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Construction Directory Building Directory & Construction Industry Resource.- IRTH Solutions Underground utility damage
prevention, including pipeline, communication and electric
utilities. Damage prevention software for excavators, call centers,
and municipal, city, state and federal governments.
- Resource Materials Corp. Exterior
vinyl siding dealer and supplier for contractors, builders,
architects and specifiers.
- Designer Bath and Kitchens
- Nuts and Bolts:
Construction-Related Resources Directory See Nuts and Bolts home page for large
selection of U.S., Metric and Stainless Steel fasteners including
nuts, bolts, screws, washers, hardware assortments, etc.
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(...deals with slope
instability and other forms of ground movement) - Adaptive Design is
a student owned & run drafting & design firm based out of
Vancouver, BC. Services include development & permit drawings, shop
drawings, construction drawings, full presentation drawings, 3D
modelling, renderings, walk throughs.
- Edwards Communities "College and university student
housing design build projects, including fine detailing with the
amenities college students desire, providing a unique
home-away-from-home living experience."
- I-5 Design & Manufacture, Lacy, WA (high-impact interior and exterior retail
environment design)
- Click here to
visit the "Contractors and Builders" Links Page of www.mypoolsupplies.com
My Pool Supplies delivers
the highest quality swimming pool products (pumps, heaters, filters)
at the lowest possible price, offering discount equipment from the
top manufacturers. - Steel Cast Connections LLC
Member of SEAOC, SEAW, and
SEAONC. (Note: Steel Cast
Connections sells the
Kaiser Bolted Bracket which is a cast
bolted bracket for new construction or
retrofit of special
moment frames.) - American Society of Professional
Estimators
- Click here to go to
A/E Firms On-Line Section of this list
- FirstSource
(view by CSI Masterformat Division)
- The International Archive of Women in
Architecture
Society
of Design Administration - SMPS: The Society for Marketing Professional
Services
- "Remote Secretary" (Off-Site
Administrative Support for Small Businesses and Individuals)
- Entablature: A
Gathering Place for the Architecture Community
- Allspace - Portakabin Portable buildings
Ireland
- Northwest Energy
Efficiency Council (NEEC is a non-profit trade association representing
businesses providing energy efficiency goods and services to
residential, commercial, and industrial energy users in the Pacific
Northwest.)
- Great Buildings
Collection (gateway to
architecture around the world and across history - documents a
thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D
models, photographic images and architectural drawings,
commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous
designers and structures of all kinds)
- University of Nevada's
Architecture Web Resources and Reference Tools
- "Artweb_nexus" - an extensive listing of WWW
architecture resources
from the Fine Arts Department of
Boston College - RECOMMENDED - University of Washington's College of
Architecture and Urban Planning
- Library of Congress:
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century
America: the
Gottscho-Schleisner Collection of Photographs (over 29,000 images
primarily of architectural subjects)
- Chicago Architecture Foundation's
Architecture Links
AIA Online Home Page - AIA Seattle
- AGC of America
- Dictionary of Architectural Terms
- ASCE
- ASLA
- The Guide
- Sweets Group Online
- R.S. Means Construction Cost Information
- Construction InfoNet
- Canadian Plywood Association representing manufacturers of plywood, veneer and veneer
composite products in Canada. Their site has many features which may
be of interest to researchers:
- free technical engineering inquiries
- vast selection of free
downloadable literature
- "building a healthy house" video
- plywood manufacturing on-line
seminar
- international codes and standards information
- contact information to member
mills
- Sustainable Architecture
(Search 137,000+
Building-related sites) - Stoneway Roofing
- Calculators (HouseNet)
- Hometime (how-to
information on home improvement, construction, remodeling and
repair)
- HouseNet site -
click on home improvement for articles on accessible
living.
- ANSI Online
- Craftsman Perspective [If
you're curious about the Arts & Crafts Movement (known in
its various forms as Craftsman Style, Mission Style, and Prairie
Style) then you will find this site a good place to start.]
ADA & Other Accessibility
Links:
Mechanical (Plumbing, HVAC,
etc.):
Electrical:
How to find ANGELINE (Includes map.)
Electrical Wiring FAQ
Seattle City Light
University of Washington EE/CSE
Lithonia Lighting
Lightolier
Trane and other Industry Links
FAD
(French Accents and Designs, Inc.) Lighting
Electricians Web
..... (voltage
drop calculator and standard sizes for panels, fuses and other
devices)
The Lighting Resource - Lighting
Links
AFC Cable Systems link to useful web sites for electrical
industry professionals
Electric Code Links 
Engineering Central: Links to Engineering
Resources
Professional Organizations/Government Labs for Electrical
Engineers
UL
(Underwriters Laboratories)
NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers
Association)
Government Information
Regulatory Agencies
Industry R&D and Trade
Associations
Department of Energy
Seismic Links (including Landslide, Land Use Issues)
- King County Office of Emergency
Management Seismic and Earthquake Links
- Nisqually Earthquake - Strong Motion Data /
Seattle Seismic Hazard Mapping Task at http://groundmotion.cr.usgs.gov/nisqually/data.html<
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- FEMA Earthquake
Recovery News Summary
- WSDOT's Research Office where you can click on
various links, such as Bridges & Structures, read Recent
Reports, Seismic Studies associated with King Dome Implosion, and a
link to a site listing Recent Earthquakes in NW (updated after every
earthquake or once a day).
