Incentives for building owners pave the way for WA’s transition to a greener, cleaner future Special to The Times by Perry England The city of Bellevue took the bold step recently of creating a program to encourage building owners, landlords and building managers to participate in the state’s financial incentive program to make large buildings…
Project Highlight Grande Ronde Operating Room Expansion Scope of Work: Design-Assist, Expansion of new 44,000 SF Operating Room; includes HVAC, plumbing and medical gas piping Project Team: Bouten Construction, PKA Architects, Interface Engineering Project Timeline: 4/2022 – 1/2025 Project Description: Build out consisting of 5-story addition to existing hospital. Second floor is a surgery floor…
Give it up for Giving Back At MacDonald-Miller we believe that it is everyone’s responsibility to build healthy and viable communities. MacMiller offers the Giving Fund to support our employees in their charitable work in our local communities and around the globe. Here are a few examples of how the Giving Fund has helped our…
Congratulations Mark Webster, Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer on his induction into the University of Washington’s Construction Industry Hall of Fame! Mark has been part of the Pacific Northwest construction landscape since 1982 after graduating from Seattle University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He worked briefly with a local engineering firm…
Perfect picks :+ : BY JEFFREY SMITH In November 2020, Michael Burrus and Joe Paxton sold a project in Arlington, WA that was roughly 2.8M SF and would require a helicopter to lift the Roof Top Units (RTU’s) to the roof because of the massive footprint of the building. On February 19, 2022, after months…
It’s all in the details :+ : By Jesse Caudle & Henry Lewellen Sheet Metal Detailing and MEP Coordination MacDonald-Miller’s emphasis is in design-build construction. Our account executives, or sales force, work directly with owners and their design consultants to develop system concepts for buildings’ program requirements. Once the design is complete, and the Mechanical/Plumbing…
Heroic Moment King County Library System When an arsonist started a fire in a local library’s book drop, our Smart Building Services experts were able to remotely adjust the HVAC system operation to evacuate all the smoke from the building minimizing the impact of the fire. “Smart Building Services provides us with the comfort of…
Net Zero Hero “In the last 5 years, efforts to make buildings more sustainable have gone from nice-to-have to a “must-have” in the marketplace. Whether it is a new building or a retrofit of an existing building, or even a campus, the effort toward a lower carbon footprint is “afoot”! At MacDonald-Miller we are…
Celebrating 10 years of our Newsletter Perspective! Our Perspective Newsletter comes from the viewpoints and voices of our employees and customers. Here are the stories of MacMillians making buildings work better.
Innovation MacDonald-Miller is pushing the limit once again on our modular capabilities! We proved the impossible by pulling two high-density vertical riser modules, all fabricated in a safer approach at ground level in our shop over the course of two weeks, to ensure all the high-risk work was performed offsite. The modules were shipped to…