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GLY Construction to build underground, robotic parking garage for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

BD+C

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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Seattle Concrete Drivers Strike

Construction Equipment

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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Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School completes construction

BD+C

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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On the west coast, prefab gains ground for speedier construction

BD+C

Gensler, the global architecture firm, is currently working on nine citizenM-branded hotels across North America, including a 264-key hotel in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle that, when it opens in May, will be that city’s first fully modular hotel.

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Seattle Hotel Project Stacks Up With Structural Modular Design Construction

ENR Construction

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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How two buildings in Seattle achieved high-strength concrete

GCP Applied Technologies

How two buildings in Seattle achieved high-strength concrete. This was surely the case for the Two Union Square building, in Seattle, Wash., which achieved a compressive strength at 19,000 psi (131 MPa), one of the highest on record when it was constructed in the late 1980s. The Two Union Square mix design contained 2.3

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Labor Deal Ends Seattle Crane Strike

ENR Construction

A 17-day construction worker strike in Seattle and Western Washington state ended Sept. 6 after a local union reached an agreement with the Associated General Contractors of America.

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