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'Surprises everywhere we turn' in $69M Pike Place Market rehab

By LYNN PORTER

When you're working on a conglomeration of buildings constructed over decades, you're bound to run into some interesting stuff.

Oregon district to reopen century-old schoolhouse

By PATTI RICHTER

An $826,000 seismic rehabilitation grant will fund fortifications to the building's bricks and structural supports.

Features

Grays Harbor eyes major rail project

By Journal Staff

The growing Port of Grays Harbor proposes to modify its marine terminal rail system.


SDOT moving forward with South Spokane Street Viaduct

By Journal Staff

On May 17, the Seattle Department of Transportation will permanently close the First Avenue South on-ramp to the westbound lanes of the South Spokane Street Viaduct.


Harris to assist with biorefinery program

By Journal Staff

R.W. Beck has selected Seattle's Harris Group to be a subcontractor for the Integrated Biorefinery Program of the U.S. Department of Energy.


Exelon threatens to close N.J. nuke plant

By WAYNE PARRY

The company says it would cost $800 million to build cooling towers mandated by state environmental regulators.


Green River flood risk is over: Corps

Army Corps of Engineers officials say they think the flood risk for the Green River Valley south of Seattle is over for this winter.



March 18, 2010
Oregon cement plant cleaning up its act
Aspira apartments opening Saturday
Contractors get ready for SR 520 and U Link
Crew dismantling rare covered railroad bridge
Grass, flax, food waste: Air fuel of the future?
Construction bids due May 5 to clean up the ‘Mercer mess'
Willamette bridge may cost $20M
Group says Portland needs more shade trees
Developers sue city over 'trespassing'
Can tides become an energy source?

March 17, 2010
City eyes temporary uses for sites of stalled projects
Architects host Bainbridge Island tour
Oregon college plans $6.6M classroom building
A look at how tall buildings have changed
Bullitt wants to start a revolution with design of new headquarters
NBBJ merges with firm in Mass.
$400,000 art dome didn't cost school district a penny
$4M fix for SR-2 in Snohomish County
Mount Vernon to start flood project
Pedestrian plaza for Port Townsend
WSU seeks bids for $10M playfields
Schools may get energy upgrades
New ULI book on green retrofits
How to stand out in presentations
Smart seawalls: a travel study
Another award for Terry Thomas
HDR wins on-call Sound Transit job
AIA design awards deadline extended

March 16, 2010
Sound Transit issues RFQ for final design of North Link
Tacoma engineer Skip Bush dies
Mercer Island station drawings are released
Council OKs waiver for Brightwater job
Ebey Slough to get $47M bridge
China to build high-speed rail projects in the U.S.?
Kennewick firm finalist for award
Camp Murray to get $3.2M entrance
PDX parking garage opens Thursday

March 15, 2010
Snoqualmie City Hall
Chile reconstruction estimate now $30B
Miller/Hull designs $9M Moses Lake civic center
WSDOT studies buildings on route of bored tunnel
County changes procurement rules

March 12, 2010
Old Costco becomes PUD warehouse
$35M federal building upgrade goes to HSW
Puyallup road extension draws $6M retail project
Panel looks at connecting SR 520 to Seattle streets
Blueacre Seafood to open downtown
Interpretive center for Port of Kalama
Groups release U.S. green building code
Tokyo opens its third international airport
$3M needed for Hollywood site
South Korea to fund road at Angkor temple complex

March 11, 2010
AGC: Construction has yet to hit bottom
Seattle changes MUP billing procedure
OSU engineer leads effort to make reactors smaller, simpler
Detroit areas going back to fields, farms
One Main Street condos completed in Old Bellevue
$45M plant OK'd in Coos Bay, Ore.
Comments due on design guidelines
Stimulus grants help Oregon schools, housing
$75M airport planned for the Aleutians

March 10, 2010
Management by Design: Developing a vision for your firm
Napa Valley hotel earns platinum
Design Perspectives: Can a city be carbon-neutral? Seattle wants to find out
Space Needle owners update plan for Chihuly at the Needle
Feds want to sell Eugene's art deco post office
Tetra Tech team is picked for $18M seawall contract
Tacoma considering new historic district
Army Corps slowly filling Hanson Dam
Architect needed for Alaska library
Deep space antenna getting $1.25M repair
Concrete Institute awards deadline
Engineering classes at Everett CC
Students look at world water needs
Tour King Street Station March 25
How to make better presentations
Lecture: how to make your firm credible

March 9, 2010
Fourth and Roy: The shape of townhouses to come?
Looking for new flooring? Try leather
South Lake Union EIS help needed
FEIS out on bank site in downtown Seattle
Chilean garden will bid in April
Pierce County to repair ferry ramps

March 8, 2010
Contractors dig in and try to hang on
Boxwood
SRM seeks permits for Broadway site
$20M extension for Southcenter Parkway
Salvaged materials turn up as cool new office decor
Regional skatepark going in at Delridge
Seattle Central to do master plan
SHA to build 118 rental units at Rainier Vista Northeast
States get $47M for transit work
Meeting on rail station tomorrow
RFP for Alaska medical campus

March 5, 2010
CRSI honors concrete projects
449-unit complex for seniors now complete in West Seattle
Lake Stevens wants plan for downtown
Two proposals for Mount Baker TOD
City seeks engineer for Mercer project
Blueprint for TODs published
Contest will decide which projects get funding for historic restoration
Designer needed at Renton Airport
Hovnanian CEO: Glut of unsold homes easing
RFQ for Ritzville industrial park
Arboretum garden site tour March 10
Ore. stream work could cost $1.2B

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Building Green: Bullitt wants to go off the water grid: realistically, will it be able to?
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