For a quarter century, PRIME has grown substantially as a construction force in the Pacific Northwest and there is no bigger or more important factor in our success than the Health and Safety of every single one of our men and women working within our Construction Environments.

It is our belief that Safety is not a set of rules or procedures to follow, but rather… Safety is a state of mind! It is this constant safety awareness that needs to be continuously developed in each and every one of our people from the President of the organization to the laborer that visits the jobsite for one hour. Only by all of us constantly and consistently “plugging in” to what is happening around us can we identify and eliminate risks that can cause harm or injury to our construction personnel.

Evidence of our ongoing success in this area:

• Dedicated Full Time Safety Director
• EMR Ratings in the .60's for the last five years
• Zero time Loss accidents in the last three years
• Two decades of successful Safety Incentive Programs
• Three time recipient of NECA's Puget Sound Safety Award
• Return to Work and Light Duty Programs designed to minimize the Cost of Injury
• Member of coveted Dream Team Insurance group through Approach Management Services

All of our employees are fully committed to strict compliance with our OSHA-approved safety policies and procedures set forth in this program. All of us working together to create a safe working environment is the only way to ensure that… Everyone goes home safe and secure at the end of the shift!

For over two decades, PRIME has been providing superior electrical service to the Puget Sound market. Founded in 1987, PRIME has grown into one of the Northwest's premier full-service electrical contractors. We have developed our reputation through a strong commitment to customer service and customer satisfaction.

We have invested heavily in our ability to respond to your service needs with 24/7 on-call service. We maintain 30 plus fully stocked service vans, flat beds, boom trucks and other specialized vehicles & tools at our disposal to ensure we have the necessary equipment for each customer need and to provide for the most rapid response possible.

Our Team

Our Service Electricians are all proven, long term, PRIME employees. These individuals are extremely qualified, Washington State licensed Electricians who are trained to know what needs to be done and complete the task as cost effectively as possible with little or no disruption to your business. Our electricians and technicians will provide innovative solutions to your problems while maintaining a firm schedule and budget. Coupled with our industry knowledge and experience, it becomes obvious that PRIME is the best choice for providing outstanding customer service and value to your project.

Services

PRIME's Special Projects Group specializes in Tenant Improvements, Upgrades and Alterations as well as customized ongoing sustaining service agreements. Our long-term proven team of electricians and project managers are skilled at working in occupied spaces and critical environments.

PRIME understands each situation is different and works directly with our customers to develop a work plan that results in the least amount of disruption with the lowest possible cost, while providing the client value added suggestions throughout the project.

The Healthcare Team

Part of PRIME's Special Projects Group includes a set of individuals dedicated to Healthcare Facilities year-round. PRIME has been performing sustaining Electrical, Systems, and Tele-data work within several hospital and clinical environments for over two decades. With this level of commitment to personnel, engineering, preconstruction, stock products, and construction services, you can feel safe that you are hiring the right team for your healthcare project.

The Industrial Team

Another subset of the special projects group has been focusing on industrial projects for over 15 years. Just a shortlist of our project experience is Aerospace, Pump Control, Recycling Centers, Refinery, Port Facilities and Manufacturing centers. Our team is experienced and knowledgeable in understanding that industrial projects need to be built for the long run.

Services

Underground work, traffic signalization, utilities and street lighting are unique but critical components of most electrical projects. PRIME’s Underground Group specializes in these scopes of work and has over 15-years of experience on Western Washington streets. Our excellent reputation, skilled crews, state of the art equipment and long standing relationships with various jurisdictions provide cost effective, code-based solutions for our customers. Our expertise includes necessary skills to develop and maintain both the budget and critical scheduling required for each project.

Our Electricians

PRIME has a team of the best underground electricians in the business. Our staff works with each customer to customize the most efficient and cost effective method to deliver our services at the best possible price. We know what is required and how to implement those requirements for the lowest installed cost. Our team will also work through design issues and make sure the installation goes seamlessly for all parties involved.

Services

PRIME has been in the business of designing and constructing commercial environments for over a quarter century. Our success is based on our primary focus of planning every aspect of your project before the personnel, tools or materials arrive at the jobsite.

Our internal mantra for all PRIME Personnel is:

• Know what is Going On
• Get in Front of the Problem
• Understand, Learn & Mentor

With a consistent discipline for this process, we have built a company that has completely embraced a constant model of improvement. Each year, we get more and more efficient at delivering projects on time, under budget and exactly matching owner’s criteria.

