Even with the difficulty of planning for the unknown, Turner Construction's mantra during renovation of Seattle's 100-year-old Pike Place Market on a bustling downtown hillside was "overcommunicate and minimize surprises."
A $107-million six-mile, single-track extension of the Portland Streetcar Loop was built entirely within city streets, presenting traffic management issues.
To balance sustainable energy practices and historic preservation for a rail station project, McKinstry traveled to Washington, D.C., to get special permission for its design of the SIERR Building at McKinstry Station from the National Park Service.
The 900,000-sq-ft headquarters revitalizes a city block in downtown Seattle and brings together 1,500 employees onto one campus. The $500-million LEED-Platinum project includes two boomerang-shaped structures with gardens and a 15,000-sq-ft interactive museum.
Image courtesy McGraw-Hill Construction A Mixed Picture in Seattle - A dip in institutional starts adds to a drop in transportation work, reducing total starts for 2012. Related Links: Engineering News Record City GrillDavid D'HondtExecutive Vice President AGC of WashingtonD'Hondt says Washington state contractors are keeping a close eye on Washington, D.C., to gauge what the market could look like in 2013. "We've been bouncing along the bottom for a while now, but things could get better or worse depending on how Congress and President Obama handle the fiscal cliff," he says. Based on McGraw-Hill Construction data, D'Hondt says he
Consolidation, collaboration and value engineering enabled construction of one of the largest—and most eco-friendly—bolted, clear-span buildings in the Northwest to be built a month ahead of schedule.
he 2.1-million-sq-ft building at Sea-Tac Airport is the first LEED-Silver rental-car facility in the U.S. and one of the first projects that used the nation's first construction accreditation program for water-quality accountability and the protection of an imperiled species.
The kick-off to renovations of Washington State University's Martin Stadium in Pullman, Wash., included a demolition contract with two substantial structural removals and precise concrete cutting performed by contractor NCM, Snoqualmie, Wash.
Bold engineering changes cut time, maintained traffic and increased long-term maintenance ease on a $114.6-million upgrade of the Interstate 5/State Route 16 interchange in Tacoma, Wash.
JEREMIAH When project funding finally comes through, owners and contractors alike are eager for shovels to dig in. Owners resist what they see as time-consuming contract negotiations, and contractors fear that resisting unreasonable contract terms will result in the work being awarded to a competitor. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Not so fast. While an owner’s threat to hand a project to the next hungry contractor may be real, a contractor should never sign a contract without understanding key terms and should never, never begin a project without preparing proper legal notices. Even a contract involving a nominal work
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