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Chelsea Hicks Foundation

March 23, 2018

The Nail

Fall 2019 Newsletter

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Instagram post 2278027388272458802_1038626147 It may still be chilly out (and occasionally hailing), but this sweet picture is a perfect excuse to bring #WheresBremikWednesday out of hibernation! Thank you to Project Manager Spencer Bradley's friends for sharing this cute photo of their daughter rocking Bremik swag!
Instagram post 2273690624199186349_1038626147 It’s official—this is our last project (though certainly not the least in our hearts) on Bremik’s Top 15 Favorite Projects list. We collaborated with @reynoldssd7 and #BLRBArchitects to build Troutdale Elementary School. The project replaced an 88-year-old school with a new 72,000 sf, two-story elementary school with capacity for 519 students. There is a total of 24 classrooms, with four classrooms for each grade centered around a learning commons space. Troutdale Elementary School provides an example and inspiration for the development of cost-effective yet warm, flexible and functional high-performance public-school facilities. Developed via a modified prototypical design process that encompassed a broad cross-section of district, school, and community stakeholders, Troutdale illustrates the benefit of standardizing learning spaces— providing educational and amenity parity across diverse communities within a single school district— while providing the opportunity to tailor facility design to the unique character and needs of individual schools and neighborhoods. Building a brand-new school and demolishing the old didn’t leave any flexibility in the schedule. Despite numerous weather delays due to strong winds, Bremik was able to overcome all challenges to complete the new elementary school on time and on budget. In fact, out of the three elementary schools, Troutdale was the last to start but the first to finish. Bremik self-performed all framing, concrete, and siding on the project.As the first elementary school in Oregon to register for Energy Trust of Oregon’s Path to Net Zero program (along with its companion schools, Wilkes and Fairview) Troutdale Elementary demonstrates that meaningful energy efficiency and resource conservation strategies can be cost-effectively integrated into the planning and design processes for public school facilities without significantly elevating project construction costs.
Instagram post 2272987589005787235_1038626147 A couple of weeks ago, Bremik was honored at @agcofamerica's national convention in Las Vegas. We placed third in the Building Division (225,000-400,000 work hours) for America's Construction Safety Excellence Award (CSEA Award). Safety Director Michelle Brunetto accepted the award on Bremik's behalf. We are incredibly proud of being honored with such a prestigious award for our commitment to safety. We also want to congratulate all of the other winners who were honored at the convention—particularly our fellow @agcorecol members!
Instagram post 2268639465625291113_1038626147 We’re down to our last two projects on Bremik’s Top 15 Favorite Projects list! This week we’re excited to share the story of Towne Storage’s adaptive reuse. This building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was transformed from a warehouse into creative office space and is now home to Autodesk’s Worldwide Headquarters. The project has been lauded for its transformation and has received the Portland Business Journal 2017 Transformer Award, Restore Oregon 2018 DeMuro Award, and AIA Oregon 2019 Seismic Upgrade Citation Award.The 100,000 sf restoration lasted 16 months and began with interior demolition and an extensive seismic upgrade. Bremik collaborated closely with @lrsarchitects and #SentinelDevelopment to salvage materials and ensure the original character of the 1916 building was preserved, while improving elements such as energy efficiency and structural integrity. For example, more than 200 of the original wood window sashes were able to be salvaged; after new, more energy-efficient glass was placed in the sashes, the building’s windows were reinstalled.A new roof was added, and various entrances throughout the building were improved and brought up to modern accessibility standards. The well-known water tower that crowns the building was repaired, and all original masonry and concrete was restored. Bremik self-performed much of the work on this sensitive project, including concrete, demo, framing, finish carpentry, window rehabilitation, window installation, and doors, frames, and hardware.
Instagram post 2263650677710722896_1038626147 A huge reason why the Vibrant! Apartments project made our top 15 favorites is because of the unique challenges it required of the team in order to complete it both on-time and under budget, as well as what it meant for the wellbeing of many families struggling in the homeless crisis affecting Portland today. The 12-story, 93-unit, 105,000-square-foot, affordable housing development was envisioned by @innovativehousinginc, built by Bremik Construction, and designed by @lrsarchitects and @salazar_architect. Vibrant! is meant to help families avoid or come out of homelessness, giving them a chance to make a better life. All units at Vibrant! are restricted to residents making below 60% MFI (approximately $53,000 for a household of four) or below 30% MFI ($26,500 for a household of four). In order to keep living costs low for the new residents, the project was built to #EarthAdvantage standards. #EnergyStart appliances are in every unit, LED lighting is used in all fixtures, and water-conserving plumbing fixtures are installed throughout the building. Solar panels crown the tower in order to offset electricity costs, and a green roof treats stormwater onsite and reduces water runoff. As a publicly-funded project, Bremik successfully exceeded the 20% MWESB utilization goal with 22.2% participation. We actively engaged in outreach efforts to find subcontractors who wouldn’t normally have looked at bidding on such a large project due to qualifications, staffing, internal cashflow, and/or overall capacity. Since Bremik hired out for a handful of services we would normally self-perform, the Vibrant! team was able to serve as highly knowledgeable mentors to less experienced subs throughout each phase of the project.
