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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Seattle Washington Site 118

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MAY 25, 2023

Design aesthetic, fire-safety coexist at historic Seattle building 1 kcichowicz Thu, 05/25/2023 - 09:55 See how SHED Architecture & Design found solutions with Technical Glass Products in their redesign of a historic Seattle building. Learn more at FIREGLASS.COM.

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Seattle Safety Design Architecture 52

BD+C

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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Seattle Transportation America 105

Construction Dive

JUNE 13, 2024

As construction workers walk off the job for better pay this summer, unions are in a strong position to demand higher wages, according to a labor expert.

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Wisconsin Seattle Union Construction 150

BD+C

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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Seattle Design 98

ENR Construction

JUNE 7, 2022

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

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Seattle Construction 72

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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Seattle Regulation Safety 66

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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Seattle Washington Housing Construction 96

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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Seattle Sewer 69

ENR Construction

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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Seattle Transportation Construction 36

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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Los Angeles Seattle 126

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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Seattle 52

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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Seattle Infrastructure Washington Finance 142

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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Seattle Concrete Union Negotiation 77

ENR Construction

AUGUST 12, 2022

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

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Seattle Materials 77

Construction Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Jacobs is designing King County’s Elliott West Wet Weather Treatment Station project, which will improve water quality in Elliott Bay.

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Seattle Design 77

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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Seattle Union Design Construction 107

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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Seattle Contract Concrete 56

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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Seattle Residential Innovation Modeling 69

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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Seattle 74

Construction Dive

APRIL 3, 2024

Construction industry news, trends and jobs for building professionals who want mobile-friendly content.

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Seattle Mobility News Industrial 139

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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Seattle 61

ENR Construction

AUGUST 12, 2022

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

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Seattle Bidding Materials 65

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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Seattle Construction 66

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 49

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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Seattle Roads Contractors Construction 57

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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Seattle Electrical 45

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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Seattle Safety 67

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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Seattle Construction 92

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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Seattle Renovating Employment Contract 68

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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Washington Seattle Innovation Architecture 156

Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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

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Seattle Sustainability Infrastructure Construction 146

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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Seattle Transportation America Contract 59

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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Seattle Union Retail Office 94

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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Seattle 66

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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Seattle Transportation Concrete 36

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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Seattle Design IDEA Green 74