Washington State University is constructing new veterinary buildings at its Pullman Campus that will improve animal care and an applied science building at its Vancouver campus that will further semiconductor research. The $35-million Global Animal Health Building and the $96-million Veterinary Medical Research Building in Pullman are the second phase of a planned seven-building veterinary sciences education complex. On the Vancouver campus, the $41-million Applied Sciences Building will allow students and faculty to research and build experimental semiconductors. All three projects are being built using GC/CM contracts. In order to accelerate the schedule and take advantage of the dry summer
Coast Crane Co. of Seattle filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sept. 21, but the company has a plan to sell to New York’s Clearlake Capital Group within 90 days. The agreement will give the private investment firm substantially all of Coast Crane’s assets, subject to an auction and Bankruptcy Court approval. Photo Courtesy Coast Crane Coast Crane filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 21. The crane, forklift and equipment company serves the construction industry on the West Coast and in Alaska, Hawaii and Guam. Products are rented and sold through from its network of 14 locations, serving approximately 3,000 customer
The largest project in Seattle University history, the 120,000-sq-ft renovation and expansion of the Lemieux Library, officially opens this month. Image courtesy Mithun Mortenson Construction, Bellevue, started construction on the $34-million project in June of 2009, including renovating the decades-old, six-story building, plus seismic upgrades and renovation of the mechanical and electrical systems. Mortenson also added a three story, 33,000-sq-ft learning commons on the east side of the existing structure. “The entire contents [of the library] were moved into a temporary structure while construction took place,” says David Bonewitz, a Seattle-based project management consultant and the owner’s representative on the
During the dismantling of Gold Ray Dam, a 106-year-old timber cofferdam and 70-year-old concrete dam near Medford, Ore., the Rogue River blew through a sand spit, changing course and freeing the river�s run for the first time in over a century. Photo: River Design Group Oregon�s Gold Ray Dam is razed two weeks ahead of schedule after an unexpected breach. Photo: River Design Group Oregon�s Gold Ray Dam is razed two weeks ahead of schedule after an unexpected breach. Scott Wright, project manager for the Corvallis, Ore., office of design-build contractor River Design Group, says that the entire process actually
With the news that Facebook had surpassed 500 million users, the social networking website has decided to more than double the size of its first wholly-owned data center currently under construction in Prineville, Ore. The initial $188-million project broke ground in January and has been moving along rapidly. The expansion will add another 160,000 sq ft of shell space to the 147,000 sq ft facility now being built, with the shell space being built out later as business demand dictates. Photos courtesy Sheehan Partners Photos courtesy Sheehan Partners Photos courtesy Sheehan Partners "We are making excellent progress on the first
The Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) of Schaumburg, Ill., recently announced a new chairman and the addition of eight new members to its Board of Directors at its annual conference in Naples, Fla. John P. Simmet, president and CEO of Simcote Inc., St. Paul, Minn., was elected as the new chairman of CRSI. The new Midwest regional representative director is Robert Shuhert, Ambassador Steel, Auburn, Ind. The new Midwest at-large directors include Louis Colarusso, ERICO, Solon, Ohio;Keith LePage, Whitacre Engineering, Canton, Ohio; and Timothy Thomas, American Steel Fab, Pevely, Mo. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" HONORS Don Oglesby, senior
DARAEE Integrated Project Delivery is a construction project delivery framework by which the owner, designer and general contractor put the success of the project ahead of each member’s individual well-being on the project. The hallmark of IPD is the core belief that because a construction project consists of hundreds of parts and systems, all of which have to come together in concert, each member will achieve greater professional and economic success if the project success is maximized through focused efficient construction and dispute avoidance. Put simply, IPD subscribes to the notion that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” The concept
Klamath Community College has begun fast track construction of three buildings that will double the size of the 57-acre campus. Klamath Community College Health Sciences Building, Klamath Falls, Ore. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" A 16,000-sq-ft career technology center is scheduled for completion by fall 2010. The other two structures, a health sciences building and the 10,000-volume, 3,500-sq-ft Klamath County branch library will be completed in winter 2011. Total construction cost is $11 million. Reflecting the distinctive Klamath Basin setting, the structures are sited on six acres of former farmland and will create a pedestrian connection to the existing
The Seattle office of Skanska USA has secured a $114.6-million contract from the WDOT to construct the replacement of the SR 99 Viaduct from South Holgate St. to South King St. in downtown Seattle. The scope of work will replace the southern mile of the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a new side-by-side roadway that meets current earthquake standards, has wider lanes and improves mobility for people and goods south of downtown. The existing seismically vulnerable structure carries thousands of vehicles to and from downtown Seattle, two major stadiums and the Port of Seattle each day. Additionally, the resulting structure will
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.