701 8TH
AVENUE PROJECT
 Seattle, Washington
Owner: Seattle Chinatown
International District Preservation and Development Authority
Project Cost: $26 million
Also known as the International District Village Square (IDVS) Phase
Two, this $26 million dollar project will be completed in 2004.The first
phase of IDVS was completed in 1998 and includes senior housing/
assisted living apartments, a childcare center, a health clinic, job
training, and counseling in 35 different languages. Phase two continues
the themes of intergenerational, multi-ethnic, collaborative five-story
development.
Plans include a new branch of the Seattle Public Library, with a
community center/ gymnasium operated by the Seattle Department of Parks
and Recreation, 57 two- and three- bedroom apartments for low-income
families, 6,000 feet of retail/office space, and a 75-stall underground
parking garage.
Otto Rosenau & Associates, Inc. was engaged to provide complete
testing and inspection services for this project. Items of testing and
inspection include:
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Reinforced Concrete
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Post Tensioned Concrete
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Structural Steel
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Prefabricated Steel Stair Erection
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Structural Steel Embedments in Concrete
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Installation of Holdown System
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Expansion Anchor Bolt Installation
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Epoxy-Grouted Anchor Bolt Installation
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Concrete Batch Plant Inspection
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Reinforced CMU Masonry
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Steel Decking
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Spray-Applied Fire-Resistive Materials
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Shearwall Nailing
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Diaphragm Nailing
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Anchor Bolt Installation
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Soldier Piles
YWCA OPPORTUNITY PLACE
Seattle, Washington
Owner: YWCA of Seattle-King
County-Snohomish County
Project Cost: $29 million
The new YWCA Opportunity Place is a
seven-story building in Belltown that addresses the root causes of
homelessness and poverty with comprehensive services for homeless women,
job training and low-income housing – all under one roof.
The 105,000-square foot, seven-story
structure includes YWCA Angeline’s Center for Homeless Women on the
ground floor; the YWCA Employment and Job Center on the second floor;
and 145 studio and one-bedroom apartments on the top floors. Three
street-level commercial spaces will be leased to retail businesses.
Otto Rosenau & Associates, Inc. was engaged to
provide complete testing and inspection services on this project to
include:
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Reinforced Concrete
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Post Tensioned Concrete
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Structural Steel
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Steel Decking
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Prefabricated Steel Stair
Erection
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Structural Steel Embedments
in Concrete
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Curtain Wall Erection -
Reinforced Concrete & Exterior Insulated Panels
NEWELL COURT MIXED-USE BUILDING
Mercer Island, Washington
Developer: M5 Investments
This proposed three-story structure
will be a mixed-use project that consists of 40 apartment units,
approximately 2,542 sq. ft. of office, retail, service uses, and 59
underground parking stalls. Construction began March 2004 and is
scheduled to complete in August 2005.
Our scope of services include:
augercast grout, cast-in-place concrete, post-tensioned concrete,
shotcrete, structural steel/welding, ultrasonic weld testing, epoxy
grouting, anchor bolts, and video survey.
MAIN PLACE MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT
Bellevue, Washington
Owner: 10245 Main Place, LLC
Rising from the ashes in the vacant
lot on Main Street in "Old Bellevue" where once a furniture store
anchored the neighborhood, this new $5 million infill project will be a
mixed-use development consisting of; 30 wood-framed apartments on three
levels; a two-level concrete structure enclosing retail, offices, and 33
parking spaces; and, associated street frontage improvements as well as
33 on-grade parking stalls.
The design incorporates traditional "Main Street" pedestrian sensitive
notions of marquees, small retail signage, multi-paned windows, and
high-quality materials, with a facade consisting of a "bottom, middle
and top," in combination with creating an urban streetscape that
visually expresses the multiple and different interior uses within the
building.
Otto Rosenau & Associates, Inc. was engaged to
provide testing and inspection of the following items: reinforcing
steel, epoxy grouting; reinforced concrete; grout under panels;
structural steel fabrication and erection; post-tension tendon
placement, stressing and elongation; lateral wood; anchor bolt
installation; installation of holdown system; and fireproofing.
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