Pacific Builder and Engineer articles from October 2006

Pacific Builder and Engineer archives from October 2006

Contract Awards Summary.
October 2, 2006... 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...

Columbia Jetty Repairs.(Army's Corps of Engineers project)
October 2, 2006... Story by Carl Molesworth Project Will Shore Up Structure Until More Permanent Fix Can Be Made Crossing the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River is no easy task for mariners, whether their vessel is a huge cargo ship or a small...

Utilities For The Bravern.(Deeny Construction Company Inc.)
October 2, 2006... Story by Carl Molesworth Night Work Required for Project in Busy Downtown Bellevue Downtown Bellevue, Wash., is a vibrant place. The streets are clogged with traffic from first thing in the morning to early evening, which is good for...

Ready And Milling.
October 2, 2006... Staff Company Stays Busy Grinding Asphalt With Cold Milling Machine Having the ability to be flexible can be a big advantage for a construction contractor looking to cash in on every possible business opportunity. But for a...

Ground Broken for Mental Health Facility.
October 2, 2006... Staff Auburn, Wash.-- Express Construction broke ground in August on a new 22,500-square-foot campus for Seattle Mental Health in Auburn. The new facility will house administrative offices and space for comprehensive mental health and...

People.
October 2, 2006... Staff Portland -- Modern Machinery, the Komatsu distributor, has announced that Chris McKinney has joined the company as territory manager in Portland. In his new position, McKinney is responsible for new and used equipment sales in...

Industry Watch.
October 2, 2006... Staff West Fargo, N.D. -- Bobcat Company, a business of Ingersoll Rand, has recognized two Northwest dealers for their longtime service in providing customers with Bobcat compact equipment. Kamp Implement Co., Belgrade, Mont., was...

Peters Confirmation Urged.(Mary Peters as secretary of United States. Department of Transportation)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Compiled by Carl Molesworth The Associated General Contractors of America announced its support for Mary Peters as secretary of the Department of Transportation, and urged the U.S. Senate to work to have her confirmed as expeditiously as...

Senate Approves Long Overdue Water Bill.(reauthorization of Water Resources Development Act)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Compiled by Carl Molesworth The U.S. Senate has approved the $12-billion reauthorization of Water Resources Development Act, which would authorize funding for major navigation, flood control and environmental restoration projects carried...

Dexter + Chaney Marks 25 Years.
October 2, 2006... Staff Seattle-- Dexter + Chaney, developer of the Forefront Construction Suite software, recently celebrated its 25th anniversary at a party for employees, customers, vendors, family members, and others at its Seattle headquarters. ...

Charger Helps Batteries Provide Full Power.
October 2, 2006... Staff Dallas, Texas-- PulseTech Products Corporation has introduced the SolarPulse Industrial Solar Charging System. This patented solar-powered device combines a state-of-the-art charging system with PulseTech's ReNew-IT Pulse...

Easier Construction Software Selection.
October 2, 2006... Staff Big Sky, Mont.-- RiverGuide Inc. has launched RiverGuide for Construction Software (www.riverguideinc.com/construction ), a free Internet resource designed to help contractors, architects and building owners research and select...

Multi-Lingual Capability for Instruments.
October 2, 2006... Staff Norcross, Ga.-- Leica Geosystems has released new features for the Builder-series optical measuring instruments, featuring multi-lingual functions for enhanced convenience and efficiency on the job. "With the multi-lingual...

Concrete Plant Workers End Strike in Seattle.
October 2, 2006... Staff Seattle-- Concrete deliveries have begun rolling in the Seattle area again, after a 25-day strike by concrete workers that had stalled construction projects across King County was settled Aug. 25. The International Union of...

U.S. Air Force Honors Alaska District.(achievements and awards of United States. Army. Corps of Engineers)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Staff Anchorage-- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, received two national level awards from the United States Air Force in a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 3. The Alaska District competed with federal design and...

Complex Shoring for Harborview Project.
October 2, 2006... Staff Seattle-- DBM Contactors Inc. recently completed the shoring for the excavation and permanent foundation walls of the full-block, below-grade parking garage on the Harborview Bond Project -- Ninth and Jefferson Building. Funded...

