PROJECT: Nestucca Valley School District K-8 School (Nestucca K-8)

LOCATION: 36925 U.S. 101 South, Cloverdale

SIZE: 8.96 acres with a larger undeveloped adjacent parcel of 28.3 acres

COST: $25 million

START DATE: April 2019

ANTICIPATED END DATE: May 2021

OWNER: Nestucca Valley School District

OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE: Day CPM

ARCHITECT: DLR Group

ENGINEER: ZCS Engineering & Architecture

CONTRACTOR: O’Brien & Company

NUMBER OF WORKERS EMPLOYED: 100

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: This project involves a full remodel of an existing elementary school so that it’s able to serve students in grades K-8. The building also serves as a central location for the community during a natural disaster. The remodel encompasses 28,203 square feet, and a single-story addition is 40,745 square feet. The structure is wood-framed with glu-lams, an aluminum storefront, stained/polished concrete, an interior wood storefront, and a poured-in-place rubber surfacing playground with all new equipment. The new building includes classrooms, administrative offices, commons, a gymnasium, a kitchen, career and technical education labs, music space, and a secure front entry on the south side. New site work includes a stormwater management system, an entry plaza, outdoor learning areas, a community garden, and new vehicular circulation including parent and bus drop-off with parking. The existing school remained open during construction.

One of the biggest challenges affecting the entire project was the COVID-19 pandemic, which impacted all aspects from lead times to manpower. O’Brien & Co. and its team persevered, and the project is wrapping up four to five months ahead of the original completion date and under budget. To keep all parties involved safe, the company kept a “Social Distancing Officer” on site at all times and required temperature checks at check-in. Also, mask use was required at all times, and the firm followed all AGC and CDC COVID-19 safety guidelines.

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In 2020, school construction has continued to be a bright spot for the building industry in the Portland-metro area. In Tigard, the $46 million Twality Middle School modernization is one such project that has kept crews busy. After ground was broken in late 2019, builders persevered throughout challenging times. The team expected to obtain a temporary certificate of occupation late this month.

“What’s left is just some finish stuff and the punch list and that’s about it,” said Greg Yoder, the project superintendent for general contractor Triplett Wellman Contractors. “The owner has their movers out here, and they’ve been out here for a good week moving stuff into the building one semi after another.”

IBI Group designed the project, which is part of an overhaul of an entire school campus that includes Templeton Elementary School nearby. The latter was rebuilt in a similar fashion as Twality Middle School, and completed in summer 2019.

Much of the existing middle school was demolished. A few portions were kept and remodeled, but most of the space was built anew. Twality Middle School now has a new gymnasium, library/media center, common areas, visual arts classrooms, maker space, centralized administrative offices and two U-shaped wings of wired-for-technology classrooms.

“It’s almost a new building,” Shawn Christensen, a project manager with Day CPM, the owner’s representative for Tigard-Tualatin School District, told the 91��Ƶ late last year.

All of the space is spread over two stories, with the ground floor nestled into a hillside. This provides a daylit basement and convenient access to the ground level from both floors. The upper floor opens to parking and the main entrance facing Southwest 97th Avenue, while the lower floor opens at the rear of the building to a pair of courtyards and bus parking.

Earlier this month, IES Commercial & Industrial was on site finishing low-voltage electrical work, while Hydro-Temp Mechanical crews were completing plumbing and HVAC work in the school kitchen and other areas. Personnel from the Beaverton office of Diversified were completing audio-visual systems work. Other workers were finishing the gymnasium’s wood floor.

Triplett Wellman considers school projects its bread and butter, and Twality certainly fits in that category. But COVID-19 has made every project somewhat unique because of the challenges presented to the workforce and suppliers of materials. This has been the case since March.

“We were way out ahead on our schedule, and then COVID hit and I think at one point out here in one week’s time we had seven or eight guys come down with it,” Yoder said. “And I know our steel fabricator, he was hit with it, so their immediate action was to shut their shop down. They were down a week so that had a little bit of an impact on us.”

Finding work-arounds and persevering through delays and other obstacles has become second nature.

“I think a lot of times, what causes these schedule impacts is guys don’t order their material when they should and then they want to blame it on whatever they can,” Yoder said. “But if you order months ahead you’ll usually get it. You’ve got to adjust for it, so you definitely have to be looking way ahead. But I’m satisfied with where we’re at. We’re going to get the building done when we’re supposed to.”

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Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers has signed a five-year lease agreement for the former Wapato Jail building, real estate investor Jordan Schnitzer announced recently.

Schnitzer, president of Harsch Investment Properties, agreed to lease the 155,400-square-foot Bybee Lakes Hope Center for the token amount of $1 a year.

