Portland State University graduate architecture students gain experience reimagining the Burnside Bridge. ------------ Within the next couple of years, Multnomah County will settle on a plan that will result in establishing the Burnside Bridge as a main regional lifeline in the case of a large-scale disaster like a Cascadian level seismic event. When planners, engineers and architects begin to ... Read More

Jun. 11--Washington state authorities cleared one of the five companies involved in the South Lake Union construction project where a tower crane collapsed in late April, killing four. The state Department of Labor and Industries said Monday it formally closed its investigation into Seaburg Construction and found no violations, according to spokesman Tim Church. The company had provided the ... Read More

June 03-- Jun. 3--BELLEVUE -- If all had gone according to Puget Sound Energy's initial plan, 16 miles of high-voltage power lines would already be running from Redmond to Renton, meeting what the utility says is a critical energy demand. But "Energize Eastside," Puget Sound Energy's $150 million-plus project, is still in its permitting process after nearly six years of environmental-impact ... Read More

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A company seeking to develop a large oil project on Alaska's North Slope has won a key federal permit. Alaska's Energy Desk reported that Papua New Guinea-based Oil Search announced that it had received a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for its Pikka development, which is planned west of Prudhoe Bay. The permit was issued Tuesday, Corps spokesman John ... Read More

May 01-- May 1--Andrew Yoder never did anything halfway. Not as a teen who memorized whole books of the New Testament, not as a Marine Corps reservist who became an accomplished sharpshooter, and not as a young man who was instantly smitten with the woman he would eventually marry. Mr. Yoder, 31, had a way of disarming people with his humor, drawing them in and including them in the joke, all ... Read More

April 29-- Apr. 29--Washington state regulators formally opened a probe into the companies involved in dismantling a crane that collapsed Saturday in South Lake Union, killing four people, as they began piecing together how the towering mast came crashing down on Google's new campus and one of the city's busiest thoroughfares. The tower crane, a massive piece of equipment that has become a ... Read More

April 28-- Apr. 28--Seattle's construction frenzy turned deadly Saturday afternoon when a tower crane working on a new Google campus fell like a thunderbolt from the roof of a South Lake Union building, smashing into six cars and killing four people. Two ironworkers who were in the crane and two people in separate cars were dead by the time Seattle firefighters got to the site at Fairview ... Read More

April 24-- Apr. 24--Seattle Tunnel Partners blamed a buried steel pipe for the 2013 breakdown and two-year repair of tunnel-boring machine Bertha, but the contractors lost six pipe fragments that a judge calls important evidence in a $624 million cost-overrun lawsuit against the state of Washington. What's more, the project journal kept by deputy project manager Greg Hauser during the Dec. 4, ... Read More