At Vigor Shipyard in Portland, Oregon we recently worked on our first US Army vessel. The USAV Worthy (T-AGOS-14) is a Missile Range Instrumentation Ship operated by the United States Army. Our scope of work included equipment replacement and replacing galvanized pipe with stainless steel. Ship buffs might know that the USAV Worthy was previously…
The Yakama Nation Legends Casino and Hotel project consisted of 4 phases. The hotel scope of work for Phase 1 consists of 200 guest rooms served by vertical fan coil units fed by an air-cooled chiller, a shell and core spa fed by horizontal fan coil units and a pool area. A mechanical room on…
This will be the 6th (Building 6) and 7th (Building 11) major projects we’ve completed in the last 6 years with Seattle Genetics. Building 6 is a 2-story complete building overhaul for a new research and office facility for Seattle Genetics. Our client has a focus on maintenance and future flexibility, so keeping the mechanical…
We were thrilled with the opportunity to help revamp a noteworthy historic building in downtown Tacoma, Washington. The Pantages Theater has been our client for ages – replacing the main boilers there over 10 years ago. The complete theater refresh required the removal of all seating and ramps and the repainting of the intricate details…
The AGC Electronics America (AGCEA) is a division of AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc., a global glass manufacturing company out of Tokyo, Japan. It is the largest glass company in the world and one of Mitsubishi’s core companies.This Hillsboro plant manufactures materials for the Semiconductor market, including Silicon Carbide (SiC) materials and CMP Slurry. Armed with prior…
These boilers are part of a central heating and cooling plant that provides building heating and cooling throughout the center. There has never been a control failure in all that time, and the old MK6 controls still work perfectly. In fact, the only component failure was a servo motor and a flame scanner. The old system…
Lake Road Medical is an 18,000 SF orthopedic and sports medicine medical office building located in the city of Milwaukie, Oregon. Though the building itself had been recently updated with state-of-the-art technology spread throughout the six medical practices’ clinical spaces, new elevators, and lobby, the HVAC system was running on its last leg. Lake Road…
The building involves a new two tower 14-story office/R&D high rise building in Seattle WA. The project totals 213,000 SF of parking, 123,000 SF of R&D space and 414,000 SF of office that totals 750,000. The mechanical design concept utilizes a Sensible Cooling system that includes DOAS AHU’s, air cooled chillers, heat recovery chiller and…
The Seattle Convention Center Addition project doubles the size of the current Convention Center, with the additional facility boasting a 4,000-Ton Central Utility Plant. This project is just one block northeast of the existing center, which currently spans I-5 at Pike Street & 8th Avenue. The facility incorporates 1,250,000 square feet of convention space and…
The directors of the museum worked with MacDonald-Miller to perform a feasibility survey for the HVAC distribution systems, which included existing roof-mounted package air handling units. The renovation plan requires performing replacement of the five existing package air handling units that exceeded life cycle, installation of one new package air handling unit, distribution modifications and…