Welcome once again to our annual profile of the Central Oregon commercial construction and real estate industries. We have selected 30 projects this year, based on construction cost permitted in 2010.
There are a wide variety of projects this year from the new high school in Redmond and the enormous data center in Prineville, the Vault in Bend to several Central Oregon Community College projects and a new Aquatic Center in Sunriver. Many of the commercial projects are expansions including the Deschutes Brewery Restaurant, Central Oregon Radiology, JoAnn Fabrics, Ward Medical Building, McDonald’s Bend and Westside Church.
The variety helps our community to grow in many different industries. Some of the projects are still under construction, while other are complete or near completion.
In total these projects alone will bring in more than $180 million in construction costs into our economy. Amazing as it may sound this is actually $45 million more than the previous year.
There are more great projects in the tri county area that may not have qualified under this criteria, but you can be assured that they will be featured in an upcoming issue of Cascade Business News.
Many thanks to all of the owners, developers, contractors, architects, brokers and engineers who took the time to provide us with much of this information.
1- Ridgeview High School
(Redmond School District – New High School) 4555 SW Elkhorn Ave Redmond ,OR 97756
Crews are hard at work wrapping up a tremendous construction project that brings exciting, state-of-the-art new possibilities to students in the Redmond School District as they set out on their paths to choose a future career.
Ridgeview High School is slated to welcome approximately 700 students September 2012 with another 150 – 200 the following year. Redmond’s second high school features a career technology educational facility that will include a fully operational dental hygienist program, a medical lab, a television production studio, graphic arts programs and a pre-engineering program focusing on emerging green technologies.
The building is expected to qualify for a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold certification, features include daylighting, PV power systems, energy efficient mechanical systems and onsite rain water management.
The school sits on a 55-acre site and offers the full complement of athletic fields and parking for 800 cars. It is organized with a philosophy of “small learning communities” where groups of students stay with the same team of educators and staff for more than a year, building relationships between them. Classrooms are centered around activity spaces and staff offices in fully self-contained wings.
More than 70 percent of the project was completed by Central Oregon subcontractors and suppliers following a targeted approach by Skanska to keep the project local.
2- Facebook Prineville Data Center
The facility – housing thousands of servers handling huge volumes of network traffic for millions of clients – is the first data center built and owned by Facebook and is at the vanguard of the industry in terms of reduced environmental impact and energy use.
Facebook’s commitment to operating sustainably saw innovators within the organization vigorously pursue new technologies to create one of the most energy efficient facilities of its kind in the world, with the building likely qualifying for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification.
Director of Technical Operations Tom Furlong said, “This data center is built for energy efficiency and is a milestone for Facebook. The new computing capacity will enable us to offer great new social experiences, while setting new standards for environmental responsibility in data center design and operations.”
New energy efficient server designs and specialized software optimizes server capacity, while a low-energy evaporative cooling system which makes use of the low humidity climate of Central Oregon’s high desert – a major factor in the location decision – eliminates the need for traditional air conditioners to keep temperatures within the appropriate operating range.
Outside air is cooled using water jet misters that add humidity, while warm air from servers is utilized to raise the temperature of incoming air flow during winter months, and also for heating office space.
A unique 480 volt electrical system providing 277 volts directly to each server results in more efficient power usage throughout the entire facility; a ductless air distribution network lowers cost and complexity, and server racks designed to fit precisely into sea freight and trucking containers reduces shipping costs and environmental impact.
The building also employs proprietary uninterruptable power supply (UPS) technology that reduces electricity usage by up to 12 percent, and overall the data center uses 38 percent less energy to do the same work as Facebook’s existing comparable facilities.
3 – Toyota Scion of Bend
61430 South Highway 97 in Bend
Dealership owner Todd Sprague decided early on that he wanted the new building to feature the energy efficient LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program, a rigorous building rating system and certification process that allows for different levels of award achievement.
A gleaming front portal, emblazoned with the Toyota and Scion logos, is clad in special milk-colored glass. From a distance, bathed in nocturnal illumination, the portal takes on the appearance of an Asian lantern dominating the facade. There is a cleanness and clarity in the painted aluminum panels and monochrome color scheme that presents itself as both modern and classic at the same time.
