Vail Front Door
BCER Engineering provided the fire protection and life safety design and consulting for The Vail Front Door project developed to address the ongoing needs of a maturing resort community. The Vail Front Door project consists of the five following facilities: Skier Services & Vista Bahn Plaza is a 15,000 square foot state-of-the-art skier services facility to include the lift ticket sales office, ski & snowboard school, equipment rentals, lockers and storage, coffee shop and Great Room. The Lodge at Vail Chalets is a four-acre site located adjacent to the Vista Bahn Express Lift and will be home to The Lodge at Vail Chalets ranging in size from approximately 3,700 to 5,700 square feet and will have a full complement of services including a spa. The Vail Mountain Club is Vail's most exclusive club and is located just steps from the Vista Bahn Express Lift offering a slope-side clubhouse, member lounge, private locker rooms, showers and spa and fitness facilities. The Lodge at Vail is Vail's flagship hotel with a new 7,700 square foot spa including 11 treatment rooms featuring soaking tubs, a wet treatment room, two facial rooms, seven massage rooms, a relaxation lounge and 2,100 square foot fitness complex. And The Founders Garage & Parker's Green which will be used to increase and substantially improve the quality of streetscape and landscape and the creation of a new community park, including increasing the amount of neighborhood parking from zero spaces to 114. BCER's expertise was critical in negotiating engineered solutions while never compromising the integrity of the building fire protection systems or the life safety of the users.
Project Details
Location:
Vail, Colorado
Project Types:
Disciplines:
Life Safety and Fire Protection
Client:
Vail Resorts
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Client List
- Arvada Covenant Church
- AT&T
- Aurora Public Schools
- Ball Aerospace
- Bergelectric Corp.
- Boulder Community Hospital
- Brighton Valley School District
- Canadian Consulate
- CCOB
- City and County of Denver
- City of Boulder
- Colorado School of Mines
- Copper Club
- Denver City Council
- Denver Health
- Denver Health and Hospital Authority
- Denver Hotel Authority
- Denver Public Schools
- Gensler and Associates
- GSA/USDA
- Jefferson County
- Ludvik Electric
- M Tech
- McData
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
- Qwest
- REI Sports
- Rockies Regional Medical Center
- Shea Properties
- Simpson Company, Inc.
- SLATERPAULL Architects
- TAi Companies
- The Broadmoor
- TIAA-CREF
- United Airlines
- United Healthcare
- University of Colorado
- University of Colorado Health Science Center
- University of Colorado Hospital
- University of Northern Colorado
- Vail Resorts
- Wiss, Janney , Elstner
- Xilinx
Contact
BCER Engineering, Inc.
5420 Ward Road Ste. 200
Arvada, CO 80002
P. 303.422.7400
F. 303.422.7900
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