Region: West

The Allen Institute reclaimed historically industrial land in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood for a state-of-the-art research center. The Institute’s facility is home to custom-designed robotic systems, automated technologies, laboratory space and high-powered computing hardware to process petabytes of data. Scientists will use the facility to study advanced neuroscience, learn how the human brain codes […]

The Washington Department of Ecology contracted with GeoEngineers to explore and evaluate aquifer conditions in a 5-square-mile study area located in the northern portion of Douglas County, WA. The contract resulted from the Washington State Legislature’s 2006 directive to the Department of Ecology to aggressively pursue water-supply development in the Columbia River basin through storage […]

The I-84 Meridian Interchange in Meridian, Idaho, was built in 1965 to accommodate the approximately 12,000 vehicles driving along the highway each day. Today, the highway corridor sees more than 128,000 vehicles per day, and the aging interchange at Meridian Road could simply no longer handle the volume of traffic. Beginning in 2012, the Idaho […]

In 2003, record fall rainstorms washed out a 650-foot section of the Monte Cristo Grade Road adjacent to the South Fork Stillaguamish River near Verlot, Washington. This unpaved gravel road had provided the only vehicle access to US Forest Service lands and recreational properties in the area until it was closed to traffic after the […]

GeoEngineers developed a natural habitat restoration design for a 3,000-foot reach of the Walla Walla River near Milton-Freewater, Oregon for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The Tribes were concerned about the lack of juvenile fish-rearing habitat through a reach of the river where spring Chinook and steelhead spawn each year. The Walla […]

The Washington State Ferry System (WSF), the fourth-largest ferry system in the world, transports 23 million passengers and 10 million vehicles across the waters of Puget Sound each year. The State-funded system includes 20 aging ferry terminals and docks that were not constructed to current seismic standards. Of particular concern are the timber trestles that […]

This project was one of the fastest design-build deliveries in Washington state history, reopening approximately one mile of a critical highway exactly six months to the day after the catastrophic landslide near Oso, Washington, on March 22, 2014. The landslide flowed thousands of feet across the Stillaguamish River valley, obliterating dozens of homes and spreading […]

Chambers Bay golf course, site of the 2015 US Open Championship, is the anchor of Pierce County’s 930-acre reclamation and economic development plan for Chambers Creek Regional Park, a historic waterfront location with a long history of industrial use as a gravel mine. The nationally recognized redevelopment plan balanced the county’s multiple needs at the […]

The Centennial Trail stretches more than 25 miles from the City of Snohomish to the Skagit County border in Snohomish County, Washington. The trail lies on what was once the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway constructed in the early 1900s, which has since been abandoned. The County purchased the alignment and began redevelopment in […]

GeoEngineers was part of the design team that undertook an ambitious, complex redesign of the US/Canada border crossing at Peace Arch Port of Entry in Blaine, Washington. The US General Services Administration (GSA) undertook the expansion project to accommodate more traffic at the Port of Entry and to improve the Interstate 5/Blaine interchange at this […]