Walsh Construction Co. is providing GC/CM services for two seven story residence halls designed by Mahlum at the University of Washington’s main campus in Seattle. Both buildings are designed with a “live/learn” component that provides students with study and meeting rooms, lounge spaces and bicycle storage, and includes offices and areas for commercial/retail use. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Building 33 totals 96,882 sq ft and will house 278 students and include a common kitchen and central lounge, with flexible TV and study areas on each floor, laundry facilities and storage rooms. Work will complete in the spring of
Portland’s Union Station will no longer need to use buckets to catch rain from a leaky roof when Portland general contractor P&C Construction Co. completes facility improvements in January to one of the oldest major passenger terminals on the west coast and a defining feature of the city’s skyline. The architect is Portland-based Architectural Resources Group. Historic Union Station, Portland, Ore. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The $4.3-million project includes repair and replacement of the station’s trademark red roof tiles, which are actually tin. P&C project manager Steve Bartell found the original dies locked in a safe at the
Our annual survey of subcontractors in the Southwest shows revenue totals plummeting in 2009. Last year, we ranked 160 companies totaling $6.13 billion based on their 2008 revenue. This year, the responses fell to 113 firms with revenue totaling just $3.58 billion in 2009. Photo Courtesy Carollo Engineers Crews pour concrete for a clarifier floor during construction on the third phase of the $60-million Casa Grande Water Reclamation Facility. Related Links: Top 113 Specialty Contractors State/Worldwide Market Sectors Safest Subcontractors Even with the drop in participation, the largest firms remain fairly consistent year to year. All but five of last
Superintendent Phil Long of Medford School District in Oregon wanted to incorporate a sense of community when the district replaced the outdated 1930s-era South Medford High School. Mahlum Architects of Portland delivered with plans for an $82-million, 225,000-sq-ft, energy-efficient campus with 48 classrooms, 10 science rooms, 2,000-seat gym and modern theater. “It is a people-friendly building,” Long says of the new structure. “It’s flexible enough that if we change programming in the future, the physical spaces can accommodate new uses.” The 20-acre instructional campus is broken into four small learning communities, with a pair of two-story wings centered around a
Tight working footprints and even cozier timelines highlight the ongoing reconstruction of Issaquah High School in Washington as Bothell-based Cornerstone General Contractors pushes through its summer rush, striving to complete the school’s classroom and core areas in time for the return of students this fall. The $84-million transformation of the high school is the flagship project of a $241-million 2006 bond that includes work on more than a dozen Issaquah School District projects. It changes the high school from one built in the mold of 1960s open-circulation designs into a larger, low-impact, modern campus. The 285,000-sq-ft school is being built
School districts across the Northwest are committing to sustainability – not despite the economy, but in some cases because of it. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" One such project is the $61.8-million Redmond High School in central Oregon. Skanska USA Building’s central Oregon office is the general contractor on the 276,000-sq-ft, two-story project. Redmond School District sees benefits to seeking LEED gold beyond environmental stewardship. “Sustainability means less operating costs,” says Jerry Milstead, construction project manager with the district. “If you look at K-12 throughout the U.S. and certainly in Oregon, that’s where the problem is: funds for operations.
Rural Alaska follows its own construction rules. Two new schools for the native Yupiit people are challenging the Anchorage-based building teams: kpb Architects and Neeser Construction, which are completing the $23.1-million, 41,491-sq-ft Marshall Replacement School, and Bering Pacific Corp., which is building the $20.9-million, 31,900-sq-ft Russian Mission Replacement School. Both schools are within 60 mi of each other along the Yukon River. “Like all Bush Alaska, everything you need, from a bolt to food to a Band-Aid, must be ordered six to eight months ahead of time to come in on a barge or you have to fly it in
RERICK In the Pacific Northwest, we’ve been spoiled with abundant and relatively cheap energy. This allowed us to become lackadaisical about our buildings’ energy consumption over the past several decades. Now, with rising energy prices and climate change concerns, building performance has jumped to the top of our aging buildings’ to-do list. Power Myths With active coal plants in Boardman, Ore. and Centralia, Wash., the Pacific Northwest’s clean power reputation is partly a myth. Oregonians still get around 40% of their electricity from coal and only 40% from hydro. Washington utility customers’ electricity is slightly cleaner with only about 17%
A highway improvement project that runs through a national park is serving as a test case for formalizing a road rating system similar to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design building rating system. Photo: David Evans and Associates The U.S. 97 Lava Butte-South Century Drive project in Oregon may be the first roadway to be officially rated “green.” The 3.8-mile, $16-million U.S. 97 Lava Butte-South Century Drive upgrade in central Oregon runs through the Newberry National Monument. It is the furthest along of three projects the Oregon Dept. of Transportation will evaluate to determine if it will adopt standards
Alyeska Pipeline CEO Kevin Hostler will retire from management of the 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) in September, three months earlier than planned. “Retiring at the end of September is good for the pipeline,” Hostler, 55, said in a statement. Photo: Courtesy Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Alyeska Pipeline CEO Kevin Hostler. Hostler announced on July 7 that his last day is September 30. Members of the TAPS Owner Committee are now looking for a new CEO and will appoint an interim CEO if the position is not filled in time. Hostler’s announcement will not alter controversial staffing or maintenance
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