Port of Portland/Concrete Production Plant/Otak

Portland painter Dave Siegner was named national president of the Painting and Decorating Contractors Association.

PDX to Build New Garage To Alleviate Congestion

Portland - The Port of Portland Commission recently approved the addition of a new long-term parking garage at PDX. Atop the garage will be the new Port of Portland headquarters facility.

The structure will be built adjacent to the present parking garage at PDX in a portion of the current long-term parking lot. It will have room for an additional 3,000 vehicles and 500 rental car spaces. Offices on the top three floors will house most Port employees who work now at PDX, as well as employees who work in the current headquarters building in downtown Portland.

The Port will not use tax money to fund the new facility, and there will be no increase in airport fees. Construction on the garage begins this summer.

A portion of the new garage will open in 2008, and it will be fully open in 2009. The Port headquarters will be complete in spring 2010.

Concrete Form Production Plant Moves to Northwest

Wilsonville - TritexTM ICF Products has added two production facilities to serve customers in the Pacific Northwest and southeastern United States. Tritex insulated concrete forms (ICFs) will be produced by Tegrant, formerly SCA Packaging of North America, in its Wilsonville, Ore. plant. In the southeast, Tritex forms will be manufactured by Cellofoam in Orlando, Fla.

This brings the number of plants producing the Tritex ICFs to five. Other plants are located in Colorado Springs, Colo., Conyers, Ga. and Plymouth, Wis.

Located in Omaha, Nebraska, Tritex ICF Products is a manufacturer and distributor of insulating concrete forms for residential and commercial structures.

Otak Wins Contract to Assist with Park Plan

PORTLAND - The City of Lake Oswego has selected Otak Inc., to assist with stormwater-management improvements to the George Rogers Park Master Plan. Otak was chosen in large part for its expertise in water resources and natural resources planning, engineering and sciences.

Based in Lake Oswego, Otak will provide stormwater management and aesthetic improvements during the implementation of Ladd Street (Phase 5) of the George Rogers Park Master Plan. The estimated $1 million project will incorporate green street-design elements to handle stormwater runoff, reduce traffic speeds and create an aesthetically pleasing entry to the park.

Otak previously completed the Ladd Street Hydrologic Study in May 2006. That study provided the necessary background analysis to guide the design of this new green street approach.

Local Painter Named National PDCA President

Portland - Portland businessman Dave Siegner was recently elected national president of the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America (PDCA). In his new leadership role Siegner will oversee operations of the national trade organization that serves more than 2,500 paint contracting companies in the United States and Canada. Siegner is a Portland native and owner of Siegner and Company, a commercial and residential paint contracting business headquartered in Portland.

The Portland contracting market will benefit from initiatives that Siegner is supporting on a national level. "There are several issues in the paint contracting business that are priorities for us," says Siegner. "The quality of our work force is a primary issue. We need to focus on education and connecting with the minority workers, primarily Hispanic, who gravitate to our trade. We've already begun by offering many of our training programs and manuals in Spanish." In addition, Siegner indicated that a delegation from PDCA recently met in Mexico City with one of the largest paint manufacturers in the world. He says, "The goal of this meeting was to open a dialogue to discuss business relationships that promote our labor force education goals."