PROJECT: Lincoln City Police Department facility

LOCATION: 1503 S.E. East Devils Lake Road, Lincoln City

SIZE:��18,500 square feet

COST:��$10.5 million

CONSTRUCTION START DATE: 2018

CONSTRUCTION END DATE: 2020

OWNERS: city of Lincoln City and Lincoln City Police Department

OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE: Klosh Group

ARCHITECT: FFA Architecture and Interiors

ENGINEERS: KPFF Consulting Engineers (structural, civil); Sazan Group (MEP)

CONTRACTOR:��Emerick Construction Co.

OTHER ASSOCIATES: Acoustic Design Studio

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: The Lincoln City Police Department formerly operated out of an old ambulance building on a heavily wooded and sloped site. In 2017, the city selected FFA Architecture and Interiors to design a new, 18,500-square-foot facility.

The project presented several challenges, beginning with the site. It’s steep and backs up to property designated for a future city park. Access points were limited, and there was difficulty separating the site’s public and secure zones. Also, the existing building housed dispatch operations and needed to remain in place during construction, so the buildable area of the site was limited.

After engaging in a robust programming effort with the police department and consultant MWL Architects, the FFA team engaged in a research phase. Members worked closely with City Council and police staff to identify goals for the project and key metrics for its success. The team also conducted in-depth research into the history and culture of Lincoln City, working with citizens to determine an “origin story” that would influence representation of the final project.

Structural and envelope materials were chosen for three reasons: labor savings, coastal environment, and security. During design, FFA team members were told by contractors in the Willamette Valley that there was a 40 percent premium to perform commercial-level construction at the coast. This was mainly driven by transportation costs for workers. This led FFA to choose systems – including cross-laminated timber and unit fiberglass windows – able to be prefabricated.

That same labor theme impacted the choice of exterior cladding. Masonry is typically used to address security concerns of a police station. This is specifically tied to the ballistic performance of the wall. FFA was able to show that a combination of concrete tile and solid CLT walls met the same requirements. The team members did this by mocking up a section of the wall and letting police staff take it to a shooting range for target practice. The concrete shingles echo the cedar shingles common at the coast but last longer in the harsh climate.

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PROJECT: Fora Health Treatment & Recovery Addition Treatment Center

LOCATION: 10230 S.E. Cherry Blossom Drive, Portland

SIZE:��53,400 square feet, two stories

COST:��$27.6 million

START DATE: June 2020

END DATE: Fall 2021

OWNER: De Paul Treatment Centers (soon to be Fora Health)

DEVELOPER: Edlen & Co.

ARCHITECT: Holst Architecture

ENGINEER: Sazan Group

CONTRACTOR:��R&H Construction

OTHER TEAM MEMBERS: Apex Real Estate Partners, Heritage Bank, United Fund Advisors

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: The two-story, 53,400-square-foot headquarters facility will include space for administrative offices, medical and counseling offices, group meeting rooms, a commercial kitchen, and amenities such as a fitness center, art studio, patient resource center, library, and therapeutic gardens and outdoor gathering spaces. The building supports 70 adult residential treatment beds, treating patients in gender programs where they identify or are most comfortable, 24 medical withdrawal management beds, designated space for peer and family counseling services, as well as capacity to serve 920 outpatients at a time.

Recognized by Portland’s City Council as being thoughtfully designed and functional, as well as representative of the type of architecture the city likes to see in the community, the trauma-informed design of De Paul’s new treatment center will focus on allowing patients to engage with treatment, nature and each other in purpose-built and outdoor therapeutic spaces, with more space and functional adjacencies than provided in De Paul’s existing buildings.

“From the beginning, Holst Architecture has been a responsive and incredibly creative partner, starting with their engagement of our team and the community to design a campus that meets the complex needs of addiction treatment while bringing beautiful and functional design to the uniqueness of the site and neighborhood,” said Maree Wacker, executive director of De Paul Treatment Centers.

De Paul Treatment Centers and Holst received the Portland Design Commission’s 2019 Design Excellence Award for the architecture and design of the facility. The award was presented as part of the design commission’s 2019-2020 State of the City Design Report presentation to City Hall, recognizing a project from the previous year that best exemplifies the three tenets of design: context, public realm, and quality and resilience.

De Paul Treatment Centers, soon to be Fora Health, is one of Oregon’s largest providers of substance use disorder treatment for youth and adults. Since it’s founding in 1977, it has served more than 40,000 people in the Portland metropolitan area.

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General contractor Pence Construction is seeking sub-bids for all scopes of work associated with a $41.4 million project to improve Glencoe High School in Hillsboro. Additions and renovations are expected to allow the 39-year-old school to accommodate up to 400 additional students.

