Clad in glass, granite and metal and featuring 40-ft cantilevers, the Hatfield Dowlin Complex—built for the Oregon Ducks football team—offers numerous amenities.
The team on the Alaska Native Brotherhood Harbor upgrade says it surmounted technical challenges and an aggressive schedule to complete the project 14% below budget.
The 15 winners of ENR Northwest's second-annual Top Young Professionals competition distinguished themselves by their mastery of such technology as building information modeling (BIM) and editing and design software as well as their use of social media and smart tablets in the field.
While most of the Seattle crews working on the mammoth State Route 99 project may be cooling their heels as Bertha, the world's largest tunneling machine, remains stuck underground, another job creator has been moving swiftly through the city—office construction.
With a dual mission to restore King Street Station to its 1906 grandeur while adding modern structural and sustainable upgrades, the project team behind this $55-million renovation and modernization project delivered a transportation hub to Seattle that respects the city's history and reflects its modern sensibilities.
To expand the Macdonald Center into a neighboring site in Old Town Portland, crews had to work between two occupied buildings and coordinate with the TriMet MAX light rail, which passes just east of the building.
The $27-million, 52,000-sq-ft expansion of MultiCare Health System's Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center required crews to work while the adjoining hospital remained in operation.
Part of Seattle's Lake to Bay capital project, the Thomas Street bridge helps reconnect South Lake Union to Elliott Bay. But to create this interpretive trail, crews had to build a bridge over the railroad tracks that separated the shoreline park from the community that the connection would serve.