Turner Construction
Speciality: Commercial, sports and tenant improvements
Management: Tom Gerlach, Turner Northwest general manager; and Jack Beaudoin, Turner Northwest Special Projects Division manager
Year founded: 1902 in New York City (1976 local office)
Local office: Seattle
2003 revenues: $251 million gross (local office)
Projected 2004 revenues: $318 million
Largest current projects: The $87 million Fred Hutchinson Public Health Sciences Building; the $100 million 2200 Westlake project; and the $24 million Police Support Facility
Renovation and seismic repairs this year have been keeping Turner Construction’s Seattle efforts fixed.
Ingrid Haight, marketing coordinator for the company’s Special Projects Division, said as technology companies boomed in the late 1990s, the construction industry also fell on a trend.
Things have changed, she said. “Seismic work is big now.”
Seismic upgrades and renovations on the eight-story Skinner Building at 1326 Fifth Ave. will cost $15 million. Tenants of the 300,000-square-foot historic structure are street-level retailers, offices and the Fifth Avenue Theatre. Turner worked with architect Burgess Weaver and structural engineer MKA. It’s installing concrete shear walls, collector beams and steel brace frames from the basement level to the roof and work is scheduled to be completed by May.
Repairs and renovations are also under way on another Seattle project, the $24.5 million, 190,000-square-foot Police Support Facility, which suffered badly from the Nisqually earthquake. Some columns were replaced and beams added to strengthen the structure.
The city-owned buildings will be the new homes for both the Seattle Police Department and the Fleets and Facilities Department.
“The key for us on the job was having the GC/CM contract and being able to really come together as a team with the owner and architect,” said Mike Rosa, senior project manager.
One of the project’s goals is to use 40 percent of its subcontractors from the city’s Boost Program, which helps out small businesses.
Managing 70 to 80 subcontract packages meant having to phase parts of the project carefully. Rosa said this was a challenge, but things went OK. “We planned for it,” he said.
Architect DKA designed one of the buildings to keep its exterior walls, but a new roof, floor slab, and steel mezzanines will increase tenant space. Part of the overall project design goal was to achieve a silver rating for LEED as set forth by the U.S. Green Building Council. “It was very important to the city,” said Rosa. Casework, door frames and concrete from demolition work on the interior were recycled.
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