A weekly compilation of the largest winning bids in the Pacific Northwest, according to the Daily Journal of Commerce Project Center.

1.

Winner (intent to award): Tapani Inc. of Battle Ground, Washington

Amount: $4,608,064

Project: Gar Swanson Extension Utilities and Road Project (Boardman)

Owner: Port of Morrow

Cost estimate: not available

Project team: not available

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Winner (intent to award): Moore Excavation Inc./MEI Group of Fairview

Amount: $4,178,130

Project: Conduit 3 Ovality Repair and Venturi Meter Removal (Sandy)

Owner: City of Portland – Procurement Services

Cost estimate: not available

Project team: not available

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Winner (intent to award): Laskey-Clifton Corp. of Reedsport

Amount: $3,892,416

Project: Sewer Connection Expansion Project (Toledo)

Owner: Port of Toledo

Cost estimate: not available

Project team: Civil West Engineering Services Inc.

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Winner (contract awarded): Guardian Security of Seattle

Amount: $1,634,908

Project: CCB and Jails Fire Alarm Project (Tacoma, Washington)

Owner: Pierce County

Cost estimate: $1,300,000 to $1,700,000

Project team: not available

5.

Winner (intent to award): D&D Concrete and Utilities Inc. of Canby

Amount: $1,094,530

Project: 2024 South ADA Curb Ramps (Washington County)

Owner: Washington County Department of Land Use & Transportation

Cost estimate: $1,000,000 to $2,000,000

Project team: not available

Do you want to be the winner of an upcoming Top Bidders project? Then join the 91��Ƶ Project Center to find, track and bid on your next project. For a free tour, or more information on monthly and annual rates, contact Sharlene Richard at 503-802-7252 or srichard@djcOregon.com.

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1.

Winner (intent to award): Canby Excavating Inc. of Canby

Amount: $6,603,079

Project: 1911/1936 Sanitary Sewer I/I Abatement Phase 6 (Hillsboro)

Owner: City of Hillsboro

Cost estimate: $5,500,000 to $6,500,000

Project team: Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc.

2.

Winner (intent to award): Carter & Co. Inc. of Salem

Amount: $3,045,292

Project: I-5: Marquam Bridge – SW Terwilliger Blvd. (Multnomah County)

Owner: Oregon Department of Transportation

Cost estimate: not available

Project team: DKS Associates

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Winner (intent to award): Pacific North Construction LLC of McMinnville

Amount: $1,769,120

Project: Emergency Water Transmission Intertie (Forest Grove)

Owner: City of Forest Grove

Cost estimate: $2,600,000 to $3,300,000

Project team: not available

4.

Winner (contract awarded): Midway Underground LLC of Toledo, Washington

Amount: $1,736,035

Project: Shorey Road MP 0.598 to MP 0.618 Long Term Bank Stabilization (Lewis County, Washington)

Owner: Lewis County

Cost estimate: $1,500,000 to $1,800,000

Project team: not available

5.

Winner (contract awarded): Miles Resources LLP of Puyallup, Washington

Amount: $1,040,564

Project: I-5, 54^th Ave to N of 20^th St E – HMA Replacement and Paving (Pierce County, Washington)

Owner: WSDOT Contract & Award Office

Cost estimate: $1,250,000 to $1,500,000

Project team: not available

Do you want to be the winner of an upcoming Top Bidders project? Then join the 91��Ƶ Project Center to find, track and bid on your next project. For a free tour, or more information on monthly and annual rates, contact Sharlene Richard at 503-802-7252 or srichard@djcOregon.com.

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A weekly compilation of the largest winning bids in the Pacific Northwest, according to the Daily Journal of Commerce Project Center.

1.

Winner (intent to award): Tapani Inc. of Battle Ground, Washington

Amount: $14,325,000

Project: Taylors Ferry Reservoirs and Site Seismic Improvements (Portland)

Owner: Tualatin Valley Water District

Cost estimate: not available

Project team: not available

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Winner (intent to award): A.C. Schommer & Sons of Portland

Amount: $1,632,992

Project: McBrod Crisis Center Project (Milwaukie)

Owner: Clackamas County

Cost estimate: $3,600,000

Project team: EM Architecture LLC, Foresite Group LLC, PACE Engineering

3.

