By: 91Ƶ Staff//June 16, 2026//
91Ƶ Staff//June 16, 2026//
Washington County has opened two new addiction recovery facilities designed to close a significant gap in substance use treatment services for the region. Construction wrapped up on both buildings in fall 2025.
The Center for Addictions Triage and Treatment consists of the Beaverton Recovery Center at 17911 N.W. Evergreen Place and the Hillsboro Recovery Center at 5250 N.E. Elam Young Parkway. Oregon ranks 48th in the nation for access to substance use treatment programs, and Washington County previously had only 32 residential treatment beds before the centers opened.
The Beaverton Recovery Center, a renovation and expansion of a former 9-1-1 dispatch center totaling 40,600 square feet, includes 56 residential treatment beds, 16 withdrawal management beds with around-the-clock nurse monitoring, a sobering program, and transitional services. The Hillsboro Recovery Center spans 42,000 square feet and houses crisis intervention services, outpatient behavioral health programs, a peer drop-in center, and administrative offices for multiple provider organizations.
Both facilities were built using trauma-informed design principles – an approach that integrates healing-centered architecture through safety, comfort, access to nature, and de-escalation strategies. Features include skylights, wood accents, interior vegetation, and natural color palettes. The Hillsboro center’s hub includes six skylights, among them a large custom skylight at the center of the space.
The project team used cloud-based document management through Procore and deployed 360-degree site capture technology via OpenSpace, allowing designers to remotely assess field conditions and avoid exploratory demolition during construction changes.
The Beaverton center’s rooftop photovoltaic system – 282 solar modules and four inverters forming a 138 kW array – is expected to offset approximately 14.5 megawatt-hours of energy annually. The arrays are mounted on sloped standing-seam metal roofs using clamp attachments that eliminate roof penetrations.
Washington County set 30 percent COBID participation goals for both projects. The Hillsboro center reached 35.99 percent participation and the Beaverton center achieved 30.19 percent. On the design side, 67 percent of the architecture and engineering fees went to COBID-certified firms. General contractor R&H Construction partnered with Advanced Tribal, a Native-owned firm, in a mentorship-focused arrangement that expanded the firm’s self-performance capacity and created workforce opportunities for Indigenous craftspeople.
“The working partnership of R&H Construction and Advanced Tribal has been a huge benefit for the Washington County Center for Addictions Triage and Treatment projects,” noted Stuart Spafford, project manager/capital projects for Washington County, in the project nomination form. “Their commitment to the success of the project through mutual respect, mentorship, and hard work is the exact outcome Washington County was hoping for from the outset.”