Multnomah County Gladys McCoy Health Department Headquarters
Submitting Company: JE Dunn Construction
Location: Portland
Cost: $68.8 million
Start Date: February 2017
Completion Date: February 2019
Owner/Developer: Multnomah County
Architect: ZGF Architects
Engineer: KPFF
Additional Engineering Firms: PAE Consulting Engineers, Mayer/Reed Inc., Morrison Hershfield
General Contractor: JE Dunn Construction
Subcontractors: A Line Concrete Cutting, A2 Fabrication, ACI Oregon Mechanical, Air Reps, AKS Engineering & Forestry, Alarm & Access Control Technologies, All Oregon Excavating, Allsource Construction Supply, Applied Technical Systems, ASC Steel Deck, Atlas Supply, Bedrock Concrete Cutting, Bent Enterprises dba Fillup’s Trucking, Big C Industries, Boyter Brothers, Brothers Concrete Cutting, Brundage-Bone, Bud Construction, Carr Construction, Cascade Nut and Bolt, Cash’s Drapery, Catena Consulting Engineers, Charter Mechanical Contractors, City of Roses Disposal and Recycling, CJ HVAC Consulting, Complete Fusion Welding, Concrete Restoration Technologies, Coral Sales, Corebrace, Corona Steel, Culver Glass, Cutter Construction, Dailey’s Trucking, Excavating & Paving, DAS Simplified, Db Ingram Trucking, Ecoreal, Faison Construction, Ferrari Enterprises, Finish Line Concrete Cutting, Floor Factors, Garner Construction, General Sheet Metal Works, Global Electric, International Design Services, Iron Horse, ISG, J&S Masonry, Jacks Overhead Door, Jammies Environmental, Johnson Air Products, Key Electrical Construction, Kittelson & Associates, Kleinfelder Central, L&M Industrial Fabrication, Lakeside Industries, LaRusso Concrete, Loy Clark Pipeline, McDermott Fence & Construction, McDonald Excavating, Mesher Supply, Metropolitan Contractor Improvement Partnership, Moore Excavation, Ness & Campbell Crane & Rigging, Neudorfer Engineers, Norkote, Northwest Enforcement, Northwest Fire, Northwest Masonry Restoration, Northwest Precast, Northwest Scaffold Service, Northwest Tree Specialists, Omega Morgan, On Electric Group, O’Neill Electric, Pace Equipment, Pacific Foundation, Pacific Stair, Penhall, Point Monitor, Portland Coatings dba Williamsen & Bleid, Power Testing & Energization, Prestige Tile and Stone, QED Lab, Royalty Products, SDB Contracting Services, Siemens Industry, Sign Wizards, Site On, Snyder Roofing of Oregon, Specialty Firestop Systems, Storie Barriers, Structural Detailing, Taylor Transport, ThyssenKrupp Elevator, Toran Construction, Turtle Mt. Construction, United Pipe Bending & Fab, Valley Growers Nursery & Landscape, Vaughn Environmental, Veterans Electric, Vince Building Maintenance, West Coast Air Products, Western Partitions, Western Rebar, Western States Fire Protection, Worksystems, Zana Construction
The Multnomah County Health Department’s new headquarters in Northwest Portland’s Old Town neighborhood is a shining example of blending a new aesthetic in a historic district.
Built by general contractor J.E. Dunn Construction, the nine-story, 158,000-square-foot Gladys McCoy Health Department Headquarters opened in early 2019 and brings together more than 500 county healthcare professionals under one roof for the first time. On the inside, there’s a state-of-the-art central laboratory, a pharmacy, communicable disease services alongside clinic and administrative space, all intended to serve county residents. The open floor plans allow for flexible uses as well as space for future growth, while native Pacific Northwest plants and murals etched on the porcelain floor tiles offer a peaceful environment.
On the outside, a custom brick façade brings a new interpretation of the surrounding historic district’s brick masonry buildings to life with unique depth and geometric form.
Further, the building is designed as an 80-plus year building as in on track for LEED Gold certification, and is designed to meet the even more stringent requirements of the Architecture 2030 Challenge and the 2009 Climate Action Plan adopted by Multnomah County and the City of Portland.
Finally, the project was a shining example of diversifying the construction industry, with 28 percent of the work performed by minority, women and disadvantaged business enterprise certified firms.