Construction

Duwamish Apprenticeship and Education Center, located in the heart of an economic growth zone in Seattle, is committed to developing and expanding the skills of a growing workforce. The Center currently houses training for 22 apprenticeship programs.

Schreiber Starling & Lane Architects designed the Puget Sound Industrial Excellence Center to match the character of its industrial neighbors. The two-building Center will be on the Duwamish campus of South Seattle Community College, at the intersection of East Marginal Way South and Corson Avenue South -- the original site of the Hat 'n' Boots service station.

The center is a collaboration between business, labor, industry and education. The new Center will have a 13,500 square-foot instruction building in a two-story steel-framed structure with metal siding. It will be the primary instruction and administration building on the campus. Directly adjacent will be a 19,500 square-foot trowel trades building. The single story tilt-up concrete and metal-framed structure will house programs for masonry and concrete. Site work includes a new entrance and a pedestrian plaza between the two buildings, a paved service yard and parking.

The design team includes Putnam Collins Scott, structural engineers; Wood/Harbinger, mechanical; Tres West, electrical; KPFF, civil; and Murase Associates, landscape. The Robinson Co. provided cost estimating of between $7.3 million and $7.5 million. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Monday, May 22, 2006)