Washington Top 15 Project Starts
5. Swedish/Issaquah Campus
PROJECT COST: $225 Million
Started: September 2009
Target Completion: Early 2012
Owner: Swedish Medical Center
Design Firm: CollinsWoerman
General Contractor: Sellen Construction
Engineers: DCI Engineers; CDi Engineers; Sparling
To meet the health-care needs of the fast growing community of Greater Issaquah/Sammamish, Swedish is opening a new medical center in the Issaquah Highlands. A new medical office building and outpatient center will open July 2011, while an 80-bed hospital will open in early 2012 with future expansions bringing it up to 175 beds. The new campus will provide a broad range of inpatient and outpatient medical services including oncology, cardiac care, obstetrics, pediatrics, emergency services, primary care, intensive care and a host of other medical and surgical services and specialists.
6. Columbia River Grain Terminal
PROJECT COST: $200 Million
Started: July 2009
Target Completion: Fall 2011
Owner: EGT Development LLC (Bunge North America, ITOCHU Corporation and STX Pan Ocean)
General Contractor: T. E. Ibberson Co./TIC Western
Subcontractors: Interstates
This complex project in Longview will provide a state-of-the-art facility designed to help meet the growing demand for food in Asia. To store up to 4 million bushels of grain, crews are building 36 massive, 140-ft-tall concrete storage silos on site. The first 24 silos were slip-formed in non-stop action over eight days in mid-December, with the remaining 12 poured in February. Two other structures – a grain cleaning building and a grain weighing building – also will be slip-formed, and then a complex system of grain-handling equipment and devices will be anchored to the infrastructure. The supporting rail system will accommodate four, 110-car unit trains that will move non-stop through the facility on 50,000 ft of track.
7. Spokane County Regional Water Reclamation Facility
PROJECT COST: $143 Million
Started: January 2009
Target Completion: January 2012
Owner: Spokane County
Design Firm/Engineer: CH2M HILL
General Contractor: CH2M HILL
Subcontractors: Garco Construction Inc.; Halme Construction Inc.; Power City Electric; University Mechanical Contractors
Once operational, this massive project will treat up to 8 million gallons of wastewater per day (expandable to 24 mgd) to meet the needs for Spokane County’s projected population growth. It will also help meet septic tank elimination goals, improve water quality and the environment by reducing phosphorous discharges to the Spokane River. Not only is CH2M HILL designing and building the facility, but will also operate and maintain it for 20 years. The treatment process includes chemically enhanced primary treatment in conjunction with membrane bioreactor technology.
8. SR 16 - Westbound Nalley Valley Freeway
PROJECT COST: $119.9 Million
Started: January 2009
Target Completion: Spring 2011
Owner: WSDOT
General Contractor: Guy F. Atkinson Construction, LLC
Consulting Engineer: McNary Bergeron
To reduce the notorious congestion in the area, the westbound portion of the Nalley Valley reconstruction project will build a new westbound connection between S.R. 16 and Interstate 5. The eastbound side will be built under a separate contract. The design eliminates traffic weave by adding new direct connections from southbound I-5 to Sprague Avenue and westbound S.R. 16 plus a new Sprague Avenue on-ramp. Full-width shoulders, new lighting and improved electronic signage will drastically improve safety on the stretch of roadway.
