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.
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.
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