Seattle | Engineering News-Record

June 2022 City Scoop: Seattle

June 7, 2022

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Dodge offers data on projected 2022 construction starts in the Seattle area.

Top Starts | California/Northwest Owner of the Year

Washington's Sound Transit Agency Moves Ahead With $15B in Light Rail Expansions

Tim Newcomb

April 12, 2022

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Seattle-area Sound Transit, ENR California/Northwest Owner of the Year, completed a key light rail link in 2021 despite impending management changes and inflationary price hikes.

Best of the Best

Project of the Year Finalist, Excellence in Sustainability: Watershed

Pam McFarland

March 16, 2022

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Something fishy is happening among the salmon that spawn in the rivers and streams that flow through Puget Sound.

Workforce

Concrete Delivery Strike Impacts Big Seattle Transportation Projects

Federal mediation has begun in months-long strike of Teamster drivers

Tim Newcomb

February 24, 2022

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Ongoing labor dispute between King County, Wash., concrete suppliers and drivers represented by Teamsters Local 174 that has reduced or halted deliveries now is delaying Seattle-area projects such as multiple Sound Transit extensions and Washington State Convention Center addition.

Best Projects

Award of Merit Specialty: Seattle Monorail Electrical Room Upgrades

November 22, 2021

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Installed in 1962 for Seattle’s World Fair, the city’s monorail electrical system at Seattle Center and Westlake Center stations was overdue for an upgrade.

Best Projects

Best Office Retail & Project of the Year Finalist: Copper River - Phase 1

November 22, 2021

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The Copper River office project for Alaska Airlines is transforming a 7-acre site opposite the airline’s headquarters into a light and airy campus with an intricate, sustainable landscape.

Labor

Washington State Carpenters' Union in Trusteeship, Vote Fraud Probed

James Leggate

November 10, 2021

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Several regional union leaders resigned amid alleged contract vote fraud after members narrowly agreed to pact last month following several week strike.

Sound Transit Light Rail To Open Seattle Extension With Two Underground Stations

Tim Newcomb

September 22, 2021

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Northgate Link Extension is set for Oct. 2 opening as part of Puget Sound light rail expansion.

Seattle Labor Office Orders Concrete Companies to Pay $2M for Alleged Violations

James Leggate

September 16, 2021

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Two concrete subcontractors are fined for failing to pay overtime, among other offenses.

Washington State Convention Center in Seattle under construction

Digging Deeper | Convention Center

Addition Pulls Daylight Into Convention Center

Unique horizontal building process speeds up work on key addition to the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle

Tim Newcomb

May 26, 2021

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The $1.2-billion contract to build a separate addition to Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center has required crews to work under an active downtown street, build components while hanging over sidewalks and the freeway, create fresh approaches to bringing natural light into the building and employ a billboarding construction method to keep everything on schedule.