The Denver Art Museum's expansion includes a new Museum wing and a parking garage. The new wing is fashioned as an angular, titanium sheathed building designed jointly by German architect Daniel Libeskind and Denver's Davis Partnership. When completed, the new wing will overhang 13th Avenue and connect to the existing art museum via a pedestrian bridge between the two buildings.

JFSA is currently providing Civil Engineering services for this project in a wide variety of areas. Utility main and service designs were provided for Fire, Water, Storm, and Sanitary lines. Easement Relinquishment, Ordinance Relinquishment, and Right-of-Way Vacation Documents were produced in order to make possible the new buildings and a concept pedestrian plaza where Acoma Street is located. The drainage design took several site layout options into consideration. Because the architects were considering options from very minimal to extremely grand site plans, this design provides for the worst-case scenario of each option. The drainage concept included three porous landscape water quality and detention ponds. One unique aspect of these ponds is their aesthetic nature. A typical pond would have concrete trickle channels, rock or concrete forebays, and a permanent wetlands feature. The porous landscape ponds are grass-lined without any drainage structures protruding above the ground. This type of pond will allow sculpture gardens to be incorporated in these areas.

Reference: Davis Partnership, James Parker, 303.861.8555