Listed below are PRIME’s seven core philosophies on the most efficient and effective way to delivery your building or environment.

• Design Build Philosophy
• Pre-Construction
• Integrated Project Delivery
• BIM | Detailing
• Prefabrication & Packaging
• Project Tracking
• Delivery

The wisdom behind an integrated preconstruction process is to involve the people who are going to build the project as early as possible and have them influence the design in advance of the installation. Using the owner’s criteria (or Basis of Design) as the roadmap, our project management team drives the design process through schematic development, design development and ultimate final construction documents.

PRIME has extensive pre-construction experience which allows us to deliver the owner’s design concept within their budget and schedule while injecting energy, creativity and experience into the process. Listed below are some specific advantages to PRIME’s pre-construction process:

• We utilize a Budget Control Record (BCR) to create a detailed line item budget early on, and by line item variance analysis, we report progress against each line item throughout the project
• Pre-construction supports effective pre-purchase of major materials
• Owner gains valuable Constructability Input as we inject innovative ideas, potential new materials and creative routing of systems to lower the owner's cost and aid maintenance in the future
• Increases the owner's control of the design through an Integrated Value Engineering process at time of design
• Owner gains increased control of the selection process on the evaluation and buyout of major system components
• Integrates Design elements of the installation with constructabiltiy issues in a cost effective manner

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PRIME has been utilizing three-dimensional BIM & Autocad Modeling in some form or another for nearly two decades. We currently utilize Autocad, BIM, Navisworks & Revvit to perform our three-dimensional detailing in advance of the installation.

The function of BIM modeling is to create a bridge between the design phase and the installation phase that streamlines the installation, reduces rework and resolves all potential conflicts during the installation by efficient coordination of all systems, while reducing rework and resolving all potential conflicts before the installation begins.

PRIME’s Advantages in Utilizing BIM:

• Completely eliminates coordination errors between MEP trades as well as Structural and Architectural elements
• Utilized on the layout of electric rooms, chases, rack assemblies, systems layout, device locations and code clearances required for plan approval
• PRIME has both field-based and office-based CAD and BIM Detailers on staff
• Provides a "pictorial" view for detailers to use during weekly MEP meetings
• Complete tie ins with Building Control points that streamline field layout
• Provides an alternative to hard mock ups and prototype assemblies
• Detailed BIM design on sub-systems supports the prefab process

Over the last two decades of utilizing a BIM modeling process to execute our projects, we have learned that its use is more advantageous on some types of projects versus others. Complex projects tend to gain more upside from the use of these tools.

Our internal Mantra has always been:

1. Know what is Going On
2. Get in Front of the Problem
3. Understand, Learn & Mentor

In order to accomplish this, our project managers and executives need to know exactly where every dollar of every project is going. This is accomplished by an extensive job cost reporting structure that includes:

PRIME’s job cost reporting structure, which is arguably the most sophisticated in the nation, assures no surprises and allows us to see what is coming before it gets here.

PRIME has developed a sophisticated Project Delivery and Turn Over process that is designed specifically to measure final project parameters against our initial design objectives and owners criteria. Only by looking back at our initial goals can we truly evaluate our performance and determine whether the owner received what they have paid for.

Elements & Benefits of our Project Delivery process:

• Complete detailed commissioning process
• Equipment &systems startup
• Complete review of executed punchlist
• Owner facilities personnel training
• Pre-warranty assessment
• Service group transition &orientation
• Verification &turnover of as-built documents
• Delivery of all operational manuals and ISB’s
• Load bank and generation final testing

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Prime’s Large Project group successfully completed the Microsoft Building 42 Tenant Improvement on Microsoft’s main campus in Redmond. The newly renovated space included several large cubicle areas for employees, small group meeting rooms, conference rooms, and a state of the art kitchen complete with a Microsoft Kinect game corner. The space was designed with bright, vibrant colors and specialty backlit walls throughout the space. The PRIME team was able to demo the existing space and rebuild while Microsoft employees occupied the spaces during the project.

Prime Electric was selected by Turner Construction as the Design Build Electrical Contractor for the new 25 story 909 5th Avenue Condominium Tower in downtown Seattle. The LEED Gold high-rise includes 123 high end condominiums and 3 world class penthouse suites. Amenity areas include a ground level plaza, an upper level commons room with terrace, a full health club and a library/media facility. Penthouse units feature a “Whole House System” This system involves full home automation including audio/visual, lighting, motorized window shades and fire place control from any room. The building includes state of the art high rise life safety systems. These systems are backed up by a 500KW diesel powered emergency generator.

