Even with the difficulty of planning for the unknown, Turner Construction's mantra during renovation of Seattle's 100-year-old Pike Place Market on a bustling downtown hillside was "overcommunicate and minimize surprises."
A $107-million six-mile, single-track extension of the Portland Streetcar Loop was built entirely within city streets, presenting traffic management issues.
To balance sustainable energy practices and historic preservation for a rail station project, McKinstry traveled to Washington, D.C., to get special permission for its design of the SIERR Building at McKinstry Station from the National Park Service.
The 900,000-sq-ft headquarters revitalizes a city block in downtown Seattle and brings together 1,500 employees onto one campus. The $500-million LEED-Platinum project includes two boomerang-shaped structures with gardens and a 15,000-sq-ft interactive museum.
Consolidation, collaboration and value engineering enabled construction of one of the largest—and most eco-friendly—bolted, clear-span buildings in the Northwest to be built a month ahead of schedule.
he 2.1-million-sq-ft building at Sea-Tac Airport is the first LEED-Silver rental-car facility in the U.S. and one of the first projects that used the nation's first construction accreditation program for water-quality accountability and the protection of an imperiled species.
The kick-off to renovations of Washington State University's Martin Stadium in Pullman, Wash., included a demolition contract with two substantial structural removals and precise concrete cutting performed by contractor NCM, Snoqualmie, Wash.
Bold engineering changes cut time, maintained traffic and increased long-term maintenance ease on a $114.6-million upgrade of the Interstate 5/State Route 16 interchange in Tacoma, Wash.
The $210-million Li Ka-Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences, which opened in December 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley, was built to inspire collaboration and discovery.
Sunrise Powerlink transports renewable energy overhead and underground for 117 miles from the Imperial Valley near El Centro into San Diego—increasing regional transmission capability and reliability.
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