Project Tour : The Confluence Apartments

The Confluence is a new, ground-up, apartment building for Bellwether Housing consisting of 103 affordable housing units. Designed by Johnson Braund, the Confluence is located in the Foster neighborhood of Tukwila, just a block away from the Tukwila International Boulevard light rail station. With…

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Morrow Complete & Lease-Up Rates Soar

The Morrow Apartments is a new, ground-up, mixed-use, apartment building in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle. The Rafn Company constructed the building in 24 months, including a pause for COVID, and achieved substantial completion in the middle of July. Designed by Baylis Architects, the…

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Project Tour : The Morrow Apartments

The Morrow is a new, ground-up, mixed-use, apartment building with 141 market-rate housing units over retail space. Built on peat in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle, this building has an auger cast pile and grade beam matrix foundation system. Designed by Baylis Architects the Morrow features…

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Is Team Chartering the Key to Project Success?

A team charter helps to develop optimal team dynamics, boosting productivity and collaboration. It not only outlines team purpose and objectives, almost more importantly it provides clear direction on the ways the team will work together throughout the project. For example, desired team member…

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A Million Dollars' Worth of Experience

How do you add a million dollars of value to your construction project? Meld your general contractor's knowledge with your architect's design using a process called constructability review. Constructability review aims to bring construction knowledge into project design by having the general…

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