Work under way at Newport NOAA center
Workers from Andersen Construction are busy driving the first pier pilings and preparing equipment for the start of dredging at the new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Operations Center in Newport.
Shriners Hospital
Now that the new addition is completed, the original Shriners Hospital is being remodeled. When work is completed in spring 2011, there will be a new entrance and lobby, new exam rooms and an upgraded outpatient clinic on the first floor.
Shriners Hospital addition
The four-story addition to the Portland Shriners Hospital features an operating room, private and semi-private patient rooms, a lab for making prosthetics, patient play areas and private family areas.
Oregon hospital breaks the mold
The campus of the Westside Medical Center site in Hillsboro challenges the template Kaiser Permanente uses for new projects. The hospitall will need a locally appropriate rain-screen system featuring brick and metal panels.
Kaiser medical complex in Hillsboro
The Kaiser Westside Medical Center, next to the Kaiser Sunset Medical Office in Hillsboro, will have a hospital, a nursing tower, a medical office building, a parking structure and a central utility plant.
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