PACIFIC NORTHWEST EDITION
A Supplement to:
®
March 19 2017 Vol. II • No. 6
“The Nation’s Best Read Construction Newspaper… Founded in 1957.” Your Pacific Northwest Connection – Patrick Kiel – 1-877-7CEGLTD – pkiel@cegltd.com
Seattle’s Elliot Bay Seawall Project Nearing Completion By Andrea Watts CEG CORRESPONDENT
After nearly three years of traffic and pedestrian detours throughout the city of Seattle’s historic waterfront, the Elliot Bay Seawall Project is nearing its anticipated completion in spring 2017. The project is a complete replacement from Yesler Way to Pine Street of the seawall’s early 20th-century design of old-growth timber beams that had protected the shoreline from the Puget Sound for nearly 70 years. “The seawall replacement was necessary for many reasons — the seismic stability of that area and general maintenance of the seawall itself,” explained Lorelei Williams, executive of the Seawall Project and director of the Seattle Department of Transportation’s Capital Projects and Roadways Structures Division. “The reconstruction of the seawall provides a replacement of that structure so it can last 75 plus years and be up to seismic code.” In November 2012, Seattle residents voted to replace the .75 mi. (1.2 km) section of the seawall from Yesler Way to Virginia Street at a price tag of $410 million dollars. “We are close to on schedule,” Williams said. “The original plan was to be done in late fall 2016 for the
Yesler Way to Pine Street work, and we’re looking at finishing now in late spring 2017. We are looking at some options to finish the majority of the Pine to Virginia streets portion as soon as fall 2017 [which] we’re hoping to improve upon.” The Mortensen-Manson Joint Venture was awarded the contract. Sam Owen, one of the construction executives for the project, said that the reason for the joint venture is because Manson is the premier contractor for in-water work and Mortensen has the expertise in landside work, such as jet grouting and excavation. Following the environmental review process, construction started in fall 2013. Owen described its beginning as a “soft start,” which consisted of preparatory projects before formally starting. To manage the workflow, the seawall was sectioned into boxes: “a set of stations that the team felt made sense for starting and stopping [the work],” he explained. The seawall replacement work was generally the same across all the boxes, although the depth of the jet see SEAWALL page 2 Elliott Bay Seawall Project, Seattle Department of Transportation photo
Before the jet grout could be installed, the seawall’s old-growth timber beams and reliving platform had to be demolished.
79th Oregon Logging Conference Bigger, Better Than Ever
M Feenaughty Machinery Company of Portland, Ore., has a large selection of Doosan machines. Ready to assist (L-R) are Tony G. Sims, general manager of procurement and operations of MDI Forest Products; Brendan Green, Feenaughty sales specialist; and Bob Payton, Feenaughty forestry specialist.
ore than 6,000 industry professionals from 37 U.S. states, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Russia and Sweden attended the 79th Annual Oregon Logging Conference (OLC), held Feb. 23 to 25, 2017 at the Lane County Events Center and Fairgrounds in Eugene, Ore. Also, more than 6,000 people from local schools and the general public participated in the various activities associated with OLC on Saturday, Feb. 27 when the show was open free. “The 79th conference surpasses the successful event from 2016, with more than 250 exhibitors displaying in over 90,000 sq. ft. of inside exhibit space and millions of dollars of logging, trucking, construction and heavy equipment displayed on more than 14 acres of outside exhibit see OLC page 4
(L-R): Ryan Davis, customer service advisor; Scott Ratzlaff, certified customer support advisor; and Cameron Laughlin, product support specialist of Pape Machinery in Tangent, Ore., stand in the massive bucket of a Wagner CHD100 chip dozer. This dozer features a Cat C15, 540 hp engine and has a push/carry capacity of 80 cu. yds. (61.2 cu m).