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The 2024 CRSI HONORS AWARD for the “Commercial & Mixed Use (Office)” category is 222 Fifth Avenue North in Seattle, WA. Recognized for design and construction excellence of steel reinforced cast-in-place concrete high-rise office building utilizing an innovation blend of seismic force-resisting systems, while also meeting stringent vibration requirements. Learn more about this project at: https://bit.ly/4cQEDKC SUBMITTING ORGANIZATION: CKC Structural Engineers - Cary Kopczynski & Company CONSTRUCTION TEAM MANAGER: Lease Crutcher Lewis CONCRETE CONTRACTOR: Crutcher Structures REBAR CONTRACTOR: Farwest Steel Corporation Steel . . #rebar #rebardetailer #concreteconstruction #structuralengineering #constructionawards #designawards #constructionindustryawards #StructuralEngineer #concretedesign #rebardetailing #rebarfabrication

The 222 5th Ave. life science project team has won a 2024 Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) Honors Award for design and construction excellence! 🏆 Built by Lease Crutcher Lewis steps from Seattle Center, the building features steel-reinforced cast-in-place concrete placed by Crutcher Structures. It incorporates a unique seismic system with an offset shear wall core and moment frames. Designed with life-science-ready floors and long-span flat-plate slabs, the project maximizes seismic performance, vibration control, and architectural flexibility. We extend our gratitude to our partners including CKC Structural Engineers, Farwest Steel Corporation and Gensler. We look forward to celebrating the building's opening with you! 📷: Tim Rice Lincoln Property Company Intercontinental Real Estate Corp

Lewis ranks No. 2 in Engineering News-Record’s annual listing of the top general contractors in the Pacific Northwest! Despite the challenges facing the region's building industry, our CEO, Bart Ricketts, shared with ENR that our success stems from our enduring client relationships and deep expertise. These strengths have enabled us to grow our portfolio and venture into new markets.

A complex bridge structure at the two-story Seattle Metro Logistics warehouse project in South Seattle is nearing completion. Semi-trucks arriving on-site will reach the upper-level loading dock via an earthen ramp and concrete bridge structure. The bridge has complex geometry, with a design that includes compound slopes and angles, along with camber in the beams and girders. Crews from Crutcher Structures formed this bridge using 132 mega-shore towers ranging from 20-31 feet tall. Crews from Pacific Steel Group placed 170 tons of reinforcing bar on top of the formwork before we covered it all in 832 cubic yards of concrete. Developed by Trammell Crow Company, Seattle Metro Logistics will be just the region’s second multistory warehouse when work wraps up this summer at the Port of Seattle's Terminal 106.

At Trammell Crow Company's 1916 Boren, we're using a new rebar coupler system to eliminate leave-out strips, allowing us to start interior buildouts more quickly. This marks the first time PS=Ø's system has been used in Washington state.   With typical concrete pours, large slabs are separated by unfilled strips—called pour strips—to accommodate concrete shrinkage during curing. The strips are filled in later, requiring significant reshoring and for formwork to remain in place on the floor below, which can impede progress on a buildout.   The new rebar coupler system allows crews to pour two adjoining slabs without leaving a pour strip between them. Instead, the concrete's movement during curing creates a thin joint that can be grouted. The tubes inside the couplers are also grouted, locking the rebar into place.   This means formwork under each floor can be disassembled in one sequence, clearing the way for interior buildouts as the project progresses and allowing tenants to move in sooner.

Last week, our team completed the last structural deck pour at Lincoln Property Company's nine-story 222 5th Avenue North building! Afterward, we hosted a BBQ to celebrate the topping out alongside our partners at Gensler and CKC Structural Engineers.  📷 Tim Rice

Check out the team in action out at the Terminal 106 jobsite! The Seattle Times photographer Ellen Banner captured this view of crews installing joists, girders, bridging and pan decking.