Projects at Portland International Airport and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac Airport) will allow the facilities to handle more passengers and give them a better experience. Photo: Port of Seattle The Port of Seattle stalled work on the Sea-Tac car rental facility while it obtained funding for the project. Turner Construction is the general contractor. Photo:Port of Portland The Port of Portland will have a new headquarters and a parking garage at Portland International Airport when Hoffman Construction, Portland, finishes the LEED Gold project. Port of Portland The Port of Portland is building a $166-million, seven-story, 1.2 million sq ft, 3,500-car
The timely creation of a new, environmentally-educational 67,000 sq ft “living room” for the young city of Shoreline was the result of a public-partnership that welcomed citizens in the process. Photo: LMN, Seattle The city of Shoreline as a new city hall because of a public private partnership. The timely creation of a new, environmentally - educational 67,000 sq ft “living room” for the young city of Shoreline was the result of a public-partnership that welcomed citizens in the process. The city saved its tax pennies since incorporating a dozen years ago to buy land and put a $10 million
As a society, we’re good about setting some big goals. Putting a man on the moon, developing an information superhighway, cutting carbon emissions as a means to combat climate change-these are laudable and in the case of the first two, already achieved. Related Links: To LEED or Not To LEED But what we sometimes forget is that these “big” goals are only achieved through slow, hard work and a series of intermediate steps, without which, we’d never have made it. In the case of climate change, the fact that buildings generate 40 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions means we
Nathan Hale High School, Seattle, has a national reputation as a successful model of school reform and personalized learning, and a radio station that�s recognized as one the best in the country. But teachers and students have toiled for years in a classic’s 1960s industrially built, hard-to-navigate school, one with dark blue and red lockers, tiny windows and falling ceiling tiles. That’s changing as the school undergoes a major eco-renovation as part of the Seattle Public Schools Building Excellence III (BEX III) construction levy that runs through 2012. Set in a valley and surrounded by a park and bordered by
Building teams face many key decisions as they begin a project. One relatively new choice, in an official capacity, is whether to make the project “green”. Typically this question comes down to whether or not to seek LEED certification or to pursue some near equivalent without going through the submission and review with GBCI (Green Building Certification Institute). There are pros and cons to both the official and “stealth” green building approaches which must be weighed according to the project’s needs and goals. Related Links: Better Energy Codes: It�s not Rocket Science At only 3,111 certified projects as of June
It may not appear so from the outside, but inside the five-story concrete shell of the old B.F. Sisk Courthouse in Fresno, a new $70-million ($56 million in construction costs) Superior Courthouse is taking shape. One of the B.F. Sisk courtrooms, as envisioned by SmithGroup. Related Links: Top Design Firms “We are completely transforming the interior of this 1960s federal court building into a modern courthouse,” says David Moore, lead architect for the San Francisco office of SmithGroup Architecture. “It’s a complete gut and renovation.” The 192,000-sq-ft make-over broke ground in July 2008 and is scheduled for completion in late
Lowe Enterprises leads massive, $500-million project that will consolidate, upgrade existing facilities The three-phase project will create nearly 1 million sq ft of office space for San Diego County. The first phase of the project includes a central plant to serve the complex. Related Links: Top Design Firms Central Valley Market Report “We’re looking for something that will be timeless,” says RJC Architects principal James Robbins of the $500-million San Diego County Operations Center, a massive development under way in the county’s Kearny Mesa district. “The center’s existing buildings have been there for close to 50 years. We’re expecting these
Ledcor Construction Inc. has completed construction for San Elijo Hills Town Center, a new zero-lot-line commercial/residential mixed-use project located within the masterplanned community of San Elijo Hills in San Marcos in northern San Diego County. The residential and retail project consists of three separate three-story buildings. Related Links: Swinerton Breaks Ground on NASA Project at Ames Research Center KMA Architecture, Straub Construction Begin Design-Build Project at Camp Pendleton McCarthy Completes Parking Garage for Grossmont College Jacobs Receives Hospital Contract from City and County of San Francisco Bernards Starts Construction on Harley Ellis Devereaux-designed Child Development Center Skanska USA Completes Central
The Associated General Contractors of California has put out an alert to its members to hold off retrofitting their equipment with CARB-compliant diesel emission reduction filters (retrofit filters). Related Links: 13 Architectural Firms Awarded Courthouse Projects by the AOC Ellerbe Becket Joins AECOM “There are regulation revisions and studies in process that will affect the types of compliant filters, the pieces of equipment they are approved for and where they are installed on the equipment,” the AGC reports. “Before you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars retrofitting equipment that may be in violation of Cal/OSHA regulations, Cal/OSHA and CARB must
According to a report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, about $16 billion worth of inefficiency and waste in the U.S. construction industry is due to lack of interoperability – people planning, bidding or building off the wrong information. Related Links: Swinerton Breaks Ground on NASA Project at Ames Research Center KMA Architecture, Straub Construction Begin Design-Build Project at Camp Pendleton McCarthy Completes Parking Garage for Grossmont College Jacobs Receives Hospital Contract from City and County of San Francisco Bernards Starts Construction on Harley Ellis Devereaux-designed Child Development Center Skanska USA Completes Central Utility Plant to Power State
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