BY JOSH KERNS on May 29, 2013 @ 2:02 pm Updated: 2:35 pm – 5/29/13 ) Planetary Resources announced the Kickstarter campaign at a launch event Wednesday at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. A Bellevue company that wants to mine precious metals from asteroids is hoping a new crowdfunding campaign will help pay for an ambitious new space telescope. The company’s founders say the […]
SEATTLE: The B-17 bomber, a plane that helped the United States win World War II, was in the Seattle area this weekend, and not just on display. For a price, people also get to soar on the vintage aircraft. The B-17 was at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field. If you missed it, it […]
Turner’s Seattle office is only one of two business units out of Turner Construction’s network of 46 offices across the country to pilot the Building LIFE (Living Injury Free Everyday) program. Goddard spearheaded the Building LIFE program on his projects, taking on the challenge to improve safety culture by including pre-planned safety, engaging the workforce […]
Posted by: Dean Rutz Siku, one of three resident harbor seals at the Seattle Aquarium, wanted to join the construction-worker portrait in the new habitat that she and two companions will occupy. The new habitat opens to the public June 1. Turner construction workers Baird Lehman, left, Aaron “Rambo” Weston, Robb Rankin and Ian Hamm pose […]
By: Plain Dealer business staff on May 18, 2013 at 6:00 AM, updated May 18, 2013 at 6:04 AM Email HONORS Turner Construction Co.’s Ohio region led the company nationally in 2012 in partnering with minority- and women-owned business enterprises. A total of $206 million in contracts was awarded to such firms in 2012 in Ohio, which equates […]
MAY 17, 2013: UPDATED 7:56 AM COURTESY PHOTO Overlake Hospital will occupy floors 5 and 6 of the medical pavilion. Overlake Hospital Medical Center has signed a lease for two floors of Overlake Medical Pavilion, a specialty medical office building located on the Hospital’s campus along 116th Street Northeast. Approximately 200 hospital staff members will […]
Seattle, Wash. May 18, 2013: WGU Washington’s second annual commencement ceremony is today, Saturday, May 18th, at Benaroya Hall. More than 500 WGU Washington students will receive degrees this year from the state’s only accredited, online university, almost double last year’s class of 270. Graduates from around the state will gather to celebrate as Rep. Cyrus Habib […]
MAY 16, 2013 · 10:55 AM Bothell resident Connie Summers will receive her Bachelor of Science Business and Human Resources Management degree on Saturday and will make remarks as one of three commencement speakers for the Western Governor’s University (WGU) Washington at Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle. Summers works in Boeing’s human resources department and […]
MAY 16, 2013 · 12:47 PM Auburn’s Julius Giron will be one of three speakers at the Western Governors University Washington’s second annual commencement ceremony at Benaroya Hall on Saturday. The ceremony begins at 3 p.m. Giron will join more than 500 graduates, nearly doubling WGU Washington’s inaugural graduating class. Giron will receive his bachelor […]
PRESS RELEASE May 15, 2013, 8:13 p.m. EDT OLYMPIA, Wash., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Governor Jay Inslee signed SSB 5195 into law today allowing WGU Washington students with financial need access to the State Need Grant Program. Previously, the state-endorsed, online university was unable to participate due to technicalities in the original […]