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Creekside Community High School

A school bond program for Tigard-Tualatin School District created the opportunity to make improvement to its facilities, including a new addition to Creekside Community High School. A projected surplus in annual energy savings of $13,000 is anticipated to offset the expanded use of the existing buildings onsite.

Leveraging a School Bond for a Unique, Net Zero K-12 Building

Formerly the Durham Education Center, the updates offer a central commons and cafeteria with a kitchen accessible to instructional programs. A new centralized main office with breakout rooms for collaboration between students and staff, outdoor recreation space, science classroom, and maker space to enhance the STEM program. One of the most unique aspects of the building’s design is that it has been developed to be one of the first fully Net Zero K-12 education buildings in the state. Students will have an opportunity to learn from the building as a teaching tool and participate in maximizing the building’s performance with access to metrics through an “energy dashboard” and weather station in the school’s commons.

Ledges at Columbia Palisades

This multi-level luxury residential development is perched prominently on a former rock quarry in the new Columbia Palisades planned community just west of Camas, Washington. The site has commanding views of the Columbia River, Mount Hood, and the downtown Portland skyline.

Residential Fixture of a Pedestrian-Oriented Community

The project is a key element within the pedestrian-oriented community consisting of a town square, a mixture of single-family, attached, multifamily housing, parkways, and a variety of retail and office spaces. Design features include a common podium-level pedestrian festival plaza connecting the two buildings, roof top amenity terraces, lush urban landscaped forecourts, mechanical parking, top-floor loft units with roof terraces, and expansive glazing.

Vancouver Clinic

With over 121,000 square-feet added across a three-site expansion, the Vancouver Clinic would grow its ability to provide healthcare services for communities across Southwest Washington. Close coordination with city and agency stakeholders helped navigate complex site challenges and a compressed schedule to completion ahead of schedule and under budget. As owner’s representative, Otak managed project delivery in the development of the new multi-specialty medical facilities.

Managing An Integrated Design Approach to Deliver a Multi-Site Healthcare Facility Expansion

Utilizing a Lean Integrated Design / Design Build approach, the Vancouver Clinic expansion designed all three facilities concurrently. The design processes were augmented by full-scale mock-ups to confirm functionality while leveraging the experiences of clinical staff and medical consultants to prioritize patient care with optimal clinic workflows. An established governance process including the Vancouver Clinic’s executive sponsorship team and two physician board structures led to efficient approvals while maintaining a high degree of integration with Vancouver Clinic operational leadership. In providing a full scope of owner’s representation across each expansion, the Otak team managed planning and design, medical equipment coordination, construction management, as well as move in and close out. For the Salmon Creek expansion, the team guided the project through various jurisdictional approval processes, including a full Certificate of Need application in Washington state. After a change in financing brought on by the pandemic, the team’s role shifted to become a strategic advisor through the completion of construction. This effort helped the client convert the project from an owner financed and constructed project to a turn-key build-to-suit with Pacific Medical Buildings, retaining all original design-build team members.

Oregon City School District

An Oregon City School District $158 million school bond aims to improve schools in 3 key areas by reducing overcrowding, enhancing learning spaces, and improving safety. Together, the projects provide the opportunity to change curriculum by designing schools for a new cutting-edge way of teaching that enhances student-centered and project-based learning.

Prioritizing School Improvements Through Bond Management

Management of the school bond allowed the district address priorities. Those aimed to reduce overcrowding by replacing Gardiner Middle School and enhancing learning spaces with an extensive remodel of Ogden Middle School improving safety and security throughout the district, and updating school facilities by replacing HVAC systems, plumbing, roofs and electrical systems, and by installing LED lighting. Services also include lighting and energy upgrades through the Energy Trust of Oregon and SB1149 grants. As owner’s representative, Otak is provided services to the Oregon City School District as the Bond Manager for the Bond Program.

Eagle Landing Mixed Use

Eagle Landing is poised to be the premier ground-up mixed-use community in the Northwest. From its earliest visioning and planning, conceived two decades ago, the intention has been to deliver to Happy Valley a new downtown, replete with all the uses and charms of the best Village Centers. This includes a central town square, a vibrant main street, a mix of luxury and market-rate apartments and condominiums, hotels, a civic center, and mid-rise commercial offices.

Phase One will begin construction in May 2020 and will include 200 apartments, 20,000 sf of retail and structured parking, to be closely followed by the other Phase One buildings comprising 800,000 sf.