- World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
- Landslides issue
paper
- Seattle's Emergency Management
- Metro King County - Earthquakes
- Metro King County - Landslides
- Dept. of Ecology: 1996 Perkins Lane
Landslides
- Washington
Geology, vol. 25, no. 1, March 1997,Puget Sound Bluffs: The Where, Why, and When of
Landslides Following the Holiday 1996/97 Storms"
- Landslides
in Seattle, Donald Tubbs
- Interdepartmental
UW study of Soils and Land Use in the Puget Sound Basin
- Resource on Seattle landslides at
http://students.washington.edu/gwyneth/
sci115landslides.html. At the bottom of this web page are
listed over 20 websites, technical and non-technical, including some
with information about effects of the 2/28/01 Nisqually earthquake.
- Missoula
Floods
- Pacific Northwest Seismograph
Network
- Seattle
Transportation Department's Seismic Retrofit Program
- USGS Earthquake Hazard Maps, etc.
- USGS Live Internet Seismic Server
- University of Washington Geophysics Program:
"Seismo-surfing" the Internet - connections to original
seismic data or seismic research information
- U.S. Geological
Survey
- National
Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
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- ABS Consulting/EQE Structural
Engineering
- Abacus
- Anas Design Associates, Inc.
- ARC
Architects
- Architectural Werks, Inc.
- Art Anderson
Associates Architects and Engineers
- Arai
Jackson
- Architectural Design West
- Atelier Northwest, Inc.
- Bassetti Architects
- Behrens-Benedict
Interior Design
- BJSS Duarte Bryant
- BLIP designlab
- Bouillon,
Inc.
- Burr Lawrence Rising + Bates Architects
- Callison
Architecture
- Cardwell Thomas
- Clearwater Landscapes,
Inc.; Priest River, Idaho
- Creative Builders Co. (located in Ballard
neighborhood of Seattle) Visit
Website - Cyrus Visual Concepts &
Interior Design
- David Evans and Associates,
Inc.
- DDI Architecture &
Planning (residential architects)
- Drager Gould Architects
- Eberharter Architects (full service
architecture and Associate Architect with other firms)
- Endelman & Associates,
PLLC (specializing in Accessibility Consulting
and ADA & FHA Compliance)
- Linda Engstrom, Landscape
Design (garden
aesthetics)
- GeoApex Consultants, LLC, a consulting
firm located in Bellevue, Washington, specializes in geotechnical
engineering services
- Michael A. George,
Architect
- GGLO Architects Architecture and Interior Design,
LLC
- Architecture by Frederick Clifford
Gibson
- Glover
Homes (construction)
-
GLY Construction, Bellevue, WA
- (...deals with slope instability and other forms of
ground movement)
- HNTB, Architects, Engineers and Planners
- Hough Beck & Baird
(landscape)
-
Irwin Pancake Architects, Seattle, WA
- J&H
Restoration [Seattle-based Construction Company - new website]
- Jones&Jones Landscape Architects
Jerry Gropp Architect AIA
PS
(specializing in custom home design)
- Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz
- G. Franklin Karreman &
Associates (commercial &
residential)
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KPFF
- Loschky Marquardt and
Nesholm
- Terry Love's Plumbing and other Construction
Links
- Bradley S. Miller
Architects (email only)
- Mithun
- Morris Stafford Architect, University Place,
WA
- NBBJ
Okuno Associates Co., Ltd.,
Japan - Olson Sundberg
Architects
- The
ORB Organization
- OTAK
(quality landscape
construction, irrigation, drainage or wetland
mitigation) - Parametrix, Inc.
- Path Engineers,
Inc.
- The Portico Group
- John C. Raby &
Associates, Inc., Engineers
(Civil-Structural-Consulting)
- erich remash
architect
- Ron Lloyd Associates Virtual
Imaging
(email only) - David Root Design, Inc.
- RSP/EQE
- Salmon Bay Design Group
- Sandler Architects
LLC
- Sclater Partners
Architects
- Sellen Construction
- Sienna
Architecture
- Skilling Ward Magnuson Barkshire
- The Soltner Group,
Architects
- Sparling
- SSOE, Inc.
- Steel Cast Connections LLC
Member of SEAOC, SEAW, and
SEAONC. (Note: Steel Cast
Connections sells the
Kaiser Bolted Bracket which is a cast
bolted bracket for new construction or
retrofit of special
moment frames.) - Stuart Silk Architects
- Studio Meng
Strazzara
- David Vandervort Architects
AIA
- Whiteley Jacobsen and Associates
- Yocca Custom
Homes
- Zimmer Gunsul
Frasca
- Architects USA: Search
Architecture Firms
- Plan Net: Online Architecture Resource
Guide
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