The front of the school will be overhauled, and a secure entry vestibule will be constructed. Both the north and south parking lots will be reconfigured for traffic flow and efficiency. The first-floor cafeteria will expand, and a new media center will be built on the second floor.

Also, classroom spaces will be renovated to accommodate Career and Technical Education programs. Other additions will include a counseling center and health science classrooms. A commons area will be expanded, and a weight room and team rooms and an outdoor training area will receive upgrades.

Project plans also call for extensive seismic upgrades along with roofing and HVAC improvements.

The project is being paid for with money from a $408 million bond measure approved by voters in 2017. Construction is expected to start by May 2019, and finish by the end of summer 2020.

In addition to Pence Construction, the project team includes BLRB Architects, Cornerstone Management Group (project management) and Sazan Group (MEP and fire protection design).

Job walks for the project, starting at the school entrance, will take place at 4 p.m. on Feb. 12, and 1 p.m. on Feb. 18. Bids are due by 2 p.m. on March 6.

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Marion County is seeking bids for a wide range of construction activities in connection with development of a planned juvenile justice administration building in downtown Salem.

Site plan review of the proposal for a single-story, 20,460-square-foot building was completed by the city of Salem on Wednesday, and the project’s building permit application is now being processed.

The single-floor building will be located at 2960 Center St. N.E., and be part of a complex of state and county facilities in that area, including the Oregon State Hospital and the Marion County Juvenile Detention building. The new administration building will be built just a few yards to the north of the juvenile detention facility at the corner of Center Street and Park Avenue.

The scope of the project will include all infrastructure and utility work on the site, as well as construction of the new building.

According to project documents, the structure will feature a cast-in-place concrete foundation and steel structural framing and steel joist framing. It will have elastomeric membrane roofing to ensure waterproofing.

The project is being designed by Carlson Veit Architects of Salem. Other project team members include: WesTech Engineering, civil engineering; MSC Engineers, structural engineering; Sazan Group Inc., mechanical and electrical engineering; and Laurus Designs, landscape architecture.

The project is planned for completion by August 2019.

Prospective bidders can learn more by contacting Marion County contracts specialist Tina Toney at 503-373-4388 or ttoney@co.marion.or.us.

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Three years after engineering executive Omid Nabipoor left the Rose City, he decided to move back because, “well, it’s Portland,” he said.

After serving most of his 23 years with Interface Engineering as its president, Nabipoor departed for Los Angeles to become managing principal of Integral Group. But recently he joined Sazan Group as a managing principal in Portland.

“I discovered that Portland is such a special city as far as the level of architecture and engineering,” he said. “It’s just so fabulous for a city this size that I just felt like I wasn’t finished doing good things for my clients and I wasn’t finished with Portland.”

Nabipoor said he is looking forward to again focusing on the Northwest. Seattle-based Sazan Group opened a Portland office about a year and a half ago, he said.

“We have a very new office here and we hope to do good work,” he said. “I felt like I missed my clients and missed the people I used to work with for so many years. I felt like I needed to come back and help my clients accomplish their missions.”

Sazan Group is looking to use its Portland office to grow its business handling health care, commercial, institutional and education projects, company President Nader Dabestani said.

Dabestani added that he felt “incredibly fortunate” that Nabipoor chose to join the firm.

“He has great credentials with sustainable design for mechanical and electrical system and he will further enhance our capabilities,” Dabestani said.

Nabipoor will have more of a hands-on approach with Sazan Group, he said, partly because it’s a smaller firm, with about 70 employees.

“Sazan is a company where we feel our mission is to do what our clients need us to do with thoughtfulness and due attention, like having principals on the project,” he said. “It’s not like some firms where you see a principal at the beginning of the project and then don’t see them again. We have a bit of a different approach with that.”

When Nabipoor was at Interface, the focus was always on green building. He wants to ensure that it’s the same at Sazan Group. Sustainability and energy efficiency should be elements of all types of projects, he said.

“I feel we have to be mindful enough on every project to determine how we can lessen its impact on the environment,” he said. “The most environmental thing would be not to build anything. But we have to.

“I feel like there is a lot of mindfulness here. It’s more natural to do really sustainable work in a really sustainable city. You’re not fighting against the grain and people appreciate that value here, with a really good, deliberate approach.”

There were some things Nabipoor liked about L.A., such as more ethnic and economic diversity. But extreme opulence was more evident than in Portland, he said, with some people ostensibly showing off their wealth.

Humility is a more important character trait than pride, he said.

“I think it’s a saying that humble pie is a nonfat, zero-calorie dessert that everyone should eat because it helps us focus on what we do and why we do it,” he said.

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