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2020 Don Flynn Safety Award and Flynn Manufacturing Safety Award Winners!

Flynn

Congratulations to Flynn’s Spokane and Phoenix branches for winning the Don Flynn Safety Award! Spokane, in the white division comprised of Flynn’s larger branches, edged out Portland; Phoenix in the green division placed ahead of St. But KC’s safety culture runs deep, and they are winners of the 2020 Flynn Manufacturing Safety Award!

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Best Small Project & Project of the Year Nominee & Safety Award of Merit: Gideon Street Overcrossing Project

ENR Construction

The Gideon Street Overcrossing in Portland, Ore., now links the old and the new with a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over five separate railway tracks, crossing the TriMet light rail and Union Pacific Railroad tracks, and restoring an important connection in the Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood. .

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Energy/Industrial Best Project and Excellence in Safety: Portland General Electric Marquam Substation

ENR Construction

Located on a constrained urban site on a bustling waterfront, the Marquam Substation replaces a 60-year-old existing substation to provide more reliable power to Portland.

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Viewpoint Collaborate 2019 is Officially Open for Registration

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Each year, we get the privilege of hosting thousands of contractors from all over the US in Portland, Oregon for the industry’s best technology conference. We can’t wait to see you in Portland! We couldn’t be more thrilled to be the first to invite you to our best user’s conference yet. What is Collaborate 2019?

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The first timber high-rise in the U.S. set for construction in Portland

BD+C

To some, the idea of timber high-rises is still a contentious issue, with much of the debate focused on aspects of fire safety, but that hasn’t stopped Lever Architecture from designing what will become the first timber high-rise in the United States.

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New study shows protected bike lanes increase ridership, desirability of neighborhood

BD+C

Their study looked at protected bikes lanes in Austin, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Security and Life Safety' All five cities were part of the Green Lane Project, which works with cities around the country to speed the creation of protected bike lanes and is sponsored by People for Bikes.

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Smart Planning Boosts Seattle To #1 City For Pedestrians

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Liberty Mutual Insurance releases pedestrian safety index with top 15 safest U.S. Far West Washington Atlanta Baltimore Blog-Oct-2014 Boston Chicago City Planning Columbus Denver Liberty Mutual los angeles Minneapolis new york Pedestrian Safety Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland San Francisco Seattle Street Lighting washington' . -

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