Items Tagged with 'ENR 2025 Northwest Best Projects'

ENR West’s Northwest Best Projects competition honors an array of work from across Washington, Oregon and Alaska that displays dynamic and innovative design and construction methods.

For decades, the city of La Pine faced a critical public health and environmental challenge due to widespread reliance on aging and failing septic systems.

Rather than hiding behind fences, this wet weather facility sits prominently at the gateway to the Georgetown neighborhood

Combining living habitats, hands-on exploration and behind-the-scenes functions, the $141-million, 50,000-sq-ft Ocean Pavilion differs from other aquariums by highlighting the interconnectedness of human and marine life.

Washington State’s first publicly funded zero-energy and zero-carbon academic building on a university campus is a $54.8-million, four-story mass timber facility for the electrical engineering and computer science department.

After more than 100 gate docking and undocking operations across more than 45 years, Concrete Tech Corp.’s Tacoma dry dock was in need of a replacement caisson gate, a 150-ft-long floating concrete structure that serves as a watertight lock at the dry dock entrance.

As part of the EPA Harbor Superfund Mile 11 Cleanup initiative, the project team installed two parallel horizontal directional drills beneath Portland’s Willamette River.

This critical dam infrastructure upgrade, located 200 ft down a spillway tunnel at a sustained 52-degree slope within Round Butte Dam, is only the fifth retrofit concrete tunnel aerator constructed in the U.S.

As a key component of a broader infrastructure modernization initiative aimed at enhancing water conservation

This 29-story mixed-use stepped tower in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood is home to 212 residential units, 9,000 sq ft of street-level retail and restaurants as well as commercial office space.