Top General Contractor Project Features

Top 50 Ranking: 1
Skanska USA Building Inc.
Seattle, Wash.
Featured project: Cascade Health Services, Bend and Redmond, Ore.

This $72 million project consists of renovations and additions on two hospital campuses - St. Charles Medical Center Campus in Bend and St. Charles Redmond Campus in Redmond.

The Bend project includes construction of a 30,000-sq.-ft. north tower addition to house a second and third floor for short stay beds and a family stay center. The job will also include a 140,000-sq.-ft outpatient center that will house a cancer treatment center, rehabilitation center, birthing center and child care center. A 27,150-sq.-ft. addition and remodel is planned for the emergency department to create a new ambulatory services building.

The Redmond campus job includes a 75,500-sq.-ft. addition and a 25,000-sq.-ft. renovation to create a child care and family stay center. This project will also include site development and additional parking.
The project's architect is Callison of Seattle.

Top 50 Ranking: 2
Hoffman Construction Co.
Portland, Ore.
Featured project: Seattle Central Library, Seattle, Wash.

One of the challenges on this one-of-a-kind project is integrating construction efficiencies into the project without compromising its design.

The library, as visualized by architect Rem Koolhaas, is composed of five platforms with each platform representing a basic library function. Instead of being stacked directly on top of one another, the platforms have been repositioned off center to provide better views, create airy spaces and allow more natural light into the building. The angular, 11-story, 406,000-sq.-ft structure is encased by a latticework of glass and aluminum.

Top 50 Ranking: 3
Lease Crutcher Lewis
Seattle, Wash.
Featured project: University of Oregon Lillis Business Complex, Eugene, Ore.

University of Oregon Lillis Business Complex, Eugene, Ore. Photo courtesy of Lease Crutcher Lewis

As construction manager/general contractor, Lewis provided preconstruction and construction services for the expansion of the Lundquist College of Business on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Ore. This project entailed construction of a 133,000-sq.-ft. new building comprising flexible, tiered classroom spaces, learning centers, student resource centers, a 300-seat auditorium, a 220-seat lecture hall, large atrium spaces, a distance learning center, reception facilities and faculty offices.

The four-story building has a structural steel frame with a brick masonry veneer, precast concrete and glazed curtainwall exterior skin. Designed to meet LEED Silver certification, the new facility features many sustainable design elements such as perimeter daylighting, recycled building materials and energy-efficient mechanical systems. The most prominent sustainable component of the project employs photovoltaic cells inlaid in the building's four-story glass entryway. Designed to harness energy from the sun, these cells generate electricity used to power the building.

Completed ahead of schedule and under budget, this project serves as a model of collaboration between contractor, architect and owner to achieve.

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Top 50 Ranking: 5
Howard S. Wright Construction Co.
Seattle, Wash.
Featured project: Olympic College Poulsbo Campus, Poulsbo, Wash.

HSWCC recently completed the construction of a new facility on this satellite campus for Olympic College. The project includes a 40,000-sq.-ft. building tucked into a 20-acre parcel of densely forested land. The structure is concrete, steel and glu-lam construction, with exterior finishes of clear cedar, glass and masonry. HSWCC performed all interior build-outs and installed finishes that incorporate elements of the exterior design. As an example, the wood finish of the exterior walls is carried into the interior, with the matching cedar grain creating an apparent seamless pattern when viewed from the inside.

The building is outfitted for use as a multi-purpose facility. Meeting rooms with flexible partition walls accommodate varying occupancy levels. On the ground floor is a lecture hall/theater and a cafeteria in an open area that is accessible from the main hall. Custom finishes include cork bulletin boards designed to turn 360 degrees that function as a partition between the hall and meeting area. A steel stairway and mezzanine lead to conventional and distance learning classrooms, bio labs, writing and computer labs, and administrative offices on the second level.

Top 50 Ranking: 6
M. A. Mortenson Co.
Bellevue, Wash.
Featured project: Washington State Legislative Building renovation, Olympia, Wash.

Washington State Legislative Building renovation, Olympia, Wash.

Built in 1923-1927, this historic building is one in the "Capitol Group" designed by architects Wilder and White as the winning entry for a 1918 capitol design competition.

The building was vacated at the conclusion of the 2002 legislative session in preparation for the most comprehensive portion of a rehabilitation effort that began in 1998. As general contractor/construction manager, Mortenson is completing seismic upgrades to the building's dome structure; all new mechanical, electrical, plumbing, communication and data systems; exterior waterproofing, cleaning and repairs; an ADA compliant link from the South Portico; reprogramming of the first floor for more public space; and repairs to damage caused by the 2001 Nisqually earthquake.

The $80 million (construction cost) job will be completed in time for the 2005 legislative session.

Top 50 Ranking: 11
GLY Construction
Bellevue, Wash.
Featured project: Childhaven - Broadway Branch, Seattle, Wash.

This new 52,000-sq.-ft., four-story building features more than 22,000 sq. ft. of parking. The scope of the $8.9 million project includes classrooms, therapy rooms, a 24-hour crisis nursery, drug-affected infant program facilities, playgrounds and space for parent education and support.