Winner (contract awarded): Prime Electric LLC of Bellevue, Washington

Amount: $1,154,015

Project: US 97 Et Al, Illumination and Signal Cabinet Upgrade (multiple locations, Washington)

Owner: Washington State Department of Transportation

Cost estimate: $1,250,000 to $1,500,000

Project team: not available

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Winner (intent to award): Moore Excavation Inc./MEI Group of Portland

Amount: $1,076,251

Project: NE Portland Urgent Sewer Rehabilitation (Portland)

Owner: City of Portland

Cost estimate: not available

Project team: not available

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Winner (intent to award): Bremik Construction Inc. of Portland

Amount: $960,477

Project: Restroom Replacement Project (Terrebonne)

Owner: Oregon Parks & Recreation Department (Salem HQ)

Cost estimate: $1,100,000

Project team: not available

Do you want to be the winner of an upcoming Top Bidders project? Then join the 91��Ƶ Project Center to find, track and bid on your next project. For a free tour, or more information on monthly and annual rates, contact Sharlene Richard at 503-802-7252 or srichard@djcOregon.com.

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While most construction projects in Washington have been shut down temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic, some public ones haven’t missed a beat. In Vancouver, crews are building multiple facilities for Vancouver Public Schools via money from a $458 million capital bond approved by voters in 2017.

One of the most unique projects is a roughly $10 million one to provide a new home for Fir Grove/Vista School, which serves approximately 70 of the district’s most vulnerable students.

The existing Fir Grove/Vista building at 2920 Falk Road is 65 years old. It wasn’t designed to host special education programs and persons with disabilities. But the new facility will have separate elementary, middle and high school classroom wings around an outdoor courtyard. A small gymnasium will round out the building, along with a common area, individual and group rooms and a maker space.

“It’s a little bit more durable and a little less flexible,” explained Charles Stiller, a project manager with Vancouver Public Schools. “New age school design has a lot more windows, a lot more glazing and a lot of operable walls or ways to flex spaces. This is very much just four-walled classrooms.”

The new school is being built on district-owned property that formerly held the John R. Rogers Elementary School. That building was demolished first, Stiller said.

Tapani Inc. is the general contractor for the project, which was designed by LSW Architects – a longtime partner of Vancouver Public Schools.

A ceremonial ground-breaking event took place in February. Crews have now wrapped up work on the building’s foundation. Ironworkers with Timberland Inc. recently began erecting the structural steel framework.

The new building will primarily feature brick masonry with metal panels for accent.

“We’re hoping to open after winter break next year, in January 2021,” Stiller said. “We’re supposed to be finished in December and take a couple of weeks to take care of any punch list stuff and get the move-in process completed.”

The one wild card, of course, is the pandemic.

“Even at this point even a two-week delay would move us back to Spring Break at the earliest and a month would probably push us all the way into the next (school) year,” Stiller said.

In part that’s because of the unique student population.

“It doesn’t mean construction would have had to take that whole time,” he said. “But this kind of student population you don’t move over a weekend. These kids, the teachers – they need time to figure out how they’re going to use the new space.”

For now, work is proceeding, Tapani superintendent Michael Walters said.

“In two months the structure will be up, the roof will be on, we’ll be roughed in and the slabs should be poured inside,” he said. “Then we’ll be starting to frame the walls.”

So far, the project has proceeded relatively smoothly, Stiller said.

“We got really lucky with where we’re at in the process, with site work and concrete,” he said. “We’ve had some plumbers as well, but small crews. If we were two months away from opening, we’d definitely have some issues.”

Walters agreed.

“Oh, definitely,” he said. “If we had an enclosed building it would definitely limit the amount of bodies I’d let on the site and what areas you can work in.”

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The Structural Engineers Association of Oregon has released the names of the winning projects in the 2017 SEAO Excellence in Structural Engineering awards competition.

