Pacific Builder and Engineer articles from January 2005

Pacific Builder and Engineer archives from January 2005

Contract Awards Summary.
January 3, 2005... Staff How To Use the Contract Awards Summary: All numbers and charts are in real dollars. The chart immediately below tracks cumulative awards for all categories of construction in PB&E' s five-state area. The last two years are shown...

Plans For NASCAR Track Run Out Of Gas.(Brief Article)
January 3, 2005... Staff Marysville, Wash.-- Rising cost estimates have scuttled plans for a 75,000 seat NASCAR racetrack here, barely two months after the project was announced. Snohomish County and the town of Marysville are withdrawing from...

NWCCC Honors Member Projects.(Northwest Construction Consumer Council )(Brief Article)
January 3, 2005... Staff Seattle-- The Northwest Construction Consumer Council recently presented its 2004 Distinguished Project Awards and the Patrick K. Lyneis Memorial Safety Excellence Awards. For Private Sector Projects over $10 Million, the winning...

Seattle Project Wins Safety Award.(Brief Article)
January 3, 2005... Staff Seattle-- The Construction Users Roundtable honored a Seattle project with one of its Construction Industry Safety Excellence awards. The winner was the Rosetta Facility Fit-Out, owned by Merck & Co. Inc. The Rosetta facility is...

First Direct-Access HOV Ramp Opens.(Brief Article)
January 3, 2005... Staff Lynnwood, Wash.-- Sound Transit and the Washington State Department of Transportation have opened a historic addition to the region's mass transit system: the first HOV Direct Access ramp in Washington. The ramp will allow buses and...

ABC Chapter Holds Line On Dues.(Associated Builders and Contractors)(Brief Article)
January 3, 2005... Staff Tigard, Ore.-- The Pacific Northwest Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors has announced that members will be able to maintain their membership in the association without an increase in annual dues. For the second...

Contractor Takes On Steel Buildings.(Julius-Stewart Inc.)(Rockford Steel )(Brief Article)
January 3, 2005... Staff Woodinville, Wash.-- Julius-Stewart Inc., a general contractor based in Woodinville, has joined a partnership with Rockford Steel to expand into the growing market for steel buildings. Once associated with industrial settings,...

NW Contractor Near Top of Highway List.(Brief Article)
January 3, 2005... Staff Poulsbo, Wash.-- General Construction Co. was the only Northwest-based contractor to crack the top 20 in the American Road & Transportation Builders Association's ninth annual ranking of the "Top 300 Federal Highway Contractors." The...

HDR/EES Chosen For Lead Study.(Brief Article)
January 3, 2005... Staff Bellevue, Wash.-- The American Water Works Association Research Foundation, with support from 21 participating utilities and other entities, has commissioned an HDR/EES-led team to conduct a study of the effects that various...

Briefs.
January 3, 2005... Staff Anchorage -- Rebecca Logan is the new president and CEO of Associated Builders and Contractors of Alaska. Logan, who joined ABC in mid-August, has extensive small business experience as the owner of several restaurants. She holds...

Editor's Report.
January 3, 2005... By Carl Molesworth The one description of the American construction industry I hear over and over is that it's a local business built on personal relationships. I believe this to be true, even in the case of huge projects built by national...

Steady As She Goes.(construction industry forecasts)
January 3, 2005... By Carl Molesworth Northwest Contractors Can Look Forward To Another Good Year In 2005 With a second strong year of growth recorded in most markets and the wounds from a contentious election season starting to heal, the construction...

Built To Last.(Bassett Army Community Hospital replacement)
January 17, 2005... Story by Gene Storm New Army Hospital In Fairbanks Designed For Earthquake Threat An almost four-year, $178.2-million construction project is giving rise to a new, state-of-the-art health care facility that will replace the 53-year-old...

Clamping Down.(surety bonds)
January 17, 2005... Story by Carl Molesworth Northwest Contractors Find There's A Bright Side To Tighter Bonding Requirements The surety bonding picture is changing in the Pacific Northwest, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, construction industry...

Tower On the Rimrocks.(PCL Construction Services Inc. is constructing an air traffic control tower at Billings Logan International Airport)
January 17, 2005... Staff Windy Conditions Pose Challenge For Crews Working On Billings Airport Project Billings Logan International Airport, situated on the famous Rimrocks that overlook the city, is Montana's largest and busiest airport. It's also one...

Briefs.(appointments; building industry)
January 17, 2005... Staff Phoenix, Ariz. -- Tom Sparling , who in 1947 founded the Seattle-based electrical engineering firm that bears his name, died recently after taking a fall. He was 87. Under Sparling's leadership, his company became the largest of...

Tunnel Preferred For Seattle Waterfront.(damaged Alaska Way Viaduct to be replaced)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Staff Seattle-- State and local officials announced that they prefer to build a six-lane traffic tunnel along Seattle's waterfront to replace the aging Alaska Way Viaduct. Damaged in several recent earthquakes, the 51-year-old viaduct is...

Light Rail Going To Sea-Tac Airport.(Sea-Tac International Airport)
January 17, 2005... Staff Seattle-- The Central Link light rail line will extend to Sea-Tac International Airport by December 2009, under a $225-million plan announced Dec. 21 by officials of Sound Transit, Port of Seattle and the city of SeaTac. The...

Project For Lifeport Gets Under Way.(Schlecht Construction Inc. constructs manufacturing facility)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Staff Woodland, Wash.-- Schlecht Construction Inc. broke ground last month on Phase II, including a new manufacturing facility and administrative offices for Lifeport Inc.'s newest division, Lifeport Interiors. The 43,000-square-foot,...

Bank Gets New Facility.(Gray Purcell Inc. completes construction of Foundation Home Lending's new building)
January 17, 2005... Staff West Linn, Ore.-- Gray Purcell Inc., a commercial general contractor based in Tigard, Ore., recently completed work in West Linn on a $500,000 construction project for Foundation Home Lending, a retail mortgage banking company. ...

Bellevue Access Project Completed.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Staff Bellevue, Wash.-- The public agency partnership building's Bellevue's "Access Downtown" project held a ceremony in December to mark the opening of the Eastside's single-largest transportation improvement project a year ahead of...

Builders Exchange Moves To New Location.(Great Falls Builders Exchange)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Staff Great Falls, Mont.-- The Great Falls Builders Exchange started the new year in a new location. On Jan. 3, the exchange opened its plan/document copying and distribution operations at The Renaissance Square, 202 2nd Ave. South,...

New Products.(transportation equipment)
January 17, 2005... Staff Rock Hill, S.C. -- Terex recently introduced a new model, the T45, to their line of Super Quiet Generators. The rental-tough T45 generator was designed and built for quiet operation, yet durable enough to handle the day-to-day...

OSHA Considers Oregon Program.(Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
January 17, 2005... Staff The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is considering a proposal to grant final approval to Oregon's occupational safety and health program. The agency also has approved changes to the Oregon state plan, including...

Oil Spill Rules Get Attention.(United States Environmental Protection Agency)
January 17, 2005... Staff The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering several streamlined approaches to meeting spill prevention control and countermeasure (SPCC) requirements that would apply to construction sites that handle below a certain...

Commission On Infrastructure Needs.(United States Congress to establish a commission)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Staff Senators Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) introduced a bill (S. 2993) in November that sought to establish a national commission on the infrastructure needs of the United States. While Congress was unable to act on...