Natural light floods down from windows and skylights carefully integrated into the commerce arena. The spacious showroom floor and supporting space is complimented by an open customer lounge area with big-screen TV and bistro cafe designed for convenience and comfort. Ceramic floor tiles are composed of recycled content and acoustic ceiling squares, paints, sealants and adhesives are all low or no VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compound.) The rectilinear appearance is softened by a curving diagonal wall encompassing an upstairs level of offices.
4 – COCC Health Careers Building
2600 NW College Way, Bend, OR 97701
This project is a 47,072 square foot health careers instructional facility for the Central Oregon Community College. The facility will serve aspiring dental hygenists, medical assistants, nurses and pharmacy technicians with the needed instructional space and labs to facilitate their training. The building consists of dental operatories, dental trim and sterilization labs, pharmacy technician space, medical assisting, nursing skills labs, classrooms and offices space.
5 – Sunriver Homeowners Aquatics &
Recreation Center (SHARC)
Scheduled to open in May 2012, the Sunriver Homeowners Aquatic and Recreation Center (SHARC) will feature state-of-the-art aquatic amenities, home to year round aquatics, as well as a multitude of seasonal recreational offerings.
The project includes a large, multi-use event center, acoustically designed for music performances and presentations, and a patio that serves as a stage for the 1,000-person outdoor amphitheater. The main buildings are nestled within a park setting that includes a playground, basketball court and a sledding hill with warming hut.
The facility will feature indoor and outdoor pools, a lazy river, waterslides, a tot pool and fitness facilities. Progress reports available: www.sunriverowners.org.
6 – BendBroadband Vault
NE Sockeye Place
BendBroadband Vault, which sought a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification, is a collocation data center which began operations in early-April in NE Bend.
“BendBroadband partnered with local contracting companies throughout the design and construction of this environmentally-responsible data center,” commented Leonard Weitman, VP technical operations and project manager for the BendBroadband Vault project.
Weitman explained that data centers require very complex facilities systems including high power capacity and redundant electrical and cooling and ventilation systems. “This is required in order to accomplish the high reliability and security goals that will make the services marketable. Also, the electrical system is massive and requires unusual construction methods and high quality standards. The data center industry has levels of certification to denote the degree of reliability. To meet market requirements, we needed the facility to meet or exceed Tier-III standards.”
7- Bend Pine Forest Service Administrative Headquarters Bend
Deschutes Market Rd
Eco-friendly, sustainability highlights such as low-water native landscaping, daylight harvesting, biomass boiler, recycled materials and energy efficient systems were combined with enhanced commissioning to make sure they all workas intended.
This completes Phase One of the 25-acre campus’ continuing expansion plans. Once the transfer and move-in is complete, the 80 X 287-foot building will easily quarter 200 full-time employees of the Forest Service on the main floor and members of the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Bend Field Office upstairs.
8 – Three Rivers School Addition, Sunriver
Three Rivers K-8 School in Sunriver addition features six state-of-the-art multi-purpose classrooms, a science laboratory, an art studio and a 13,500 square-foot gymnasium with locker rooms. Additionally, administrative offices, extra storage for teachers and restrooms occupy the new space. A new central boiler plant serves the entire school.
The addition will support a new middle school while sharing some facilities with the existing K-5 school. The wings visually serve as “book ends,” framing the existing school building and giving the main entrance more prominence.
BLRB|GGL’s design unified the site and campus integrating existing and new features with a diverse materials palette. Envisioned to be in harmony not only with the existing school building but also with the site itself, the design incorporates wood, metal panel and glass throughout.
The middle school wing addition integrates indoor and outdoor learning with minimal separation between the two environments. The surrounding landscape is embodied through the inclusion of vertical column elements, and wood decking provides a canopy of warmth to a site previously dominated by concrete masonry.
A spacious atrium common area was created with a bright, curtain wall of windows and gives the space a contemporary sophistication.
9 – Jungers Culinary Center
2555 NW Campus Village Way, Bend
The Jungers Culinary Center, built for COCC’s Cascade Culinary Institute (CCI) has been praised for its sleek design, high-end finishes, and sustainable construction.
It boasts three full size educational kitchens, a demonstration classroom with stadium seating creating a Food Network vibe and a full service restaurant open to the public four days a week. Patrons can enjoy reasonably priced, gourmet, three course meals prepared in the building’s new Advanced Skills Kitchen.
