Aurora SEAM Facility | Saunders Construction

Creating a centralized operations campus to support essential services for one of Colorado’s fastest-growing communities.

The Aurora Southeast Maintenance Facility (SEAM) was developed to provide a centralized operations campus for the City of Aurora’s Water Department while expanding maintenance and service capabilities for the rapidly growing southeast metro area. Designed to improve efficiency, coordination, and long-term operational capacity, the campus serves as a critical hub for the delivery of essential municipal services.

Situated on an 88-acre site, the facility supports more than 400 City of Aurora employees and serves as the operational headquarters for a wide range of maintenance, utility, and support functions. The campus is comprised of four primary buildings that accommodate Aurora Water, Aurora Fleet and Fueling, and Aurora’s Southeast Maintenance divisions, bringing multiple departments together in a single, purpose-built location.

The facilities combine administrative offices with extensive operations and maintenance spaces designed to support daily field activities. Key components include warehouse space, vehicle maintenance bays, welding and fabrication shops, fueling facilities, and a water quality laboratory. These specialized environments provide the infrastructure necessary to maintain vehicles, equipment, and utility systems that serve the community.

Site development represented a major component of the project. Approximately 44 acres were improved to create a fully functional municipal campus, including more than 1.5 miles of private roadway and an additional 1,000 linear feet of county road improvements. In total, the project delivered approximately 9,000 linear feet of paved roadway infrastructure, enhancing access and circulation throughout the site.

The linear feet of pipe off-site utilities consisted of 6.1 miles of sanitary sewer running through 14 different property owners, making this property location functional. The onsite utilities include:

11,000 linear feet of storm
4,100 linear feet of sanitary
5,600 linear feet water main
4,300 linear feet of electrical main

The scope of work also covered moving over 900,000 cubic yards of dirt on and off-site. The total hardscape laid was approximately 22.75 acres, almost one million square feet. This was made up of 16.2 acres (705,750 square feet) of asphalt and 6.52 acres (284,000 square feet) of concrete.

The project also includes a photovoltaic solar array totaling over 978kW of power generation.