When William Kaven Architecture and Kaven + Co. proposed plans for a Portland Pearl District site that includes the tallest tower on the West Coast, it may have been nothing more than a highly publicized way to get Portland’s building height restrictions in the news.
Sound Transit's plans for expanding light rail in the south Puget Sound in Tacoma became more public recently at an open house at Evergreen State College.
The largest nuclear waste site in the country — and one of the largest environmental cleanups in the world — requires plenty of seemingly small-scale successes to move cleanup forward.
With seismic resistance at the forefront of the reasoning behind the creation process, the new fiber-reinforced concrete developed at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., undertakes its first real-world application as part of a seismic retrofit of a Vancouver elementary school.
Although Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has vowed to speed cleanup at the nation’s more than 1,300 Superfund sites, documents indicate the agency may slow down an estimated $1-billion cleanup at the Portland, Ore., harbor.
Bertha made the tunnel, but now Seattle Tunnel Partners crews working on behalf of the Washington State Dept. of Transportation must turn that tunnel into a workable 1.7-mile double-decker roadway.
As the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington nears completion of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Low-Activity Waste Facility, Bechtel National Inc. revealed the successful completion of assembly of two nuclear waste melters inside the facility, each at 300 tons.
No transformation has proven quite as dramatic as in Seattle where the two pits—one at the south end of the project and the other at the north end, near the Space Needle—will require full transformations to serve the needs of the double-decker tunnel roadway.
