and a different perspective on higher education. Universities are no longer a place where students come to learn what they couldn’t learn elsewhere—remote learning and the internet have opened a fissure in that idea that will never close. Instead of that educational transaction, being at a university must include building community and creating in-person experiences only available on campus. Macc said that the Epicenter helps steer the campus experience toward the future, with design goals to create a base of operations for two changemaking organizations and a living and learning home for 778 students. The three-story commercial portion of the building, known as the “Changemaker Pavilion”, includes office space for The Center for Business, Health, and Prosperity (second floor) and the Sorenson Impact Institute (third floor). While each organization has a different focus, both are firmly invested in helping students access and create the resources needed to change the world. Each entity works hand-in-hand as owners of the Epicenter to host events and “create a full spectrum of ways for students to get involved,” said Chad Salvadore, Chief Financial Officer for the Sorenson Impact Institute. “We’re dialing in the programming to energize the student body,” said Salvadore of the work done at the Epicenter. With over 60 majors represented among the 778 students who live there, he said that the diversity of students is less a reflection of their chosen major and more a desire to reside in a space built for students to work their entrepreneurial muscles. “Living here is a mindset—you can engage across many different paths you choose.”

Goal!

By Brad Fullmer • October 1, 2025
Front view of the bleachers, press box, and suites. (photos courtesy SIRQ Construction)

Four Decades of Transformation

By Brad Fullmer • October 1, 2025
Over the course of its 40-year history in Utah, WSP's Salt Lake office—originally founded as Parsons Brinckerhoff in 1985—has morphed from primarily a transportation design firm to one that successfully operates in multiple civil engineering markets. The results of WSP's transformation the past decade into a more diverse outfit speak for themselves, with the 128-person Salt Lake office (with locations in Cottonwood Heights and South Jordan) posting three consecutive years of revenues over $50 million, including a record $70.1 million in 2023, and a robust $59.9 million in 2024—good for the No. 2 ranking in UC+D's 2025 Top Utah Engineering Firms rankings.

Good Career? Start Here

By Taylor Larsen • October 1, 2025
Lucio Gallegos vividly remembers the workforce development meetings he attended during his time at Ogden-Weber Tech. These career and technical education (CTE) discussions consistently focused on one thing: young people were not entering construction, and the industry needed a new approach to attract them. Gallegos recalled one member of the workforce development team, a training director with a prominent general contractor, saying, “We have been trying this for over 10 years, screw it, we’re just gonna hire them.” The Long Road Those conversations occurred nearly 10 years ago, and workforce development concerns continue to permeate the industry. The National Center for Construction Education & Research estimates that 41% of the construction workforce will retire by 2031, leading to potential gaps in skill and safety and decreases in productivity and project quality. While stakeholders have aligned on the overall goal of providing students a foundation for future success through career development, the means to achieve the ends were seemingly at odds. High schools, trade schools, colleges, and private industry took different paths to achieve their goals, with some moving in opposite directions. “I’m gonna be honest with you,” Gallegos recalled one school administrator saying, “If I promote what you’re telling me to get them over to the tech college, I lose head count. And then I lose teachers. I can’t have a school without teachers.” Jobs that took away student learning experiences, according to federal guidelines and child labor laws, made the idea a non-starter. However, after years of lobbying the Utah Legislature for a compromise between industry and education, H.B. 055, passed in 2023, provided a catalytic change in how younger people can engage with construction and other industries. High school students could participate if they were involved in a school-sponsored work experience and career exploration program. Private industry finally had the compromise it wanted. It was time to act. Big-D Charts New Path Gallegos, now the Workforce Development Manager from Big-D, joined the company in 2023 with the express purpose of creating a program that fit within the new guidelines. Gallegos said he sees career development through the lens of the immigrant experience, one he knows personally as a Mexican immigrant with a father who worked in commercial construction. “I was 9 years old and busting pins out of concrete forms with a hammer that was as big as I was,” he laughed. “I’ve got the cliché immigrant story.” That story has a theme familiar to many immigrant families, he said, one where parents say, “I want my kids not to have to work as hard as I do. I want them in school.” Add to that, it’s a law—children must attend school. Gallegos was unfazed by those obstacles. As he began planning how Big-D’s internship program would operate, he knew that engagement had to start at the elementary school level and build on personal relationships between private industry, school administrators, students, and their families to succeed. “We want to be the solution, not the obstacle to get into this industry,” said Gallegos. So Big-D removed the barriers. Students can still attend school, work towards graduation, and be available in the afternoon for sports, extracurricular activities, and the high school experience. But working was another significant part of the immigrant experience, Gallegos said, and internships needed to be paid to alleviate the family concerns. “We asked what we would pay somebody fresh out of high school who worked at Big-D,” Gallegos said. Interns have earned those same wages ever since.

