Tenant Improvement/Remodel
Under $5 million

Lutheran Community Services
structural remediation

Location: Seattle
General contractor: Abbott Construction
Owner/developer: Lutheran Community Services
Engineer: Swenson Say Faget
Architect: SMR Architects
Contract amount: $640,000




Photo courtesy of Abbott Construction
Abbott Construction completed structural remediation work on this building in two weeks despite problems drilling through boulder-strewn glacial till.

Abbott’s project involved a structural remediation to an occupied building.

The two-week schedule had crews at work 16 hours a day, seven days a week. The goal was to install three micropiles a day, leaving enough time to reframe walls, tape, finish and paint.

But driving the 19 micropiles proved difficult because the machine, which could not be taller than 12 feet, made drilling through cobbles and boulders encased in glacial till a challenge.

By the fourth day, only four micropiles had been completed. What started out to be a two-week window turned into nine days to not only drill the micropiles, but also erect structural steel, weld steel, inspect steel, frame walls and reinstall all the finishes inside and out.

Nevertheless, the project was successfully delivered on time, and Abbott was awarded the next project for Lutheran Community Services.



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