While most of the Seattle crews working on the mammoth State Route 99 project may be cooling their heels as Bertha, the world's largest tunneling machine, remains stuck underground, another job creator has been moving swiftly through the city—office construction.
With a dual mission to restore King Street Station to its 1906 grandeur while adding modern structural and sustainable upgrades, the project team behind this $55-million renovation and modernization project delivered a transportation hub to Seattle that respects the city's history and reflects its modern sensibilities.
To expand the Macdonald Center into a neighboring site in Old Town Portland, crews had to work between two occupied buildings and coordinate with the TriMet MAX light rail, which passes just east of the building.
The $27-million, 52,000-sq-ft expansion of MultiCare Health System's Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center required crews to work while the adjoining hospital remained in operation.
Part of Seattle's Lake to Bay capital project, the Thomas Street bridge helps reconnect South Lake Union to Elliott Bay. But to create this interpretive trail, crews had to build a bridge over the railroad tracks that separated the shoreline park from the community that the connection would serve.
ENR's Best Projects competition in the Northwest region showcases work that features innovative ideas, sustainable strategies and considerable collaboration.
Originally conceived and budgeted as a repair-and-alterations job, the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building project took on added scope through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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