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The $467-million Brightwater Treatment Plant serves as the hub of the $1.8-billion Brightwater Regional Wastewater System, which includes 13 miles of conveyance tunnels, a reclaimed water distribution system, a marine outfall into Puget Sound and an offsite pumping station.

In a first for grocery chain Fred Meyer, its oldest Portland location had an $11.4-million remodeling while the store was unoccupied. The 1950s building had three earlier expansions or remodelings.

It took about a century, but at long last, the 1914-vintage Maryhill Museum of Art will literally become a cliff-hanger.

The $11.1-million, 20,000-sq-ft casino pays homage to the fishing heritage of the Confederate Tribes of Warm Springs. The three casino facades symbolize the three tribes in the confederacy and the fishing platforms are represented by large sculptural elements rising over 30 ft.

Merging the start of the second phase of construction into the ongoing construction of the first phase of the 160,000-sq-ft University of Washington Molecular Engineering & Sciences Building was a good challenge, says Bob Vincent, project manager for Seattle-based Hoffman Construction, the general contractor.

Building a 253,000-sq-ft expansion of an active hospital meant extra infection and noise control.

Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record Bid/Proposal DatesOregonThe City of Sandy is seeking bidders to build the Portland Water Bureau inter-tie project. The project entails building a 1-million-gal, partially-buried circular prestressed concrete reservoir; a 1-million-gal-per-day potable water pump station; a 1.5-mgd potable-water package pump station; 13,190 ft of 24-in.-dia transmission main; and 13,800 ft of 18-in.-dia transmission main. The work also includes electrical controls and connections into existing water, sewer and storm drain systems. The project is valued at $10 million. City of Sandy, Attn: Mike Walker, Public Works Director, 39250 Pioneer Blvd., Sandy, 97055. DR#12-00677795. Contracts/Bids/ProposalsWashingtonThe Berschauer Phillips

Designing a children's hospital to invite patients and families into what can often be a scary environment has intrinsic challenges.

Clackamas County Water Environment Services not only picked a high-performance membrane bioreactor technology to expand wastewater treatment at this Oregon City facility; it did so within a small, indoor footprint.

Along with the complex new Outpatient Specialty Clinic at the existing 50-acre V.A. Medical Center campus in Vancouver, Wash., came concerns over scheduling and supply deliveries for the intricate pieces of the $5.9-million building.