Executive vice president, general manager of Advanced Technology operating unit

Skanska has promoted Bryan Northrop to executive vice president and general manager of its Advanced Technology operating unit, effective July 1. He will oversee personnel working on semiconductor and data center construction projects in Oregon, Arizona, Virginia and California, as well as in collaboration with regional operating units in Georgia, Ohio and Texas. Northrop will be based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Northrop is tasked with overseeing and driving growth for the operating unit, which combines mission-critical data center and high-tech semiconductor manufacturing builds. The unit serves as a centralized hub for operational oversight, commercial management, and resource deployment as a single point of contact for advanced technology customers.

Northrop is a 30-year veteran in the construction industry. He succeeds Katie Coulson, who retired. Northrop joined Skanska in 1997 and has worked in a variety of positions, primarily delivering complex pharmaceutical and industrial manufacturing infrastructure for national customers. Most recently, Northrop served as EVP and GM of the New England operating unit. Northrop graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology with a dual B.S. in construction management and architectural engineering.

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A new mass timber building at the University of Oregon‘s Portland campus aims to train a new workforce and advance a new model of childcare.

The two-story, 54,000-square-foot will replace four outdated buildings at the UO Portland campus, 2800 N.E. Liberty St.

The new building will house the Ballmer Institute and Prevention Science Institute.

“The mission of the building is one of the main inspirations for the project,” said Braulio Baptista, design partner at ZGF Architects. “It’s humbling to be part of the design of a project that will carry out such important work.”

The building, currently under construction, replaces four recently demolished buildings totaling 44,000 square feet.

According to the university, Elizabeth and Weber halls were used as student housing when Concordia operated the campus before UO purchased it in 2022. The adjoining building, Mary Neils, served as administrative office space. The fourth building was a vacant, single-family house.

The UO Portland project was designed by ZGF Architects. The project team also includes civil engineer CAPITAL Engineering & Consulting LLC, structural engineer KPFF, mechanical engineer PAE, landscape architect Walker Macy and general contractor Skanska.

Launched in 2022 through a lead gift from Connie and Steve Ballmer, the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health includes a training program that equips students with the skills to identify behavioral health challenges early and implement interventions that prevent issues from escalating.

The facility will allow the UO to enroll up to 300 students annually in their final two years of the program, according to a UO press release.

The three components of the programming are education, research and clinical training. With the new building, the Ballmer Institute and the Prevention Science Institute will have their first identifiable physical location, Baptista said. The Ballmer Institute has previously been operating in a variety of buildings throughout the Portland campus and nearby since its launch in 2022.

The inclusive design will include welcoming spaces for children and families to access free behavioral health services, modernized classrooms and instructional spaces, a behavioral health clinic and a telehealth center to deliver services to youth in underserved and rural communities across the state. The design will include elements of biophilia – design centered on natural element, including plants – and plenty of daylight.

Baptista said it was important to find a balance between institutional and familial elements in the design.

“It will be a mass timber building, which we’re very excited about,” Baptista said, adding that it will be the first new mass timber building on the campus. “The interior of the building will leverage as much of the mass timber as possible to add warmth.”

The exterior materials are primarily metal with custom corrugation. Baptista said the metal emulates the reddish stones of the brick building elsewhere on the campus.

The main organization of the building creates a central space, called the student hub.

“We have research, education and clinical spaces that sort of pinwheel around the central space, creating a very clearly demarcated heart to the building where everybody comes together,” Baptista said.

From that space, students can go into classrooms or research wings.

Baptista said privacy is an important consideration in a building like this, particularly in the training clinic and research areas. There were strict requirements for sound isolation between rooms, from intervention rooms to telehealth spaces.

Baptista said the building’s location was chosen from the master plan, which ZGF helped with, that will create the fourth defining edge to the central quad of the campus. Baptista said it will be kitty-corner from the library, which currently acts as a center piece of the campus.

Landscaping includes a sensory garden and other areas of respite.

The project is expected to cost $83 million. Funding includes $53 million from the state, a $15 million lead gift by the Tykeson Family Foundation and additional gifts of $5 million from other donors, according to the UO.

Construction broke ground June 11 and is expected to be complete in early 2029.

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Recent reports indicate construction activity is stabilizing in the Portland market.

Mortenson‘s latest , for the first quarter of 2026, suggests developers, owners and contractors are beginning to see increased confidence in the project pipeline. The region’s construction market remains active but selective, with project performance varying in different sectors, according to the report.