The annual awards recognize outstanding structural engineering efforts that feature at least one team member associated with SEAO. This year’s nominated projects were selected by a panel of judges based on criteria that included creativity and complexity of structural design, efficient use of materials, successful fulfillment of owner/client needs, and suitability of the structure for its environment.

The Titus Will adaptive reuse project, submitted by WDY Inc., was selected as the winner in the renovation and retrofit category. The 50,000-square-foot, two-story structure underwent a full seismic upgrade because of occupancy changes. The addition of moment frames to the seismic system allowed an existing large storefront to remain open. The project owner/developer was Tourmaline Capital and Irwin Development Group. The project architect was Lundin Cole Architects, and the general contractor was Korsmo Construction.

The award for buildings over $10 million went to the Q21 mixed-use project, which was submitted by Nishkian Dean. The seven-story, 202,000-square-foot mixed-use structure featured unique columns made from two 12-sided tapered steel sections. Welded together at the center, the sections created double tapered columns that formed the number XXI. The project owner/developer was Rosan Inc. The project architect was YBA Architects, and the general contractor was Andersen Construction.

The Athey Creek Christian Fellowship project, submitted by VLMK Engineering + Design, won the award for new buildings under $10 million. The judges gave the project and its engineering team top scores for overcoming a major hurdle to successfully locate concrete panels, ranging in height from 34 feet to 37 feet, on top of 12-inch-wide, cast-in-place concrete walls. The project owner was Athey Creek Christian Fellowship. The project team included David Bissett Architect and general contractor Perlo Construction.

In the special-use structures category, the winning project was the C-Tran Fourth Plain Bus Rapid Transit Corridor and Maintenance Facility expansion and renovation. The project holds the distinction as the first bus rapid transit system in Oregon or Southwest Washington. The project owner was C-Tran. The project team included Equilibrium Engineers, which submitted the project, PIVOT Architecture and Waterleaf Architecture, and general contractors Emerick Construction, Colf Construction and Tapani.

The Portland Japanese Garden’s Cultural Crossing was selected as the jurors’ favorite. The expansion project added four buildings, a site bridge and several site retaining walls. The owner/developer was the Portland Japanese Garden. Architects for the project were Kengo Kuma & Associates and Hacker. Hoffman Construction was general contractor.

The judging panel for the awards included Eric Thomas of the Portland Bureau of Development Services; Thomas Miller of the Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering; Judith Sheine of the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Environment; and Stephanie Basalyga, editor of the Daily Journal of Commerce.

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A large commercial development expected to bring millions of dollars in economic activity and nearly 1,000 construction jobs is coming to the Port of Kalama in Washington. But first, earth must be stabilized.

Around 315,000 cubic yards of sand will be shifted around in staggered stages on six sites over 42 acres near the intersection of Kalama River Road and Old Highway 99.

“It’s kind of cool how they have it engineered,” said Josh Brock, project manager with Battle Ground-based Tapani Inc., which was awarded the $1.2 million project.

Crews will first compact roughly 4 to 5 feet of sand, and then put an additional 10 feet on top of that. They’ll let that sit for eight months, or as long as necessary for it to settle alongside the native ground. Next, all of that material will be moved to the next site, fill will be added, and so on. At the last site, the whole area will be balanced.

The Port of Kalama’s effort to develop there has already taken about a decade to date, as properties have slowly been acquired. Two regional destinations are planned for the 70-acre site located north of the Kalama River and east of Interstate 5: 24-acre Haydu Park, and the Spencer Creek Business Park.

The business park project is planned to be built over 20 years, at which point it will provide 676,000 square feet of commercial space and 1,000 jobs, on top of around 1,000 construction jobs, according to Eric Yakovich, economic development manager for the Port of Kalama.

“Right now we’re kind of in an infrastructure phase of the project,” he said.

Geotechnical firm Columbia West Engineering designed the project. AKS Engineering is designing roads associated with the build-out.

The Port of Kalama is overseeing a lot of work. A $1.2 billion methanol marine export facility, planned across the interstate from the port, is in the permitting phase. And a McMenamins hotel and restaurant is being built near the port’s administration building.

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