Special Projects Superheroes

We know that owners, tenants, and property managers often have exceptional needs. Our Service Special Projects team is specifically designed to serve the end-users, embrace every facet of those needs and craft efficient, creative solutions. Because we take on a wide range of projects – from the unique to the complex to the unexpected, our relationships with our customers are built on trust. Whether it’s a demanding schedule on a weekend or a unique permitting situation, we’ve tackled it before and we can do it for you.

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Special Projects

Lakeside Condos York-Shipley Boiler

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…

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USAV Worthy

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…

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Emerald Services Brighton Facility

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…

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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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Google Campus

Google Campus – Phase 2

Google Phase 2 is a 2-story 180,000 SF office facility adjacent to Google’s existing Kirkland campus. There are two full levels of parking beneath the building containing 720 parking spots. As is common with many Google facilities there are a plethora of amenities including a rooftop deck, gym, sports fields, full service cafeteria, and sky…

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Intergate Columbia Data Center

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…

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Red Wind Casino

Red Wind Casino Expansion

The Red Wind Casino, a longtime customer of MacDonald-Miller, had their grand opening of their newly expanded non-smoking casino in spring 2015. The original casino, which first opened in 2005, partnered with MacMiller to design, build and install the mechanical HVAC and plumbing systems. With project management on site after completion of the new construction…

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Columbia Sportswear

Columbia Sportswear

Our partnership with Columbia Sportswear began with a dynamic interplay between our Service Department, Building Performance Group (BPG) and Service Special Projects (SSP) teams, which made serving this client a seamless, enjoyable undertaking. MacDonald-Miller launched the adventure in 2015 with a service agreement, and immediately recognized that Columbia Sportswear had other needs. We called in…

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