Link to the article by Greta Carlson at Solid Ground.
Walsh Construction not only understands the needs of the people and organizations they serve, but also anticipates and facilitates meeting those needs with professional expertise. For over 22 years, Walsh has supported Solid Ground’s work in a variety of meaningful ways.
As one of the most critical enclosure components, the roof assembly is often one of the least understood. With so many system options and insulation strategies to choose from, it can be difficult to make the right decision for your project. On Tuesday April 21, WALSH hosted an event, sponsored and organized by Portland CSI, with a panel of industry professionals, including; Mark Hambelton, McDonald and Wetle, VP and Senior Estimator; George Starbuck, M+W, VP and Senior Estimator; John Herrmann, President, Bain Associates; Phil Strand, Senior Technical Roof Consultant, McBride Architecture and Panel Moderator Marty Houston, Quality Director, Walsh Construction Co.
“The Low Income Housing Institute invites you to attend the grand opening and dedication of Cheryl Chow Court on Friday, April 24th at 10:00am at 2014 NW 57th Street, Seattle. Program starts promptly at 10:00am. A self-guided tour will be available starting at 9:30am and after the program.
Mike Steffen of Walsh Construction Co. will present an invited paper at the 4th Building Enclosure Science and Technology Conference (BEST 4) next week in Kansas City.
Mercy Housing Northwest (MHNW) is celebrating the construction start of its newest affordable housing community, New Tacoma II Senior Apartments. New Tacoma II Senior Apartments will add an additional 40-unit, service-enriched senior housing apartments to Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood and will combine accessible, energy efficient design with resident services. New Tacoma II will be constructed adjacent to and integrated with MHNW’s New Tacoma I Senior Apartments, a 75-unit project that opened in April 2011. The two phases will join together through common corridors, share extensive community facilities and operate as one seamless community.
Link to the article by Donna Kimura
Orchards at Orenco will be a landmark development for REACH Community Development and the Passive House movement.
In 2013, REACH purchased a 6-acre site next to the MAX light-right station at Orenco Station in Hillsboro, Ore., near Portland. “Our vision was to build three multifamily buildings on the land,” says Laura Recko, director of fundraising and public relations. “We always had the vision that at least one of the buildings would be a Passive House project.”
The cat is out of the bag…
Well, we weren’t going to say anything about it publicly but others have so we’ll join the bandwagon. See what our friends at Ankrom Moisan (architect) had to say here. See what our friends at Green Hammer (Passive House consultant) had to say here.
It’s true that our airtightness test at the Orchards project came in with really great results. 0.075 ACH50. Nearly off the chart! For context, that is nearly 8 times as tight as the Passive House standard requirement of 0.6ACH50.
El Centro de la Raza will hold a groundbreaking ceremony at 11 a.m. March 6 for Plaza Roberto Maestas (PRM); a mixed-use affordable housing project located directly south of El Centro de la Raza’s historic schoolhouse building, and adjacent to the Beacon Hill Light Rail Station.
Link to the article.
Right now, the dilapidated warehouse stretching a full city block on SE Salmon Street is simply the skeleton of a 96-year-old ironworks, neglected for decades. In 2016, however, the environmental nonprofit Ecotrust plans to turn this cavernous Central Eastside space into an incubator for artisan food businesses, where Oregon-grown crops become new products devised by Portland start-ups sharing production, storage, and distribution facilities.
Marvel 29, the new, four-story mixed-use building for PHK Development at the eastern end of the St. Johns Bridge, has 165 apartment units, 1,721 SF of retail space, 150 bike parking spaces, 79 resident storage spaces and 132 underground parking spaces. The design makes extensive use of reclaimed materials, from hardwood shipping cases to shipping chain, related to the nearby Swan Island dry docks. The building is anticipated to be certified LEED Platinum. Additional amenities include a rooftop terrace, a pet grooming room, a fitness center, a demonstration kitchen and electric vehicle charging stations.
Link to DJC article with photos by Sam Tenney.