For this historical tenant improvement in the Maritime Building in downtown Seattle, MacDonald-Miller provided a new VAV system, DDC Controls and self-performed NEBB certified air balancing for Big Fish Games’ 5-story project. The plumbing scope included restrooms, hospitality bar and kitchenette, and MacMiller led a coordinated BIM process that included a highly collaborative detailing process…
MacDonald-Miller recently refurbished two fuselage air manifolds for The Boeing Company. The existing refurbished manifolds provide full scale fatigue testing for Boeing’s 777-200 and 787-8 line of aircraft manufactured in Washington State. Each manifold supplies pressured air to aircraft fuselage that goes through a pressurization / depressurization cycle once per flight. The air will be…
For this 3-story tenant improvement project in Portland’s historic Power and Light Building, MacDonald-Miller had to respond quickly to propose, design and immediately start work to accommodate WeWorks’ tight deadline. Our HVAC scope of work includes a 4-pipe heating hot water and chilled waterfan coil units. We will implement in-house Honeywell controls, and the design…
MacDonald-Miller brings HVAC design-build services to downtown Portland. This new hotel tower in the center of downtown Portland includes 12 stories above grade and a single-story basement. It boasts 197 guest rooms and retail space. Graves Hospitality, is the developer with Howard S Wright as the general contractor. The Moxy Hotel is a relatively new brand…
The T-Mobile headquarters electrical project began as a request to replace the temporary lighting fixtures for the Newport 2, Newport 4, Newport 5, Newport Terrace and the Newport Pavilion buildings. The original plan called for the installation of the light fixtures directly mounted to the building, some with an elevation of 110’ above the ground. However, challenges…
The Acute Care Expansion for CHI Franciscan Health at Saint Anthony’s Hospital project consists of the build-out of 32 patient rooms – MacDonald-Miller performing all HVAC, plumbing, pipe fitting, and medical gas scope. From the start, we displayed strong leadership by taking on a “lean and mean” MEP detailing effort, which resulted in our ability…
Service Special Projects The Emerald Services Brighton Facility, owned by Safety Clean and Clean Harbors, hired MacDonald-Miller to transform a decommissioned oil storage facility into an oil recycling hub. Using 8 existing gear reduction pumps, railcars bring oil into the farm, filling the 10,000 gallon tanks. Valving then shifts pumping the oil from the tanks…
MacDonald-Miller provided the following panel upgrades in response to the request from Boeing to upgrade the existing obsolete chiller panels and provide an alternate to the standard Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) deliverable.The upgrade allowed Boeing to receive equal performance and in some cases improvements above the factory OEM panel. When repairs occur this option can…
MacDonald-Miller has been working on sheet metal and controls projects on ships for years, but for the first time we moved into the specialized market of Navy air conditioning and refrigeration work. First stop, VIGOR Shipyard in Portland, Oregon to get air conditioning and refrigeration plants up to 100% working order on the USS Frank…
Leatherman, headquarters in Portland, Oregon, operates its 90,000 square feet high-tech manufacturing space round the clock. Their existing control system was failing and replacement system options did not address energy efficiency. MacDonald-Miller engineered a wireless Advanced Rooftop Control (ARC) solution that met the client’s cost and efficiency needs. The web enabled ARC solution varied supply…