“After two years of looking for the right partner, we are now entering into a five-year lease with Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers to renovate and repurpose the project formerly known as Wapato,” Schnitzer stated in a news release. “Since purchasing the property in 2018, we have entertained numerous proposals from credible nonprofits to help homeless and others in need.”

Schnitzer stated that he was impressed after meeting with Helping Hands founder Alan Evans, who was homeless for 27 years before establishing the nonprofit in 2002. It’s based in Seaside, and now has 11 facilities in Multnomah, Clatsop, Yamhill and Tillamook counties.

The lease agreement is a milestone in the yearslong effort to put the never-used jail building to some useful purpose. Schnitzer had pushed for a social-service tenant, saying he would otherwise demolish the building. In October 2019, Schnitzer went so far as to unveil plans for a 314,000-square-foot warehouse. The former jail, completed in 2004, is in an industrial area dotted with fulfillment centers and other facilities.

Developer Marty Kehoe, who acquired the building from Multnomah County, sold it to Harsch for $5 million in April 2018.

The project team that will convert the jail into a shelter and reentry center was assembled by construction manager DAY CPM. Precision Construction, an affiliate of Hoffman Construction – the ex-jail’s original builder – has been selected as general contractor. Architecture and engineering services were awarded to Otak Inc.

Otak will work with VLMK Engineering + Design, Interface Engineering and Knot to provide functional architecture, way-finding and interior design.

The Bybee Lakes Hope Center will pair supportive services with transitional housing. Helping Hands will open three of the nine wings at the facility and house up to 228 beds in the first year of operation, Harsch announced. At full capacity, the center will be able to serve 525 individuals.

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It was a balancing act, according to the project team.

That is, when facing a decision of whether to keep a portion of Twality Middle School in Tigard and add to it, or simply demolish the entire existing facility and construct a new one, officials opted for the former. Existing concrete shell structures will be kept and renovated, and eventually connect with a new, two-story building.

“It’s almost a new building,” said Shawn Christensen, a project manager with Day CPM, the owner’s representative for Tigard-Tualatin School District. “We kept 27,000 square feet worth of the concrete boxes in the gym, which is going to stay a gym. There’s another gym that we’re converting to locker rooms. And then we’ve kept the cafeteria, and we are converting that to music rooms. Everything else got torn down.”

IBI Group designed the $46 million project, and Woodburn-based Triplett Wellman Contractors is serving as general contractor. The school will gain a new gymnasium, media center, common areas, visual arts classrooms, maker space, centralized administrative offices and a full suite of wired-for-technology classrooms.

All of it is spread over two stories, with the ground floor nestled into a hillside. This will give the impression of a daylit basement and provide convenient access across both floors.

The school’s orientation will be roughly north to south, with the existing structures situated at the site’s south end. Construction is being split into two phases; currently, the first phase is under way at the site’s north end.

“The big push right now is just the framing,” said Greg Yoder, site superintendent for Triplett Wellman Contractors. “The site contractor was here today – it’s Catworks out of Vancouver (Washington), and they’re doing all the dirt work. And then we’ve got (PDX) Electric doing our electric, and Hydro-Temp is our plumber. And they’ve got both the wet and the dry side, so plumbers have been working getting the slab-on-grade stuff in.”

The building will have slab-on-grade foundations with wood framing and glulam columns and beams for structural support over the typical long spans found in schools. A curtainwall system will bring let natural light into the building from the west side, where new parking and bus pathways will be built. Both levels of the new building’s east side will feature vertically accented metal panels and glazing.

The project is part of a two-pronged remodel of a campus that also includes Templeton Elementary School. The latter was rebuilt in a similar fashion, with a portion of the 1960s-era building retained. That project was completed this past summer, and students and staff are now using the new space.

The project team decided to take a similar approach with the Twality project, though it remains uncertain whether it’s the most cost-effective one.

“We kept the (old) gym operational during construction, so it’s been a significant challenge to keep that gym free of noise and issues,” Christensen said. “They were thinking there would be budget savings with these giant concrete boxes, but as far as we’ve gotten into the building I’m thinking we might not have saved money by keeping the boxes.”

But the move allowed officials burdened by construction at both schools to maintain gym space.

“There were definitely complications associated with that for sure,” Christensen added. “And honestly they needed the gym. They only have a small gym down there at the elementary school, so using this gym has allowed them to run PE (classes) for 1,100 students.”

Similar choices were made with the old school cafeteria, which will tie in with the new building.

“It will all be connected,” Christensen said.

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The Tigard-Tualatin School District is looking for a firm to take on the role of construction manager-general contractor and build the new Art Rutkin Elementary School. It will be constructed on a 20-acre site in Tigard’s River Terrace area.

The $36 million project is being paid for with money from a $291 million bond approved by voters in 2017. Construction is anticipated to start by February 2020 and finish in time to accommodate the start of the 2021-22 school year.