The building has obtained an Earth Advantage Gold Certification for its highly efficient energy model and its use of both local and recycled construction materials. With radiant floor heating throughout the slab, the HVAC systems will be used only as secondary heating during Bend’s cold winters, thus cutting heating costs and resource use drastically. The entire roof structure is built of Structurally Insulated Panels (SIPs) to allow for its extensive HVAC systems to be completely hidden from view.
10 – Westside Church Expansion
2051 NW Shevlin Park Road, Bend, OR 97701
Bend’s thriving Westside Church encompasses a new 1,000-seat worship center.
The extension features a spacious vaulted main upper lobby, or atrium, complete with a pyramid skylight, a lower lobby area adjoining the existing network of buildings, a café and a store some four times larger than the previous retail outlet.
A structural CMU and steel exterior blending in with the existing character of the church leads into an updated interior featuring sloped glue lam beams and ceramic tile flooring with wood and stone finish. The main wall is also flanked with a series of flat screen TV’s which can be utilized to provide a live feed of church services.
A major part of the construction project was a comprehensive overhaul of infrastructure which had become somewhat convoluted after a series of additions to the original structure over the last two decades in a campus that spans over 60,000 square feet.
11- Inn at the Seventh Mountain
Buildings 13, 14, 15, 16, 21
Complete refurbishing of the exterior building envelopes including siding, roofing, insulation, windows, doors and decking. Redesign of roof features at entry stairs and second floor rear decks.
12 – COCC Madras Education Center
1170 E. Ashwood, Madras
The substantial-looking building is wood-framed with masonry veneers and tones reflective of its regional roots.
Once inside, an airy feel is complemented by voluminous Cascade views maximizing orientation on a sloping site, wall treatments reflective of mountainous terrain and floating ceiling panels providing a cloud-like ambience. Basement storage capacity has also been optimized.
Classrooms feature cutting edge audio-visual equipment, with Madras native Emily Freed of Steele Associates having a hand in the harmonious interior design elements.
Many sustainable elements are incorporated into the building, including Earth Advantage recommended features such as low VOC paints, low flow bathroom fixtures, much use of recycled and local materials, sun screening and low-maintenance landscaping as well as sensor-controlled efficient lighting and HVAC systems.
13 – COCC Crook County Open Campus
498 SE Lynn Boulevard, Prineville
The path to educational opportunities has become a lot more accessible for a large rural swathe of Central Oregon with the unveiling of the Central Oregon Community College Crook County Open Campus in Prineville.
One classroom has been equipped as a “teaching kitchen” to offer advancement in all things culinary. Funds also flowed toward equipping a mobile lab – dubbed the ‘bitmobile’ – with satellite connectivity and numerous workstations to take on the road and offer instruction and training to remote areas of the county.
The building is wood framed with masonry veneers and utilizes many local materials, including native volcanic tuff stone in columns which helps tie in with other local architecture.
Natural light is in evidence with open views of the fairgrounds and beyond and a large lobby common area for student and public gathering and a founders wall honoring contributors.
A suspended structural cross brace with an articulated central circle is a striking entryway feature, while many sustainable elements have been designed into the project, including motion sensor lights, passive solar, permeable pavers, sun screening, low flow bathroom fixtures, and a highly efficient HVAC system.
14 – Deschutes Recovery Center
20370 Poe Sholes Dr., Bend
Adding to the roster of quality alternative-care facilities in Bend is Deschutes Recovery Center, delivering transitional housing for recovering addicts and mentally ill residents.
Mark Rossi of Pinnacle explained the project’s triumphs and challenges as he lead a tour through the hallways and rooms.
“It will be a secure, non-smoking, 24-hour staffed facility when fully operational. It’s a controlled access environment to limit a tenant’s exposure to the street without prior permission by staff members. There are 16 individual one-bedroom, half-bath units. We have two ADA shower rooms with enlarged facilities on the main floor. There’s also an administrative wing for therapy, processing and private offices designed for weekly doctor use.”
Project manager with HSW Builders, Scott Maxwell, pointed out many of the beneficial features created to allow for efficient management use and ease of resident lifestyle.
