When William Kaven Architecture and Kaven + Co. proposed plans for a Portland Pearl District site that includes the tallest tower on the West Coast, it may have been nothing more than a highly publicized way to get Portland’s building height restrictions in the news.
Steel interests have misgivings about the fairness of a California law, enacted last month, intended to minimize carbon footprints of certain construction materials used in state-funded building projects by requiring all products to have a global warming potential less than the industry average.
Sound Transit's plans for expanding light rail in the south Puget Sound in Tacoma became more public recently at an open house at Evergreen State College.
The largest nuclear waste site in the country — and one of the largest environmental cleanups in the world — requires plenty of seemingly small-scale successes to move cleanup forward.