Author: Maks Goldenshteyn

Regulations for Energy Efficiency in the PNW: What They Mean for Healthcare Buildings

July 21, 2024
By: Julianna Plant, Senior Preconstruction Manager
New building performance standards impacting healthcare are coming to Washington and Oregon to reduce energy use and emissions from the building sector. How prepared is your organization? The state of Washington has taken a leading role in enforcing new energy-efficiency standards that could influence how other states implement strategies for decarbonization. In 2019, Washington passed… read more

Progressive Design-Build Case Study: Innovation Hall

July 11, 2024
By: Brian Aske, Education Market Director
In November 2023, University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College celebrated the opening of Innovation Hall, a shared academic building that allows for the significant expansion in STEM research and education in Washington state. The project is the first academic building in the nation shared by a community college and a university. Using a progressive… read more

2024 Lewis Scholarship Recipients: Gabriel Nuñez-Sanchez and Hattie Zhang

June 12, 2024
By: Lewis Team
The Lease Crutcher Lewis Foundation is now in its third year of making grants and scholarship awards, activating the collective resources of our employees and partners to improve our communities. The foundation supports historically underrepresented people in the construction industry and non-profits that help build a more diverse workforce for the industry. Below, meet 2024… read more

Press Release: Lewis Promotes Three Leaders in Washington Division

May 20, 2024
By: Lewis Team
SEATTLE – Lease Crutcher Lewis (Lewis) announced today the promotion of Shannon Testa and James Furlan to vice president of operations and Jeremy Callas to director of operations for the company’s corporate market sector. “We’re building on nearly 140 years of tradition by elevating the next generation of Lewis leaders from within,” said Chief Executive Officer Bart… read more

Healthcare Superintendent Profile: Shane Weller

May 6, 2024
By: Lewis Team
In 1989, Lewis senior superintendent Shane Weller’s grandfather Bill brought him to the Boeing Red Barn at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. The structure, the country’s oldest surviving aircraft factory, held special meaning for the Weller family. It was there that Bill closed out his carpentry career in 1983, working on the barn’s restoration before retiring.… read more

Press Release: Coriann Presser Named Washington Division President

May 2, 2024
By: Lewis Team
SEATTLE – Lease Crutcher Lewis (Lewis) announced today the promotion of Coriann Presser to President of the company’s Washington Division. Presser joined Lewis in 2005 as an intern and has since served in the roles of project engineer, project manager, project executive, and most recently operations director leading the company's Life Science market sector. In her… read more

Strategies for Reducing Construction’s Carbon Impact

April 26, 2024
By: Julianna Plant, Senior Preconstruction Manager
By now, this staggering number will be familiar to many: 40 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings—constructing them, running them and retiring them. These are the places where we work, learn, heal, discover life-saving cures and govern. But they also play an outsized role in changing the climate. In the past… read more

North Valley Complex: Using Wood Salvaged From Oregon’s 2020 Wildfires

April 22, 2024
By: Lauren Holmes, Project Executive
While transforming a Wilsonville, Oregon, warehouse into a lab building and workplace for several State of Oregon agencies, Lewis and SERA Architects incorporated wood salvaged from the devastating wildfires of 2020 into new finishes throughout the reimagined space. These wooden slats can be found in “nodes” built along the North Valley Complex's circulation paths, adding… read more

WIC Week Profile: Estimator Sharaya Hays

March 4, 2024
By: Lewis Team
As a high schooler on summer break in her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, it wasn’t unusual to find Sharaya Hays laying on the grass in her backyard, sketching houses and floor plans on graph paper. She was sure she’d be an architect. Her passion for design could be traced to her dad, Cam, who owned… read more

WIC Week Profile: Site Safety Coordinator Adriana Mendoza

March 3, 2024
By: Lewis Team
As an undergrad at Washington State University, Adriana Mendoza majored in kinesiology with the aim of becoming a physical therapist. But an internship at a PT clinic her senior year in the Tri-Cities opened her eyes to underlying safety challenges across a variety of industries. She'd see many repeat patients—often from the same construction sites—dealing… read more

Deploying Dusty, Lewis’ Robotic Layout Sidekick

February 14, 2024
By: Lewis Team
Dusty, our robotic layout sidekick, returned to action last week at a corporate client’s office TI in Redmond, Wash. Dusty used a digital model to print wall layouts directly onto the project floor in one pass, with markings to guide our framing, HVAC, plumbing, and electrical trade partners during their scopes of work.  Automating… read more

