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Weather wouldn't cooperate on the new $5.9-million outpatient specialty care clinic in Vancouver, Wash., but ample precipitation didn't dampen jobsite safety efforts.

Ridgeview High School in Redmond, Ore., was truly a local project. The owner of the $63.9-million, 276,000-sq-ft facility, built by Skanska USA, Portland, wanted to ensure that local partners created the school to sustain contractors through a difficult economic time.

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.

The $1.8-billion center utilizes two circulating fluidized bed boilers to provide steam to a single 585-MW steam turbine generator.

Even before it was completed in 2011, a critical bridge in Delaware weathered—with flying colors—a rare earthquake, Hurricane Irene and a tropical storm.

Contracting crews had to build literally on top of each other in rehabilitating a three-mile section of Interstate 476 in northeast Pennsylvania.

The Curtis Institute of Music educates and trains gifted young musicians for careers as performing artists.