Photo: Sound Transit Sound Transit University Link Tunnels Photo: Mortenson Construction Providence Regional Medical Center - Everett Related Links: Top 30 Northwest Starts Oregon Alaska Photo: NBBJ Washington DIS Data Center and Office Building Photo: Turner Construction Seattle-Tacoma Intl. Airport Consolidated Rental Car Facility 1. Sound Transit University Link Tunnels PROJECT COST: $462.7 Million Started: March 2009 Target Completion: 2013 Owner: Sound Transit Design Firm: Northlink Transit Partners (Jacobs Associates; HNTB Corp.; AECOM) General Contractor: JCM U-Link; Traylor Frontier-Kemper JV Construction Manager: Seattle Tunnel and Rail Team JV Consultants: LMN Architects; Hewitt Architects; KPFF Consulting Engineers; Earth Tech University Link,
Related Links: Architect Designs Two College Facilities Construction of I-90 HOV Lane Commences Center for Health Sciences to Start at Puget Sound The joint venture of In Line Commercial Construction Inc, Aloha, with Rickenbach Construction, Astoria, have been selected to provide construction services for three projects at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. The work is estimated at $4.6 million and began in March. Designed by Portland-based Anderson Dabrowski Architects, the program includes a complete upgrade to the hospital’s 14,800-sq-ft surgery suites, a new outpatient endoscopy center and a three-story, 13,545-sq-ft professional office building.
Related Links: Architect Designs Two College Facilities Joint Venture Selected for Columbia Memorial Projects Center for Health Sciences to Start at Puget Sound Sound Transit and the WSDOT broke ground on the next stage of adding new HOV lanes in both directions across Lake Washington on Interstate 90 to prepare for East Link light rail service between Seattle and the Eastside. The second stage of the project now getting underway by general contractor Gary Merlino Construction will open a new eastbound HOV lane between Mercer Island and Bellevue in late 2012. The third and final stage, to be completed in
Oregon State University plans fast-track construction of an ecologically sustainable live-learn facility designed to attract more international students to its Corvallis campus. Construction is scheduled to begin in May with completion set prior to the fall of 2011. Related Links: Joint Venture Selected for Columbia Memorial Projects Construction of I-90 HOV Lane Commences Center for Health Sciences to Start at Puget Sound The project was designed by Mahlum’s Portland office as a six-story, post-tensioned concrete structure built to LEED gold equivalency, including solar-powered hot water, heat recovery ventilation systems, high-efficiency radiant heating and a thermally improved exterior wall system. Construction
Related Links: Architect Designs Two College Facilities Joint Venture Selected for Columbia Memorial Projects Construction of I-90 HOV Lane Commences University of Puget Sound began construction of the Center for Health Sciences at the south end of campus in May with general contractor GLY Construction. The 42,500-sq-ft interdisciplinary center is expected to open in time for the fall 2011 school semester. In addition to classrooms, offices and neurology, orthopedic, pediatric and outpatient clinics, it will house a motion analysis lab, biochemistry wet lab, observation suite, exercise physiology lab and a social sciences computer lab. The building was designed by Seattle
Last year, construction teams broke ground on 30 large-scale projects across the Northwest totalling $4.5 billion of work. Some projects beginning in 2008 were also included if they weren’t included in last year’s Top Project Starts. One project, the $240-million Sea-Tac Airport Rental Car Facility, is actually the largest ‘re-start’, having shut down in 2008 and then restarted in summer 2009. Photo: CH2M HILL Spokane County Regional Water Reclamation Facility Related Links: Washington Oregon Alaska Rankings from the past five years, as well as an electronic version of this year’s, are available on our web site at www.northwest.construction.com The projects
Government projects—from prisons to new hospitals—have contractors sharpening their pencils and building in Alaska. “Things in Alaska are pretty good compared to the rest of the country,” says Chuck Wiegers, president of A&A Roofing Co. of Fairbanks and a board member and past chairman of Associated Builders and Contractors-Alaska Chapter. “A good part of the work is federal and state.” John MacKinnon, executive director of Associated General Contractors of Alaska in Anchorage, says he expects highway and civil construction will provide additional work during the next couple of years. He adds that the state has experienced a downturn in vertical
Despite the recession, there are some promising construction projects in Seattle, including renovation of Pike Place Market, an infill project in the Rainier Valley and new digs for Amazon.com. The huge headquarters projects for Amazon.com in the South Lake Union area and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation near Seattle Center hold about the only tower cranes on the skyline, which was crowded with them two years ago. Phase one of the $500-million Gates Foundation includes two six-story buildings totalling 900,000 sq ft, being constructed by Seattle-based Sellen Construction. The Seattle office of NBBJ designed the expected LEED gold first
THOMAS The American Institute of Architects granted honorary membership to Dr. Gail Thomas, president and CEO of The Trinity Trust Foundation in Dallas. It is one of the highest honors the AIA bestows on a person outside the profession of architecture. Thomas’ efforts to improve cities and her support of the arts and architecture were keys to her election. LEO A DALY in Dallas named John Kraskiewicz its new COO. He is also a vice president of the firm. Kraskiewicz holds a bachelor’s of architecture, a master’s of architecture and a master’s of business administration with a specialization in real
As the consequences unfold of the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the flow of information has become as critical as the movement of the oil slick. One firm’s web-based information management system is having some success in crisis communication for those affected and is gaining wider play among infrastructure managers as an employee-management and business-continuity tool. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard The U.S. Coast Guard was the first client of the PIER system. Even with skepticism about the value and veracity of spill-related updates from platform owner BP and from some government sources, the Public Information Emergency
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