Specialty Construction: Multi-Unit

Synergy Construction won the Specialty Construction: Multi-Unit award for its work on the Views at Madison mixed-use building. The contractor recycled 85 percent of construction debris from the project.
Synergy Construction
Views at Madison

Owners: Madison Housing Partners
and the Hearing Speech & Deafness Center
Architect: Mithun Architects

Synergy Construction worked with the owners to build Views at Madison, a $14 million mixed-use project featuring commercial space as well as market-rate and low-income housing.

The Synergy team overcame multiple construction challenges and kept the project on budget — a major factor as funding came from 14 different sources, including grants, housing tax credits and low-interest loans.

Located at 19th Street and Madison Avenue in Seattle, the project sits on a hill with a 30-degree slope, and the building footprint takes up about 96 percent of the site. To help minimize costs, Synergy staged the project across the street in a small office during the site work phase and later moved job offices into the partially constructed building.

Budget and scheduling issues continued when the concrete subcontractor dropped out, and the project nearly stopped completely. Synergy mobilized members of its own workforce who were skilled at concrete work and hired a number of the subcontractor’s former employees, and two months later, the project was back on track.

As crews neared the completion deadline, Views at Madison hit another setback when vandals flooded a major portion of the site. Synergy increased crews on the project and coordinated with subcontractors to remove and replace insulation, drywall and other damaged finishes.

The building met its scheduled inspection date and received its certificate of occupancy.

Other work on Synergy’s part included remediation of three large areas of contaminated soils and maximizing the use of energy-saving finishes, resulting in a cost-effective and successful project.

Along with architect Mithun Architects and engineer Coughlin Porter Lundeen, Synergy worked with ABC members Northshore Sheet Metal and Puget Sound Masonry on the project.



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