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DMWESB TopProjects finalists announced

The Daily Journal of Commerce recently announced the finalists in the 2012 DMWESB TopProjects awards competition. The awards recognize the role that disadvantaged, minority- and women-owned businesses, and small emerging businesses played in construction projects completed in Oregon and Southwest Washington during 2011.

Oregon State University to build $29M residence hall

Oregon State University officials expect to have a new residence hall open by fall 2013. The new dorm will cost $29 million to build and will accommodate approximately 300 students. […]

Emerick Construction Co is Requesting Sub-Contractor Bids for OSU – Weniger 226 Lab Renovations. Bids are Due August 14, 2012 at 2:30 PM.

Former Masonic lodge to be converted into community center

A historic Northeast Portland building that once housed the Friendship Masonic Lodge is due to receive a $2 million renovation for the German American Society, but the new owners want to preserve the building's original essence.

Plan devised for restoration of polluted Portland Harbor

The group tasked with devising a program for restoring natural habitats along the heavily industrialized and polluted Portland Harbor has come up with a draft plan of action.

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Plan today to win contracts tomorrow

A national survey by the Society for Marketing Professional Services asked architecture, engineering and construction firms to identify why they had won their last project in which selection was based […]

Oregon’s first skyscraper

At the corner of Southwest Sixth Avenue and Oak Street sits the Wells Fargo building, Oregon’s first skyscraper. Designed by noted architect and native Oregonian Benjamin Wistar Morris III, it […]

TopProject: ICF Tenant Improvement submitted by Turner Construction

ICF International was looking for a recipe for success to turn a space once used by retailer Kitchen Kaboodle into a corporate showcase.

U.S. 101 Siuslaw River Bridge submitted by Hamilton Construction Co.

Working quickly to restore a vital connection between the coast and Oregon’s interior, the U.S. 101 Siuslaw River Bridge project team was able to improve the safety and technology of a historic bridge without sacrificing its historic facade.

TopProject: UO Steam Plant Upgrade submitted by Turner Construction

Like an invention from a Steampunk novel, the 1940s-era Central Power Station at the University of Oregon needed to be time-traveled into the 21st century. With an eye toward an efficient and timely upgrade, the university turned to a project team led by general contractor Turner Construction.

TopProject: PeaceHealth Corporate Headquarters submitted by Emerick Construction Co.

An interior and exterior renovation to turn the Columbia Center Building in Vancouver, Wash., into the new corporate headquarters for PeaceHealth required the project team to put on its thinking cap – more than once.