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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), in its attempt to make Seattle the most walkable and accessible city in America, has recently appointed Applied Information Group to create a citywide wayfinding system to encourage and enable more walking and rolling.

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MAY 27, 2021

In this exclusive video interview for HorizonTV, Ryan Mullenix, Design Partner with NBBJ , talks with BD+C 's John Caulfield about a new building in Seattle called The Net that promotes wellness and connectivity. . .

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ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Seattle announced a decision to repair, not replace, the West Seattle Bridge's cracked span to reopen to traffic in 2022.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 7, 2022

Dodge offers data on projected 2022 construction starts in the Seattle area.

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JUNE 13, 2023

The Seattle region stays on an upward trajectory with transportation and multifamily construction bolstering the industry’s fortunes.

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Construction Equipment

JANUARY 21, 2020

Seattle lawmakers are pushing for more regulations and bigger fines around the disassembly of tower cranes after a fatal crane collapse last April that was deemed “avoidable,” the Seattle Times reports. The bill would require a representative from L&I, which enforces workplace safety…

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ENR Construction

APRIL 11, 2022

Over 300 concrete delivery drivers and support staff returned to work on Monday in Seattle without a new contract in hand, an unconditional end to a strike that lasted nearly five months.

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BD+C

APRIL 25, 2019

Cubix North Park in Seattle, Washington defies the misconceptions of modular construction. The project passed the rigorous Seattle Design Review board with its modulated façade and playful expression of the modular components.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Seattle tunnel-boring machine dubbed MudHoney has launched to create a combined sewer outflow tunnel.

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JULY 16, 2019

This is the first time in more than three years that Seattle has not been RLB's sole No. 1 for crane counts in the U.S.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

A postponed condo project in Seattle shows the effects of high labor and material prices.

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Construction Equipment

AUGUST 17, 2017

Union ready-mix concrete truck drivers in Seattle voted to strike when their contract expired July 31. As of Wednesday, more than a quarter of them have walked off the job, according to the Seattle Times.

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ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The West Seattle Bridge is slated to reopen after a $67-million effort to repair cracks and stabilize the structure.

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ENR Construction

JULY 16, 2020

Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena aims to be the first International Living Future Institute Zero Carbon certified professional sports venue in the world.

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JULY 14, 2020

The West Seattle Low Bridge, also known as the Spokane Street Swing Bridge, needs crack repair.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As infrastructure and public works projects bolster the Emerald City, private construction has weakened.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

A three-level, robotic parking garage will be built underneath an upcoming addition to the ZGF Architects-designed Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) clinic in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. GLY has partnered with WÖHR and subcontractor Harding Steel to build the WÖHR Multiparker 730 system.

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ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Tucked inside one of Seattle's premier technology hubs, the seven-story, 264-room hotel is a model of innovation as the city's first fully modular hospitality building.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 12, 2022

A cancelled condo project in Seattle shows the effects of high labor and material prices.

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Construction Dive

MARCH 7, 2018

There are still plenty of projects in the pipeline, but construction has declined in the past six months and Seattle's crane count has fallen by 22%.

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MAY 18, 2021

Construction will start in downtown Seattle on May 24 to lessen the state's worst highway congestion.

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Construction Business Owner

DECEMBER 5, 2023

An In-Depth Look at Andersen Construction’s Project Delivery for University of Washington Tacoma ccapoccia Tue, 12/05/2023 - 15:14 The 54,000 square foot interdisciplinary Milgard Hall at the University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) is located in Tacoma, Washington, about 30 miles south of Seattle.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The Seattle Dept. of Transportation closed the bridge in March due to cracks. Kraemer North America was hired under an emergency contract to stabilize the structure. WSP provided the engineering.

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Construction Equipment

MARCH 28, 2018

Heavy construction on Seattle's SR99 tunnel and SR 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program is wrapping up and WSDOT says the tunnel may be open to traffic this fall. Earlier this month, contractor Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP) installed the last of the 1,152 road panels that together form the lower (northbound) roadway.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Installed in 1962 for Seattle’s World Fair, the city’s monorail electrical system at Seattle Center and Westlake Center stations was overdue for an upgrade.

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ENR Construction

JANUARY 20, 2021

just learned his longtime employer Hoffman Construction landed the contract of a lifetime: to renovate the iconic Seattle landmark. Sitting with his wife, Maureen, in 2015 in a booth at the Space Needle’s former SkyCity restaurant celebrating their shared birthday, Bob Vincent had. And he couldn’t say a word.

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Construction Equipment

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A Seattle hotel owner who knew his building contained asbestos decided to cut corners and save money by removing it using untrained workers. As a result, the Seattle Pacific Hotel has been cited for multiple egregious safety and health violations and faces $355,000 in fines for exposing the workers to asbestos hazards.

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JUNE 16, 2023

New vice president and division manager Nick Vovakes will lead the way, as the contractor pursues mass timber projects.

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Construction Dive

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A superior court in Olympia, Washington, rejected Seattle Tunnel Partners' counterclaim of $330 million against the Washington State DOT.

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ENR Construction

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

An ongoing labor dispute between King County concrete suppliers and delivery drivers represented by Teamsters Local 174 that has reduced or halted concrete deliveries is now affecting a range of major transportation projects in the Seattle area.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Comprising two connected 15-story, 175-foot-tall towers, Dexter Yard will bring 540,000 sf of mixed-use space to the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle. The SkB Architects-designed building will provide 515,000 sf of lab and office space and about 25,000 sf of ground floor retail.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

billion effort to modernize the 50-year-old international passenger hub, just one of many upgrades happening at the Seattle airport. AECOM, HOK and Jacobs are also involved in the $1.5

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Construction Equipment

MAY 3, 2019

Human error may have been the cause of the Seattle tower crane collapse Saturday, killing four people and injuring four others. USA Today reports that experts who viewed video of the collapse suggest that workers who were disassembling the crane may have removed pins holding sections of the crane…

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BD+C

JULY 2, 2019

Seattle’s newest Veterans Affairs facility is green, clean, and patient-focused. The new research building for Seattle Veterans Affairs, a $121.6 Which is, of course, the idea behind this Stantec-designed facility.

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Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 18, 2019

After further investigating the cause of collapse in Seattle’s tower crane back in April, officials have confirmed that the crane failed because “connecting pins were removed prematurely from the nearly 300-foot tower,” according to the Seattle Times. The error left the crane vulnerable when it was…

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BD+C

APRIL 29, 2019

Built on a relatively small site at the intersection of Union Street and 13th Avenue in Capitol Hill, the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School is a new six-story vertically-configured facility that relates in volume to the mixed-use commercial core along the arterial street.

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