Microsoft’s Thermal Energy Center is the unlikely centerpiece of a 3-million-square-foot addition to the tech giant’s campus in Redmond, Washington.

As the Campus Modernization project moves forward, Microsoft continues to focus on reducing carbon impacts along the way.

Have you heard about Microsoft’s ‘machine in the woods’? GLY is the General Contractor for the TEC and geoexchange system.

It’s been over two years since construction began on Microsoft’s East campus modernization effort in Puget Sound. Check out the incredible progress since the last update.

Microsoft’s Thermal Energy Center will make use of an innovative Geoexchange system – heating and cooling new buildings with an untraditional clean energy source: the constant temperature below the earth’s surface.

The team sheds light on the important role that budget, structure type, and project location plays in mass timber planning and decision-making.

2005 Poplar team give a virtual tour of the first commercial building in Issaquah, WA to use cross laminated timber.

The 2005 Poplar building incorporates a number of unique design elements including CLT, a glass-enclosed stairway that illuminates at night, light fixtures made of recycled cardboard, and a sculpture of a buck with a bit of a history.

You may have noticed an increase in references to mass timber in recent months. These two words are finding their way into everyday AECO language.

At the end of September, Issaquah welcomed a brand-new office project that will serve as a gateway to the neighborhood and a precedent for a number of future projects in the pipeline.

GLY recently completed construction on a mixed-used office building located at 2005 NW Poplar Way in Issaquah, Washington. First breaking ground in August 2019, the four-story, 70,000 square-foot building is owned by Rowley Properties and is open for tenants beginning October 2020.