Swedish Hospital/Silver Cloud/CH2MHill

Silver Cloud Hotels is planning to build a hotel on Tacoma Waterfront

Seattle - Swedish Hospital plans to build a $31 million addition at its Ballard Campus, starting in 2008. An architect and contractor have not been chosen.

The Swedish Board of Trustees yesterday approved a $31.5 million expenditure to fund development of a new outpatient center and medical office building on the Ballard Campus in northwest Seattle. Construction is expected to begin in 2008 and be completed in late 2009.

The five-story, roughly 105,000-sq-ft complex will house a new emergency department, medical imaging center, outpatient surgery, primary care and specialty physician offices, along with laboratory services. At the same time, Swedish/Ballard will continue to grow inpatient offerings, including its childbirth center, orthopedics program, surgical services, medicine and addiction recovery, as well as the community hospital’s other outpatient services.

Silver Cloud to Build In Mixed-Use Development

Tacoma - Silver Cloud Inns and Hotels will be the sole provider of hotel accommodations at Point Ruston, a mixed use development planned for South Tacoma.

Master plans for the neighborhood include a mix of residential, retail and commercial office space along nearly a mile of Puget Sound shoreline. The Ascarco Smelter formerly occupied the site.

The 150-room Point Ruston Silver Cloud Hotel will feature an upscale restaurant and lounge, conference facilities, swimming pool and exercise and spa facilities. Silver Cloud chief executive officer Jim Korbein estimates that the hotel will have 150 employees. The hotel building will sit adjacent to a waterfront plaza where three additional restaurants are planned.

Point Ruston will include ample space for public use, such as parks, walking trails and a waterfront esplanade. The neighborhood’s bike-and-pedestrian promenade will extend southward to the existing Ruston Way path and eventually will link northward to the 702-acre Point Defiance Park.

The hotel is expected to open for business in approximately 2010.

Ch2MHill Honored for Refinery Work

Seattle - BP, CH2M HILL and Matrix Constructors have received a Distinguished Project Award from the Northwest Construction Consumer Council for the API (American Petroleum Institute) Separator Lids Project at BP’s Cherry Point Refinery in Blaine, Wash.

API separators at the BP refinery collect runoff from the refinery’s oily water sewer system. This project replaced large aluminum covers with permanent, cast-in-place concrete lids that eliminate leaks of volatile organic compounds and significantly reduce maintenance costs. The project was finished ahead of schedule, 28 percent under budget and completed with a perfect safety record. The old aluminum covers were cleaned and recycled.

CH2M HILL, was responsible for the engineering of this project, including front-end development, detailed design, procurement, project management and startup. Among CH2M HILL’s innovations was a unique concrete design to ensure adequate strength while minimizing porosity. Due to the size of the lids, a special structural profile was created to reduce weight and displacement as well as promote constructability. Matrix served as the key constructor on the project.

The Distinguished Project Awards honor projects which demonstrate outstanding performance in safety, project planning and execution, and attainment of project goals.