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Bellevue College Student Success Center
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’…
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Project Update: Rainier Square
Our Rainer Square sites are currently in full swing with all phases of construction taking place on the various projects. On the Shell & Core Tower Project, we are entering the last 10% phase which includes start-up, commissioning, and test and balancing activities of equipment throughout the tower’s 60 floors. On the Residential & Amenities…
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Two Union Square – Chiller Plant Retrofit
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…
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Seattle Children’s Hospital – Building Care
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…
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Ventilation during COVID-19
Ventilation is Key to Confidence As we continue our Come Back with Confidence initiative, we want to help customers meet their needs for better ventilation and building air quality during the time of COVID-19. For a Smart Buildings Maintenance Customer, we’re able to monitor their ventilation and make recommendations based on what our team…
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Helping elevate the care
Seattle Children’s Hospital, Forest B (Building Care) Seattle Children’s Hospital is committed to integrated project delivery methodologies which focus on eliminating waste and optimizing results through continuous process improvement. The delivery process has been highly collaborative among all team members which has promoted innovation and delivered maximum value to the client. The scope of the…
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Hampton Lumber Mill
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,…
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We’re fired up!
Hampton Lumber Mill | Boiler Project MacDonald-Miller brings our capabilities in boiler efficiencies and energy savings to rural Oregon. 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. We met the Hampton lumber folks during…
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Microsoft Feature: Swedish & MMFS
MacDonald-Miller drives sustainable smart-hospital solutions using Microsoft Power BI MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions is a Seattle-based design-build contractor that makes buildings more sustainable and energy efficient. MacDonald-Miller partnered with Swedish Medical Center to implement Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) at three of its hospital campuses. By using a customized ICONICS platform together with Microsoft Power BI,…
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Cheers to a better chiller
Central Chiller Plant Retrofit 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…