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Colorado Doorways News Headlines - September 2007


Company News

The Building of America - 26 Colorado Doorways Projects Named as Best in Colorado Region

Building of AmericaReal Estate & Construction Review Magazine has created the The Building of America Plaque of Honor. The award names and honors the project managers and owners for their contributions in helping design and build one of the region's 50 most important, innovative or unique new construction or renovation projects.

Colorado Doorways, Inc. is proud to have supplied the doors, frames and hardware on 26 of the 50 projects selected for this prestigious award - far more than any competitor. This is an extraordinary honor and it exemplifies the reasons that Colorado Doorways is the supplier of choice throughout the Colorado region.

We would like to thank the contractors with whom we partnered for these projects including:

Adolfson & Peterson Construction Milender White Construction
FCI Constructors The Neenan Company
Fransen Pittman General Contractors Palace Construction
GE Johnson Construction Company PCL Construction
JE Dunn Construction Saunders Construction
JHL Constructors The Weitz Company
Kiewit Construction W.E. O'Neil Construction
Mark Young Construction White Construction Group

The projects on which Colorado Doorways contributed include:

  • ATLAS Center – University of Colorado
  • Castle Rock Recreation Center Aquatic Addition & Recreation Remodel – Town of Castle Rock
  • The Club at Pradera – Continental Homes
  • Colorado Academy Campus Center Dining Hall
  • Colorado State University Transit Center – City of Fort Collins
  • Glenwood Meadows – Miller Weingarten Realty, LLC
  • Kinard Core Knowledge Junior High School – Poudre Valley School District
  • Littleton Adventist Hospital Expansion & Renovation – Centura Health Partners
  • Medical Center of the Rockies
  • Memorial Hospital North
  • Mesa State New Residence Hall – Mesa State College
  • MorningStar Assisted Living – MacKenzie House, LLC
  • Mountain Range High School – Adams 12 Five Star Schools
  • The Museum Residences – Corporex
  • North High School Renovation & Campus Master Plan – Denver Public Schools
  • Porter Adventist Hospital
  • ProLogis Headquarters
  • Rock Real Community
  • San Juan Cancer Center – Montrose Memorial Hospital
  • San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center
  • Silver Creek Elementary School – Adams 12 Five Star Schools
  • Sky Vista Middle School – Cherry Creek School District #5
  • Twenty Ninth Street – Westcor
  • Villas at Sunny Acres – Centura Health Partners
  • William R. Roberts K-8 School – Denver Public Schools
  • Wolf Law Building – University of Colorado, Boulder

New Customer Portal Resource - Learn more about Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®).

USBGCLEED is a term that many of our customers are becoming and more and more familiar with. The LEED Green Building Rating System is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. Members of the U.S. Green Building Council representing all segments of the building industry developed LEED and continue to contribute to its evolution.

Colorado Doorways fully supports the LEED standards and continually works with manufacturers to ensure we offer a full line of products that meet LEED specifications. Please view the new LEED section of our Customer Portal to learn more about LEED and how CDI can help you.


Project News

Colorado Doorways Featured Project, September 2007 - Spire

SpireSpire Denver, LLC recently broke ground on Spire, a $175,000,000 high-rise residential condominium project, located at 891 14th Street in downtown Denver. With 41 stories (483 feet high) and 503 homes (714 bedrooms), Spire will be one of the tallest residential buildings in the Western United States and the first new residential high-rise to be built in the central business district of Denver in decades (24 years).

Spire is ideally located and will provide owners with a unique opportunity to live in an amenity-rich project at the best site to access Denver’s compelling lifestyle. Downtown Denver is a vibrant, exciting place to work, live and play and Spire will enable many more people to experience this dynamic, urban lifestyle.

The building will be built at 891 14th Street (14th and Champa Streets), directly across the street from the Denver Convention Center, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and a few blocks from Larimer Square, Lower Downtown, the Pepsi Center, the Cherry Creek bike path, and the 16th Street Mall.

Designed by Denver-based RNL Design and Boulder-based Communication Arts, the building will feature a 33-story residential tower arising from an eight-story parking podium with ground-floor retail. The parking podium includes 602 covered parking spaces. The building will include first-class amenities such as 24/7 concierge and security services, virtual art gallery, ground-floor retail and reserved parking. A two-level amenity area will include a state-of-the-art health club facility, media room, pool-side club room/bar, billiards room, and landscaped outdoor terrace with grilling areas, fire pit, outdoor pools, hot tubs and wireless internet. In addition, the 41st floor will feature the SkyClub, a spectacular penthouse level amenity.

Colorado Doorways is excited to be part of this incredible project - the first of its kind in almost 25 years!


Product News

Schlage Recognition Systems Biometric FingerKey DX-2200 Handles Multiple Credentials, Including HID iCLASS With Smart Cards, Fingerprint Readers Provide Greater Security and Biometric Template Portability

Schlage Recognition Systems Biometric FingerKey DX-2200 Schlage Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand Security Technologies, has announced that an integrated HID iCLASS card reader is now an option available for its FingerKey DX family of products. These biometric finger scanners work with a variety of credentials including proximity, magnetic stripe and now HID iCLASS contactless smart cards, through its FingerKey DX-2200 model.

HID iCLASS contactless smart cards store both the user's ID number and fingerprint template on the card, eliminating the need to distribute templates across a network or require the access control system to manage biometric templates. This means integration to existing access control applications is greatly simplified and there are no additional network infrastructure costs. Because the template resides only on the card, the solution also eases individual privacy concerns.

The FingerKey DX family of biometric access control readers provides low-cost biometric alternatives designed to secure smaller user populations. The FingerKey DX includes a keypad and LCD display. Expanded memory and Ethernet options are also available. Verification takes less than two seconds. The user simply enters a PIN code or presents a card, which calls up a template to scan or pulls the template from a smartcard. Then, the user places a finger on the FingerKey reader for verification of the template.

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