Submitted by Andersen Construction Photo: Andersen Construction Related Links: Northwest Construction Best of 2009 Awards The $41 million upgrade to the existing hospital included a 36,000 sq ft expansion, a 38,000 sq ft remodel and a new central utility plant. The 3-story expansion ties into the existing hospital floor-by-floor and includes an imaging department (with a new 1.5 Tesla MRI), 16-bed same day surgery area, new hospital main entry and lobby, and a family birthing center, with a C-section surgery room. The remodel affected almost every department of the existing facility with including surgery, central sterile, emergency department, materials management,
Submitted by Vanir Construction Management and Triton Marine Inc. Related Links: Northwest Construction Best of 2009 Awards The Blaine Border Crossing between Washington State and British Columbia has the third highest volume of passenger traffic and the fourth highest volume of commercial trucks along the entire U.S.-Canada border. This $33 million dollar project widened the highway and built a new overpass to relieve congestion, improve safety and facilitate truck movement across the border. With the significant elevation differences of the existing roadway to 25 feet lower in the final design, Imco used machinery equipped with GPS. The machinery eliminated the
Submitted by Yorke & Curtis Photo: Yorke & Curtis Related Links: Northwest Construction Best of 2009 Awards The six-story, 85-unit Shaver Green Apartments provides affordable housing in NE Portland. The $16 million LEED-certified project was required to have at least 20% of its workforce made up of women, minorities and emerging small businesses which the Portland Development Commission verified. It also helped finance the apartment building. The project team worked to obtain a workforce made up of 84.7% MWESB-certified companies. Budgeting constraints required the team to consider several skin materials and to convince the city of Portland to accept the
Submitted by Mortenson Construction Photo: Lara Swimmer Related Links: Northwest Construction Best of 2009 Awards The $60 million, 175,000-sq ft ShoWare Center is a sports and events center complex to be used for amateur/minor league hockey, basketball, arena football, concerts, area graduations, etc. The Center is the new home for the Seattle Thunderbirds hockey team. The facility seats 6,000 for hockey and arena events, approximately 7,800 for concerts and shows, and has 20 premium suites and club seating. There are 850 stalls of on-site parking. Concessions and vending are provided in the facility, serviced by a main kitchen and four
Northwest Construction Best of 2009 Awards The $10.3 million project consisted of a 15-story addition and seismic retrofit to The Alaska Building, Seattle’s first steel framed skyscraper, originally constructed in 1904.
Northwest Construction Best of 2009 Awards Providence Health and Services relocated its corporate headquarters to a 120,000 sq ft three building campus in Renton, Wash.
Related Links: Oregon Universities Work To Meet Climate Challenge EWB Works on Water Project in Tanzania Portland - The port and city of Portland are partnering on a request for $35.49 million in federal grant funds for the Terminal 4 Multimodal Green Port Project. The U.S. Department of Transportation has made available $1.5 billion in TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) discretionary grants for capital investment in surface transportation projects that must be fully constructed by Feb. 17, 2012. If the grant application is successful, the Port will work with the city on projects that will improve Terminal 4 and
Related Links: Joshua Green Building Renovation Complete Dutch Harbor Cold Storage Built By Skagit County Firm New Hotel Slated For Lakewood Area Olympia – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has adopted fee increases that will affect holders of stormwater and wastewater discharge permits in fiscal years 2010 and 2011. Ecology administers state and federal permits to regulate wastewater and stormwater discharges into Washington’s surface and underground waters. All permit holders are required to pay annual permit fees. Ecology uses the fee money to recover eligible costs associated with operating Ecology’s wastewater discharge permit program. Fees will increase by 5.2%
Related Links: Joshua Green Building Renovation Complete Discharge Permit Fees Increasing Soon New Hotel Slated For Lakewood Area Dutch Harbor, Alaska — Industrial Resources, Inc., has completed construction of Kloosterboer’s 80,000 sq ft cold storage facility in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Dutch Harbor, a small town in the remote Aleutian Islands, has no local access to lumber, hardware, steel or pipe so every component had to be pre-planned and ordered far in advance of needed delivery. Putting the facility together was like an international jigsaw puzzle because components came from around the world. IRI assembled all the components including steel from
Related Links: Port Partners with City To Win Tiger Grant Oregon Universities Work To Meet Climate Challenge Portland - Indigenous Education Foundation of Tanzania (IEFT), a non-profit grassroots organization that provides quality, affordable secondary education to underserved indigenous children in rural Tanzania, is partnering with the Portland Chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) to ensure the staff and students of Orkeeswa Secondary School in Lashaine Village, Tanzania have a water supply system that is safe and dependable. Until recently, due to the absence of groundwater or surface water sources in and around Lashaine Village, rainwater was collected from the classroom
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