The 125,000-sq-ft renovation and seismic upgrade of the Providence St. Vincent Main Tower was done over four years and allowed the nine-story acute care hospital tower to remain occupied throughout the work.

The need to work within a sprawling, disjointed collection of properties helped Northwest Housing Alternatives fully appreciate how to create a community atmosphere at its Milwaukie, Ore., campus.

The $186-million King County Children and Family Justice Center modernized youth and family court services by creating a 137,000-sq-ft courthouse with 10 courtrooms, a 92,000-sq-ft, 112-bed juvenile detention center, a 10,200-sq-ft youth program space and more than 1.5 acres of open areas, including pedestrian and cycling pathways and a public plaza.

Burns & McDonnell used an engineering-procure-construct (EPC) delivery model to help schedule phases for minimal outage times during the McNary Substation upgrade to the brownfield substation and the installation of new transmission lines.

Repowering the Goodnoe Hills Wind Project required IEA Constructors to merge new technology with old, upgrading the wind farm along the way.

The multilevel Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center offered an intricate lesson in steel and concrete design.