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Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record Bid/Proposal DatesOregonThe City of Sandy is seeking bidders to build the Portland Water Bureau inter-tie project. The project entails building a 1-million-gal, partially-buried circular prestressed concrete reservoir; a 1-million-gal-per-day potable water pump station; a 1.5-mgd potable-water package pump station; 13,190 ft of 24-in.-dia transmission main; and 13,800 ft of 18-in.-dia transmission main. The work also includes electrical controls and connections into existing water, sewer and storm drain systems. The project is valued at $10 million. City of Sandy, Attn: Mike Walker, Public Works Director, 39250 Pioneer Blvd., Sandy, 97055. DR#12-00677795. Contracts/Bids/ProposalsWashingtonThe Berschauer Phillips

Designing a children's hospital to invite patients and families into what can often be a scary environment has intrinsic challenges.

Clackamas County Water Environment Services not only picked a high-performance membrane bioreactor technology to expand wastewater treatment at this Oregon City facility; it did so within a small, indoor footprint.

Along with the complex new Outpatient Specialty Clinic at the existing 50-acre V.A. Medical Center campus in Vancouver, Wash., came concerns over scheduling and supply deliveries for the intricate pieces of the $5.9-million building.

Working in Alaska's harsh winters always provides challenges, but so does working without a firm contract in place.

A tight budget, a rural location on the cliffs above the Columbia River Gorge and a jobsite attached to a 100-year-old museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places combined to challenge designers and contractors on a 25,500-sq-ft expansion of the Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Wash.

A shining example of the roster of outstanding projects in the Pacific Northwest sits perched on a high hillside overlooking the Columbia River Gorge. The expansion and renovation of the Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Wash., features a design that is both modernistic and respectful of the existing historic site, combining smart engineering and well-executed construction.

Anderson Construction crews faced a tight footprint when delivering the nearly $50-million science center at Oregon State University.

Howard S. Wright, Portland, credits a personalized, morale-boosting safety culture combined with intricate planning for its clean safety record on the $14-million, three-story student center on the Corvallis, Ore., campus.

Using a worker-to-worker observation program that paired up two different trades to study the crew's work on the $117-million Central Washington Hospital Patient Tower in Wenatchee, Wash., the team logged 489,934 man-hours without a lost-time accident.