Intercity Transit has used local companies throughout the Pattison Base Renovation and Rehabilitation project…Stantec, the project architect, specializes in transit facility design worldwide and Lacey’s SCJ Alliance is an engineering subconsultant. When completed, the building will meet or exceed LEED environmental design standards.

The urban gondola has come a long way in the last decade. Steven Dale, a principal with SCJ Alliance, which provides consulting for gondola projects around the world, said gondolas can overcome challenges that other transit systems cannot. “Gondolas are clearly going to be useful in situations where there are clear topographical challenges – rivers, […]

Aerial trams took off like wildfire in South America after Medellín, Colombia, built its system in 2004, and enthusiasm is rising in the U.S., says Steven Dale, principal of SCJ Alliance, an engineering and design consultancy that specializes in cable car systems.

As Californians, the couple who entered Spokane’s Liberty Ciderworks taproom one Sunday afternoon were well-versed in the nuances of wine. However, since they were visiting Washington, the largest apple-growing region in the United States, they decided to try cider. As owner and founder Rick Hastings began explaining the breadth and range of flavor profiles within cidermaking, they […]

SCJ Alliance, a landscape architect firm based in Lacey, WA, designed the circular pattern to represent the center of campus at Washington’s Centralia Junior College. The idea was to mimic a bike wheel and rough compass points to reflect how the campus serves as the halfway point between Seattle and Portland during the STP (Seattle […]