Instagram post 2262819308290156249_1038626147 Bremik’s self-performed concrete teams at Saltwood North have placed more than 5,143 CYs of concrete over the past 4 months! In honor of this milestone, we're sharing some photos from last Friday of our crews pouring the 5th of several elevated concrete decks. Way to go, team!
Instagram post 2259220985981384677_1038626147 It’s awards season, and Bremik has two projects that have been nominated! The Daily Journal of Commerce @djcoregon1872 recently published finalists for the 2020 TopProjects Awards Competition, with winners being announced live at the ceremony on May 27th. Among the finalists are Vibrant! Apartments (for the Affordable Housing category) and North Gresham Elementary (for the Primary Education category). Congratulations to everyone who worked on these beautiful projects. Special thanks to @lrsarchitects and #InnovativeHousing for being wonderful partners on Vibrant! Apartments and to @bbtarchitects and @gresham_barlow_school_district for their partnership on North Gresham Elementary School. We are thrilled to see others enjoying and appreciating the vision these hard working teams brought to life. To see a complete list of the finalists, head over to the DJC's website.
Instagram post 2258497752344719951_1038626147 This week’s “top 15 favorite” showcases the luxury household furniture and design retailer #RHGallery. #RestorationHardware is not just known for their high-end products, but for their opulent retail experiences. Referred to as “galleries,” RH stores focus on providing a curated series of customer encounters. #Bremik partnered with Restoration Hardware and @ankrommoisan to provide an intricately detailed, striking addition to Portland’s historic #AlphabetDistrict.A large glass and steel entryway welcomes visitors into a palatial lobby, featuring 13-ft. ceilings, Tuscan colonnades, and a cascade of crystal Helix Chandeliers. The second and third levels feature workshop and showroom studio space, totaling more than 10,000 sf. Crowning the building is a 6,000 sf rooftop park, complete with panoramic views of the West Hills and downtown Portland. A stone fountain sits in the middle of the urban park’s steel and glass pavilion, surrounded by lush foliage.Bremik self-performed all of the structural concrete for the 46,000 sf, four-story building. A grand, steel staircase winds up through each floor, culminating in an expansive skylight supported by the same custom steelwork. Each piece of the railing was precisely cut and shaped off-site to provide a seamless appearance, requiring consistent collaboration between Bremik, the steelmaker, and the designers. Building Information Modeling (BIM) was completed for electrical, mechanical, fire protection, and plumbing work. This real-time modeling allowed our team to adhere to a rigorous schedule and to successfully deliver the refined retail experience Restoration Hardware is known for.
Instagram post 2254059062902070868_1038626147 We're in the midst of final inspections for the #BeaconLakeOswego core and shell, with substantial completion set for early March. The CENTRL Office tenant improvement is also nearing a close; crews are currently working on framing doors, installing cabinets, and painting.
Instagram post 2253423512809434784_1038626147 Canopy Hotel follows PGE Sullivan Powerhouse on Bremik's list of our 15 favorite projects. Located on a quarter block in the Pearl District, this 10-story, post-tensioned concrete building provides 153 guest rooms, a café/bar, exterior seating, a rooftop lounge, a fitness room, and meeting spaces. It's not the amenities that make this one of our favorites though; being a large-scale project on such a small, densely urban site, the project’s scope was intensely complex and required Bremik to drill down to 25 ft., at its deepest point. The team tied up rebar matte before pouring 1,200 cubic yards of concrete for the building’s foundation. This concrete pour was incredibly sensitive, involving extensive coordination to avoid existing utility lines, create efficient water barriers, ensure waterproofing didn’t expand, and successfully maintain a ramp that would allow the track hoe to be easily lifted out of the hole before filling the remaining space with concrete.
Instagram post 2251295146413169137_1038626147 Thanks to some stellar work by our crews and subcontractors, we've managed to make serious progress on the Mirador tenant improvement at the Historic Bank Block. The team just finished painting and installing lighting and flooring on the 11th floor, and they are underway on the same details for the 10th floor. Installation of casework has also begun on both floors, and we will begin self-performing architectural woodwork on the grand staircase this week.
Instagram post 2248249447740293439_1038626147 Are you a @montanastateuniversity student interested in joining the construction field? Come visit our career fair booth! We're around all day today and will be interviewing for internships and project engineer positions tomorrow.
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