Fisher Plaza has been one of Seattle’s most prestigious Data Center addresses for over a decade. The two tower, central courtyard design is very characteristic of modern architecture in the Northwest. PRIME was invited to join the Sellen Construction team at time of original construction and currently maintains every aspect of the electrical and systems infrastructure. The campus boasts long time tenants KOMO, Internap and Fisher Corporate headquarters.

The East Building housing KOMO, required a complete emergency backup system to assure KOMO is able to remain on the air regardless of the situation. This system includes the installation of (4) 1500 kilowatt generators and extensive normal power and emergency distribution. With KOMO being primarily a broadcasting facility, there were numerous considerations as to power quality, circuit routing and sizing, as well as upgraded security and life safety systems throughout.

The west Building was designed as an N+1 multi-tenant co-location facility. The power requirements were immense with this building containing 33,000amps in distributable power. The distribution had to be fully backed up requiring the installation of (2) megawatt generators with the capacity to add up to four more. The flexibility in distribution, called for in a multi-tenant data center environment, required considerable coordination and forethought in the design and installation of the electrical distribution.

We are proud to state Prime met and exceeded all of the challenges and complexities presented by this Premier Project. We continue to be the contractor of record for the facility and take our responsibility for uninterrupted power supply very, very seriously.

Buildings 635 & 645 on Elliott Avenue were designed to bring a modern and sophisticated look to otherwise ordinary office buildings. Looking out over Edwards Park and Elliott Bay, the class A office campus sits on three acres of nearly waterfront property. The two office buildings sit side by side and are separated with a one acre plaza and sculpture garden. Both four story buildings total 330,858 square feet of office space and include underground parking for tenants.

635 & 645 Elliott are LEED Gold certified and offer many sustainable features including a green roof above the parking garage, and high floor-to-floor dimensions with large windows to maximize daylight and views of the bay and Olympic Mountains.

The Center for Childhood Cancer Research strives to create innovative effective treatments that maximize the well-being of children with cancer. The goal is to develop new therapies for curing childhood cancers, eventually eliminating the need for surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Seattle Children’s Research spent $5 million to remodel the 38,000sf space at 1100 Olive to current SCRI Standards and construct a new 16,500sf addition for labs and support. The building consists of a 4,700sf clean room with four manufacturing suits as well as a 1,600sf quality control lab. The remainder of the remodel included: painting, flooring, refreshing lab casework, energy-efficient lighting, servicing mechanical systems and an upgraded information technology infrastructure.

PRIME’s Service group has been providing service in the Washington Federal Building for nearly a decade and has gained extensive knowledge about the building’s electrical infrastructure. PRIME’s building expertise and success on previous projects landed the service team a sizable project headed by TCI Construction. The tenant improvement consisted of a design-build cafeteria for employees, a design-build server room completed by PRIME Technologies as well as backup generator distribution.

Turner selected PRIME as their Electrical Design Build Partner for the expansion of Microsoft’s Executive Briefing Center. This prestigious project is located in the heart of their Redmond Washington Campus. The expansion consisted of a 22,000 square foot second floor addition to the existing facility. Built on a fast track schedule in an occupied environment, this project created a unique set of construction challenges, which PRIME met confidently. The entire build-out had to be accomplished with no disruption to ongoing Microsoft operations within the facility. To accomplish all of the improvements in the short time schedule, PRIME’s field team utilized a two shift format. The PRIME team is proud to have completed this extraordinary project on time and on budget.

Sellen Construction and Prime Electric teamed up to complete a pedestrian bridge for the Museum of Flight. The bridge was built as a pathway from the museum to the newly completed Space Shuttle Gallery. This uniquely designed bridge was constructed in a warehouse off-site and barged in from the Duwamish waterway where it was then lifted and set in place. PRIME was thrilled to be a part of such an exclusive project.

The six-acre River Park campus was completed in 2008 and includes office space, a hotel, residential apartments and retail space. The project site created significant challenges for the team as below surface obstructions had to be removed and shored up to support the new structure. PRIME Underground handled all excavation, shoring and concrete foundational work on the project. PRIME Electric completed the design-build construction of the 130,000sf, five story office building, the 280,000sf parking garage and the build out of two floors for the Group Health clinic. Prime’s scope for the $3.4 million dollar contract involved Electrical, Fire Alarm, Security and Emergency Power. Upon completion the project received a LEED Silver certification.

