When Larry Lantero decided to build a new home in Steamboat Springs, he knew he didn’t want a design that used the modern mountain architectural style. Instead, the vice president of Abbott Construction, a West Coast-based company that builds homes, schools and health care facilities, wanted to do something more retro for his passion project. Lantero, who earned his civil engineering degree from the University of Colorado Boulder and who has family living in Colorado, also wanted to build using beetle-kill pine. “I’m an avid outdoors person, and it’s always bothered me to see giant chunks of forest dead,” he said. He and his wife considered relocating their family from California during the pandemic.