Pacific Builder and Engineer articles from December 2007

Pacific Builder and Engineer archives from December 2007

Skanska Celebrates Global Safety Week.(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Staff Seattle- Skanska celebrated Global Safety Week, Oct. 22-26, at eight locations in western Washington. Through this program, 55,000 Skanska employees and more than 100,000 subcontractor employees worldwide participate in a variety of...

Saint-Gobain Plant Honored for Safety.
December 3, 2007... Staff Seattle- Twenty-two CertainTeed and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics manufacturing sites in the United States recently received awards for safety performance in 2006 from The Society of the Plastics Industry's Occupational Health...

Briefs.(Washington State Department of Transportation appointed Paula J. Hammond as a secretary)(Express Construction appointed John Engel as a project manager and Tom Fenske as superintendent)(American Society of Landscape Architects appointed Jonathan Mueller)(Brief article)
December 3, 2007... Staff Olympia - Paula J. Hammond has been appointed secretary for the Washington State Department of Transportation after serving as the interim secretary since August. Hammond graduated from Oregon State University with a Bachelor of...

Industry Watch.
December 3, 2007... Staff Springfield, Ore. - Peterson Machinery Co. announced that the dealership's rental operation, The Cat Rental Store in Springfield, has switched to using biodiesel in its delivery vehicles. In an effort to introduce more...

Three-Season Project.
December 3, 2007... Story by Gene Storm A Section of Alaska's Glenn Highway Gets Major Makeover A five-mile section of Alaska's Glenn Highway is getting a major makeover in a $26.2-million project that will span almost three construction seasons. The...

Removing Oregon's Marmot Dam.
December 3, 2007... Edited By Carl Molesworth First Step in Restoring Free-Flowing Waters through the Sandy River Basin More than 2 tons of high explosives detonated last July ceremoniously shattered the top 10 feet of the Marmot Dam, located along the...

Voters Reject Road and Transit Proposition.
December 17, 2007... Staff Seattle- Voters in the central Puget Sound counties have turned down the biggest transportation tax proposal in Washington state history. Designed to unite transit and highway projects to improve regional traffic congestion, the...

Briefs.
December 17, 2007... Staff Lake Oswego, Ore. - Commercial general contractor Gray Purcell Inc. has promoted Cara McNulty to accounts receivable/project manager assistant. In her new position, she will handle project billing, waivers, change orders, and...

People.
December 17, 2007... Staff Eugene, Ore.- Peterson Machinery Co., the authorized Caterpillar dealership for central and southern Oregon, has promoted Dan Rauch to truck engine service manager for the dealership's Eugene headquarters. He will be responsible for...

Industry Watch.(Brief article)
December 17, 2007... Staff Rolling Meadows, Ill.- Komatsu America Corp. has completed the opening of eight regional parts depots throughout the United States and Canada. These eight depots, in addition to Komatsu's Master Parts Distribution Center, are...

Oregon Changes Course on Development.
December 17, 2007... Staff Salem, Ore.- Oregon voters have rolled back a far-reaching property rights measure that opened up development on farms and forest lands three years ago. Measure 49, restoring limits on development of open space, was tallying...

Workspaces at Alley24 Achieve LEED Gold.
December 17, 2007... Staff Seattle- Skanska USA Building Inc. and global design firm NBBJ have received a LEED Gold certification for their newly completed Commercial Interiors housed inside the commercial space of Alley24, a new sustainable mixed-use...

Prototype 'Energy Smart' Office Building Planned.
December 17, 2007... Staff Vancouver, Wash.- An office building slated for construction in Vancouver next year will have a lighter carbon footprint, be kinder and gentler to the surrounding environment and realize more than $8,000 a year in energy savings. ...

HDR Acquires PHAROS Corp.(Brief article)
December 17, 2007... Staff Edmonds, Wash.- HDR, a Nebraska-based architecture-engineering-consulting firm, has acquired PHAROS Corp., a real estate and right-of-way consulting firm based in Edmonds. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Going...

Port of Tacoma to Redevelop Terminal for TOTE.
December 17, 2007... Staff Tacoma, Wash.- The Port of Tacoma Commission has approved a restated lease with Totem Ocean Trailer Express Inc. that calls for a redeveloped Blair Waterway terminal for TOTE's Alaska cargo business. Under the lease, which runs...

Idaho Pursues Widening Another Stretch of U.S. 95.
December 17, 2007... Staff Boise- The Idaho Transportation Department is preparing to submit its final environmental impact statement for the planned conversion of 31 miles of U.S. 95 to a four-lane divided highway. Once the Federal Highway Administration...

Oregon Project Wins Construction Management Award.(Brief article)
December 17, 2007... Staff Chicago- The Construction Management Association of America recently presented one of its 12 2007 Project Achievement Awards to an Oregon project. Winning in the category Buildings, New Construction, Constructed value less than...

W&H Pacific to Become WHPacific.(Brief article)
December 17, 2007... Staff Seattle- W&H Pacific, a Northwest-based subsidiary of ASCG Inc., has announced that it will merge with the other ASCG subsidiaries and operate under one name, WHPacific. "This change benefits both our clients and employees,"...

Editor's Report.(Editorial)
December 17, 2007... By Carl Molesworth As a veteran of four years in the U.S. Air Force, I know firsthand about the positive effect that military service can have on a young person. I went in as a 20-year-old boy with no sense of direction and came out in...

Idaho Wastewater Facility Expands.
December 17, 2007... Story by Stephanie Worrell City of Meridian Keeps Pace with Rapid Growth of Community It's a given that growth can be glamorous, producing eye-pleasers such as beautifully designed buildings and state-of-the-art roadways. Yet, as most...

Big Pipe Progress.
December 17, 2007... Staff Formwork Plays a Role in Speedy Completion of Primary Mining Shaft The contractor has completed the primary mining shaft for a major tunneling system under way in Portland, using a combination of two Doka formwork products. ...

Training Northwest Construction Workers.
December 17, 2007... Story by Carl Molesworth Apprenticeship Programs Remain Key Element in Meeting Workforce Needs Addressing the growing concern about keeping up with the growing demand for construction workers in the Northwest involves more than simply...