Regional Transportation Plan Boosted.
October 2, 2006... Staff Seattle-- Officials from the Regional Transportation Investment District and Sound Transit held a news conference in September to launch an effort to inform the public about the need to finalize work under way on a comprehensive...

Two Gold Mines Cleared for Construction.
October 2, 2006... Staff Nome, Alaska-- Two gold-mining projects near Nome have received state and federal permits to allow construction to begin. The Rock Creek mine, six miles north of Nome, and the Big Hurrah mine, 42 miles east of Nome, are being...

Surface Overlay Attracts Attention.(Department of Transportation of Idaho gets grant from Federal Highway Administration)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Staff Boise-- The Idaho Transportation Departments is getting a grant from the Federal Highway Administration to facilitate installation of Cargill's SafeLane Surface Overlay on a bridge in the Idaho Panhandle. The FHWA's Innovative...

Pacific Steel and Supply Acquired.(Primesource Building Products Inc acquires Pacific Steel and Supply Corp)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Staff Carrollton, Texas-- PrimeSource Building Products Inc. is acquiring Pacific Steel and Supply, one of the largest independent nail distributors on the West Coast. A privately held company that began operations in 1952 as a...

Briefs.
October 2, 2006... Staff Boise -- The Trada Group has appointed Douglas Cox as construction coordinator in its Boise office. Cox, a licensed professional engineer in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, has a bachelor's degree in business administration and a...

Construction Starts Summary.
October 16, 2006... Staff How To Use the Construction Starts Summary: The information on this page reports non-residential construction activity in the region by contract value. The chart at the bottom of the page tracks cumulative starts for all...

Editor's Report.
October 16, 2006... By Carl Molesworth The construction industries of Washington and Idaho have a big stake in the outcome of next month's election. Three referendums -- Initiative 933 in Washington, Proposition 9 in Idaho and Initiative 154 in Montana --...

Just Getting Started.
October 16, 2006... Story by Gene Storm Contractor Moves Earth for Anchorage Port Expansion The Port of Anchorage handles 90 percent of the consumer goods and serves approximately 80 percent of Alaska's estimated population of more than 663,000. To meet...

One Car, Two Engines, 350 MPH.
October 16, 2006... Story by Steve Hudson JCB Sets New Land Speed Record For A Diesel-Powered Car It isn't every day that someone sets a new land speed record, particularly in a diesel-powered car. But that's exactly what happened in August -- not once...

Flood Control Project "Burns the Mortgage".
October 16, 2006... Staff Fairbanks-- The Chena River Lakes Flood Control Project is celebrating its 25th anniversary of regulating flooding on the Chena River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates that the project has prevented a total of $235...

Parking Facility in Freeway Median.
October 16, 2006... Staff Everett, Wash.-- Ground was broken Sept. 12 for the South Everett Freeway Station and Park-and-Ride. It is the state's first such facility constructed in an interstate freeway median. The new facility will provide approximately...

Architecture Firm Goes For Platinum.
October 16, 2006... Staff Portland-- SERA Architects Inc. recently began construction to nearly double the size of its downtown office space with an 8,450-square-foot, second-floor expansion that is designed to achieve LEED for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI)...

Alaska AGC Chapter Honored.
October 16, 2006... Staff Anchorage-- Associated General Contractors of Alaska has won the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce's Goldpan Award for "Premier Service to Youth by an Individual, Organization or Business." The award stems from the AGC chapter's...

Briefs.
October 16, 2006... Staff Wilsonville, Ore. -- The Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors Association has hired Frank Wall as executive director. PMCA represents plumbing and mechanical contractors throughout Oregon, Southwest Washington and the northernmost...

Industry Watch.
October 16, 2006... Staff Bellingham, Wash. -- September was open-house month again this year at Birch Equipment Rental & Sales. The annual events drew customers to the Mount Vernon, Wash., branch on Sept. 7, the Anacortes, Wash, branch on Sept. 14 and...