Funded under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and part of the U.S. General Services Administration's Design Excellence program, the 209,000-sq-ft Federal Center South transformed a 4.6-acre brownfield site into a modern workplace for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Northwest District headquarters.
To meet its goals, the team adopted techniques that had not previously been used in the region. As part of the effort to reuse existing materials, approximately 200,000 board ft of heavy timber and 100,000 board ft of decking were reclaimed from a nearby decommissioned warehouse using a deconstruction process. Much of the timber was graded and used for structural framing.