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The TriMet Powell Garage was built as a temporary facility over 45 years ago and in need of modernization to improve safety, increase capacity, and improve employee well-being.
The first phase involved building a 24,000-square-foot fuel and wash building which operates a bus wash system that reclaims and treats water, allowing TriMet to recycle 300 gallons of water per minute during operation of the three new bus wash bays.
The second phase of the build more than doubled the original bus maintenance area. The facility now houses 22 bus maintenance bays, and a new 400,000-square-foot concrete-paved bus yard which can accommodate over 300 buses.
A second story was constructed to create more office space, a new fitness center, training rooms, roof-top patio, and spacious break area. The project also added 215 surface parking spaces for employees.
Construction of the new TriMet Bus Maintenance Facility included a phased rebuild of the entire 17-acre site, all while keeping the 24/7 facility active and operational.
The TriMet Powell Bus Maintenance Facility was located in a residential neighborhood in SE Portland. Our communications plan involved working in tandem with TriMet’s community affairs team to provide neighbors with public notices of when construction activities would have impacts to the neighborhood such as construction outside of normal hours or noise increases.
The TriMet project team was extremely successful with COBID participation due to early aggressive efforts made by JE Dunn during the bidding process and preconstruction. Prior to bid, a major focus was creating packages well-suited to minority and disadvantaged business enterprises in the community. This included creating smaller packages, as well as dividing some packages that would typically be combined, to allow for more specialized small businesses to be competitive. It also included sit-down meetings with larger and GMP trade partners to ensure they understood participation requirements. We had great success with introducing them to COBID firms in the community, creating relationships, and turning those relationships into project partnerships.
