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Best Value / LEAN Construction and LEAN Production are NOT the Same

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Best Value / LEAN Construction and LEAN Production are not the same. Best value / Lean construction is an integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery process that uses robust workflows, a common data environment, and collaborative teams to increase productivity, profits, and innovation in the industry. The terms “Best Value” and “LEAN” can be used interchangeably.

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Best Office/Retail/Mixed-Use: PAE Living Building

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This PAE Living Building is a dynamic structure designed and built with the goal of not just doing less harm to the environment but making a positive contribution to it.

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Best Small Project (under $10 million): Boundary Dam Spillway No. 1 TDG Modifications Removal

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Boundary Dam is located in remote northeastern Washington and is the largest underground power generation dam in the nation, providing nearly half of the power generated by Seattle City Light (SCL).

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Project of the Year Finalist, Best Highway/Bridge: Kake Access Road

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The $34-million Kake Access Road project provides improved access to the remote Tongass National Forest on Kupreanof Island in southeast Alaska. The road also provides year-round surface transportation between the community of Kake and a new boat launch on the eastern shore of the island.

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Leading the Way in Construction EHS Software

The Verdantix Green Quadrant: EHS Software 2023 is an independent third-party analysis of 23 EHS software vendors (including Intelex) that provides an in-depth look at the technical capabilities, application breadth, innovation focus, and momentum of key environmental, health, and safety management software market players. The guide is essential reading for EHS software benchmarking, especially for understanding unique vendor strengths and capabilities.

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Best Airport/ Transit: North Satellite Modernization Project

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The North Satellite Modernization Project (NSAT) renovated and greatly expanded an existing airport facility while increasing the number of aircraft gates to 20 from 12.

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Best Higher Education/Research: Bates Technical College Center for Allied Health Education

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This state-of-the-art educational building offers students modern facilities to support their education.

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Best Health Care: Legacy Emanuel West Expansion

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This 330,000-sq-ft expansion presented challenges in accommodating the existing hospital on the east side of the project.

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Project of the Year Finalist, Best Renovation/Restoration: Steeplejack Brewing Company

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This project transformed a historic church, originally built in 1909, into a full-service craft brewery, bar, restaurant and coffee house for Portland’s local Steeplejack Brewing.

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Best Energy/Industrial Project: The Juno Project

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The Juno Project is a commercial scale demonstration plant for a new recycling technology. Utilizing a proprietary process, Juno captures paper, fiber, nutrient rich water and metals from incoming municipal solid waste.

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Optimize Operational Processes With an Industry-Specific ERP

As the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in the construction industry is critical to optimizing operations, it's critical that decision makers conduct a thorough software evaluation to find the one that best aligns to their needs.

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Award of Merit – Interior/Tenant Improvement: Volkswagen Cloud Tenant Improvement

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This LEED Gold project transformed 36,000 sq-ft of a retail warehouse into a transparent workplace that combines contemporary amenities with the natural character of the Pacific Northwest.

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Award of Merit – Residential/Hospitality: Spire Condominiums

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Celebrating intelligent design and connectivity, this high-rise features modern amenities that include an automated valet system, a café, co-working spaces, fitness and movement studios, a theater and rooftop terraces.

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Award of Merit – Small Project (under $10 million): North Mason Regional Fire Authority’s Headquarters Fire Station 21

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To better serve a rapidly expanding community, the North Mason Regional Fire Authority built a new headquarters fire station on 3.5 acres of land adjacent to the former structure on Old Belfair Highway.

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Best Residential/Hospitality: Trailside Student Housing

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This privately funded project entailed ground-up construction of a 265-room student housing complex that is a mixture of unit types, from studios to five bedroom apartments.

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The Ultimate Procurement Software Buyer’s Guide

Choosing the right procurement software is a crucial step in ensuring third-party risk management, process governance, and bidding efficiency. With so many procurement solutions to choose from, it can be overwhelming without a frame of reference and a solid starting point. This free buyer’s guide will cover: Benefits of Procurement Software –– Why do you need it?

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Award of Merit - Best Water/Environment: Spokane Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility, NLT Phase 1 and 2

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The project team worked with the city of Spokane to establish a next level of treatment filtration system by adding a tertiary membrane treatment to remove phosphorus.

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Best K-12 Education, Award of Merit – Excellence in Safety: Bush School - New Upper School Building

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The new Bush Upper School is a three-story, 20,000-sq-ft, ultra-efficient facility nestled amongst cedar trees in an environmentally critical steep slope zone.

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Best Water/Environment, Best Excellence in Safety: Skagit River Raw Water Pipeline and Clearwell

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The design for the Anacortes water treatment plant resiliency project called for a 42-in.-dia welded steel pipeline to be extended underneath the Skagit River.

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Best Interior/Tenant Improvement: 710 Holladay Renovation

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This renovation transformed a 70-year-old office building that had sat unoccupied for 12 years into a high-end core and shell for future tenants.

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Stop Making These Mistakes and Start Scaling Your Specialty Contractor Business

Anything that is built on a poor foundation will soon crumble from the ground up. This is literally the case in the construction stage of projects and it applies just the same during the pre-construction stage. This free eBook is your ultimate guide to scaling your business with customizable software as early as during the bidding stage.

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Award of Merit – Higher Education/Research: Oregon State University-Cascades Edward J Ray Hall

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Utilizing mass timber construction, the 50,000-sq-ft building features glulam beams and columns with cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor panels.

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Award of Merit – Office/Retail/Mixed-Use: Harder Mechanical Headquarters

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This headquarters building utilizes a mass timber frame, glulam columns and cross-laminated timber floor panels.

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ENR 2022 Northwest Best Projects: Nineteen Projects Named Region’s Best

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Special awards given for achievements in safety and sustainability.