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Apartments Ready/AIA Award/Kiewit Opens Division
Apartments offer options in a hot condo market, especially in downtown Seattle.
Lake Union Apartments Ready for New Tenants
Seattle – The Neptune Apartments, designed by Weber + Thompson, is now complete. The 234-unit residential project was built by WG Clark Construction, Inc., of Seattle.
“We delayed the project during a market downturn,” said Matt Segrest, senior vice president of Simpson Housing, the project owner. The company hopes to take advantage of the shortage of rental housing in the downtown area.
The project is located a block from the planned South Lake Union Park. The 12-acre, $20 million park will be a regional destination that celebrates the cultural, industrial and maritime heritage of the city and region.
Apartments at the Neptune range from studios to two bedrooms plus dens. Leasing rates start at $1,031 for a studio, from $1,127 for a one-bedroom unit and from $1,875 for a two-bedroom unit.
Schuchart / Dow Projects Win AIA Awards for Excellence
Seattle – Two projects of Schuchart / Dow, a high end residential builder and remodeler, have earned American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards for excellence in design. The Schuchart / Dow-built Tye River Cabin, which was designed by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, earned an Award of Merit.
A residence built for one of Schuchart / Dow’s two owners, George Schuchart, received one of the three Awards for Merit, having also received the Seattle AIA Honor Award last year. The architect was Suyama Peterson Deguchi of Seattle.
Kiewit Building Group Announces Special Projects
Anchorage, Ak – Kiewit Building Group recently announced the formation of a Special Projects Group, focusing on commercial building projects for private clients in health care, developers, building owners, universities, hospitality and tourism markets.
Kevin Welker, KBG senior vice president, has appointed Joe Hotko as the Project Manager. Hotko has been with Kiewit since 1997, and has more than 13 years of direct construction experience. He received his B.S. in Building Construction from Virginia Tech University in 1997. Some of his project experience includes the Elmendorf Large Airframe Maintenance Hangar, the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Air Traffic Control Tower and TRACON, the Anchorage International Airport Concourse C, the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, the Anchorage Marriott Foundation, Kake Dam, Eielson Family Housing, and the Bird to Girdwood portion of the Seward Highway.
Search Capability Finds Documents Immediately
Seattle - Contractors can find documents instantly in www.dexterchaney.com Dex-ter + Chaney’s Forefront™ Construction Suite using a Google-like search capability in its Document Imaging module. Users can locate individual documents in their entire Forefront file system by entering any word or group of words. Forefront finds those words and lists each document that contains them, displayed by relevancy, and provides a link to open each one.
The key to Forefront Document Imaging’s instant-search capability is that information is already available and indexed in Forefront prior to a user’s search request. As an ongoing process, documents scanned into the Forefront database are automatically processed by optical character recognition (OCR) software that converts the scanned images to readable text. The text is then processed and indexed for searches using Microsoft’s SQL Server Full-Text search capability. This allows users to search by any word or combination of words contained in the documents.
Users can enter simple searches, such as “Highway 101 overpass drawings,” and quickly find all documents that contain this text. Advanced search options, such as “look for the exact phrase” and “exclude document with the words,” are also possible. The search encompasses TIF images, PDF files, Microsoft Office documents and other formats. |
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