Mortenson Vice President Mike Clifford, general manager of the firm’s Portland office, said it is a cautious confidence, and owners are continuing to evaluate projects.

“Compared to where we were a year or two ago, we’re seeing projects starting to go through planning and into the design phase,” he said. “There’s greater certainty around pricing, procurement and scheduling than there’s been in the past couple of years.”

Mike Salsgiver, who is preparing to step down as CEO of the Associated General Contractors‘ Oregon-Columbia chapter, stated in an email that overall, the organization is seeing signs that the slowdown experienced over the past year is lessening.

“Larger companies such as Mortensen are reporting improvements in the pipeline as inflationary cost pressures, supply chain challenges, and interest rates are stabilizing,” Salsgiver stated.

Construction and development company Skanska also reports renewed momentum in the project pipeline on a national level.

“In the Portland market, activity seems to be stabilizing, with public sector investment in education, healthcare, and infrastructure driving much of the work,” Skanska Executive Vice President Trevor Wyckoff, general manager of the firm’s operations in Oregon and Southwest Washington, stated in an email. “Private development demand continues to be shaped by sector-specific growth, particularly by data centers and life sciences.”

According to Skanska’s spring , cautious private commercial development is leading companies to focus on essential facilities, critical upgrades and industrial capacity. Modernization, deferred maintenance and energy efficiency improvements are being prioritized over new builds.

Mortenson has seen a slight rise in project starts, Clifford said. Construction starts were up 13 percent in March, according to Mortenson’s report.

There is strong demand for large-scale infrastructure, manufacturing, and data center construction, the report states.

Several regions have reported increasingly competitive bidding environments as trade partners pursue a more limited pool of conventional commercial and institutional work. While overall labor availability and supply chain conditions have stabilized, local constraints persist in specialized trades and steel and electrical scopes.

From AGC’s perspective, availability of trained and skilled workers continues to be a problem, Salsgiver stated.

Energy infrastructure and advanced manufacturing sectors have seen some growth. In energy and infrastructure, there have been projects around the grid, grid resiliency, battery storage and renewable energy, Clifford said. Advanced manufacturing historically is a large sector in the market and it’s now experiencing some encouraging signs.

Some larger projects are starting to move forward in design. In particular, Portland General Electric has advanced some energy infrastructure projects.

Many of AGC’s contractor members, however, are encountering challenges in one sector, according to Salsgiver.

“Public projects, especially in transportation/heavy civil and heavy highway, continue to experience serious headwinds as funding for projects has become uncertain because of the (Oregon) Legislature’s failure to pass and implement a transportation funding bill that can withstand scrutiny from the voters,” he stated.

While nonresidential construction conditions remained stable through the first quarter of 2026, cost escalation and procurement conditions continued to vary by market and project type. Elevated metal pricing and continued demand tied to power, electrification and expansion of data centers are causing pressure on some materials and equipment availability, Mortenson’s report states.

“Our price increase in the market is still year over year on the lower end towards the bottom of the major markets,” Clifford said. “That reflects a market that’s been localized and subdued compared to some of the faster growing parts of the country.”

While things have moderated, the local market is still influenced by global and regional prices.

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ZGF Architects garnered little from precedents when designing a seismically resilient, six-story, 183,000-square-foot hospital expansion in Astoria’s tsunami inundation zone.

“As far as the resiliency side of it, there isn’t a precedent for this kind of facility,” project architect Michelle Checkis said. “At least in the United States, we weren’t able to find another medical facility that was doing this or had this kind of resiliency.”

Resiliency is paramount for Columbia Memorial Hospital, a federally designated Critical Access Hospital that is pinched between the Columbia River and Coxcomb Hill in Astoria. The hospital nearest to Columbia Memorial is 18 miles away in Seaside, and U.S. Route 101 between them is linked by seismically vulnerable bridges.

Now a major expansion is under way at Columbia Memorial. Crews led by general contractor Skanska are erecting steel.

“We’re getting out of the ground,” Checkis said.

And, crucially, above water.

Columbia Memorial officials issued a request for proposals in July 2020 after a 2017 report on 11 coastal hospitals from the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries reached an alarming conclusion: “Due to expected damage to pre-1995 hospital buildings including structural systems and non-structural components of hospital buildings … none of Oregon’s coastal hospitals are ready to operate immediately after a Cascadia disaster.”

