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Oroville, Washington. Dave Allen (right) at a project site with SCJ Wenatchee Office Principal Dan Ireland In their combined 50 years of designing and constructing transportation projects, Dave Allen and Ken Duncan thought they’d seen just about everything. Then they…
Drone imagery of our Centralia College TransAlta Commons project Search and rescue missions. Window cleaning. Delivering life-saving medicine to remote areas. These are just some of the ways drones are being used today. Drones have come a long way since…
Fieldstone Assisted and Independent Living Community in Olympia, Washington. When the Fieldstone Assisted and Independent Living Community project landed on Jeff Glander’s desk, he had no idea his father-in-law would one day be a resident at the center. As SCJ…
The outdoors has become a refuge for many as the pandemic wears on. From reducing cabin fever to treating Zoom fatigue, spacious parks and beaches provide options for socially distanced picnics, and campgrounds at reduced capacity are giving families space…
A horse-chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) has taken center stage in the design of an assisted living and memory care center project in Covington, Washington. Lovingly referred to as Horsey by the project design team, the nearly 50-year-old tree stands at…
Always surround yourself with people you can learn from. This was a guiding principle of Leopold Schmidt, founder of the Olympia Brewing Company in Tumwater, Wash. Leopold Schmidt, founder of the Olympia Brewing Company. Photo courtesy of Olympia Tumwater Foundation.…
Photo credit: Holiday Inn At the corner of Wine Country Road and Merlot Drive, all signs point to love and a holiday. This marks the first full summer for Prosser’s new Holiday Inn built by Love’s Travel Stops & Country…
Early in August, ground was broken for the long-awaited Columbia Pulp Mill in eastern Washington. The first of its kind in North America, it will use wheat straw to produce a variety of products and employ nearly 100 people. It’s…
OK, so it was only a creek, but any body of water running through the middle of a parking lot adds a dimension not usually considered in parking lot design. This year, SCJ Alliance’s landscape architecture team is involved in…
The morning bell rings at 8:10 for elementary students in Chehalis, Wash. The journey to get there may have been smooth, rainy, bumpy, sunny or all of the above. Maybe the school bus picked them up right on schedule and…
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