A multi-disciplinary team of operations, engineering and dam safety personnel inspect Detroit Dam Sept. 22 to assess impacts to the project—as well as the project’s functionality and any major safety concerns—after the Beachie Creek and Lionshead fires spread throughout the area upstream and downstream of the dam.
PORTLAND, Ore. – The task: manage your first emergency contract to repair some broken concrete that has brought a stand-still to $24 billion worth of annual commerce moving on the Columbia River while battling morning sickness.
“It was hard – we were working long hours” Martha Brandl said, “I was newly pregnant, and I’d quietly throw up in the office and keep working -- because it needed to be done.”
In 2019, Brandl, Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers administrative contracting officer, was the best in evaluating subcontracting plans, documenting contractor’s performance and compliance, and much, much more.
The award, Administrative Contracting Officer of the Year, is part of the USACE Excellence in...
06.29.2020 | PORTLAND, OR, US |
Story by Kerry Solan
The Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus sits on a 450-foot-tall basalt-rock hill south of downtown. Marquam Hill, also known as “Pill Hill” due to the amount of medical facilities clustered on its crest, is also crowded with homes, steep slopes and daily commuters (during non-pandemic times).
These steep and rocky slopes garnered ridicule for Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie when he initially proposed to build a medical school on...
Anthony Johnson was excited when he joined the Army in 1997. That is, until his experiences at war. Two back-to-back deployments to Afghanistan broke Johnson. This is the story of how he put himself back together.