“This combination living room and dining area has a staff office manned 24 hours a day, providing unobstructed visuals of the two eight-unit residential wings and outside exercise and activity yard,” he said. “Complete laundry facilities are off each wing. The large communal kitchen is fully equipped and installed with all ADA certified appliances and hardware components. An additional common room at the hallway’s end can be used for quiet relaxation and reading with views of the outdoors.”
15 – Redmond Public Works Facility
243 E. Antler Ave., Redmond
This project consists of two areas: the free standing administration building that is approximately 8,300 square feet and a wood framed office building and the warehouse remodel, which is an interior renovation of an existing building.
16 – (COIC) Multimodal Transit Center
334 NE Hawthorne Ave. Bend
The COIC Multimodal Transit Center was completed in March 2011 with the assistance of a Connect Oregon II grant. This adaptive reuse project took what was previously the Cascade Natural Gas building on NE Hawthorne and Fourth Street in Bend and transformed it into Central Oregon’s transportation hub. The site houses regular traffic from BAT buses, intra-city buses (i.e. the Central Oregon Breeze), taxis, specialty medical transport, carpooling, and bicycle commuting. Interior renovations provide a seating area for public transportation users as well as extensive office space for Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council.
17 – Deschutes Brewery
1030 Bond
Doug Knight has had plans to build a new building at the site next to Deschutes Brewery Bend Public House for several years, but the economy got in the way until he was able to form a collaboration with Deschutes Brewery owner Gary Fish to build a new structure next door that will expand the Brewery’s restaurant space, offer new office space for potential tenants upstairs and, most important, present a new architectural treasure to Bond Street.
With DKA serving as the architects and Doug Knight able to bring forth his façade and arched arcade conceptual design, the building captions both a historic proportion while embracing a new contemporary blueprint.
The first floor will serve as an extension of the present Brewery by using the original entrance of the pub and creating large portals that open to the new space which includes an outdoor patio and upstairs balcony dining.
When you first glance at the building, you’ll view a brick facade where you see the balcony and arcades but as you move closer to the building on first floor there’s a contemporary curtain wall of all glass.
Knight, the owner and developer of the new building, noted that the team of SunWest, Deschutes Brewery, DKA Architecture and the numerous local subcontractors formed an ideal A- Team to bring the project to fruition.
18 – The Iris Ward Building
1239 NE Medical Center Drive, Bend
This was an 850 square foot shell addition to the first floor for a lobby expansion. 9,000 square feet of state-of-the art kidney dialysis clinic tenant improvements were made for the Fresenius Medical Care. The project also included a 2,000 square feet physical therapy suite design and build out for tenant improvement for Focus Physical Therapy.
19 – Central Oregon Radiology Associates Renovations
1460 Northeast Medical Center Drive Bend
This project included the remodel of existing spaces to accommodate new equipment including a new MRI and Nuclear Medicine Equipment. It also involved increasing the building footprint to allow for a new PET/CT Machine, and remodeling existing imaging spaces including Ultrasound and Mammography Suites. General finish upgrades were provided throughout the facility, all work was phased to allow continued operation of the active medical facility.
20 – McDonalds Bend
2048 NE Third Street
New Site Development and Double Drive-Thru. Rebuilt the restaurant including a new kitchen and expanded the lobby.
21 – Nosler Reconstruction
107 SW Columbia Streetm Bend
After a catastrophic event destroyed one corner of the building, rendering the office space unusable, the contractor and architect worked with the City of Bend building department to work out a phased plan to restore the business to operation. The first order of business was to get the Shooters ProShop operational. This space had received little damage so this goal was quickly achieved.
The manufacturing facility was next. Working with the City of Bend building department, a partial occupancy was achieved in just a few weeks. This allowed approximately 50 employees to return to work. Temporary trailers were set up on site to be used as temporary office space.
Several challenges were involved in reaching an agreement on how the office space would be reconstructed. The space could not just be restored to it’s pre-event condition as it needed to be brought up to current codes. Several meeting between the contractor, owner, architect, and building officials were required before finally reaching an agreement on how to proceed. Finally the office area was constructed, very similar to the original office area but with a few upgrades to better utilize the space for Nosler’s operations, as well as meeting all current codes.
22 – Shilo Well Pump House
New well control building. CMU, metal roof, instrumentation & controls, chlorination system.
