The Framework Project LLC has tall plans for mass timber in North America. The first undertaking is a 12-story engineered-wood building in Portland, Ore., called Framework Tower.
Unveiled for public input, the 2018 draft Campus Master Plan for the University of Washington’s Seattle campus puts a focus on density, building taller and creating greenspace.
After years of struggles with Bertha, the world’s largest diameter tunnel boring machine, resulting in a roughly three year delay and $220 million cost overrun on a plan to replace Seattle’s aging Alaskan Way Viaduct with a bored downtown tunnel, the project has hit the halfway point of the dig.
Michael Baker International appointed Don Sepulveda as vice president and rail and transit practice lead for the firm’s West region, based in Los Angeles.
To create the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the project team not only had to carefully plan out every step of the design and construction, but they also had to have fun doing it.
For the $2.26-billion Transbay Transit Center in downtown San Francisco, Shimmick Construction coordinated construction up and around a temporary access trestle and four levels of shoring struts and wales.
To construct this parking structure, the McCarthy-led design-build team worked with the zoo for more than three years, conducting a feasibility study that looked at eight parking structure options, location possibilities as well as budgets and schedules.
The $3.7-million project was developed to reduce bacteria levels in the city of Torrance’s Herondo Drain by improving water quality in three stormwater basins.
Not only was the Wolfgang Puck Food Court delivered under budget and ahead of schedule, but the facility was constructed inside of a busy, fully operating airport terminal, with thousands of passengers and staff passing the jobsite every day.
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