Construction Equipment

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Linden Comansa, a Washington State-based rental company, held a holiday lights contest for decorating tower cranes on numerous job sites across Seattle and its surrounding area. You can vote for your favorite crane on the Linden Comansa Facebook page. Below is a photo of each entry:

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Construction Dive

APRIL 15, 2024

King County, Washington, is planning a slew of resilience and clean water upgrades over the next decade, bolstered by new EPA loan financing.

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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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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 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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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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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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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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Construction Dive

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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ENR Construction

MAY 18, 2021

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

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ENR Construction

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

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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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 14, 2020

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

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Seattle 64

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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Viewpoint Construction Technology

APRIL 10, 2017

Recently we ask Dexter + Chaney clients to channel their inner creativity and create construction haikus. Each year, towards the end of April, Dexter + Chaney hosts our annual user conference, Connect 2017 in downtown Seattle. At this year's conference we will be announcing the first ever Dexter + Chaney Construction Poet Laureate.

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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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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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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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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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ENR Construction

MAY 19, 2020

Dodge offers data on projected 2020 construction starts in the Seattle area.

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Construction Superintendent Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

International property and construction consultancy firm Rider Levett Bucknall has released its latest Quarterly Cost Report, providing a perspective on the North American construction industry in 14 key markets. Read more The post New Quarterly Cost Report Charts Construction Trends appeared first on Construction Superintendent.

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ENR Construction

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 Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Port of Seattle Commission green-lit the budget for the Concourse C project, slated to be built by Turner Construction.

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BD+C

JULY 6, 2016

Construction in downtown Seattle is booming. At least one construction project has broken ground each week, on average, since the start of 2016.

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ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Shipped from Europe and stacked like Lego blocks, the modular units that make up citizenM hotel offer a unique construction method in Seattle’s South Lake Union.

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Construction Equipment

MAY 3, 2018

. . Amazon's construction plans in downtown Seattle this summer include a 405,000 square foot building - the Block 18 project - and 722,000 square feet of leased office space inside the future Rainier Square skyscraper, where Amazon expects to locate 7,000 employees.

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Construction Equipment

JANUARY 11, 2019

Linden Comansa, a Washington state-based rental company, held a Christmas lights contest for decorating COMANSA tower cranes on numerous job sites across Seattle and its surrounding area. The winner was a crane from Mortenson Construction, decorated in electric blue lighting around its edges.…

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Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This video captures the ongoing construction of the interior roadways, safety systems and other elements that will carry and safeguard drivers passing beneath downtown Seattle in the new SR 99 tunnel. The drone enters at the tunnel’s north end, near Seattle Center.

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ENR Construction

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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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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ENR Construction

APRIL 10, 2023

The airport is suing design-build team led by Clark Construction, claiming the $1-billion terminal can only accommodate 16 wide-body aircraft instead of 20, as included in the project's design.

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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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Construction Equipment

MAY 15, 2018

The Seattle City Council voted 9-0 on Monday to approve Council Bill 119250 , a head tax for companies grossing at least $20 million per year but cut the amount of the tax almost in half.

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