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Today marks the opening of both an environmental hearing and informational open house on the $495 million Interstate 5 Mounts Road to Thorne Lane Interchange – Corridor Improvements project, an effort to ease congestions near Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Tacoma.

Crews for the Washington State Dept. of Transportation have checked off key projects along Interstate 90 before closing up shop for the winter.

Part Rogers Place and part 25-acre Ice District, the fall opening of a new sports and entertainment district in downtown Edmonton has the folks of Canada seeing sports arenas and plazas an entirely new way.

The Framework Project LLC has tall plans for mass timber in North America. The first undertaking is a 12-story engineered-wood building in Portland, Ore., called Framework Tower.

Unveiled for public input, the 2018 draft Campus Master Plan for the University of Washington’s Seattle campus puts a focus on density, building taller and creating greenspace.

After years of struggles with Bertha, the world’s largest diameter tunnel boring machine, resulting in a roughly three year delay and $220 million cost overrun on a plan to replace Seattle’s aging Alaskan Way Viaduct with a bored downtown tunnel, the project has hit the halfway point of the dig.

The presence of power marks a significant milestone in the creation of a major new structure at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington state.

As Bechtel and URS build the world’s largest vitrification facility to safely dispose of nearly 56 million gallons of liquid and semisolid nuclear and chemical waste at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State they have created a way to let visitors in on the process.

For a building to “live,” it requires both an active effort from the occupants and clever design and construction.

Six tunnel segments on a single light rail extension project offered plenty of opportunity for Sound Transit to run amiss of target dates, costs and plans.