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Spring 2017A Quarterly Publicationfrom Layton Construction Companywww.laytonconstruction.com

12 | The Last WordAloha Meets Excellence

David S. Layton

2 | Nuts & BoltsLayton in the News

10 | Subcontractor ProfileKoga Engineering & Construction, Inc.

Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & ChildrenHonolulu, Hawaii | Page 4

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Strider Taking OffIdaho developer opens airport-inspired space for business partners in Boise Strider Group, an Idaho-based developer with offices in Ketchum and Boise, has been increasing its Boise presence, adding office and flex space inventory with the construction of a number of buildings, and has acquired additional proper-ties to construct facilities as the market demands. Strider connected with Layton to build two indus-

trial facilities, Beechcraft and Slipstream. Beechcraft is a 54,000-square-foot tilt-up with 15 dock doors. Slipstream is a 60,000-square-foot tilt-up with 17 dock doors. The aircraft names are inspired by proximity to the Boise Airport. The speculative buildings with 32-foot clear-height ceilings, available for single or multiple tenants, are filling fast.

Layton delivering Macy’s expanding operations in California Layton was recently selected to expand and renovate the Macy’s store in Manhattan Beach, California. Although challenges con-tinue to loom for traditional brick-and-mortar retail stores, however, a strong market in southern California prompted one of Macy’s few current major capital expansion projects, with a 60,000-square-foot addition and renovation of the existing 110,000-square-foot store in Manhattan Village.

“There’s no question in our mind that Layton is the ‘A’ team — with depth of knowledge, capacity, capital, and an ability to draw on unparalleled experi-ence,” says Scott Thomson, principal with Strider Group. “What’s more important to us though, and was immediately apparent, is that we aren’t just a job or a draw or a change order to Layton — we are a

relationship to them. And we feel like Layton takes the long view of that.” Layton’s Boise team recently used the Beechcraft building to stage a customer appreciation event, welcoming guests with food truck fare and festivities, and to show off some impres-sive concrete. Construction is also underway for Strider’s next new office building in Boise.

The Strider Group partnered with Layton to deliver the Beechcraft building in Boise and

recently celebrated with an open house (inset).

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Ultradent is a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of dental products, and has been revolutionizing the dental industry since 1978. Likewise, Ultradent expects its construction partner to be nothing less than revolutionary. With Ultradent’s rapid growth, Layton has worked on the company’s campus sev-eral times in recent years, renovating and expanding manufacturing and distribution space. The most recent project added a fourth floor, 300-seat conference and train-ing center atop an existing office building built in the 1990s. Updated building codes necessitated some challenging structural upgrades.

“It was a very challenging project to build this conference center on the roof right above employees that were operating ‘busi-ness as usual,’” says Dr. Dan Fischer, founder and CEO. “Cutting holes in the structure, removing the existing roofing membrane, keeping the building water-tight, attaching the new steel structure and placing concrete in one of Utah’s harshest winters in recent memory — these were the problems that Layton and its subcontractors handled very well.” Postcard perfect views from the aptly named Panorama Room gives dental profes-sionals from around the world spectacular views of Utah’s scenic mountains.

Ultradent’s New Crown Jewel

The roof-top addition of a training room and confer-ence center at Ultradent’s headquarters brought a new perspective to the company — a panoramic one.

Featured Project

World-renowned Loma Linda Univer-sity Health continues to place its trust in Layton Construction. Layton recently completed a 150,000 square-foot, three-story tilt-up medical office build-ing in San Bernardino, California. The third floor of the building houses the 30,000-square-foot San Manuel Gateway College — a partnership between Loma Linda, and local and state education, employment and social service agencies — to prepare high school and adult students for careers in healthcare through a unique educational approach and setting. The students benefit from hands-on training and mentoring by Loma Linda University Health faculty and students. Nearby, in the city of Loma Linda, Layton is completing a seismic up-grade to the existing steam plant at the flagship Loma Linda University Medical Center, all while keeping the hospital and steam plant fully operational.

Loma Linda takes a healthy approach partnership with Layton

Maverik is filling up the western United States Maverik fuels adventures in more than 300 locations across 10 western states, making it the largest independent fuel marketer in the Intermountain West. The company is undergoing phenomenal growth, including the recent completion of a store

across the street from Layton’s corporate headquarters, frequented regularly by Layton employees. Layton’s Interior Construction Specialists built out three floors comprising 34,236 square feet of space in Maverik’s corporate headquarters building in downtown Salt Lake City. With a tight schedule, the project was completed in mid-June.