Prospective bidders can send requests for proposal documents by emailing Juliet Jacobsen of DAY CPM, the owner’s representative for the project, at juliet.jacobsen@otak.com.

A mandatory pre-bid conference for the project will take place at 11 a.m. on Dec. 19 at the district’s Hibbard Building, at 6960 S.W. Sandburg St. in Tigard. All bids are due by 3 p.m. on Jan. 10, 2019.

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A celebration was held Friday to mark the topping out of the Multnomah County Central Courthouse project in downtown Portland. The final structural beam was placed atop the 17-story tower by ironworkers with Local 29 working for Alliance Industrial Group.

The project’s groundbreaking was held in October 2016, and construction manager/general contractor Hoffman Construction began major work on the $324.5 million project in spring 2017. Ongoing façade work is expected to last through next April, and interiors and finishes will be completed near the end of 2019. Commissioning will begin next summer and run through early 2020, and a grand opening is scheduled for that spring.

The project’s design team includes SRG Partnership, the prime architect, and CGL RicciGreene, which is handling courts programming and design. Day CPM is the owner’s representative for Multnomah County.

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has been issued for a firm to provide design-build services for a at the Salem Public Library‘s main building in downtown.

The three-story Brutalist-style building, constructed in 1972, will receive a seismic retrofit as well as upgrades to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Also, new mechanical systems and ductwork will be installed, and additional seismic work will improve the auditorium and adjacent parking garage.

According to the city, a 2014 engineering study by Portland firm BergerABAM found the library and parking structure do not meet standards for life safety, and that users, staff and volunteers would be at risk in the event of a major earthquake. This prompted the city to pursue passage of a bond measure to pay for the work. Voters in 2017 approved an $18.6 million general obligation bond.

City officials hope to select a designer and contractor by the end of the year. Construction is set to start in early 2020 and wrap up by May 2021.

Questions about RFP specifications may be emailed to John Nibler of owner’s representative DAY CPM at john.nibler@otak.com.

Questions regarding the RFP process may be directed to Shawna Self, contracts and procurement manager for the city of Salem, at 503-588-6445 or sself@cityofsalem.net.

Bid proposals must be filed with the city before 2 p.m. on Nov. 7.

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The Tigard-Tualatin School District is looking for a builder to construct a high-tech, $6.5 million addition to the district’s alternative high school.

The project to build the Durham Education Center addition is being paid for with money from a $291 million bond approved by voters in 2016. The new facility is intended to bring together users of the Durham Center’s various programs, which include dropout recovery and an online academy.

The district received an exemption from state law requiring competitive bidding for projects that receive public money. Officials will consider both the bid price, as well as qualifications and experience.

The project will feature a high level of risk and technical complexity due to the amount of other construction work occurring near the site, the presence of students nearby and budget limitations, according to the district’s request for proposals.

The new construction will feature a two-story, 15,000-square-foot building, including classrooms, common areas, offices, flex space, a kitchen and an outdoor, covered play area as well as improvements to a parking lot and other areas.

The Durham Center’s two existing buildings will remain in use throughout the project.

As a facility, the building is expected to produce as much energy as it uses.

Bora Architects and Day CPM have been retained as architect and owner’s representative, respectively.

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Despite its design not yet being approved and construction months away from beginning, a groundbreaking was held Tuesday for the Multnomah County Central Courthouse. Major work on the project is slated to begin in the spring of 2017; in the meantime, the demolition of the Veritable Quandary building and tree removal will begin next month, and the new building’s design will be reviewed for the second time by the Historic Landmarks Commission on Oct. 24.

The planned courthouse, designed by SRG Partnership and CGL RicciGreene, will have 17 stories and reach 325 feet in height. It will contain a total of about 440,000 square feet that will include courtrooms, offices for district attorneys, public defenders, and sheriffs. The building will connect to the historic Jefferson Station office condominium building at Southwest First Avenue and Jefferson Street, triggering review of the project by the Historic Landmarks Commission.

Multnomah County has so far acquired all but two of the nine units at Jefferson Station, which will undergo renovations and be used as high-volume courts dealing with traffic and parking infractions, small claims, and landlord-tenant disputes.

Hoffman Construction will serve as the construction manager/general contractor on the project, and DAY CPM will serve as the owner’s representative. The building is slated for completion in 2020.

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Work is wrapping up on TMF14, a $9 million transportation and maintenance facility for Oregon City School District. P&C Construction is service as the construction manager/general contractor on the yearlong project, a 30,000-square-foot tilt-up concrete and structural steel building. The facility includes a multiple-bay garage for servicing the district’s fleet of school buses, administrative offices, a driver’s lounge and dispatch area, and maintenance shop. BBL Architects is the project’s designer, and Day CPM served as the owner’s representative.

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