The Seattle Children’s Hospital Building Care project includes the 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…
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…
The Microsoft Thermal Energy Center is designed for a 10,500-ton chilled water plant with heat recovery and geothermal energy exchange to support the new East Campus Modernization, which consists of 17 new buildings (approx. 3,000,000 square feet) on a 72-acre site. This project features 875 geowells drilled 550 ft underground and uses the earth’s constant…
The Lakeside Condos date back to the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962. The original boiler, a York Shipley fire tube, was slated for demolition and replacement after 58 years of service. After reviewing the options to remove the old boiler and install new condensing gas boilers, MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions suggested that the customer retube the…
MacDonald-Miller supports this industrial manufacturing facility with chilled water repairs and preventative maintenance. Shields™ produces custom flexible packaging for industrial, food, beverage, agricultural, building and construction, banking and security, chemicals, energy, and consumer markets.
The mechanical systems retrofits for these data center’s consisted of RTU replacements, plumbing upgrades, back-flow and capacity studies, water meter maintenance, controls upgrades, in addition to a standard preventative maintenance contract. The tenant had many challenges to overcome for their UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) Room. Our scope of work included turnkey addition of supplemental cooling…
MacDonald-Miller completed tenant improvements for the kitchen, Pro Shop, and boiler upgrades for this deluxe resort. Additional scope included chiller and boilers repairs for the Lodge at Suncadia and 15 small boilers for the Suncadia Swim & Fit Center.
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…