Northwest Specialty Hospital

Northwest Specialty Hospital

Northwest Specialty Hospital

Project Description

Project:  Northwest Specialty Hospital
Location:  Post Falls, Idaho

The Northwest Specialty Hospital is an $18 million dollar new hospital facility built in Post Falls, Idaho. This one-story, 8,500 square foot building has a below ground garage. ALLWEST provided monitoring of mass excavation, soils compaction testing below footings, slab on grade, and foundation wall backfill. We also provided asphalt density testing, structural steel and welding inspections, reinforced concrete inspections, roof decking, fireproofing, epoxy bolts, and non-destructive testing inspections.

Bonner General Hospital

Bonner General Hospital

Bonner General Hospital

Project Description:

Project:  Bonner General Hospital
Location:  Sandpoint, Idaho

ALLWEST partnered with Bonner General on this project in 2005. Our services included the monitoring of the installation of geopiers, reinforced concrete testing, epoxy bolt inspections, and structural steel welding inspections.

Kootenai Medical Center

Kootenai Medical Center

Kootenai Medical Center

Project Description

Project:  Kootenai Medical Center
Location:  Kootenai County, Idaho

ALLWEST has proudly partnered with Kootenai Medical Center on various projects throughout their campus. The Idaho Cancer Center expansion was completed in September 2006. This project more than doubled the pharmacy-related space and added a live virus laboratory, a chemotherapy clean room and preparation room, and an environmentally controlled room. Our services for this $800,000 project included soils and asphalt compaction, reinforced concrete and structural steel.

In 2009 ALLWEST completed work with construction team on the new $12.3 million Business Services building. This three-story, 48,000 square foot structure is being used for various business-related operations. ALLWEST provided soils density testing, reinforced concrete and masonry inspections and welding inspections for this project.

Additionally in 2009, we participated in the building of the new Post Falls Cancer Center. This two-story, 21,000 square foot cancer center was built on the 10-acre Kootenai Health Park at a cost of $8.2 million. This facility is staffed by medical oncologists and radiation therapists, and includes complete support services for patients. The services ALLWEST provided for this project included soils compaction testing, reinforced concrete and structural steel and welding inspections.

LCSC Nursing

Lewis-Clark State College Nursing Building

LCSC Nursing

Project Description

Project:  Lewis-Clark State College Nursing Building
Location:  Spokane, Washington

The LCSC Nursing & Health Sciences Building is a state funded $16 million, 53,000 s.f. multi-story structure, consisting of reinforced concrete, structural steel framing and masonry surfacing. During construction, ALLWEST provided the following sampling and testing: native soil, special inspections, and concrete testing.

SFCC Music

Spokane Falls Community College, Music and Performing Arts Building

SFCC Music

Project Description

Project:  Spokane Falls Community College, Music and Performing Arts Building
Location:  Spokane, Washington

The finished renovations of the Music and Performing Arts Building will result in a 47,751 square foot building, for a total project cost of $14,948,000. The building will house classrooms and new office space as well as a state-of-the-art recording studio on the lower lever, with a new two-story office addition on the west wing. ALLWEST provided soils density testing for the building addition from the foundation of the basement to the finished grade, including the sidewalks and building pad. We were instrumental in the shotcrete process plans, observing all placement and sampling, ensuring that the all steel reinforcement steel conformed to the plans and specifications. We observed and tested the concrete placement to ensure that all codes had been met and clearance was correct. Additionally, ALLWEST inspected the structural steel and bolting for conformance with code and AWS D1.1.

SCC Building 7

Spokane Community College, Building 7 Renovations

SCC Building 7

Project Description

Project:  Spokane Community College, Building 7 Renovations
Location:  Spokane, Washington

The Building 7 Renovation project consisted of the renovation of an existing 31,679 square foot space that will house the faculty and staff, a new student health clinic, the campus IT and media departments, as well as general classroom space. The total project cost was $10,757,000. ALLWEST provided inspections of soil density testing, reinforcing steel, monitoring placement of concrete testing for strength, slump, air, entrainment yield, and unit weight. ALLWESTinspected structural steel welding and bolting for the project by and AWS certified welding inspector. Full penetration welds were inspected by ultrasonic testing by a level II non-destructive inspector.

WSU Biotech

Washington State University Biotechnology/Life Science Building & Amendment

WSU Biotech

Project Description

Client:   Washington State University Biotechnology/Life Science Building Phase 1 and Amendment to Phase 1
Location:   Pullman, Washington

The Biotechnology/Life Sciences Building consists of a new facility of approximately 128,000 gross square feet. The building is a four-story structure with a partially shelled basement. The high-tech facility contains research laboratories, core laboratories, common support space, conference rooms, and office space for faculty and post-doctoral students. The new facility will also house the administrative offices for the newly created Center for Biotechnology in support of the University’s Biotechnology Strategic Initiative, and the administrative offices for the School of Molecular Biosciences. ALLWEST’s involvement on this project included steel pile driving inspections, reinforced concrete inspections and testing, waterproofing inspections, soils compaction testing and asphalt pavement compaction and quality testing.

Coulee Medical Center

Coulee Medical Center

Project Description

Project:   Coulee Medical Center
Location:   Coulee City, Washington

The Coulee Medical Center is a new 69,000 square-foot, $25 million dollar project that broke ground in August of 2009. Specific special inspections on this project have included soil and asphalt density testing, structural steel and high-strength bolting, fireproofing, reinforced concrete and masonry and epoxy bolts. This facility will house 25-beds and an outpatient clinic and is expected to be a showpiece of rural health care.

Coulee Medical Center
VA PT Building

VA Physical Therapy & Prosthetics Building Addition & Parking Lot

VA PT Building

Project Description

Project:   Veterans Administration Physical Therapy and Prosthetics Building Addition and Parking Lot Addition
Location:   Spokane, Washington

This project consisted of a 4,800 square-foot, single story building addition to the existing facility as well as an addition to the parking lot area. ALLWEST provided inspection of soil and asphalt density testing, reinforced concrete with structural steel and light gauge steel framing.

Northern Quest

Northern Quest Casino Expansion

Northern Quest

Project Description

Project:   Northern Quest Casino Expansion
Location:   Airway Heights, Washington

The project included construction of an elevated casino, a 10-story hotel tower, a 6-level parking ramp, and a convenience store. ALLWEST provided geotechnical engineering which included soil borings, rock coring and field pressuremeter testing. Due to variability in overburden depth and quality of bedrock, we recommended a combination of drilled piers and spread footings for support of the structures.

ALLWEST also provided special inspections and materials testing for construction of the 6-level parking ramp and south casino addition which included drilled pier inspection, post-tension concrete testing, and inspection of reinforcement. We also provided special inspections for the 10-story hotel. Our services included soil density testing, reinforced concrete inspections, post-tensioned concrete inspection, shotcrete inspection, spray-applied fire proofing inspection, and non-destructive testing (ultrasonic testing of welds).