PRIME was selected as the design-build electrical contractor by Microsoft and Sellen Construction for Microsoft Redmond Ridge 1, formally known as Microsoft OneLab. The facility aims to consolidate computer labs from the main campus and house servers used for software development and testing. The building symbolizes a cultural shift from the traditional model, where product groups manage their own lab in the office, to a centrally managed and more energy efficient alternative. The 57,000 square foot lab contains 48 pods with 1,200 servers per pod; for a total of 35,000 to 50,000 servers at full capacity.

Redmond Ridge is Microsoft’s first sustainable data center. Energy is saved by consolidating processes into as few servers as possible. Unlike other data centers, Redmond Ridge requires very little artificial cooling. More than 95% of the year the servers are cooled by outside air. An evaporative cooling system will only kick in when the outside temperature exceeds 75 degrees. The cooling design along with other techniques means that servers in the facility will require a third less energy than if they were placed in traditional office buildings. Microsoft expects to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 12,000 tons per year using this facility.

PPioneer Studios was built as Microsoft's "hub of innovation" for the consumer electronic division. The project consisted of a 33,000sf, three-story tenant improvement in the heart of Pioneer Square. Pioneer Studios was designed with an open floor plan and an exposed structure with solid wood floors, brick walls and wood beams all within a 1930’s original structure. PRIME installed all new lighting to highlight the exposed structure and provide a comfortable open concept work environment. Also installed were an extensive Audio Visual system, new Panel Boards and Feeders to meet Microsoft's standards. The Seattle Historical project was phased over six months so the tenant could occupy the finished space as soon as possible while other floors were under construction.

PRIME completed the design-build construction of the 31,000 square-foot, two-floor medical clinic for Group Health in the River Park development. The project scope was to roll out Group Health’s new care giver environment which involved new electrical infrastructure, lighting systems, fire alarm, and security, data pathways for the clinic, offices, pharmacy and related support. The $1.2 million dollar project was completed under budget and ahead of schedule.

PRIME is proud to be a part of Seattle's newest landmark and attraction. The ferris wheel on Pier 57 was developed by Hal Griffith who has envisioned a ferris wheel in Seattle for nearly 30 years. PRIME's Service Group was selected to complete all the low voltage control work for the project. The new attraction will be a year-around destination for locals and tourists as the wheel lifts riders 200 feet in the air in one of 42 enclosed gondolas equipped with heat and air conditioning

PRIME’s Special Projects group joined Schuchart Construction to complete a large Tenant Improvement for one Facebook’s engineering teams; the company’s largest engineering site outside the Palo Alto Headquarters. The 27,000sf, fast-track project consisted of a complete renovation from shell and core and involved “beefing up” currently electrical distribution capacity for Facebook’s incoming computer systems. Facebook’s new space inside Metropolitan Park includes a state of the art kitchen, various conference rooms, study rooms, and lounge areas. PRIME was responsible for all lighting and lighting controls, an upgrade to the existing service, low voltage infrastructure and a UPS backup for the IDF room.

All Saints is a fifteen-year-old, high end retailer from London making their way into the United Sates. The style of their retail stores are designed to replicate the late Industrial Revolution with custom vintage features and specialty lighting. As the electrical contractor, PRIME worked with JRM Construction to convert the previous space into a high-quality vintage boutique showcasing the company's unique brand. PRIME's scope consisted of specialty lighting throughout the store including: LED Display Lighting on more than 600 vintage sewing machines, Theater Lighting, Hi-Bay Track lighting and Specialized Lighting Control/Off-Hour Lighting Shutdown System.

PRIME was also responsible for security, power distribution and the fire alarm system. With a project team based on the east coast and London, PRIME was able to complete this project with limited supervision and oversight. In addition, the project was completed on a fast track schedule in order to open the store for holiday season shopping. PRIME clearly displayed the ability to successfully perform the scope under these circumstances.