Columbia Memorial was built in the 1970s and later received several expansions. Hospital officials worked with University of Washington researchers to precisely model the effects of a tsunami in the area. The results: The bottom two floors of Columbia Memorial are expected to be inundated in a worst-case earthquake and tsunami.

So ZGF — with the help of Degenkolb Engineers — went vertical. Building on lessons learned from the Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building in Newport, ZGF designed a staircase leading to a rooftop shelter. Overall, safe refuge areas at the hospital expansion will be able to protect up to 1,900 people, ZGF estimates.

Acute patient care rooms were moved to higher floors, except for the emergency department, which must remain on the ground floor for everyday access. The greatly expanded emergency department will meet a crucial need for more ER capacity on the North Coast.

Also, mechanical and electrical systems are located above the projected maximum tsunami inundation line. So is a rooftop helipad; it replaces a landing spot at ground level, only 20 feet above the grade of the Columbia River.

A swooping mass-timber entry pavilion provides an entry to the existing hospital structure and a nod to Clatsop County’s timber heritage.

Perhaps the project’s biggest hurdle came in April 2025 when Trump administration officials canceled a previously awarded $20 million resiliency grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The status of the 2023 grant remains unclear. In March, FEMA sent the state Department of Emergency Management a letter indicating it could still be funded.

Meanwhile, the hospital’s foundation has raised nearly $8 million of a $10 million goal to support completion of construction.

Hospital officials “have stayed hopeful that the grant program would be revived, while also searching for other avenues of funding, as well as cost savings in the project,” hospital spokeswoman Sarah Bello stated in an email. “There have been no major design changes, and the resiliency aspects remain part of the expansion despite the uncertainty with the BRIC grant.”

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As mass timber pushes into more project types, contractors and advocates are pursuing its inclusion in designs for one of the few construction sectors showing growth: health care.

Mass timber has long been used in office buildings and residential structures as supporters credit it for appealing aesthetics, faster tilt-up times, and competitive costs and performance. Health care is a tougher sector to crack, with strict code requirements for hospitals and unique considerations related to patient health.

Yet those hurdles have done little to dissuade mass-timber backers, who see a growing health-care sector that comprises one-sixth of the $30 trillion U.S. economy while commercial real estate has pulled back dramatically.

“We’re going to see more (mass-timber) projects that are health care, and we’re going to see larger portions of the projects that are mass timber,” said Dean Lewis, director of mass timber and prefabrication at Skanska, one of the large contractors working with the material.

Health care was a central topic at this week’s International Mass Timber Conference in Portland. Lewis covered health care as an emerging market for mass timber, while University of Oregon researcher Mark Fretz discussed “Mass Timber in Health Care and Infection Control.”

It makes sense for contractors and other industry insiders to pursue health care projects, said Iain Macdonald, director of the Tallwood Design Institute, a collaboration between Oregon State University‘s colleges of forestry and engineering, and the UO College of Design.

“Commercial is kind of a stagnant construction sector, and life sciences is one that’s growing,” he said.

While clients continue to rely on traditional concrete-and-steel construction for key hospital functions, the use of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and similar products in health care facilities is growing.

On the Oregon Coast, ZGF Architects‘ design for the Columbia Memorial Hospital expansion in Astoria uses mass timber for the entryway’s roof and other structural elements. The 183,000-square-foot facility will also include safe refuge areas in the event of a tsunami and acute care patient rooms on upper floors. The expanded hospital is slated to open in 2027.

The foyer of the new St. Charles Cancer Center in Redmond, a 53,000-square-foot facility that will open later this month, is made from mass timber.

The University of Oregon’s $71 million Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health, a 54,000-square-foot building under construction in Portland and designed by ZGF, will feature mass timber extensively, as does a $47 million building designed by Hacker for Mosaic Community Health in Bend.

In Lakewood, Washington, a behavioral health facility designed by HOK topped out in March.

“The mass-timber design serves a number of goals,” Loren Supp, HOK’s design principal in Seattle, stated in a news release. “It highlights the natural beauty of western Washington and its evergreen forests. It reinforces the state’s commitment to environmentally friendly design, and it creates a warm and calming environment that benefits well-being.”

Advocates point to the well-studied psychological benefits of inhabiting timber buildings. UO researchers last year published a study finding CLT had fewer viable bacteria than a plastic sample. The researchers also found that volatile organic compounds in CLT decreased over time.

Industry and UO researchers are studying the possibilities for expanding use of mass timber in hospitals.

