PROJECT: BB Camp Field House

LOCATION: Northeast East Devils Lake Road, Otis (Lincoln County)

START DATE: December 2021

ANTICIPATED END DATE: June 2022

OWNER: B’nai B’rith Camp

ARCHITECT: Stewart Gordon Straus Architect PC

ENGINEER: Massaad Engineering Group

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Joseph Hughes Construction

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE: B’nai B’rith Camp, established in 1921 at the Oregon coast, is a community organization that serves children and adults. Based in Jewish values and open to everyone, BB Camp offers youth-centered summer camps and year-round programs for all ages.

The new B’nai B’rith Camp Field House is an 8,000-square-foot, multipurpose building being constructed next to an existing pool and associated building. Upon completion, the field house will hold a court striped to accommodate indoor activities including full-court basketball, half-court basketball, volleyball and badminton. The flexible space also will have audio-visual features to suit speaking events, movie nights and other indoor gatherings.

The project featured many challenges. The building is being constructed on the side of a 25-foot hill, with 11-foot-tall retaining walls. The geotechnical engineers had to visit the site weekly to monitor conditions because of the hill’s shale composition.

With the camp operating during construction, coordination with management regarding group activities and project-related traffic was a logistical challenge.

Roof trusses spanned 73 feet. Moving them into place by crane on the compact site, with the hill nearby, and the camp active, was difficult.

Also, protection of nearby Devils Lake and the surrounding ecosystem was prioritized highly.

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Health care construction projects are continuing to pop up in the Portland-metro area.

In Oregon City, one of the latest is the new AFC Urgent Care facility being built by general contractor Joseph Hughes Construction. The single-story, 3,400-square-foot building is rising on a property at the busy intersection of Warner Milne Road and Molalla Avenue.

Stewart Gordon Straus Architect designed the project, which is being developed by the M. Hashem Limited Partnership run by property owner Mike Hashem.

“They’re a repeat customer for us,” Joseph Hughes Construction President Joe Hughes said. “It used to be Doctors Express before it was bought by AFC. We’ve done several projects for them over the past seven or eight years, and the neighborhood here has been really receptive to an urgent care facility.”

AFC Portland is locally owned and operated. It is a physician-staffed provider of urgent care, occupational medicine, and other non-emergency health care. The Oregon City facility will include digital x-rays, on-site lab testing, state-of-the-art diagnostics, and electronic medical records.

A standard slab-on-grade foundation and wood framing are being used for the building. A central staff area will be surrounded by patient exam rooms.

Ground was broken in March, and the team expects to deliver the building by mid-August, Hughes said.

“Aside from a tight site, it’s been a relatively easy project,” he said. “There are always issues on any job – things don’t work in the field the way they do on paper. But we’ll have to change that.”

The building is relatively tall for a single-story structure at over 20 feet. That height is being used for marketing, Hughes said.

“The concept these days is to build them tall for signage,” he said. “They want to get the signs up out of the weeds. With all the landscaping and street trees, retailers get blocked out, and this is a highly visible corner with a lot of traffic in both directions.”

Currently, Joseph Hughes Construction and its subcontractors, including Vanco Contracting of Sweet Home, are performing interior finishes and completing construction of new sidewalks and other infrastructure.

“We’re finishing up the ceiling grid, trimming out electrical, setting tile,” Joseph Hughes Construction project manager Jef Krohn said. “But we’re all done with drywall and paint.”

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