A pair of heavy machinery companies are proposing to build new sales and service dealerships along Northeast Sandy Boulevard.

Papé Machinery and Ditch Witch West will meet with Gresham Urban Design and Planning staff at a pre-application conference on May 6 to discuss the development, which calls for construction of separate buildings on a joint, 11.26-acre site pieced together from three separate tax lots. The largest of those is a 6.3-acre parcel at 17217 N.E. Sandy Blvd.

Papé Machinery markets new and used construction and forestry equipment in the Portland-metro area. A site plan submitted by applicant VLMK Engineering + Design indicates a roughly 60,000-square-foot sales, rental, parts and service dealership would be built on the site’s eastern portion.

Ditch Witch West, meanwhile, would build a 20,000-square-foot facility with the same functions for its directional drilling equipment on the site’s western portion – adjacent to the Zimmerman House Museum at 17111 N.E. Sandy Blvd.

A pre-application memo submitted by Papé Machinery states that construction typology would consist of engineered steel construction with “appropriate” siding and a block wainscot. Undisclosed design features would “create a high-image presence.”

Around 60 percent of the footprint would be allocated to a service shop at each building, with 20 percent going to parts storage and 20 percent to office and general use space.

The building height would be no more than 30 feet at the eaves.

The site would be equipped with a vehicle wash station, with used water filtered to comply with requirements for discharge into the city’s sanitary sewer system.

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One of the largest beverage distributors on the West Coast next year will leave Portland to occupy a new suburban space.

An approximately 530,300-square-foot warehouse will be built in Canby to replace Columbia Distributing‘s three separate Portland facilities, the company and development partners Meritage and Trammell Crow Company announced. Perlo Construction of Tualatin has been selected as the general contractor and Portland firm VLMK Engineering + Design is providing design and permitting services for the project.

The facility will be constructed on a 43-acre site owned by Trammell Crow. The property is part of Canby’s Pioneer Industrial Park, and bordered by Southeast First Avenue and Walnut and Mulino roads. Construction is expected to finish by fall 2020.

“Columbia Distributing, Meritage, and their teams have been fantastic to work with on this build-to-suit development,” Steve Sieber, a principal with Trammell Crow’s Portland office, stated in a press release. “Columbia Distributing and Trammell Crow Company both have long histories of serving their customers well, and we think this purpose-driven development will help continue those traditions.”

Columbia Distributing President and CEO Chris Steffanci touted his firm’s plans to create jobs.

“We see no less than 200 positions working out of this location and we’re eager to fill any openings before we relocate next fall,” Steffanci stated in the press release. “It’s an incredibly exciting time for us.”

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Construction manager/general contractor Perlo Construction is seeking metal and concrete subcontractors to work on the renovation of Barlow Hall at Clackamas Community College‘s main campus in Oregon City.

The building was constructed in 1969 and has long served as the home of the college’s automotive department. However, spaces in that building are “crowded, inefficient and outdated,” according to the college. Manufacturing programs moved into the new Industrial Technical Center, completed this past summer, to allow expansion and modernization of Barlow Hall and better serve the automotive department.

This year, the college plans to renovate the hall at a cost of roughly $3.5 million. The project is being paid for with money from a $90 million bond approved by voters in 2014.

Currently, Perlo Construction is seeking bids from firms to perform all concrete work as well as installation of metal doors and frames.

Axis Design Group is the architect for the project, VLMK Engineering + Design is the structural engineering firm and PAE Consulting Engineers is handling MEP work.

Prospective bidders can learn more by emailing Carrie Willis at bids@perlo.biz.

Bids are due by 2 p.m. on March 12, and should be sent via email to Elizabeth Cole at elizabethc@clackamas.edu.

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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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