The Joshua Green Historical Building was built in 1912 and had gone unchanged for nearly 100 years. Major renovations were needed to offer modern amenities and technology improvements to the building. As the design-build Electrical Contractor, PRIME teamed with other trades to renovate to current standards, and restore its original luster. The project involved a complete demolition of the interior and restoration of the terra cotta exterior. Office spaces were opened up to accommodate larger tenants, and all retail storefronts were replaced with energy efficient lighting and modern finishes. PRIME's complete scope included: Shell & Core Infrastructure, New Seattle City Light Vault, New Electrical Distribution, New Life Safety Systems, New Energy Efficient Lighting, Lighting Control Systems, New Access Control Systems and New Voice & Data.

PRIME was able to effectively coordinate the renovation with The City of Seattle's Historical Society and due to the success of the project, the Joshua Green Historical Building was awarded two prestigious awards: the Historic Seattle 2010 Preservation Award for Best Rehabilitation Project and the NAIOP 2009 Office Redevelopment of the Year Award.

PRIME completed a one-floor design-build renovation for Van Ness Feldman in Seattle's Millennium Tower. The project included updating the existing elevator lobbies, adding two new conference rooms, expanding and updating the server room, and upgrading the voice/data system. Renovations took place in an occupied space without availability to shut down at any time. The project also included the added challenge of an open concept design in some areas of the office space. PRIME's project team was able to complete the project on time and on budget, without any disruptions to Van Ness Feldman’s ongoing operations.

PRIME was selected by the City of Lynnwood as the Electrical Contractor for the complete renovation of the Lynnwood Recreational Center. The $25 million renovation and aquatics expansion adds 16,232 square feet to the existing building. Renovation features include: a new leisure pool with water slide and lazy river, water spray and play structures, a new wellness pool and family whirlpool. The recreation facility also added a group exercise and dance space, new cardio and fitness/weight room, new entry, lobby, locker rooms and pool viewing area. PRIME is proud to mention that the project received a Silver LEED Certification.

When Microsoft wants something done, they usually do it in a very “big” way. This held true when they decided to upgrade all of their 800 conference rooms, company-wide, on a fast-track schedule. Microsoft awarded the project to the Swinerton/PRIME team based largely on our innovative approach to the project schedule. We proposed a plan that would quickly ramp up to starting three conference rooms a day and finishing up to 15 conference rooms per week. Our schedule resulted in finishing the overall project on budget and well ahead of Microsoft's initial timetable.

PRIME's scope of work included upgraded lighting, installing multiple power and data floor boxes, a synchronized time system, audio visual systems, video tele-conferencing systems, dimming/day light control and motorized draperies. Another plus for our team was that our schedule was designed to minimize disruptions to Microsoft's day to day operations yet still provide the cost effectiveness of performing the work with minimal over time.

PRIME completed the design-build construction for the 100,000sf, Microsoft building in Redmond, WA. PRIME performed the electrical, fire alarm and data communications components on a six month, fast track schedule. The $3.4 million project included office space for Human Resources, a large computer lab and server room. The short time frame required early procurement strategies and extensive planning and prefabrication of components to facilitate quick installation and turnover.

After completing the first phase of Henry M. Jackson's infrastructure modernization in 2007, PRIME was asked to be a part of the team for the next stage of upgrades. This second stage of modernization, concluded in 2010, was very extensive and consisted of replacing all main switch gear for upgrading the power infrastructure, installing dimming ballast and lighting controls to all 14,000 fixtures in the building, and upgrading power to meet new "green" initiatives. Throughout the three-year long project, it was imperative that power was not disrupted as tenants occupied the building for the duration of the project.

KOMO was a negotiated Design-build project with Sellen Construction. KOMO Television currently occupies most of the Fisher Plaza East Building within the Fisher Plaza complex. The buildout required a complete emergency backup system to assure KOMO remained on the air regardless of the situation. This included the installation of two 1500 KW generators. Being primarily a broadcasting facility, there were numerous considerations as to power quality, circuit routing and sizing as well as upgraded security and life safety systems throughout.

We are proud to state that PRIME met and exceeded all challenges and complexities of this premier project.

PRIME was elected to join Sellen Construction's project team to complete the Museum of Flight's Space Shuttle Gallery. This gallery holds a large hanger to house the space shuttle trainer. The space is also used to host gala's and parties hosted by the museum.

PRIME completed a new Diesel Rotary UPS (DRUPS) Generator yard for a national cellular provider, providing partial power to many of the buildings on their main campus in Western Washington. The extensive project involved a new generator and a new DRUPS yard directly exterior to one of the company’s switch centers. PRIME's team installed over three miles of conduit, worked on the underground rough-in for six new DRUPS units and pulled conductors to two DRUPS. The project team also installed a new load bank, MV cables from switches to switchgear and set a new medium voltage switchgear line-up. The project was completed on time and under budget.

