A scramble to address fears that coronavirus can spread through shared air in buildings By: Geoff Baker, Seattle Times staff reporter Greg Smith had little time to spare when studies began suggesting the novel coronavirus can spread through shared air within buildings. As a facilities management director for the King County Library System, Smith overseas the…
Technician Highlight We received a call from one of our North Sound customers at our MacDonald-Miller Service Response Center, and Service Technician Zach Burgy, was dispatched to diagnose the problem. He found a very common issue: an aging R22 rooftop unit with multiple failed compressors. There are several options that could fit a customer’s budget…
Ready to Come back? As your local mechanical contractor, we are offering building health reports to help building owners and managers come back to their buildings with confidence. MacDonald-Miller’s building health report will provide you with customized assessments of your equipment, indoor air quality checks, safety approved cleaning procedures and touchless solutions and recommendations. While…
Bellevue Helicopter Pick Daniel’s Broiler, along with Kemper Development, planned for the past year to replace the main air handler serving the dining area at their Bellevue restaurant location. The original equipment, 32 years old, started showing reduced reliability, with frequent repairs and overall lower capacity. The solution? Equipment replacement through a Helicopter Lift &…
MacLens Partnership As an industry leader, MacMiller continuously looks for new and innovative ways to improve their service and stay ahead of the competition. To ensure continued success, company executives identified mobility and collaboration technology as two key growth drivers, and sought a technology solution that could improve their service offering and further differentiate the…
El Centro de la Raza (the Center for People of All Races) We recently replaced an ancient (and likely original) fan with a new custom fan wall in the old Beacon Hill Elementary School, a building constructed in 1904. Our customer, El Centro de la Raza, is an organization that provides 42 services to our…
Superiority of service Each quarter, MacDonald-Miller recognizes the top Service Promoters from each zone out of our talented pool of service technicians. At the end of each year, one is recognized as Promoter of The Year. In 2019, that service technician was Brendon Thorstad, serving our North Sound customer base! Brendon was presented the highly…
World Trade Center | Portland, Oregon At MacDonald-Miller we work together as a team to provide our customers with extraordinary services and care. One of our clients maintains a Chilled Water Plant that is vital to our city’s power grid. When our team consulted with this client, we identified an opportunity to improve system performance,…
No such thing as a short cut :+ :Shop Highlight with Rylan MacCay, Operations Manager Quality assurance and quality control are often used interchangeably. Can you explain the difference? A: Quality assurance is taking proactive measures to reduce defects and deliver a high quality product. Quality control is the process of identifying defects, performing inspections…
Project Highlight: Indeed :+ : Q&A with Project Manager, Mary Popplewell Scope of work: 11 Floors of Tenant Improvement in the recently completed Shell/Core 2 & U project. Indeed.com leased the top 11 floors of the building. Design-Build of complete mechanical and plumbing systems. Brief description of project: The project is a full build out…