The Wenatchee Valley College project consists of working directly with the college to replace fan coil units in Batjer Hall classrooms and offices, replacing and upgrading gas-fired condensing boilers serving the Eller-Fox Science Building, Wells Hall, and the Brown Library. There are also upgrades to split system heat pumps in the Smith Gym and a…
Tower 333 is a 20-story high-rise tower in the central business district of Bellevue, built in 2008. It boasts a modern glass exterior wall and a half-acre outdoor plaza. The scope of this project includes tenant improvements building wide mechanical system upgrades including Air and Water Balance, Controls, and Plumbing. The HVAC work on this…
We were called in to give a quote to replace an existing preheat/precool coil wall that had been non-operational for years. Once released for the project, our engineering team dug deep into the needs of the hospital and their system. Upon further review, there was no need for the wall! Instead, the customer was able to use…
Design Build and TI build out of 145,000 SF Office TI (All floors have ceilings Open to Structure) with 2 Floors of Amenity Spaces and Two Skybridges adjoining three buildings. Floors 1 & 2 consist of Amenities with a full commercial kitchen, Pub bar, Starbucks café, multiple Restaurant Kiosk, refurbished Air Stream trailer and outdoor…
Standing at 460 ft tall, Block 216 is a milestone 35 floor tower exhibiting 158,000 sf of office space and includes the Pacific Northwest’s first Ritz Carlton with 138 Ritz Carlton branded residences, and 11 floors of five-star hotel space. Amenities span 4 floors and features a Ritz Carlton restaurant on the 20th floor along with a pool and jacuzzi on the 19th floor. It will be Portland’s 4th tallest building. This is…
The new Student Success Center is home to more than 15 departments and is prominently located at the main gateway and center of the college campus, convenient for students and visitors to get information about the public institution. Inspired by the college’s mantra of “students first,” the flagship facility encompasses three floors that mirror students’…
Two Union Square was completed in 1981, and with today’s need for efficiency, Washington Holdings requested a plan for a new chiller plant.The main objectives were to design a highly efficient plant with redundancy and the ability to add chilled water plant tonnage in the future. MacDonald-Miller designed a plan using common headered piping on…
The scope of the project includes construction of a new eight-story hospital facility (325,000 SF) and a 3-story (150,000 SF) underground parking garage. The Forest B building connects to the surrounding buildings on campus through various skybridges and connecting floors. The phased fast-track design schedule for the interior build-out of each floor requires full use…
Hampton Lumber Mill in Willamina, Oregon is a large producer of dimensional lumber for the building industry, producing 500 million board feet per year, with 40% being kiln dried. The MacMiller boiler team noted that they employed an old Autoflame system on an old Cleaver Brooks burner from the ‘70’s that was highly inefficient. So,…
At MacDonald-Miller we work together as a team to provide our customers with the best 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 our client, we identified an opportunity to improve system performance, longevity, and energy savings by…