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Seattle’s $1.8B Convention Center Due to Open in 2021 By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
When the Washington Convention Center Addition opens in 2021, it will very likely be hailed as one of the most cutting-edge event centers of its kind — certainly in the United States, and quite possibly beyond. The $1.8 billion stand-alone addition, set one block northeast of the existing center, will double event center space and operate independently. “We like to term it the next generation of convention centers,” said Matt Rosauer, Convention Center project manager. “We think it is the most vertical of convention centers in the U.S. in a downtown core. Historically, around the country, convention centers have been built in the suburbs and normally in smaller facilities. This convention center, because of its location and the fact that it is more vertical, has a lot of natural light, helped by a couple of atriums in the middle.
Steel work on the structure, which will be constructed largely of glass and metal, is set to begin.
We’re going away from sitting in a dark closed-in room all day and more into light flexible spaces.” Rosauer noted the project is
complemented by a great team, MKA Structural Engineering, which is involved in sophisticated structural projects around the
world, and Element Architects, a world-class convention center designer. Both are Seattle-based. Steel work on the structure,
which will be constructed largely of glass and metal, is set to begin. The primary structure will be erected off two to three 330-ton mobile cranes. An ancillary tower crane will be used to support the exterior curtain wall. The structure will feature a 500,000-sq.-ft. office building and 400-unit residential project on top of the convention center. Work on the addition got under way last July, but contractors soon ran into difficulties with utilities, dirt and shoring, Rosauer said. That put the work three months behind, but crews have already made up one month of lost time. The building site is surrounded by a handful of busy streets, calling for the rerouting of pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Part of construction strategy was to reroute city buses into a horseshoe between two of those streets. Crews also rerouted a major thoroughfare in order to build the see CONVENTION page 2
ITD Oversees $17.5M St. Maries, St. Joe Bridge Replacements By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
Construction crews are finishing work on two bridges in a design-build project in Northern Idaho. The project aims to replace the original structures on Idaho Highway 3 (ID-3) over the St. Maries Railroad and the St. Joe River that have outlived their 50-year design/service life. The $17.3 million project was designed and is being constructed in a partnership with Record Steel Construction Inc. (RSCI) and J-U-
B Engineers under a design-build contract administered by the Idaho Transportation Department. Both new bridges, one 437 ft. long and the other 115 ft. long, will feature two travel lanes, sidewalks and shoulders with additional improvements including reconstruction of the approaches to Railroad Avenue, East Meadowhurst Drive, as well as resurfacing signage improvements and guardrail and drainage improvements along Idaho Highway 3 near the bridge approaches. see BRIDGE page 6
In addition to updating the aging structures, the new bridges will be able to support the heavier legal loads carried by modern trucks and provide a smoother driving surface, said Tanner Jared, a project supervisor of RSCI.