Location: Seattle, Washington
This $103.7 million project involved construction of a major addition to the Harborview Medical Center, consisting of an eight-level trauma center and two new wings which include a nine-level northwest tower and a seven-level southwest tower.
ORA was engaged to provide complete structural inspections and materials testing services for this capital project over a duration of approximately three years. The complexity of this project required a resident inspector assigned with quality control.
Testing and inspection services performed by ORA include:
- Reinforced concrete (cast-in-place)
- Batch plant inspection
- Precast fabrication/erection
- Tieback grout strength
- Structural steel fabrication and erection
- Shoring/tieback welding
- Full penetration welds (ductile frame)
- Steel decking
- Prefabricated stair erection
- Spray-applied fireproofing
- Steel joist erection
- Structural steel embedments in concrete
- Reinforced masonry
- Curtain wall fabrication/erection
- Anchor bolt/expansion anchor installation
- Epoxy grouting