Top 50 Ranking: 12 (tie)
Andersen Construction
Portland, Ore.
Featured project: Oregon Health and Science University Patient Care Facility, Portland, Ore.

Oregon Health and Science University Patient Care Facility, Portland, Ore.

OHSU's newest clinical facility will house more than 100 beds, including a neuroscience/otolaryngology unit, a cardiac care unit, two oncology units, an intensive care unit and an eight-room operating suite with space to expand to 12 rooms.

One entire floor of the $123 million building will be devoted to sterile processing to support all surgical services, and outpatient practices in the new facility will include the Center for Women's Health, oncology and radiation oncology.

The project also includes construction of a four-level, 45,000-sq.-ft. post-tensioned concrete parking structure with a new bypass road over the top.

Construction of the building will be complete in fall, 2005, and will provide an endpoint for an aerial tram originating in the North Macadam river District.

Top 50 Ranking: 12 (tie)
Swinerton Builders
Portland, Ore.
Featured project: 1620 Broadway Condominiums, Portland, Ore.

Swinerton is providing preconstruction and construction services on the 1620 Broadway Condominiums; an 88-unit, 208,000-sq.-ft. building with three levels below-grade. Located in Portland's Lloyd District next to the Irvington neighborhood on Broadway between 16th and 17th, the ground floor will house Zupan's newest gourmet grocery store.

Top 50 Ranking: 16
RCI Construction Group
Sumner, Wash.
Featured project: Green River Headworks, Ravensdale, Wash.

Green River Headworks, Ravensdale, Wash.

The City of Tacoma's $16 million Green River Headworks project is located between Ravensdale and Cumberland, Wash., just one mile inside Tacoma Water's watershed at the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Tacoma is modifying the existing Headworks site, which was originally constructed in 1911, to increase the capacity of the water supply system from 72 mgd to 160 mgd, providing fish screens to the intake water and constructing a fish ladder, fish trap and sorting facility.

Major structural modifications include raising the existing 17 ft. high by 152 ft. long gravity dam by 6.5 ft., constructing a concrete apron downstream from the dam, raising and extending the existing intake structure and raising and modifying the existing settling basin.

Top 50 Ranking: 18
S. D. Deacon Corp.
Portland, Ore.
Featured project: Starfire Sports Athletic Center, Tukwila, Wash.

This 26-acre site was recently the City of Tukwila's Fort Dent Park and is located on a former World War II military facility adjacent to the Green River. The 90,000-sq.-ft. building contains two indoor soccer turf playing fields, management offices, retail spaces, training areas, corporate display areas, locker rooms and a food court. Part of the $10 million project is the refurbishment of a concrete grandstand into a State of Washington certified tournament soccer field. Construction characteristics include 60-ft. auger cast pilings and grade beams, sidewalks and entry stairs.

The outdoor aspect of the project will include eight soccer fields and a 2,000-seat stadium that will serve as a centerpiece for youth and adult regional tournaments.

Top 50 Ranking: 23
Garco Construction
Spokane, Wash.
Featured project: Gonzaga University Arena

This new arena on the campus of Spokane's Gonzaga University will add 6,000 seats and attach to the east end of the existing Martin Centre, which currently houses the university's athletic facilities. The arena will address the needs of the successful men's basketball team.

The area is a design-build project with Spokane's ALSC Architects.

The $23 million project includes the relocation and construction of a new baseball field.

Top 50 Ranking: 29
WG Clark
Seattle, Wash.
Featured project: Kent Pullen Regional Communications and Emergency Coordination Center, Renton, Wash.

Kent Pullen Regional Communications and Emergency Coordination Center, Renton, Wash. Photo by William Wright

The 34,800-sq.-ft. Kent Pullen Regional Communications and Emergency Coordination Center has taken King County's Office of Emergency management and the Sheriff's Office Communications (911) Center and combined them into one space. WG Clark turned over "early ready" areas to the county two months before the balance of the $11.8 million project and before the contractual due date.

The center, composed of architectural concrete and structural steel with glass and metal storefronts, incorporates the latest advances in communications technology, combining fiber optics, radio, satellite and microwave technology.

The 911 office includes primary and secondary dispatch operations rooms, a tape research room and an employee locker room. Other areas throughout the building include administrative offices, conference rooms, a media room, kitchen and secured parking.

Counterbalance Lofts, Seattle, Wash. Photo by Tim Bies for Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architcts

Top 50 Ranking: 47
Schuchart Corp.
Seattle, Wash.
Featured project: Counterbalance Lofts, Seattle, Wash.

Completed last July, this three-story, mixed-use project is a reincarnation of a 19th century loft-converted industrial building. With a restaurant at street level, two condo units on the second floor and a penthouse on the third, the building packs a lot of program onto a narrow, 30-ft. lot. Located at 424 Queen Anne Avenue N. in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood, each residence faces the street with a 16 ft. window wall, allowing light to penetrate deep into their mezzanine-divided interiors. Tall ceilings, structural expressiveness, simple low-tech materials and open floor plans reinforce the loft feeling of the residences.