Kirby Nagelhout Construction has named Jason Terry as the company’s third president.

Terry joined Kirby Nagelhout in 2012 as a project manager and opened the Pendleton office in 2014 as the region’s division manager. Terry and his wife moved back to Bend in 2019 and began to prepare for this transition.

Former president Jeff Deswert will operate as chairman of the board of directors. After starting his career working at Mt. Bachelor, Deswert began his commercial construction career in 1986 as one of the first employees of Kirby Nagelhout working out of founder Kirby Nagelhout’s house in Bend. He advanced within the company through the operations ranks before taking on the role as the company’s second president in 2010, following 25 years of leadership from Nagelhout.

During Deswert’s tenure as president, he expanded the company’s footprint by opening permanent regional offices in Portland and Pendleton and grew the operations into Washington. As a result, Kirby Nagelhout’s annual volume grew from $26 million to over $200 million in 13 years, the firm states in a press release.

With continued growth in mind, Kirby Nagelhout announced the promotions of additional team members to the role of vice president emphasizing operations, marketing and business development, and finance. Alec Hansen, Chris Prahl and Mike Lawrence are assuming those roles, respectively. Additionally, Mike Taylor, longtime vice president and business leader with Deswert, will maintain his role focusing on preconstruction and risk management.

This new leadership team will open the doors to Kirby Nagelhout’s newly built Bend office next year.

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The city of Bend has selected two firms to design and construct the new 26.5-acre Juniper Ridge Public Works Campus.

Kirby Nagelhout Construction and Hennebery Eddy Architects will work together on the project to bring together the city’s engineering and infrastructure planning, fleet, transportation and mobility, and utilities functions in one location. The campus will include administrative and employee support services, fleet maintenance and shop and warehouse facilities, vehicle wash and storage spaces, and other specialized areas.

The city chose progressive design-build project delivery, which allows all parties to collaborate from the beginning. The streamlined process between owner, designer and contractor results in faster project completion.

“It brings all of the experts – including the general contractor and their trade partners – it brings those experts on early in the process,” Hennebery Eddy associate principal Camilla Cok said.

Those parties look over the budget and more from the outset, helping manage risk. If needed, the architects can adjust the design. When it comes time to build, the team should know the costs, because people are providing confirmation along the way.

“Traditionally, you don’t get that expert input early on,” Cok said.

The city of Bend is bringing together onto one campus five departments that currently are spread apart. The goal is to create a regenerative design that is resilient and adaptable. There is also a strong desire of the city to create a strong work environment for employees, as well as a place that benefits the community.

“We’re really early in the project,” Cok said. “We wrapped up programming and we’re jumping into concept design.”

The team is looking at several buildings to house the departments, as well as a main headquarters building, vehicle storage, a fleet maintenance building, and more. Design will begin early next year. Construction will begin mid-2023.

The city of Bend wants to start moving into the facilities in 2025.

“We’re thrilled to be working with the city of Bend,” Cok said. “They established a climate action plan and a strategic energy management plan.”

The city worked to align the project goals with sustainability aspirations. Bend’s strategic energy management plan calls for new facilities to be designed for net zero energy use or be net zero ready. The team is looking into this as a possibility.

With “the progressive design build process, we’re all collocated in a shared space in Bend,” Cok said, adding that she can see the benefits of such an arrangement.

Both Kirby Nagelhout Construction and Hennebery Eddy Architects have offices in Bend as well as design-build project experience.

“We have a history of working with Kirby Nagelhout,” Cok said. “They are a great partner. Our first project experience was actually a more traditional design-bid-build project.”

That was the Harmony West Building for Clackamas Community College. The two companies also are working on a fire station project for the city of Boardman.

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With eight planned phases of construction, the Five Oaks Middle School expansion in Beaverton is a bigger management and logistics challenge than most.

The $28 million project is being carried out by construction manager-general contractor Kirby Nagelhout Construction Company. The designer is Bassetti Architects.

Because of the need to keep the school in operation during construction, work is being done in phases over more than three years. Phase one started in summer 2017 with abatement and cleaning. Then, in summer 2018, crews converted the school’s upper gym and adjacent spaces into nine new classrooms.

This past spring, the project shifted into high gear, as work started on phases 3 and 4A. After the school year ended, crews proceeded to build 13 new classrooms, new computer and science labs, teacher prep areas, conference rooms, new restrooms and a new entry vestibule. Also, the library was renovated and gymnasium sprinkler systems were replaced.

Currently, renovation of the school’s administrative offices is wrapping up.

Phases 4B, 5, 6, 7 and 8 will be completed during the coming fall and winter. Substantial completion is planned for winter 2020.

The project is being paid for with money from a $680 million bond approved by voters in 2014. Other bond projects for the Beaverton School District have included new middle and elementary schools built in 2016, and the new Mountainside High School completed by Hoffman Construction in 2017.

Replacement buildings for Vose and Hazeldale elementary schools have also been completed, while a replacement for William Walker Elementary School remains under construction. The replacement for the district’s Arts and Communication Magnet Academy is in the design stage.

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