It's A Knockout

By Brad Fullmer • October 1, 2025
On January 2, 1957, Gene Fullmer, a scrappy, underdog fighter from West Jordan stunned the boxing world with a 15-round unanimous decision over the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson at New York’s fabled Madison Square Garden. Fullmer captured the world middleweight championship and established himself as one of the best pound-for-pound boxers during the late 50s and early 60s. Since then, the Fullmer name has been synonymous with boxing in Utah, with brothers Gene, Jay, and Don establishing the Fullmer Brothers Boxing Gym in 1978, and offering free boxing instruction and life mentoring to thousands of youths—carrying on a tradition they learned from their trainer, Marv Jenson. Their legacy of community giving will live on in the new Fullmer Legacy Center in South Jordan, a 16,500-SF facility that will serve as a permanent home to the boxing gym—after years of bouncing around to various temporary facilities—along with a museum, snack bar, and gift shop. “The Fullmers are the first family of boxing in the state of Utah—that’s well understood,” said Dave Butterfield, a founding board member of the Fullmer Legacy Foundation. Butterfield served as Chairman of the Board from June 2016 to early 2025 and was influential in helping raise money—nearly $6 million via donations to date, which includes $2 million from the Utah Legislature. Project Driven by Vision to Find a Permanent Home for Fullmer Brothers Gym It was Jay Fullmer who led the charge to teach boxing in the community. By 1978, the Fullmer Brothers Boxing Gym had formally opened at the Butterfield farm chicken coop in South Jordan, recalled Larry Fullmer, Don’s oldest son and the man who spearheaded the efforts for the Fullmer Legacy Center. From there, Larry said the facility moved to Riverton Elementary, an old church house in West Jordan, a sugar factory, a former fire station, and the Salt Lake County Equestrian Park in South Jordan, where it had resided since 2011. When they got word that Salt Lake County planned to transfer ownership of the park to Utah State University, Fullmer knew they needed to find a long-term home for the boxing gym. Fullmer met with Butterfield and Robert Behunin—who at the time was a Vice President with Utah State University—in 2016 and told them he just wanted a “tin shed of our own” for boxing. Behunin countered by saying, “If you want people to donate money, you need something better than a tin shed!” They quickly formed the Fullmer Legacy Foundation (FLF), and by 2018, the wheels were in motion on a building. Doc Murdock, a long-time trainer at the gym, connected Larry with his former roommate at Brigham Young University, Vern Latham, who is a Principal at Salt Lake-based VCBO Architecture. VCBO offered pro-bono services initially while helping FLF put together an RFP, while North Salt-based Gramoll Construction provided value engineering and other services in an effort to get the project launched. Larry expressed sheer gratitude for the contributions of both firms in helping make the project a reality, especially for many generous donations from various foundations and individuals. “[VCBO] believed in us early on and did our first phase of planning at no charge—they have been amazing and so professional to work with,” said Larry. “Gramoll helped us get the budget done as tight as it could be. This project had the absolute tightest budget. We met weekly with architects and the general contractor to see the progress—I’ve never seen such an amazing process. Construction started in November ’23, and every time I would come to the jobsite in the first six months, I’d get emotional.” “We leaned on our relationships with contractors for flooring, ceiling, tiles, donated furniture and got deep discounts and a lot of in-kind donations,” said Phil Haderlie, Principal-in-Charge for VCBO. “To me, the story of this project is the grassroots effort of people seeing the value—this is something that came from their heart. It will have a long-lasting impact on the community.”