“You’re not going to have it in the (operating rooms), but there are distinct advantages to having it in patient rooms, waiting areas and that sort of thing,” Macdonald said.

Industry officials are also studying mass timber’s potential for other uses, including warehouses, data centers and military bases.

Portland has long been the epicenter of mass-timber construction in the United States. Portland is home to notable projects such as the Mississippi Building, an all-wood office structure designed by Waechter Architecture; the 12-story Julia West House, designed by Holst Architecture; and Carbon12, an eight-story mixed-use building designed by Kaiser + Path.

Extensive use of CLT in the new Portland International Airport terminal marked a new chapter for mass timber in major public projects. And even some never-built concepts, including Framework and the Spar, led to important research for building tall wood structures.

In health care, Skanska’s Lewis said clients don’t need to be persuaded — they’re eager to build with mass timber.

“A lot of the clients, especially in the Pacific Northwest, harken back to our affinity for wood,” Lewis said.

Clients point to sustainability and valuing the experience of being inside the building.

“It seems like the ones that want to do timber are really invested in trying to create a space that they feel is above what they’ve seen in the market,” Lewis said.

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The cost of building things in the U.S. is still trending upward, and at a rate greater than overall inflation, Skanska executives said in a recent webinar.

Interest rates, tariffs and now diesel costs spiking amid the war with Iran can be expected to raise costs, the executives said in their 2026 briefing on Thursday.

“We think cost escalation in construction is going to outpace U.S. inflation, and fairly significantly,” said Steve Stouthamer, Skanska’s executive vice president for project planning.

Skanska’s composite cost index in the past year has risen 6.8 percent, which Stouthamer called “very significant.” Most markets will see inflation between 4 percent and 6 percent this year, he said.

Spiraling prices for diesel and regular fuel can be expected to reverberate through the construction industry, the executives said. On Monday, diesel averaged $4.91 per gallon in Oregon, up 66 cents in the past week, according to AAA.

Tariffs continue to boost costs, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down some of the Trump administration’s levies on trade.

“It’s just the reciprocal tariffs that have been struck down — all of these other ones remain,” said Rob Cantando, Skanska’s director of strategic supply chain.

The duty paid on aluminum has risen 3.5 times since early 2025 when President Donald Trump first instituted a series of tariffs.

“This really shows how aluminum pricing has escalated in the U.S. above the rest of the world,” Cantando said, adding that it’s sending prices upward for curtain wall and storefront extrusions.

Copper and other building materials also remain elevated.

It’s not all bad news on costs, however. Manufacturers are beginning to catch up on demand for some building systems, including heating and cooling units.

“We are expecting lead times for HVAC equipment and electrical gear to fall this year, and that’s really due to expansions — (manufacturers) continuing to ramp up,” Cantando said. “There have been significant investments by many manufacturers in this area.”

Costs for plumbing fixtures, HVAC and electrical gear should begin to moderate due to the elimination of some tariffs, he said.

Activity in the construction industry is being propped up by massive tech projects — data centers and other tech-related megaprojects, driven by demand for artificial intelligence, data and cloud restructure.

Data center developers are expected to build 8 gigawatts of infrastructure this year, totaling 32 million square feet. In monetary terms, that’s a spend of an estimated $40 billion to $80 billion.

An estimated 50,000 to 75,000 electricians are working exclusively on data center construction, Skanska officials said.

“A few years ago, we had a number of regions in the country that could probably hide from what the data center impact was doing, but now that demand is spreading across the country to locations where there is power capacity (and) land availability,” Stouthamer said. “Most markets around the country are feeling the impacts of the significant growth in the data-center market.”

In contrast, traditional residential and commercial construction remain soft, the Sweden-based global construction giant reported last month.

“Interest rates have led to reduction in commercial work,” Stouthamer said.

Recovery in housing and other private sectors is likely to be gradual, hinging on further interest rate reductions, improved consumer demand and reduced input costs, Skanska stated in its winter 2026 report.

“More optimal conditions may not materialize fully until 2027, but even that is highly speculative,” the report stated.

Skanska officials recommended contractors forecast budgets to the midpoint of construction, not just the procurement stage. Other cost-conscious measures they recommended include having flexibility in project specifications, early planning with project partners and producing more frequent budget updates.

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A 48-year industry veteran, Lage is known as a calm, collected leader who creates collaborative environments between joint ventures, owners and design teams.