Building While Caring: Minimizing Construction Impacts in an Active ED

January 26, 2024
By: Ben McLean, Communications Specialist
Lewis is midway through a 57,000-square-foot emergency department (ED) renovation project at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center (PSV) in Portland, Oregon. The project involves expanding the patient room count from 52 beds to 72. It also includes a new and improved imaging department, universal exam rooms, the relocation of the behavioral health unit and the… read more

North Eugene High School and the Modern Learning Environment

January 16, 2024
By: Elsa Manning, Senior Marketing Specialist
Many of us were lucky to have ample windows in our schools growing up. Windows allow natural light and make classrooms and common areas feel more open, which has been proven to support learning and boost mental health. In recent years, the trend toward better daylighting has become a must-have in today’s learning environments. Research… read more

Press Release: Renewing Our Commitment to Downtown Portland

January 11, 2024
By: Lewis Team
PORTLAND, Ore. – Lease Crutcher Lewis (Lewis) has signed a long-term lease extension for over 10 years at the Culver Building on the corner of Southwest 12th and Alder, where the company currently occupies 15,500 square feet of office space across three floors. Additionally, Lewis will be expanding its footprint into the building’s remaining 2,000… read more

Seven Key Factors for Assessing New Office Space

December 14, 2023
By: Jeremy Callas, Project Executive
Office demand in the Seattle, Bellevue and Portland markets continues to shift. Evolving work-from-home policies, combined with different market conditions, mean that many companies are reassessing their space requirements. In markets where vacancy rates are up, companies have more choices when it comes to relocating or building out a new space. With more options available… read more

New Rebar Coupler System Allows Interior Buildouts to Start Sooner

December 12, 2023
By: Lewis Team
At Trammell Crow Company's 1916 Boren, we're using a new rebar coupler system to eliminate leave-out strips, allowing us to start interior buildouts more quickly. This marks the first time the system has been used in Washington state. With typical concrete pours, large slabs are separated by unfilled strips—called pour strips—to accommodate concrete shrinkage during… read more

Reflecting on Obliteride 2023

December 4, 2023
By: Lewis Team
With a steady rain falling and the days getting ever shorter, it's hard to believe that Obliteride was held on a balmy weekend just four months ago. In addition to those on the Lewis & Friends team who took to their bikes, walked, ran, donated, or otherwise participated, 23 volunteers also helped make the day… read more

Two Higher-Ed Projects Leveraging Progressive-Design Build

October 26, 2023
By: Lewis Team
The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce recently featured a pair of Lewis projects in the publication's annual Higher Education special section. Opening this winter quarter, Innovation Hall is set to be the first academic building in the nation shared by a university (University of Washington-Bothell) and a college (Cascadia College). Writing in the DJC, Lewis'… read more

Helping Diverse Subcontractors Clear More Hurdles

October 16, 2023
By: Lewis Team
During Construction Inclusion Week 2023, Lewis’ Jay Sorensen authored a piece in the Seattle DJC about how recent collaborations with Ahora Construction and Professional Lath and Plaster have helped us better understand some of the biggest barriers to MBE participation. One of the overarching reasons is this: companies like theirs don't often get treated like… read more

Tilting Up Wall Panels at Terminal 106

September 27, 2023
By: Lewis Team
In September, Crutcher Structures crews began erecting concrete tilt-up wall panels by the dozen at Terminal 106's Seattle Metro Logistics, a two-story warehouse and distribution center being built for Trammell Crow Company just south of downtown Seattle. Within two weeks, about two-thirds of the project’s 156 exterior panels were installed. Each panel was first cast… read more

Lewis Foundation 2023 Scholarship Winner: Edgar Conde

September 6, 2023
By: Lewis Team
At first, Edgar Conde didn’t envision a life in construction. Hailing from a family entrenched in the industry, he had big plans to become a mechanical engineer and work on cars, a passion only second to soccer. But even the best-made plans change. The further into his college career, the more Edgar was drawn to… read more

Building a High-Performing Life Science Team

August 30, 2023
By: Coriann Presser, Life Science Market Director
As career builders, few things faze Lease Crutcher Lewis’ life science team. Architectural concrete, cGMP spaces, below-grade research suites with highly sensitive vibration requirements, interstitial floors packed with enough MEP infrastructure to service a small village—we’ve built that. At the same time, we acknowledge that life science projects are tough. From coordinating lab benches and… read more