April 13, 2005

Design Detailings: Emerging design ideas in UW show

An exhibit about current architecture projects in the region will be on display Friday through April 24 at the University of Washington's College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Gould Hall, 3949 15th Ave. N.E. in Seattle.

"Headlines: Emerging Architectural Ideas" will have 100 drawings and models of buildings commissioned or under construction.

The exhibit is sponsored by the Professionals' Advisory Council of the Department of Architecture. An opening reception will be held Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.

For more information, contact project coordinator Clara Simon at (206) 616-7966 or simonch@u.washington.edu.

Waterfront topic of Dorpat lecture

The Seattle City Council is offering a free history lecture today at Seattle Central Library's Microsoft Auditorium, 1000 Fourth Ave. Historian Paul Dorpat will give a retrospective on the central waterfront, covering how its been used from the late 1800's through today. His talk is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Co-sponsors include AIA Seattle, Allied Arts and the Museum of History and Industry.

For more information, call Councilmember Peter Steinbrueck's Office at (206) 684-8804.

W&H Pacific buys land survey firm

Beehler

W&H Pacific recently acquired Statewide Surveying, an Olympia-based land surveying firm. Statewide's staff are now part of the Olympia office of W&H's survey department, with Statewide owner Pat Beehler directing that department.

Beehler has 37 years of experience, including work at engineering firms and the Department of Natural Resources. He chairs the Thurston County Chamber of Commerce.

Consulting and design firm W&H Pacific works on land development, transportation and surveying. It has nine offices in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

Callison to design Calif. retail center

Seal Beach, Calif.-based Century National Properties has selected Seattle's Callison Architecture to design a retail center in Seal Beach.

The center will be along a boulevard, and have 20 restaurants and shops such as HomeGoods and Rite Aid. Callison provides planning and design services to retail, hospitality, residential, health care and corporate clients around the world.

Hutch building gets LEED

A building at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's South Lake Union campus got LEED certification under a U.S. Green Building category for new construction and major renovations.

The Robert M. Arnold Building is Seattle's 10th LEED facility, according to Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership.

ZGF's Seattle office designed the seven-story, 372,000-square-foot facility as a brownfield cleanup and used local materials for about a third of the building.

Right-of-way talk in Tacoma

Two Skillings-Connolly staff members will give a talk on right-of-way acquisitions at the American Public Works Association's conference today at 3:30 p.m. in Tacoma.

Skillings-Connolly's real estate services manager Brian Fagernes and project manager Stephen Thomas show how they use a Web database to coordinate the steps to get right-of-way. For more information, call conference chair Kristina Nelson at the city of Tacoma, (253) 591-5787.

Stormwater area wins ACEC award

The South Florida Water Management District's Stormwater Treatment Area 3/4 was given the Grand Conceptor Award — the nation's most prestigious award for innovative engineering — by the American Council of Engineering Companies at award ceremonies held in Washington, D.C. on Monday.

Recognized as one of the most promising advancements in restoring the Everglades, the project was chosen the year's best engineering achievement over such projects as the Rion-Antirion Bridge in Greece and Chicago's new Millennium Park.

The project is a constructed wetland built on 17,000 acres of former farmland designed to naturally remove high levels of phosphorus from water entering the treatment area from thousands of acres of active agricultural fields to the north. After water flows through the treatment area, phosphorus levels are significantly reduced. The treated water is then allowed to enter the Everglades. The area is the largest ever constructed in the world and has exceeded performance expectations since it began operation.