Lage is part of the leadership team working closely with the Port of Portland and ZGF Architects on the Portland International Airport’s $1.75 billion TCORE project. He is responsible for contractual requirements and helps the team find solutions to complex challenges. When safety concerns arose during the final stretch of Phase 1, Lage and the Port didn’t hesitate to hit pause. A group decision to keep everyone safe, the reset worked, resulting in significantly improved site safety and a successful project completion.

Lage is known for his person-first approach. He works with individuals to identify career growth opportunities and is often the first person to suggest sending flowers or cards when personal issues arise.

His “no surprises” management style and solutions-based approach are his hallmarks of leadership, as he tackles the most significant challenges and hardest conversations with grace and understanding.

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When teams from two of the region’s largest construction companies put their heads together, big things happen.

Skanska and Hoffman Construction partnered together in 2017 to deliver the largest public works project in the region’s history: Portland International Airport’s Terminal Core Redevelopment. The project is one of the most complex jobs many construction workers will see in their careers. The firms assembled a team of all-stars with unmatched PDX experience, large project experience and international aviation expertise. A “project first” culture included a strong focus on safety. The $1.75 billion Phase 1 opened in August 2024.

The renovation doubled the ticket lobby size and features a groundbreaking nine-acre mass timber roof, the largest such project in the United States. The roof structure, designed to withstand a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, consists of 14 prefabricated rectangular pieces weighing 18 million pounds total. The project prioritized sustainability, using locally-sourced Douglas fir from within 300 miles of the site. One million of the 3.5 million board feet for beams, lattices and plywood panels came from 13 local landowners, including four Tribal lands.

The renovation, which created 4,700 jobs and 5.5 million work hours, is tracking LEED Gold certification. Some 288 subcontracts were awarded to MWESB certified firms – 20 percent of the total subcontract dollars.

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Growing up on a farm in Washington’s Yakima Valley proved to be fine preparation for Daniel Johnson’s 40-year construction career. One of eight siblings, he’d rise early to help tend to his father’s dairy and beef cattle.

“That did bring a sense of work ethic because at a very young age you were working your ass off and didn’t know it because that’s just what you did,” Johnson said.

The early-to-rise habit carried into construction. At Skanska, Johnson would have friendly contests with a co-worker to see who would arrive in the office first. Often, they would both be at work by 5:30 a.m.

Johnson, known as “D.J.,” retired Friday as senior vice president of operations for Skanska. Along the way, he led projects including the Portland International Airport Terminal North expansion in the early 1990s for United and Delta airlines, several projects for a major tech manufacturer in Hillsboro, Main Place in downtown Vancouver, Washington, and countless schools and health care buildings. He was also part of the proposal team for the Hoffman Skanska joint venture now tackling the PDX Next suite of projects.

Johnson began working for a local contractor while attending the University of Washington. He took an interest watching major projects rise. One was Columbia Center, a 76-story skyscraper in downtown Seattle that remains the tallest building in Washington.

Johnson graduated with a degree in construction management and began working immediately at a renovation of the UW Hospital.

“That was really a super-great experience,” Johnson said. “I was in way over my head and was surrounded by great people.”

As a 26-year-old supervising a construction project, Johnson learned the value of humility.

“The key there is not to pretend you know anything,” he said. “Once a craftsperson smells a know-it-all, adios. Don’t pretend to know something. Just absorb everything around you all the time.”

Johnson worked for Hensel Phelps Construction Co. for five years, contributing to projects such as a 4,800-bed prison, a 500-room hotel and a high-security Tomahawk missile factory among California mountains.

“I got exposed to some very big work at a very young age,” he said.

Johnson joined Baugh Construction in Beaverton in 1990. The local firm was acquired by Skanska in 2000 as the construction giant sought a foothold in the Portland-metro market.

Johnson played a key role in the PDX Terminal North project, which was Baugh’s largest project to date and opened doors to further contracts. His idea to assemble the roof on the ground and move it into place eventually won the day.

“I said, ‘Why don’t we build it on the ground and lift it into place?’ And everybody’s heads turned to me – like, are you an idiot?”

But Johnson’s colleagues soon found merit in the suggestion.

Brad Harrison, senior manager of PDX Next construction services, worked with Johnson on various projects at the airport, including the terminal access program in the late 1990s.

“Dan’s really sound construction knowledge and ability to navigate complex issues helped to move that project forward,” Harrison said.

Johnson was never shy to offer his thoughts, but he also believes in the value of listening. That goes doubly in construction, where young workers are often told to pay their dues before speaking up.

