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Hoffman Construction Co. is working on the second of two buildings for the Portland Water Bureau at the Interstate Maintenance Facility in North Portland, part of a two-phase, $35 million renovation project. Ironworkers with Carr Construction are securing structural steel and laying floor decks on a 38,000-square-foot building that will contain office space, a water control center and water quality laboratory, as well as conference and training facilities. Completion of the Construction Management and Operations Building, designed by MWA Architects, is slated for May 2015.

An adjacent 28,000-square-foot warehouse/maintenance building built as part of the project’s first phase was completed last week. The maintenance building, which is replacing a nearly 90-year-old unreinforced masonry structure deemed too expensive to rehabilitate, includes warehousing space, carpenter’s and mechanical/metal workshops, a secure storage area for small parts and hand tools, offices, a training/meeting room, and loading dock.

Upon completion of the office building, the old maintenance building will be demolished and improvements will be made to the 11-acre lot including repaving, security and lighting upgrades, fencing and landscaping.