Related Links: Government Budgets Stable Due to Stimulus Funding WSDOT Stimulus Projects Peak with Construction Season BLM to Upgrade Public Lands with $32 million Portland - TriMet and the city of Portland are using $1.6 million of federal stimulus funds to repair bricks in 20 intersections on Morrison and Yamhill streets in downtown Portland. As the backbone of Portland’s light rail system, the Morrison and Yamhill corridors have experienced significant wear and tear and have not had major repairs in the 25 years since the tracks went in. The contractor is Stacy and Witbeck/Kiewet Pacific, Inc. Subcontractors include C.O.A.T. Flagging,
Related Links: Government Budgets Stable Due to Stimulus Funding Stimulus Funds Intersection Repair for Light Rail BLM to Upgrade Public Lands with $32 million Olympia – Construction activity on Washington’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) highway projects is in high gear. The Federal Highway Administration provided $492 million for state and local highway projects in Washington state, advancing projects and jobs to address high-priority highway preservation needs and fund low-cost, high-benefit transportation system improvements. WSDOT reports monthly on a range of measurements to the U.S. Department of Transportation and to Congress. The most recent report showed that contractor payrolls
Olympia — Washington state will deliver more highway projects with federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds than first envisioned, because of the recent trend toward lower construction bids. As of June 1, the Washington State Department of Transportaiton has awarded 15 state stimulus contracts worth $64 million, averaging 21% below estimates. Between July 1, 2008, and April 30, 2009, WSDOT awarded 115 contracts, 100 of which came in an average of 29.5 % below cost estimates. These low bids reverse a trend from 2004 to 2008, when inflation in the cost of highway project construction caused cost escalations of
The extensive expansion of Good Samaritan West Tower Medical Center involves the addition of 60,000 of new building space and over 19,000 of renovation. This will provide room for a new respiratory therapy area, a new kitchen area, as well as support for new electrical services. The ground level expansion will provide a new Emergency Department. The upper floors will host a new Critical Care Unit and offer space for additional medical/surgical beds and expanded administrative services. The sitework package incorporates new Emergency Department ambulance access, urgent care dropoff areas, as well as revised sidewalk and entry roadwork. IMAGE COURTESY
The Goose Creek Correctional Center is being constructed on a 150 acre site. There are five separate structures totaling 450,000 sq ft. Two structures, the General Population Housing, and Support Services (designed by HOK and Durrant Justice respectively) are inside a secure perime�ter created by a double fence system. GPH and SV will be constructed using tilt-up concrete wall panels and structural steel. The tilt-up panels at GPH will be insulated sandwich panels which will provide the hardened wall surfaces required within the housing units. The SV panels will be standard tilt-ups. All panels will be site cast by NCI
Centrally located in the heart of downtown Portland, this is a renovation project of the existing Historic Reed Building. In addition to the remodel, the project also consists of a four-story new addition, Mercy Corps Headquarters. The ground floor will serve two main functions: a new global learning center and the Mercy Corps Northwest small business center that provides financial, and technical assistance to assist entrepreneurs generate and develop businesses. The northern part of the property will consist of a parking lot for the use of Mercy Corps staff and visitors. Seeking LEED Platinum, this 80,000 sq ft building is
The Commons (otherwise known as Building 98) is part of a campus expansion now underway that also includes four office buildings, a 1.6M sq ft subterranean garage and large open green space featuring a regulation soccer field. GLY was nationally recognized by the AGC (Associated General Contractors) for BIM efforts on this project. A huge challenge was constructing a level �platform� for the first floor of Commons buildings over the lid of a subterranean garage that sloped in two directions: side-to-side (transversely) to allow water drainage and longitudinally to respond to existing/finished grades. As a result, no two points on
Work includes two tunnels, approx. 11,600 ft and 20,100 ft long, piping, approx. 3,400 lin, ft. influent sewer (microtunnel and open cut) 36 to 48 ID, portal structures at North Kenmore and Ballinger Way portal sites. IMAGE COURTESY OF KING COUNTY) KENMORE PORTAL Related Links: Northwest Construction Top Starts Key Players Project Name: North Kenmore Portal Location: Kenmore, Wash. Total Construction Cost: $211 million Contractors: Vinci Parsons Frontier Kemper.
Oak Harbor High School, 232,000 square feet in total, is a modernization and additions project that will transform the current facility into a state of the art high school able to meet the technical and educational challenges of the 21st Century. The five building campus will be unified and the campus will be consolidated into three buildings in the proposed design. IMAGE COURTESY OF NAC/ARCHITECTURE Related Links: Northwest Construction Top Starts Key Players Name of Project: Oak Harbor High School Location: Oak Harbor, WA Total Construction Cost: $51,800,000 Construction Start Date: October 2008 Expected Completion Date: 2011 Owner/Developer: Oak Harbor
The single largest contract ever awarded in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL) history was signed to complete construction of the Physical Sciences Facility (PSF). The PSF is an approximately 200,000 sq. ft. complex located on the Horn Rapids Triangle just north of the PNNL campus in Richland, Wash. It is part of PNNL's strategy for replacing nearly 500,000 sq. ft. of office and laboratory space, due to the demolition of many of the Hanford Site's 300 Area facilities. Nearly 50 percent of PNNL's experimental lab space and $200 million in research and development projects are located in the 300 Area,