February 10, 2009
The King County Library System recently opened the Carnation Library.
The 5,000-square-foot, $3 million project replaced a 2,200-square-foot library on the same site, at 4804 Tolt Ave. Groundbreaking was in July.
The new library has a community meeting room, children's and teens' areas, and more space for studying and reading.
This is the last of five projects the library system has constructed using a design-build delivery system, which offers more cost assurance than the traditional design-bid-build model.
The other branches, already completed, are Fall City, Snoqualmie, Muckleshoot and Black Diamond.
Funding came from a $172 million capital bond program that voters approved in 2004.
Miller|Hull Partnership was the architect, and the general contractor was BNBuilders. Other team members included MEJ Landscape Architecture, MLA Engineering, PAE Consulting Engineers, Springline Design, Johansen Mechanical, Rice Group, Prime Electric and Case Engineering.
