Rush Commercial is constructing the new LeMay/Pierce County division headquarters in Frederickson, Wash. The design/build project is comprised of an existing 42,500-sq-ft remodeled truck and equipment maintenance building and a new, two-story 15,700-sq-ft office building. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Improvements to the overall 30-acre site will include substantial civil improvements including site utilities, parking, truck wash, off-site street improvements, detention ponds and landscaping. Construction began this summer and completion is estimated in December.
Tacoma-based Rushforth Construction (AP Pacific Northwest) kicked off construction on the 85,784-sq-ft Haselwood Family YMCA in Silverdale, Wash. With completion expected next summer, the YMCA will be the first component of the 12-acre Central Kitsap Community Campus that will eventually offer many types of recreational and cultural activities. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The facility is expected to serve up to 15,000 community members with an aquatics center, wellness centers, exercise and multipurpose rooms, youth drop-in center, gym, community meeting rooms and nursery. The YMCA had planned the facility to be smaller, but a very successful fundraising campaign still
SRG Partnership, Inc. has recently been selected for several projects in the greater Puget Sound area. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" As prime, SRG is teamed with Parsons Brinckerhoff for the Olympia Intercity Transit Center Expansion, which will allow the transit center to accommodate new Greyhound bus bays and additional transit bus capacity while revitalizing the surrounding neighborhood, urban core and nearby waterfront. The project furthers SRG’s presence in Olympia, having played an active role on the city’s Capitol Campus for the past several years. Working with KPFF as prime, SRG has been selected for the West Mercer Corridor
Walsh Construction Co. is providing GC/CM services for two seven story residence halls designed by Mahlum at the University of Washington’s main campus in Seattle. Both buildings are designed with a “live/learn” component that provides students with study and meeting rooms, lounge spaces and bicycle storage, and includes offices and areas for commercial/retail use. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Building 33 totals 96,882 sq ft and will house 278 students and include a common kitchen and central lounge, with flexible TV and study areas on each floor, laundry facilities and storage rooms. Work will complete in the spring of
Portland’s Union Station will no longer need to use buckets to catch rain from a leaky roof when Portland general contractor P&C Construction Co. completes facility improvements in January to one of the oldest major passenger terminals on the west coast and a defining feature of the city’s skyline. The architect is Portland-based Architectural Resources Group. Historic Union Station, Portland, Ore. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The $4.3-million project includes repair and replacement of the station’s trademark red roof tiles, which are actually tin. P&C project manager Steve Bartell found the original dies locked in a safe at the
Our annual survey of subcontractors in the Southwest shows revenue totals plummeting in 2009. Last year, we ranked 160 companies totaling $6.13 billion based on their 2008 revenue. This year, the responses fell to 113 firms with revenue totaling just $3.58 billion in 2009. Photo Courtesy Carollo Engineers Crews pour concrete for a clarifier floor during construction on the third phase of the $60-million Casa Grande Water Reclamation Facility. Related Links: Top 113 Specialty Contractors State/Worldwide Market Sectors Safest Subcontractors Even with the drop in participation, the largest firms remain fairly consistent year to year. All but five of last
Superintendent Phil Long of Medford School District in Oregon wanted to incorporate a sense of community when the district replaced the outdated 1930s-era South Medford High School. Mahlum Architects of Portland delivered with plans for an $82-million, 225,000-sq-ft, energy-efficient campus with 48 classrooms, 10 science rooms, 2,000-seat gym and modern theater. “It is a people-friendly building,” Long says of the new structure. “It’s flexible enough that if we change programming in the future, the physical spaces can accommodate new uses.” The 20-acre instructional campus is broken into four small learning communities, with a pair of two-story wings centered around a
Tight working footprints and even cozier timelines highlight the ongoing reconstruction of Issaquah High School in Washington as Bothell-based Cornerstone General Contractors pushes through its summer rush, striving to complete the school’s classroom and core areas in time for the return of students this fall. The $84-million transformation of the high school is the flagship project of a $241-million 2006 bond that includes work on more than a dozen Issaquah School District projects. It changes the high school from one built in the mold of 1960s open-circulation designs into a larger, low-impact, modern campus. The 285,000-sq-ft school is being built
School districts across the Northwest are committing to sustainability – not despite the economy, but in some cases because of it. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" One such project is the $61.8-million Redmond High School in central Oregon. Skanska USA Building’s central Oregon office is the general contractor on the 276,000-sq-ft, two-story project. Redmond School District sees benefits to seeking LEED gold beyond environmental stewardship. “Sustainability means less operating costs,” says Jerry Milstead, construction project manager with the district. “If you look at K-12 throughout the U.S. and certainly in Oregon, that’s where the problem is: funds for operations.
Rural Alaska follows its own construction rules. Two new schools for the native Yupiit people are challenging the Anchorage-based building teams: kpb Architects and Neeser Construction, which are completing the $23.1-million, 41,491-sq-ft Marshall Replacement School, and Bering Pacific Corp., which is building the $20.9-million, 31,900-sq-ft Russian Mission Replacement School. Both schools are within 60 mi of each other along the Yukon River. “Like all Bush Alaska, everything you need, from a bolt to food to a Band-Aid, must be ordered six to eight months ahead of time to come in on a barge or you have to fly it in