First United Methodist Church
Location: Seattle, Washington
This project involved construction of a new 26,400-square-foot church and an adjoining 143-stall concrete parking garage that also contains a 7,000-square-foot urban outreach center. The three-story facility includes a 500-seat sanctuary, administrative offices, Narthex, Fellowship Hall, classrooms, and meeting rooms. ORA was engaged to provide testing and inspection of the following items:
- Tieback grout
- Soil nail grout
- Shoring system welding
- Reinforced concrete
- Post-tensioned concrete
- Shotcrete
- Reinforced masonry
- Brick veneer
- Epoxy grouting
- Anchor bolt installation
- Grouting of base plates
- Lateral framing
- Steel decking
- Structural steel fabrication and erection
- Spray-applied fireproofing
- Floor flatness/ floor levelness evaluation