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Safeco Field case means public contractors can't use statute of limitations to defend construction defects

By RICH SKALBANIA

The lawsuit involved a claimed defect where the fireproofing material didn't properly adhere to exposed structural beams and columns.

Mahlum's Bill Strong is retiring March 1

By JOURNAL STAFF

Bill Strong is retiring as a principal with Mahlum on March 1, after 25 years with the Seattle architecture firm.


Amazon project team is creating new neighborhood, not a campus

By NAT LEVY

The 3.3 million-square-foot headquarters will be built in three phases. The first phase will have a 37-story tower and a 2,000-seat meeting room.


Murray Morgan Bridge's 100th birthday is today

By JOURNAL STAFF

At 10 a.m. today the city of Tacoma will rededicate the Murray Morgan Bridge, which reopened Feb. 1 after an almost two-year project to rehab it and restore the original black color.


$46M makeover for Tukwila Station

By JOURNAL STAFF

Tukwila Station has the fewest parking spaces of the eight Sounder train stops between Lakewood and Seattle, but not for long. Sound Transit is preparing to rebuild the station at 7301 Longacres Way and nearly double the parking.


Bill Gates helps build biotech labs in Mexico

The research center largely responsible for launching the “green revolution” of the 1960s that dramatically raised crop yields is getting support from the world's richest men to develop genetically modified seeds to help farmers in the developing world grow more grain in the face of a changing climatic conditions and increased demand.


Deere first-quarter profit jumps 22 percent

The company says sales will rise this year on the growing need for food, shelter and infrastructure.


Report: Chevron should have replaced leaky pipe

Government investigators have found that a decades-old pipe that leaked and caused a massive fire at a Chevron refinery in California was corroded.


70 ethanol refineries under way that use wood scraps, garbage

A push for more ethanol production comes amid federal requirements that the petroleum industry mix 36 billion gallons of the additive into the nation's fuel supply by 2022.


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ACEC 2013 Engineering Excellence Awards:
National finalist: Platinum award
Structural systems

MKA

Project: City Creek Center redevelopment, Salt Lake City
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MOHAI: Making a new home
for history on Lake Union
The historic structure looks mostly the same outside, at least where visitors can see. But changes are all around.

Real more in our MOHAI special feature:
Faced with a sloped floor, MOHAI crews rolled with it

A history museum that also shows our present and future

Unique exhibits deliver surprising facts in surprising ways




Green Building Blog:
What can we learn from D.C.’s green building law?
Contractors are on the hook if certain new privately built projects in D.C. fail to meet LEED standards. It’s a rule that could spread.

Nuts and Bolts Blog:
One sweet hard hat
Safety equipment manufacturer MSA has come up with a way to make hard hats based on sugarcane.

Previous Stories


February 14, 2013
REO Flats breaks ground on Capitol Hill
New Dock Street cafe in Tacoma
Judge refuses to block Alaska rail
Vancouver planner tells Seattle: good density doesn't just happen
Workers find radioactive scraps in Hanford basin
Portland-area buses record conversations

February 13, 2013
Grand Coulee to consolidate with K-12 school
Design Perspectives: At age 92, Phil Thiel still on quest for better public spaces
Private Yesler Terrace project up for review
Alliance mum on new name for apartments at Undre Arms site
Eight from Seattle named AIA fellows
$500M upgrades eyed for coal plants
NYC architect Sunil Bald to talk at UW
Vulcan, city table talk of Block 59 proposal
Management by Design: How to survey your clients
DOE hopes new map will boost geothermal interest
Auburn gets $500K grant for guardrails
Portland has high levels of radon
Report claims high-speed rail projects benefit more firms than first thought
Norwegian firm to build Arctic oil terminal
Archaeologists dig viaduct project too
SDA event offers tips on branding
Event focuses on timber projects
Join Redmond arts commission

February 12, 2013
Toxic sludge, polluted water can be byproducts of making solar panels
Engineering crew builds PSU a 40-foot barometer
Senate OKs $544M for K-12 construction
WSDOT seeks team for $15M traffic management center
Amli proposes 184 units in Wallingford
Paragon to start 80 apartments on East Olive Way next month
City may keep Cascade out of the SLU rezone
Plans for Uptown Kidd Valley site
Tour NYC sewer on Valentine's Day
Families build their own homes in Monroe
'Start discussion' on road funding, says ITD director
Metal thieves in Greece hit trains, even bridges
Native corporation to drill Alaska oil well

February 11, 2013
Ernestine Anderson Place
Firm to turn containers into offices, housing
Neighborhood fund workshops planned
Keeping up a facade can help developers add height, and hold onto a bit of the past
Sound Transit seeks volunteers for COP
4th terminal for Singapore airport

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