Fortis Construction to build Facebook data center in Sweden
Portland-based Fortis Construction Inc. was awarded a $121 million contract from Facebook to construct a data center in Lulea, Sweden. Fortis will be working with DPR Construction of Redwood City, Calif. and NCC Construction Sweden to build the 300,000-square-foot building.
Photos: Construction of Blanchet House of Hospitality
General contractor Fortis Construction is building a new four-story facility for the Blanchet House of Hospitality, which will include a first-floor kitchen and dining area and three floors of residential space.
Crews work on Blanchet House of Hospitality
General contractor Fortis Construction is building a new four-story facility for the Blanchet House of Hospitality, which will include a first-floor kitchen and dining area and three floors of residential space.
Last quack for the Dirty Duck
Northwest Infrastructure is demolishing the Dirty Duck building for general contractor Fortis Construction, who will be building the Blanchet House of Hospitality homeless shelter on the site.
Program funds seismic upgrades in public schools
A 2007 survey by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries identified approximately 649 public K-12 schools in Oregon that are likely to collapse in the event of a major earthquake. But a state program offering grants to help school districts pay for upgrades is almost out of money.
Goodbye, Dirty Duck
In February of last year, Portland City Council approved the demolition of the Kiernan Building, also known as the former home of the Dirty Duck Tavern. This month, Portland will bid farewell to the building.
Fortis Construction Needs Sub Contractors To Bid On The Pierce Library Renovation! Bid Date August 11.
Fortis Construction needs sub contractors to bid on the Pierce Library Renovation in La Grande, Oregon. Â The bid date is August 11 @ 2pm.
SERA Architects designs Blanchet House of Hospitality
In the next week, crews from Fortis Construction are expected to start demolishing the former Dirty Duck building, in Portland at Northwest Glisan Street and Third Avenue, to make way for a new home for Blanchet House of Hospitality.
Sub Contractors Requested for Barnhart & Riley Steam Conversion Barnhart Dining Renovation. Bids Due April 18.
Fortis Construction is looking for Sub Contractors to bid on the U of O’s Barnhart & Riley Steam Conversion Barnhart Dining Renovation. The Bid date is Monday April 18 at […]
North Park Blocks building renovated
The shell of a one-story, 22,000-square-foot building on Portland's North Park Blocks is being renovated to become two leasable spaces - one for retail and one for office. The building at the corner of Northwest Park Avenue and Everett Street has high ceilings with sand-blasted wooden beams.
OSU Education Hall being rehabilitated
Built more than a century ago, Education Hall on the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis is in the early stages of phase one of an exterior stone rehabilitation, complete interior, seismic and systems renovation.
Outside In building out
Outside In is a nonprofit organization in downtown Portland that helps improve the health of homeless youth and marginalized people as they move toward self-sufficiency. The organization's building at 1132 S.W. 13th Ave. will soon have another 1,300 square feet of clinic space as well as remodeled halls.
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