Pacific Builder and Engineer articles from October 2007

Pacific Builder and Engineer archives from October 2007

I-5 Project in Seattle Finished Early.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Staff Seattle- At 5:45 a.m. Aug. 25, a crew from Concrete Barrier Inc. pulled the last barrels on northbound Interstate 5 through downtown Seattle, opening lanes and ending a 14-day around-the-clock improvement project. During the...

Degenkolb Schedules Labor Day Office Move.
October 1, 2007... Staff Seattle- Degenkolb Engineers moved its Seattle office to the heart of downtown Seattle at 600 University St. over the Labor Day weekend. The move will allow Degenkolb to double its Seattle employee count. "Green" in decor and...

Construction Begins for New AGC Headquarters.(Associated General Contractors of America)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Staff Boise- The Idaho chapter of Associated General Contractors broke ground for its new headquarters building on Aug. 21 in downtown Boise. The two-story, 20,000-square-foot building will include a plan room, a dividable 100-seat...

Corps Checking Alaska Site for Agent Orange.
October 1, 2007... Staff Anchorage, Alaska- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun excavating at an old military equipment yard in Tok, Alaska, where Agent Orange may have been buried. The purpose of the project is to investigate geophysical magnetic...

Springfield Bus Rapid Transit Corridor in Design.
October 1, 2007... Staff Springfield, Ore.- Parsons Brinckerhoff has been awarded a contract to design a 6-mile-long bus rapid transit corridor in Springfield, Ore. The Pioneer Parkway corridor runs between downtown Springfield, the rapidly growing gateway...

Briefs.
October 1, 2007... Staff Salem - Rob Yorke, co-founder of Yorke & Davis Inc. and a longtime member of the Oregon-Columbia chapter of Associated Builder & Contractors, has been to serve on the Oregon Construction Contractors Board. Yorke started Yorke &...

People.(appointment of Shannon Hunt and promotions of Wayne Gillespie and Darren Hoie at Peterson Machinery Company Inc.)
October 1, 2007... Staff North Bend, Ore.- Peterson Machinery Co., the authorized Caterpillar dealership for central and southern Oregon, has appointed Shannon Hunt the new product support manager for the dealership's North Bend store. Hunt will be...

New Products.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Staff Monroe, Wash.- Fintec Crushing and Screening Ltd. has signed Performance Construction Equipment Inc. as its new dealer in the state of Washington. Performance Construction Equipment is a subsidiary of Goodnight Construction...

Industry Watch.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Staff Newberg, Ore.- Climax Portable Machine Tools Inc. has broken ground on an expanded facility in Newberg that will house assembly and rental equipment operations as well as double its training capacity. Simultaneously, Climax also...

CM At Risk.
October 1, 2007... Story by Gene Storm New Contracting Experience Guides Fairbanks Airport Project A $66.3-million expansion and renovation project at the Fairbanks International Airport is providing a relatively new contracting experience for the owner,...

Camano Island Overlay.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Story by Carl Molesworth Contractor Uses Two Crews to Expedite Multi-Location Project The Everett, Wash., office of Rinker Materials took advantage of good summertime weather to complete hot mix asphalt overlays on various sections of...

Just CAWS.
October 15, 2007... Story by Carl Molesworth Portland-Area Organization Focused on Diversifying Construction The irony is inescapable. While the construction industry looks ahead and sees the already tight supply of skilled workers likely getting tighter...

Corps Finds No Agent Orange at Tok.
October 15, 2007... Staff Anchorage, Alaska- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found no buried drums containing the herbicide Agent Orange at an old military communications site in Tok, Alaska. The site yielded multiple pieces of scrap metal to include...

New Products.
October 15, 2007... Staff Eugene, Ore.- Terex Roadbuilding is partnering with Pape Machinery Inc. to expand distribution for the manufacturer's asphalt mobile, concrete mobile and concrete plant equipment in Washington and Oregon. Pape Machinery now offers...

Industry Watch.(Brief article)
October 15, 2007... Staff Bellevue, Wash. - Leica Geosystems is supplying a global positioning system installation to the Washington State Department of Transportation for monitoring the Mercer Slough bridge interchange on Interstate 90. The system will be...

Briefs.
October 15, 2007... Staff Tacoma - The Port of Tacoma has selected Robert Stromberg as senior program manager. In this position, he is responsible for leading the design and construction effort for new terminal development on the east side of the Blair...

Project Showcases Sustainable Aspects of Concrete.
October 15, 2007... Staff Olympia- Lafarge recently partnered with a number of its customers to donate materials and labor for building the first three homes in Habitat for Humanity's Fairview Cottages Project in Olympia. Working under the Washington...

Washington Projects Make Top 10 List.
October 15, 2007... Staff Arlington Heights, Ill.- Two Washington projects were on the list when Roads & Bridges magazine announced its 2007 Top 10 Roads list last month. "Every year the process of forming the Top 10 list becomes more and more...

APA and SILPRO Sign Licensing Agreement.(APA-The Engineered Wood Association)(Brief article)
October 15, 2007... Staff Tacoma- APA-The Engineered Wood Association has entered into an exclusive agreement with SILPRO LLC, of Boise, for the licensing of SILPRO's I CHOICE prefabricated rim board products to APA's members and, via its members, to...

Grocer Developing 93,000-Square-Foot Store.
October 15, 2007... Staff Spokane- WinCo Foods Inc., a Boise-based discount grocery chain, has bought 20 acres of land in North Spokane and says it plans to build a roughly 93,000-square-foot store on the site. WinCo hasn't set a start date for...

Blair Waterway Wharf Construction Begins.
October 15, 2007... Staff Tacoma- During the last week of August, Port of Tacoma contractors began driving the first of about 820 concrete pilings into the Blair Waterway as part of new $31.6-million wharf construction adjacent to the 96-acre former Kaiser...

Runberg Architecture Group Honored.
October 15, 2007... Staff Seattle- Runberg Architecture Group PLLC of Seattle has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects with one of eight "Show You're Green" awards in the program for excellence in affordable green housing. The award,...

Walsh Construction Completes Expansion Project.
October 15, 2007... Staff Portland- Walsh Construction Co. recently completed a $7.5-million expansion for Portland Habilitation Center at its headquarters in Northeast Portland. The expansion included construction of a 97,000-square-foot, steel-frame...

People.
October 15, 2007... Staff Seattle - Helac Corp, a manufacturer of helical, hydraulic rotary actuators since 1978, has appointed Bill Power to the position of chief operating officer. In this newly created position, Power will oversee day-to-day...

Editor's Report.
October 15, 2007... By Carl Molesworth Roads and Transit Vote Voters in Central Puget Sound have a big decision coming up on Nov. 6. That's election day for the Roads and Transit ballot measure, a $17.8-billion regional transportation package includes...

On Final At SeaTac.
October 15, 2007... Story by Carl Molesworth Paving Is The Last Step In Long Effort To Build Third Runway As a massive concrete paving machine inches its way along a 1.6-mile-long strip of real estate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Port of...

Great Wolf Lodge.
October 15, 2007... Staff Northwest Tribal Facilities Are A Showcase for Glulam Timbers Native American tribes have become well known in recent years for building casinos, but the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation in Southwest Washington are...