23 – Brookswood Plaza / C.E. Lovejoy Grocery Store
19530 Amber Meadow Drive, Suite 140, Bend off Brookswood Boulevard
Mixed-use development with a 20,000 square foot neighborhood market.
C.E. Lovejoy’s Brookswood Market is Bend’s newest full-service, locally-owned and operated grocery store. The store offers high-quality fresh produce, a complete meat department, freshly-baked goods, local dairy products and specialty cheeses, a full-service gourmet deli, and a wide selection of beers and wines.
24- JoAnn Fabrics
Pioneer Crossing
Tenant Improvement for JoAnn’s Fabrics.
25 – Bowman Museum Expansion
246 North Main Street Prineville
A wider window into Central Oregon’s rich history is now on display at the Bowman Museum expansion in Prineville, which has seen the facility double in size after several years of planning and fundraising campaigning.
The new wing on North Main Street is providing a home to evolving new permanent interactive exhibits telling Crook County’s story of timber, homesteading and ranching, including a spotlight on local entrepreneurial legend Les Schwab, and a Western Heritage Gallery.
Flex space also increases the museum’s ability to host travelling exhibits, and a roomier open area with a “potbelly stove” atmosphere will allow visitors to enjoy historical re-enactments, an expanded lecture series and family-focused oral histories.
The museum had been housed in the former bank since the landmark building was donated by the A.R. Bowman family to boost the Historical Society’s preservation and heritage promotion efforts in 1971. A Kansas City native, civic leader Arthur Ray Bowman served as Crook County Judge and promoted initiatives creating the Ochoco Irrigation District, the Prineville Airport, U.S. Highway 26, and the Crooked River Project, which today includes the A.R. Bowman Dam.
In 1991 the museum building was entered on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1996 it hosted the first Smithsonian exhibit in Central Oregon, and in 1997 it won national recognition from the Institute of Museum Services.
26 – Warm Springs Telecommunication Building Renovation
4202 Holliday Street, Warm Springs, OR
Interior and Exterior renovation to an existing building to accommodate the use of a new tribal telephone communications company.
27 – DeschutesCounty Jail
The Jail TI consisted of three areas of work. The first was a 1,910 sf addition to the Jail. The addition included a new staff lounge and dry food storage area. The second area consisted of a complete remodel of the women’s locker room and a remodel/expansion of the men’s locker room. The third area consisted of a remodel of the central control area in the middle of the jail adding an office and program room for
inmate usage.
The Sheriff’s Office addition consisted of a 525 sf addition/expansion of the evidence room and vault. The added spaces include high density mobile shelving.
28 – BPA Helicopter Hanger at Redmond Airport
Standing proudly atop the black tarmac of Redmond Airport is the new helicopter hanger for the Bonneville Power Administration.
From their new operations hanger, BPA employees patrol and inspect the company’s power lines from their Redmond substation and beyond. All transmission lines are flown by surveillance teams at least three times per year, searching for frayed cables, broken insulators and any tower damage.
The construction project took approximately six months to complete, most of which was spent accommodating the site’s excavation needs prior to building.
Home-sweet-home for two Bell 407 helicopters, the 5,500 square-foot hangar is a pre-manufactured building delivered by Advanced Steel that provided the Varco Pruden unit. An adjoining helipad was created to meet all FAA standards for airport runways. Inside, its eaves height is 22 feet and is primarily heated by high output, overhead radiant heaters and all air circulation running through the air handler. A break room with full kitchen, restrooms with showers and storage areas are all independently serviced by a separate furnace and A/C unit.
A 65 X 70 foot main floor is epoxy coated white over an 8-inch slab on concrete with embedded grounding pins to dissipate any static buildup generated by the helicopter. Illumination for the spacious hangar is provided by industrial-grade, high bay flood lights. The whisper-quiet, 40-foot Bi-Fold hangar door by Schweiss opens via heavy duty nylon lift straps rated at 29,000 pounds tensile strength.
29 – Sisters Public Works
912 S. Locust St., Sisters
New ground-up ICF Construction Administration Building
30 – Deschutes County Sheriffs Office Renovation
63333 West Highway 20, Bend
Interior renovation to a existing building to accommodate the use of new space and efficient use of new offices and updated interior finishes.