“Younger people, less experienced people, you’ve got to include them,” he said. “You’ve got to let them talk.”

Johnson, 60, plans to spend more time helping the charitable organization he started with his wife, Liz Bounds. The honors their son, who died by suicide at age 23. The foundation has raised about $500,000 to date to provide 30 at-risk young people with wilderness therapy treatment. Many parties in the construction industry have donated, Johnson said.

During Johnson’s last week with Skanska, he visited projects at the airport and at schools in Astoria and Vancouver.

Trevor Wyckoff, a Skanska vice president and account manager, said he’ll miss racing Johnson to the office in the morning.

“He is a very outgoing and very charismatic leader,” said Wyckoff, who has worked with Johnson for 20 years. “He is somebody that people gravitate towards because of how he leads and how he teaches people. He takes people under his wing and mentors them. He can be tough and decisive, but he’s also a guy that has a big heart.”

Johnson plans in retirement to travel to the Grand Canyon, kite-board in Maui, Hawaii, and ride motorcycles to Sturgis, South Dakota. As he put it, he’s set to “attack the bucket list.”

Johnson also plans to help his daughter, Breanna Bounds Johnson, build a home in Eugene.

“You should see our calendar,” the elder Johnson said. “It’s full.”

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Upcoming bidding opportunities were announced at the NAMC-Oregon general meeting on Wednesday night. Project managers for Andersen Construction, Hoffman Construction, Mortenson Construction, Skanska and the Oregon Department of Transportation presented project overviews with anticipated bid dates.

Erin Storlie, an Andersen Construction project manager, announced that Benson High School‘s trade package five will be issued around mid-February. The package includes interiors, miscellaneous metals and railings.

The school modernization project is 230,000 square feet of renovation and 135,000 square feet of new construction. The renovations include the main classroom building built in 1916, the old gymnasium, the auditorium building, the foundry building, the radio building, and the library and health services building.

Andersen is seeking trade partners with COBID (Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity) certification for the Benson High School project to either bid or develop partnerships with noncertified partners in order to achieve a minimum 18 percent MWESB participation goal.

Andersen Construction will release another bid package on Jan. 19 for Portland Community College‘s Metropolitan Workforce Training Center. Bids for package three, which includes steel supply, installation and excavation, are due Feb. 5.

Business equity goals for the project are: 20 percent COBID participation, 20 percent minority workforce, 20 percent apprenticeship workforce and 15 percent women workforce.

Stephanie Coyle, a Hoffman Construction project manager, announced that bid package six for work at Lincoln High School would be issued early next month. Phase two of the project includes flatwork, landscaping, and demolition of the old building to allow track and field construction.

Bids will be due in early March and awarded in the spring. The project’s equity plan calls for 18 percent or more of the contract to go to a COBID-certified business and 20 percent minimum to apprentices for minorities, women and disadvantaged individuals.

Jacob Erven, a Mortenson Construction project manager, announced that the Multnomah County Behavioral Health Resource Center project has a green light after a pandemic-related delay. The project includes a 4.5-story seismic upgrade and complete interior renovation. Bidding is open; construction is anticipated to start in April.

The project’s equity plan calls for 25 percent COBID participation, 20 percent apprentice participation, 25 percent minority apprentice participation and 14 percent female apprentice participation.

Daphne Patrick, small business outreach coordinator for the Hoffman-Skanska joint venture, discussed the 175,000-square-foot main terminal project at Portland International Airport. The main terminal will have a nine-acre roof prefabricated on site and then erected in 120-foot-by-220-foot sections weighing nearly one million pounds.

The project has a 20 percent MWESB participation goal and an 8.5 percent MBE goal for certified firms. Both Oregon COBID and Washington state-certified firms can bid because of the project’s location near the Columbia River.

Andrew Warren, small business programs manager at ODOT, discussed project work on Interstate 205. Improvements are being made to address congestion and traveler safety on a seven-mile stretch between Stafford Road and Oregon Route 213. The project will add a third lane in each direction as well as seismically upgrade the Abernethy Bridge and eight other bridges over I-205.

A northbound auxiliary lane is being built between the Oregon Route 224 Sunrise Expressway on-ramp and the Sunnyside Road/Sunnybrook Boulevard interchange exit ramp.

Also, design is under way to bring intersection and ramp safety improvements to the I-205 and Division Street interchange in Portland.

NAMC-Oregon is looking to host more meetings with trade partners soon.

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