Layton Construction climbed four spots to #53 on ENR’s Top 400 Contractors list for 2017. Layton’s all-domestic work — $1.35 billion in 2016 — contributed to the U.S. aggregate domestic construction rev-enues, which rose sharply in 2016, to $323 billion reported by the Top 400, up 9.7 percent above 2015. Layton remains optimistic about construction growth and opportunities ahead.

Layton climbs to No. 53 on ENR’s national builder list

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Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children, Honolulu


HOSPITALITY Hawaii’s Only Full-Service Children’s Hospital Reaches Higher With Diamond Head TowerBY GREG BENNETT

n a small parcel of land, wedged be-

tween the busiest freeway in Hawaii,

a preschool, a church and a 17-story

parking garage, lies Hawaii’s only full-service

children’s hospital — the new Kapi‘olani Medical

Center for Women & Children.

The hospital opened in 1978 and hasn’t seen a

major renovation in 30 years. In 2005, Kapi‘olani

purchased an adjacent parcel of land — taking the

existing campus from 3 1/2 acres to 4 1/2 acres —

and began to determine what to do with the extra

space.

The medical center’s board hired Layton Con-

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The Diamond Head Tower was built in close quarters with a church and a preschool. Layton worked closely with church officials to miti-gate concerns about demolition and construction near the children.

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The new Diamond Head Tower provides more space for departments like Rehabilitation Services, which now has an 8,000-square-foot center to provide specialized programs for infants and children.

garage near the intensive care unit and make room for the Diamond Head Tower — a 200,000-square-foot expansion to the medical center. “This was Phase One of a plan to eventually replace the entire facility,” says Martha Smith, CEO of the medical center. “We liked Layton’s experience with the healthcare industry and appreciate the insight they brought to the project.” In February 2014 — after the de-

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February 2014

End DateJune 2016

Total Square Footage200,000

ArchitectHDR ArchitectureOmaha, Nebraska

Construction Cost$150 million

> > > “Kapi‘olani is the only full-service mother, baby, infant hospital that serves the island. The hospital simply cannot close. Opening when we needed to is a testa-ment to the team that dealt with a seemingly endless parade of design and construction challenges.”

Dave PowersSenior project manager, Rider Levett Bucknall

molition of the parking structure — construction began on the Diamond Head Tower.

TIGHT CORNERS All parties involved knew from the beginning that the location of

the site — and its close proximity to neighboring structures — would be a challenge. Besides a lack of staging space and laydown area, the urban environ-ment meant more interaction and communication with neighbors and

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Efficient design and equip-ment selection will achieve annual energy and water-use reductions of 20 percent.

Design elements are geared toward the hospital’s pediatric clientele.

other interested parties. “We did a lot of community preparation before we even started,” Martha says. “Layton participated in all of that with us. They came with us to our neighbors and made sure we worked through everything together to make sure things went well and offered as little disruption as possible.” And this shared communication didn’t end when the building started. Occasionally during construction, the need would arise to meet with neighboring stakeholders and Lay-ton was constantly standing with the hospital administration, answering

questions and mitigating concerns. “We try to get involved in every community we work in,” says Todd Hardcastle, project manager with Layton. “We try to understand their issues and try to have them understand what we’re doing. Good communication helps everyone feel better about what’s going on.”

CONTINUOUS CARE Community conferences and neighborhood chats help, but when building at a hospital, internal coor-dination is key. “We can never shut down,” Martha says. “We can never take a

Casework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pacific Cabinets, Inc.

Curtain Wall/Metal Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steel Encounters, Inc.

Drywall/Framing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BEK Inc.

Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cache Valley Electric Co.

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . Koga Engineering & Construction, Inc.

Flooring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pro Spectra Contract Flooring

Fire Sprinkler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commercial Plumbing

Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Zelinsky Company

Plumbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pan Pacific Plumbing Co.

Roofing/Waterproofing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beachside Roofing, LLC

Structural Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Swanson Steel Erectors, Inc.

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Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children is a teaching hospital for students at the University of

Hawaii’s John A. Burns School of Medicine.

break. We had to continue to offer quality care and put the needs of our patients and staff members first.” This 24/7 dynamic meant the list of team members on the team was — by necessity — a long one. “We involved the team at the hos-pital — myself, our construction rep, head of nursing, head of security,” Martha says. “It was a big group, but each of them represented an area of the hospital that would be impacted and needed to be at the table.”