Jasmine Tower

Jasmine Tower is located in the heart of Seattle’s historic International District at the intersection of Maynard Avenue South and South Lane Street. The tower sits above the adjacent low and mid-rise buildings of the neighborhood and has commanding views of Puget Sound to the west, Seattle’s skyline to the north, and the Cascades to the east.

The project is currently in concept design and features a fourteen-story tower of residential units, over a three-story podium consisting of pedestrian orientated micro retail, residential units and amenity space, and three levels of below grade parking. Unique to this project is the incorporation and preservation of portions of the existing Bush Gardens, a three-story turn of the century brick building, which has important, cultural significance to the community.

Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area (NRA) Visitor Use Site Management Plan

A visitor use planning process focused on nine sites at Lake Roosevelt (NRA) aims to enhance visitor experiences while protecting natural and cultural resources.

A Roadmap for Preservation and Capital Improvements

For these specific sites (Evans, Marcus Island, Kettle Falls, Gifford, Hunters, Fort Spokane, Keller Ferry, Spring Canyon, and Porcupine), the Otak team is analyzing appropriate functions for facilities (campgrounds, boat launches, and day use areas) and developing conceptual plans for widespread improvements. The project supports the visitor use planning and management process by assessing visitor use patterns and analyzing connections between sites, use types, site resources, and facilities. The plan establishes a consistent, unified character for development and serve as a roadmap to guide decisions on capital improvements, preservation, and development.

American Camp Visitor Center at San Juan Island National Historical Park

In replacing a temporary, 1,448 square-foot visitor center, the National Park Service (NPS) aimed to update facilities for visitors and staff alike. A 2,500 square-foot permanent visitor center would ultimately be constructed in its place. Otak led the design of these park improvements.

An Updated Facility for Improved Visitor Experiences and Park Operations

After studying potential locations for a new visitor center, the site of the existing double-wide trailer originally installed in 1977 was chosen for its replacement. The new design provides space for visitor orientation, seating for an updated audiovisual program, fully accessible exhibits, public restrooms, and office and storage space for ranger staff. With the goal of improving visibility and safe access to the site from the public roadway, the project also includes a realigned entry drive. Other site improvements include a new entry monument sign, an expanded parking lot, an outdoor interpretive plaza for education programs, new outdoor exhibits, upgraded power and communication service, and replacement of the septic system. The visitor center, parking lot, exhibits, audiovisual program and public restrooms will be fully accessible, allowing visitors of different abilities to learn about and experience park resources.

Willapa Hills Trail Bridges

Three long-span bridges were needed for Willapa Hills Trail. The first two were replacements for the Dryad and Spooner bridges over the Chehalis River after the existing structures were washed out during an extreme weather event. The third structure, Littell Bridge, eliminates a dangerous at-grade crossing over a very busy State Highway. Together, with an Otak-led environmental assessment and structural design, all three structures provide safer, accessible, and more complete crossings as part of the local trail system in this Washington State Park.

Designing Multiple Structures to Create Safe and Resilient Trail Crossings

During the weather event that compromised the two existing structures, floodwaters swept the truss spans downstream and removed most, if not all, of the approach span structure. The resulting bridge debris removal occurred two years later. The Dryad and Spooner bridge structures are single span 300-foot-long post-tensioned steel trusses with precast concrete deck panels. Adding the Littell bridge near the Adna trailhead provides users a safe overhead crossing over SR 6. Previously trail-goers had to cross the road to continue their journey along the 56-mile Willapa Hills Trail that connects Chehalis in Lewis County with South Bend in Pacific County. In designing the structures for each crossing, this multidisciplinary effort also provided information on baseline river, geomorphic, and riparian habitat conditions and facilitated the permitting processes necessary for the project. This included SEPA documentation and compliance, impacts analysis, and aquatic permitting applications and support documentation (HPA, Lewis County critical areas compliance, etc.).

Zackuse Creek Restoration and Culvert Replacement

With the potential to support a large kokanee spawning run, 450 linear feet of Zackuse Creek was identified to be reestablished and restored. The effort includes replacing an existing downstream culvert on East Lake Sammamish Parkway with a fish passable box structure.

Supporting Fish Spawning and Passage with a Restored Stream

Despite favorable fish features, an evaluation of Zackuse Creek revealed that spawning kokanee had been frequently observed in low numbers below the East Lake Sammamish Parkway barrier culvert. Over several decades, the lower reach of the creek experienced sediment deposition in an alluvial fan wetland from natural and developed conditions. The creek channel has migrated to converge on East Lake Sammamish Parkway SE, causing embankment failure and the introduction of roadside pollutants. This work included altering channel morphology to enhance the way the stream transports its sediment load as well as restoring, improving, and sustaining aquatic habitat.