The Center for Hope and Recovery and Beech Street Apartments are adjacent facilities for Lifeworks NW, which provides treatment for people experiencing mental health issues and addiction.
After a massive landslide in March 2014 swamped State Route 53 near Oso in Snohomish County, Wash., killing 43 and seriously injuring 10, local, state and federal agency personnel, contractors and volunteers joined in the search and rescue operations.
Portland-based Puppet Labs,
which specializes in software,
worked with Swinerton Builders
and lead design firm THA
Architecture Inc. to create a customized
workplace.
The $91-million Block 44 project, located in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, consists of two office buildings—one five stories and the other six stories—for a total of 380,700 sq ft.
Some 150 tradesmen have converged on a "postage stamp-size site" in Anchorage to construct what its owner promises will be one of the most energy-efficient thermal generation powerplants in the world.
An engineer who as a college student left a major mark on masonry codes, a project manager overseeing work on CD5 Niqliq Channel Bridge in the North Slope of Alaska and a sustainability expert specializing in mixed-use and retail projects both domestically and abroad are among the rising stars selected as ENR Northwest's Top Young Construction Industry Professionals.
Jon Magnusson, senior principal with Seattle-based engineer Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA) and son of a civil engineer, recalls visiting the construction firm where his father worked and eyeing a 50-lb box of nails, whereupon the 8-year-old inquired if he could pocket a handful of them.
While some parts of the Pacific Northwest are undergoing a boom of a magnitude rarely seen in the region, others may be heading for a bust of similar proportions.
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