With hospital construction, the impacts can be a challenge, but the team worked through issues together. “The fact that we were able to achieve the open date we needed to achieve was positive,” says Dave Powers, senior project manager with Rider Levett Bucknall and owner’s representative on the project. “Given the challenges of that campus and the nature of the healthcare environ-ment — where a startle or a noise

can have a life impact — it’s not easy.” But it came from good planning for what you could plan for and an efficient, professional response when things happened that were unplanned. “We had our weekly meetings, but we also had cell phones,” Martha says. “I knew we could call Kevin (Charves) or Todd and get a quick response on any concerns.” Kevin, Layton’s construction

manager on the project, appreciated the team-first approach held by all parties when unexpected challenges arose. “We focused on fixing the problem and making sure the concerns of Martha, her patients and her staff were resolved,” Kevin says.

THE END RESULT A driving force for the new tower was to move the intensive care unit to a private room model, as opposed

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Side plate construction utilized in the building al-lows more window space as steel bracing is not blocking the view, giving more natural light to the spaces throughout the hospital.

“We are very happy with the end result. The Layton team was great to work with, and we now have a beautiful, state-of-the-art facility that supports our goal of providing family-centered care for our patients.”

Martha SmithCEO, Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children

to the open-air model the hospital utilized before. Babies, parents and staff members are already seeing the benefits of the new model of care. “Our parents and staff are very happy with the new ICU,” Martha says. “Unfortunately, our newborn ICU clinic that we planned for 10 years ago is already too small. That’s life in a hospital.” It’s not just hospital staff members and parents that are buzzing about the new building. Building Industry

Hawaii (BIH) featured the project on the cover of its January 2017 magazine and industrial associations are taking note, too. The project earned recognition from numerous industry organizations throughout the state. Besides the newborn ICU, the tower includes a pediatric ICU, an adult medical surgical unit, the rehabilitation services department and conference and training rooms. It also includes unfinished areas,

Kapi‘olaniQuick Notes

• The demolished parking structure was connected to the existing NICU and PICU, so Layton crews utilized vibration isolation mats under each infant’s bed and per-formed a surgical demolition and soft cut it away from the building.

• One of the lobbies in the new tower includes a projector that illuminates games on the floor for children to play.

• The facility features 96 private rooms in its NICU, PICU and Medical Surgical Units. These larger, private rooms allow parents and caregivers to stay overnight. Research shows that patients heal better and faster when families are involved with their care.

• The new 40,000-square-foot NICU is five times larger than the hospital’s previous space.

which are expected to be built into a new emergency department/imaging and new kitchen/dining areas. The Diamond Head Tower is a new reminder to the commu-nity — and the state of Hawaii — of the professionalism, level of care and devotion to healing the Kapi‘olani Medical Center has been providing for 40 years. It also indicates the facility’s willingness to adapt and offer the latest in medical care.

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In 1973, Malcolm T. Koga started Koga Engineering & Construction, Inc. with two

employees — him and his wife, Carol. They believed in working to-gether with clients, fellow contrac-tors and other stakeholders to get the best results on every project the company was associated with. “Overall, we’ve focused on creating strong partnerships and working closely with all parties involved in a job to get the best possible outcomes,” says Clay Asato, president of Koga Engineer-ing & Construction, Inc. Clay also points out that the company’s strength in developing these strong relationships and ef-ficient partnerships are the quality employees of the company. “We believe in ‘ohana’ — which means family — and work to do things that help employees feel part

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TYPES OF WORK• Sitework• Engineering• Municipal/Utilities

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HIGH-PROFILE LAYTON JOBS

• Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children, Honolulu

• James Campbell High School expansion, Ewa Beach, Hawaii

CONTACT INFORMATIONwww.kogaengineering.com

of what we’re doing,” says Brian Kunioka, vice president-estimating. That’s why project managers at the company each average more than 20 years with the company. And those project managers — like Garett Ichimura, the project manager on the Kapi‘olani project with Layton — are then able to train the next generation of Koga professionals. “The main thing that helped the Kapi‘olani project go so well was the communication between the different parties,” Garett says. “We were able to talk with Layton to work things through with the hos-pital, the school, church and other

people that would be affected.” Koga was responsible for the sitework on the project, which included digging 25 feet into the ground — next to a working hospital and a busy roadway. The company also had to work closely with Layton to ensure access for other subcontractors to get their work done in a limited space. “We got involved early enough to be able to put together a pretty good gameplan with Layton,” Garett says. Koga’s attention to the end result and team-first approach led to a successful project with all parties happy with the results.

