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March 24, 2005

A Special Section of
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2005 Surveys

ABC 2005 Excellence in Construction Awards


Stories


"Construction training program boosts Rainier Valley"
By RHONDA SIMMONS
Seattle Jobs Initiative

"5 trends that will reshape mechanical contracting"
By STEPHEN L. LAMB
MCAA

"Unique deck system speeds up Lincoln Square"
By TIM O'NEILL and LEON BORDEN
Skanska

"Finding closure on building enclosures"
By ROBERT BOMBINO
RDH Building Sciences

"Tax breaks coming for contractors, design firms"
By TIM SEARING
RSM McGladrey

"Super steel rebar coming to the Northwest?"
By SHEILA BACON
Special to the Journal

"Who's most at risk in road construction?"
By ERIC TOFTE
Evergreen Safety Council

"New tools for fighting jobsite theft"
By TERRY STEPHENS
Special to the Journal

"Is a GC/CM responsible for design defects?"
By CHRISTOPHER A. WRIGHT
Stanislaw Ashbaugh

"Piers, wharves could be the next quake victims"
By FARHAD ROWSHANZAMIR
Reid Middleton

"Try mediation on that next construction dispute"
By CHRISTOPHER J. SOELLING
Special to the Journal

"Construction 'right to cure' statute full of pitfalls"
By JOHN E. ZEHNDER JR. and ANTHONY R. SCISCIANI III
Scheer & Zehnder

Featured Stories...


Lincoln Square
Unique deck system speeds up Lincoln Square

An advanced concrete deck system recently introduced to the Puget Sound region is shaving weeks of construction time off a major mixed-use project in downtown Bellevue.
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Las Vegas building
Super steel rebar coming to the Northwest?

Even in Las Vegas — a city known for its extravagance and excess — developers are eager to take advantage of building products designed to cut construction costs, especially since the price of steel has doubled in the past year.
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cables
New tools for fighting jobsite theft

Jobsite security continues to be a major challenge for contractors, costing an estimated $1 billion a year in theft losses. But there are two new defense systems on the market that are expected to greatly increase site security.
Click here to read more.







2005 Construction & Equipment Surveys



ABC 2005 Excellence in Construction Awards



Construction & Equipment 2005 team

Section editor: Benjamin Minnick

Section design: Jeffrey Miller

Web design: Lisa Lannigan

Advertising: Matt Brown

Contractor surveys: Marc Stiles, Dipika Kohli, Jon Silver, Sam Bennett, John Ryan

Photo by Joe Manfredini
The House of Knowledge Longhouse that Synergy Construction built for the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe won a construction award from the Associated Builders and Contractors of Western Washington.



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