Northwest Roundup: News items include a drop in female construction employment in Alaska, Portland public transportation improvements, Construction Safety Week and more.
According to the city of Spokane, Wash., the $125 million upgrade to the Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility will create the most effective phosphate removal process of its kind in the U.S.
Notable news items include the President budgeting $600 million for projects in Washington and Oregon, progress on Amazon’s new Seattle campus, Alaska’s construction spending outlook, and more.
Notable headlines include a new 75,000-sq-ft office campus on Lake Washington, a five-farm wind project in Oregon, an honorary engineering scholarship and an award-winning student group at OSU.