Ohana Helps EveryoneFamily-like approach to engineering and construction leads to success for Koga

“Most of our project managers are licensed, profes-sional engineers, so we can bring a level of expertise that can’t be found in a lot of other companies. That has been one of the keys to our success.”

Clay AsatoPresident, Koga Engineering & Construction, Inc.

Koga Engineering & Construction, Inc.The professionals at Koga Engineering & Construction, Inc., offer a wide-variety of

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Spirit of the IslandsLayton is making itself at home in Hawaii

Editor’s Note: We asked Will Sum-merhays, executive vice president, to reflect on Layton’s start-up in Hawaii in 2005.

My personal involvement with Layton Hawaii actually started in 2004 on the I-15 corridor in Utah. I was driving home from Layton’s corporate headquarters in Utah late in the evening when the cell phone rang. I answered to hear the voice of an old high school friend and college roommate, Paul Ritchie. He said his team was looking to Layton for help with a project he and his development partners were having a tough time getting off the ground. The project was on the south side of Kauai near Poipu Beach. Eight months later I moved my family to that small island in the Pacific without knowing anyone, with the thought that we would help our client get a project off the ground. I am thankful for my wife who willingly jumped “all in” on

this new adventure for our family, and to Layton for the opportunity. Our initial plan was to help a cli-ent navigate through the develop-ment gauntlet in a new geographic location. That is how our Hawaii adventure began. I was the only Layton employee in Hawaii for over a year, getting Koloa Landing to a point where it was ready to begin construction. When I arrived on the island, I did not know anyone and no one knew who we were. At the time, it was a booming construction market and convincing subcontrac-tors to take on work with the “new kid on the block” proved to be a challenge. It was critical to gain trust and show that we were here to become part of the community and to help them be successful. We’ve worked hard to develop the relationships we have today with our subcontractors. We have found that Hawaii has a fantastic subcon-tractor base.

When we moved to Kauai 12 years ago, we had planned on a short stint, thinking that we would then return home to Utah. Since then, I have watched my children grow up on the island and now my daughter who is in college on the mainland talks about how much she misses her home — Kauai. Hawaii is our home. It has been a blessing and adventure to see Layton grow from one family in relocating to Kauai to a business unit that is full of great local talent building wonderful projects in the most beautiful place in the world.

Will Summerhays (second from the left) and others participate at a ceremonial

site blessing in Hawaii (circa. 2008).

Aloha Meets ExcellenceA dozen years of accolades highlight Hawaii office

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Some 12 years ago, Layton

ventured to Hawaii to begin work on the Koloa Landing Resort on Kauai

for a Utah-based development group. Three major construc-tion phases later, we’ve wrapped up construction of the 323-unit hospitality project with 25-acres of lush tropical landscape and unmatched amenities including pools, poolside food and beverage services, spa and fitness center, and much more. It was complex construction resulting in hospital-ity at its finest. But that project was just our beginning in Hawaii. In those 12 years, we have built a team of 75 construction profession-als. We have completed projects across four islands, and completed work in a wide variety of sectors including education, entertain-

ment, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, retail and office. We’ve grown to be recognized as one of the top 10 contractors in Hawaii, as ranked by Building Industry Hawaii magazine. Project awards keep coming our way, from organizations including Associated Builders and Contractors Hawaii, NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association Hawaii, and General Contractors Associa-tion (GCA) of Hawaii. Recently, GCA Hawaii awarded Kapi‘olani Medical Center Diamond Head Tower with the 2017 Build Hawaii Excellence Award and the 2017 Grand Award Winner for the best overall project of the year in Hawaii. Those are stellar accolades of which our Hawaii team can be justly proud. Congratulations to our Hawaii team for their continued success, and we look forward to many more great years of constructing in the Islands. Every good project comes with challenges, especially those in

healthcare where we’re literally building side-by-side with patients and healthcare professionals in a fully operational hospital. Stated well in the Kapi‘olani cover story in this issue, the hospital is a prod-uct of “good planning for what you can plan for and an efficient, professional response when things happened that were unplanned.” Instilled in all Layton team mem-bers is the concept that knowledge is power — that we can provide information and answers to construction challenges, through our decades of experience — that others don’t know. So, whether it be a hospital in Hawaii or raising the roof of Ultra-dent in Utah, our construction team members across the nation are prepared to find solutions to our clients’ toughest construction challenges. We will work collaboratively, communicate effectively and complete projects with the best predictable outcomes.

DAVID S. LAYTON

Layton’s work on the Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children earned recognition from the

GCA Hawaii — including the 2017 Grand Award for the best overall project of the year in Hawaii.

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