To expand the Macdonald Center into a neighboring site in Old Town Portland, crews had to work between two occupied buildings and coordinate with the TriMet MAX light rail, which passes just east of the building.
The $27-million, 52,000-sq-ft expansion of MultiCare Health System's Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center required crews to work while the adjoining hospital remained in operation.
Part of Seattle's Lake to Bay capital project, the Thomas Street bridge helps reconnect South Lake Union to Elliott Bay. But to create this interpretive trail, crews had to build a bridge over the railroad tracks that separated the shoreline park from the community that the connection would serve.
ENR's Best Projects competition in the Northwest region showcases work that features innovative ideas, sustainable strategies and considerable collaboration.
Originally conceived and budgeted as a repair-and-alterations job, the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building project took on added scope through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Sandwiched between the end of the 2012-2013 Seattle Seahawks season and the start of the Seattle Sounders soccer season, the project team had four months to demolish an existing 3,100-sq-ft team store and build a new 14,130-sq-ft retail space.