PRIME completed a massive 80,000 square foot switch center project in Western Washington for a national cell provider. This project was a “repeat performance” after PRIME and our team completed a similar phase on the project a year prior. On the first floor of the building, PRIME's team completed the data center build out housing 18 pods for servers. The second floor included new office space for tenants, a Radio Room and a Radio Frequency Booth for testing future cellular devices. Lastly, the scope included the addition of a third floor for mechanical interstitial space. Constructing the third floor presented a challenge for the team as it was built in the middle of winter while project crews were starting scope on the first and second floors. Although a challenge, PRIME's team successfully completed the scope.

PRIME joined Absher Construction in the modernization of Nathan Hale High School in North Seattle. The multi-phase project was designed to meet Washington's new Sustainable Schools regulations requiring LEED Silver standards. The first phase consisted of a 14,700sf addition and a 12,500sf renovation to house a new library, lobby area, weight room and radio studio. The second phase involved 191,000sf of major improvements to the academic core of the school. Throughout the facility new mechanical control systems were installed as well as a new lighting controls system with daylight and occupancy sensors. In order to meet LEED Silver standards, many new sustainable features were used, including large windows and skylights to provide natural light, a new green roof, ground source heat pump to heat and cool the new wing, radiant floor heating and a fan-assisted natural ventilation system for heating the new library.

PRIME's main role included installing a new electrical distribution system, new life safety systems, new voice & data infrastructure, new energy efficient lighting, lighting control systems and a new access control system.

The Swedish Orthopedic Institute is the largest dedicated orthopedic facility in the Pacific Northwest and one of the largest in the country. PRIME was chosen by Sellen Construction as the electrical subcontractor for the Orthopedic Physicians Associates (OPA) at The Swedish Orthopedic Institute. The design-build project encompassed three X-Ray Rooms, 55 Exam Rooms, an extensive IDF Room Build-out, Two Reception Lobbies, an updated Fire Alarm extension and specialty Lighting and Lighting Control systems. The 40,000 square foot project was delivered on time and under budget.

PRIME was selected as the electrical contractor for the new Shoreline Recycling and Transfer Station. The 80,000sf transfer station was targeted to achieve a Gold certification through a LEED Green Building Rating System and is the first transfer station in the country to register with the U.S. Green Building Council. Upon completion, the building surpassed their goal of "Gold" certification to become the first industrial facility in Washington State to receive a "Platinum" certification.

PRIME installed 36 rooftop solar panels which produce five percent of the power needed to operate the station and are distributed throughout the facility by a 150KW Generator. Huge gutters collect waves of rainwater that roll off the massive roof. From the roof, it drains down into a 4,000 gallon cistern. The water is then used for air quality, feeding a system of sprinklers across the ceiling that will provide mist to keep the dust to a minimum. Industrial air filters were also installed to capture whatever dust escapes the indoor rain.

PRIME was awarded the contract to light the City of Redmond's 90th Street Bridge, as well as the improvements to the east and west 1,500 foot approaches.

The City of Redmond wanted a striking lighting design for this project and PRIME worked closely with Sidney Genette, the lighting designer, in fixture selection and placement. This distinctive design uses filtered accent lighting on the arches, as well as the use of white light for the deck, to emphasize features. The installation was challenging, considering the need to place the fixtures in precise locations while coordinating with the intense structural elements of the bridge. The collaboration of Architecture, Structure, Lighting and Design ensured the prominence of this project.

The 90th Street Bridge project won the 2002 distinguished "Excellence in Construction" Award for the Heavy/Highway/Utility Division.

The Avondale Road ITS project was issued by King County and the City of Redmond to address congestion and improve traffic flow along the Avondale corridor. PRIME was accountable for the improvements to Avondale Road by providing fiber optic splicing and terminations, installing 48-strand fiber optic cable through new and existing conduits along a six mile corridor, installing fiber communications hardware, new traffic signal controllers and cabinets, traffic surveillance cameras, dynamic message sign and an automated travel time system.

The project benefits include:

• Reduction in pollutants due to reduced stops and travel time
• more efficient lane utilization
• Improved incident response
• Improved safety
• Data, video, operation sharing between agengies
• Information sharing with the Traveling public, informed route choice
• Improved transit access and reliability