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UPCOMING EVENTS
Observations from the 2011 Christchurch NZ & 2011 Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquakes & Implications for the Pacific Northwest
City of Redmond, WA
September 8, 2011
City of Everett & Snohomish County PUD – ATC-20/ATC-45 Post-Disaster Response Training
City of Everett
September 14, 2011
SEA Northwest Conference, Presentation: Earthquake Reconnaissance, Benefits to Our Region
City of Spokane, WA
September 22-23, 2011
HAPPENINGS
P-305 Bachelor's Enlisted Quarters & Parking Garage receives LEED Gold Certificate, Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton, WA
August, 2011
Society of American Military Engineers July Luncheon – 2011 SEAW Great East Japan (Tohuku) Earthquake Reconnaissance Report
July, 2011
Costa Rican Post-Disaster Safety Evaluations of Buildings Training
June, 2011
2011 Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake and Tsunami Symposium at the University of Washington
June, 2011
Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake and Tsunami Reconnaissance Trip
May, 2011
Lessons Learned from the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake
April, 2011
Seeking Japan Invitation for the SEAW Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake Reconnaissance Mission
April, 2011
Structural Engineering Lectures for Architects Registration Exam (ARE)
March, 2011
Organizing the SEAW Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake Reconnaissance Team
March, 2011
Christchurch, NZ Earthquake Reconnaissance Mission
February, 2011
Costa Rican Post-Disaster Safety Evaluations of Buildings Training
November, 2010
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Fire-damaged school reopens in Bellingham
By LYNN PORTER
Journal Staff Reporter, Seattle DJC
August 23, 2011
After a 2009 fire extensively damaged historic Whatcom Middle School, people in Bellingham decided they wanted to save it.
"It was a community icon," said John Jones, principal at the architectural firm Dykeman. "Nobody wanted to see it torn down. Everyone wanted to rebuild it."
But fire burned the length of the 1903 school's main building. Jones said the fire coupled with water damage, "essentially destroyed that building. The walls were practically useless."
So instead of rebuilding the old school, the team recreated it.
Dykeman used essentially the original design, but added up-to-date technology and materials, including new light fixtures with a historic feel. Dawson Construction built the "new" school.
Reid Middleton was the civil and structural engineer, and Hargis was the mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer. Cascade Design Collaborative was landscape architect. George Bundy & Associates designed the kitchen and Greenbusch did acoustical design.
The old school's walls were used as a design guide and support for forms into which workers put shotcrete, a low-water mixture of concrete that quickly sticks to a form.
An acrylic paint finish mixed with sand material was applied to the concrete to simulate the stucco in the old school.
The gym, auditorium, music building and shops were repaired and saved, and key elements of the main entry facade were retained.
The team substituted less costly materials for expensive ones that had been used in the original school. For instance, real sandstone was originally used at the base of the main building. In the recreated school, an artistic finish was applied to shotcrete to mimic the sandstone.
Embellishments at the tops of exterior columns were replicated using foam covered with acrylic paint.
The school had been expanded over the years, and the historic 1903 entry was boarded up. The team reopened the entry and created a courtyard outside.
Workers were careful to shield the community, which was sensitive about the state of its icon, Jones said. So it razed the original walls after the new ones were formed. "There are a lot of people in Bellingham that don't know that we tore the school down."
The project cost $14.7 million for everything except stabilization work, and the core and shell of the main building.
Work was fast-tracked to get the school open this fall, a year earlier than Bellingham Public Schools had anticipated, Jones said.
He said the recreated school's exterior almost mirrors the old one.
"I don't think you'd know that it was different. I think that even if you looked at a photograph you wouldn't know it was different, other than it's a little bigger because we had to build the (new) walls outside the old walls."
Lynn Porter can be reached by email or by phone at (206) 622-8272.
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ARTICLES
Fire-damaged school reopens in Bellingham
Aug 2011
Seismic retrofitting gives Evergreen's clock tower an unfamiliar appearance
Aug 2011
Reid Middleton Engineer Speaks at EvCC Grand Opening (Everett Community College celebrates arrival in Monroe)
Jan 2011
Green Shores: LEED-Style Rating System
April 2009
County First in State to Successfully Use Wetland Banking
Sept 2008
Group Efforts Make for Better Shorelines
Sept 2008
Planners Say Healthy Urban Shorelines Are Possible
Sept 2008
Airport Taxiway Rehab a Success
June 2008
TDR: Balancing the Goals of Conservation and Growth
Mar 2008
Hudson Point Marina Facelift Begins
Nov 2006
Happy as Clams
Oct 2003
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