Significant Buzz

By Brad Fullmer • October 1, 2025
The first season is in the books for the Salt Lake Bees in its spectacular new home—the Ballpark at America First Square, the exciting new heart of Downtown Daybreak and certainly one of the premier Triple-A stadiums in the country. "It's a really cool stadium—the field looks so good!" gushed Eric Barton, Project Director for Salt Lake-based Okland Construction, while surveying the spacious 280,000 SF, 6,500-seat (8,000 capacity) ballpark. Barton said his team faced an extremely difficult construction schedule with the mandate the project had to be sufficiently ready for Opening Day 2025 on April 8, less than 18 months after the formal October 20, 2023, groundbreaking. Barton said Okland knew it was going to be a grind, with long hours and tight windows to get various milestones accomplished. "When we bid this to our trade partners, we had them bid it with the expectation of it being six days a week," he said. "We want not only your best guys, but you have to be adaptable to the plan. It was gangbusters from the start.” Up to 300 workers were onsite during peak construction activity, requiring meticulous coordination throughout. Okland even brought in Fred Strasser, a legendary project director who came out of retirement to shepherd the project through. "Fred is the genius behind getting this whole thing done," said Barton. The project was designed by Salt Lake-based HOK, who worked closely with the owner, Sandy-based Larry H. Miller Real Estate (LHMRE) and Miller Sports + Entertainment (MSE) to bring about a project that would add even more buzz to its wildly popular, 4,000-acre master planned Daybreak development in South Jordan, making it a true entertainment destination. The design weaves together best-in-class baseball experiences with year-round public amenities, including a recently opened Megaplex theater, a performing arts center, a large amphitheater, along with retail, restaurants, and apartments, with buildout continuing through 2027. Walking paths and open spaces create natural connections between The Ballpark and the surrounding neighborhood, making the area an iconic community asset and a true sports and entertainment district. Downtown Daybreak is slated to host more than 200 annual events—including the Bees’ 75-game regular season. Supporting this entertainment destination, the venue’s prominent location just off the Mountain View Corridor freeway makes it highly visible to passing traffic while providing easy access. The stadium is also connected to multiple transportation options, easily reached by walking, biking or light rail across the Wasatch Front, and by car from the new freeway corridor. The Ballpark site drops 20 feet from the loading dock to the plaza, managed through terraced spaces that echo the region’s mining heritage. Though the slope stays gentle at under 5%, carefully placed stairs and planters make walking comfortable while honoring the industrial past. The center field main entrance connects to light rail, while a formal plaza at home plate serves as a second entrance, primarily for VIP access. The street design follows Daybreak’s established standards for lighting and tree spacing. Bike racks at the light rail station and plaza make cycling to games convenient. Utah’s Landscape Shapes Design The Wasatch Mountains, visible from every angle of the ballpark, directly influenced the ballpark's design. Throughout the venue, carefully planned viewpoints frame these mountain vistas. The structure resembles this mountainous setting in its form, transitioning from solid brick and concrete at its base to lighter materials—metal and expansive glass—as it ascends. Working with Kansas City-based architectural metal fabricator Zahner, HOK and MSE created a distinctive facade using perforated metal panels that suggest Utah mountain peak silhouettes from Ben Lomond Peak in Weber County to Mt. Nebo, the southernmost and highest mountain in the Wasatch Range of Utah. These panels transform into a glowing display at night, serving as a lantern on The Ballpark’s ‘front porch’ and welcoming visitors. This connection to Utah’s landscape flows throughout the site. Angular planters guide visitors along pathways, while public spaces are arranged in terraces that echo the mountainside. The copper colors and stepped surfaces of the nearby Kennecott Mine inspired the ballpark’s materials and layout. Inside, the decor features warm copper, gold and honey tones, with textured materials that blend the natural landscape with the Salt Lake Bees’ team colors.

Firms Making Moves

By Brad Fullmer • October 1, 2025
Horrocks CEO Bryan Foote (left) shakes hands with Matt Hirst, former President/CEO of CRS Engineering & Survey. Horrocks acquired CRS a year ago in a move that has proven to be a seamless fit for more than 60 CRS employees.

Q&A with Nathan Goodrich

By UC&D • August 1, 2025
Nathan Goodrich