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,

This project involves the construction of approximately 35,000 sq ft of new port building and 89,000 sq ft of vehicular inspections, including ten inbound primary inspection lanes and 40 secondary inspection parking spaces. The site is approximately ten acres and is bounded by Semiahoo Bay to the West and Peace Arch State Park and the Canadian border to the North. The new facility and vehicle inspections will support the increased security requirements while improving the quality and safety standards of employees. Related Links: Northwest Construction Top Starts Key Players Project Name: Peace Arch US Land Port of Entry Location: Blaine,

The existing Shriners Hospital for Children and its parking garage already occupy most of the 1.3 acres on which the hospital currently resides. Therefore, after a high degree of preconstruction planning and analysis, it was decided the only space for the addition was over the top of the existing parking garage. This will be made possible by utilizing 70 feet tall concrete columns and shear walls that will be bridged by floor to floor trusses spanning 88 feet across the garage. The new addition will provide five more floors to the existing hospital. The fourth floor will feature three operating

Lydig is restructuring the campus to better meet the educational goal including a remodel of library, gym, and lockers and adding a new auxiliary gym. IMAGE COURTESY OF NAC/ARCHITECTURE Related Links: Northwest Construction Top Starts Key Players Name of Project: Snohomish High School Modernization & Addition Location: Snohomish, Wash Total Construction Cost: $39 million Construction Start Date: December 2008 Expected Completion Date: August 2011 Owner/Developer: Snohomish School District General Contractor: Lydig Construction (GCCM) Design Firm: NAC|Architecture Engineers or Other Design Consultants: Civil – Coughlin Porter Lundeen, Seattle, Wash., Structural – Coughlin Porter Lundeen, Seattle, Wash., Mechanical/Electrical – Hargis Engineers, Seattle,

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