Two-story, 11,200 square foot classroom, office, and laboratory building. In addition to lab and storage spaces, the new building houses a 40-student classroom, several faculty offices, an open workspace, and a collaboration space, among others. The hands-on learning labs, include a water/soils ecology lab with an attached clean room, and a forest ecology/glaciology/geophysics lab with…

The 67,000-square-foot building, includes education and other community spaces. The building is laid out in two wings connected by an interior plaza. The education wing has classrooms and meeting spaces for the Tribe’s Early Learning preschool, K-12 Yaghanen Youth Language and Culture Program, Community Education and Career Training, and the Dena’ina Language Institute. The second…

This project involved interior/exterior renovations of approximately 26,000 SF of terminal space and a 2,300 SF expansion for new arrivals, ticketed passenger waiting, and baggage handling areas. Work included replacing or upgrading all interior/exterior finishes, most mechanical and electrical systems, and baggage handling systems throughout the terminal. Space was added to the tarmac side of…

The South Maui Community Park Recreation Center project was a new construction of a 32,000 square foot gymnasium in Kihei, HI. This included an extensive civil sitework project which consisted of roughly 5 acres of development with utilities, retaining wall, new parking and basalt removal. The recreation center itself entailed a metal building for the…

The Seward Visitor Center included a complete exterior and interior remodel with the addition of an elevator. This also included added electrical systems to help facilitate audio and visual equipment involved in a separate contract for displays within the building. Some of the more difficulties of the project including adding the addition during the rainy…

The Soldotna McDonalds Renovation consisted of a remodel of the existing customer space and exterior façade within a short time frame that Blazy was able to complete on time. McDonalds upgraded the interior space with new finishes, new bathrooms, casework, countertops and tile on the interior. On the exterior, the mansard roof was removed and…

The SPH Operating Room Project consisted of a full renovation to the existing two operating rooms in the facility. This was always done while maintaining one open operating room throughout the duration of construction. The main portion of the project included over a million dollars’ worth of mechanical work which consisted of a new HVAC…

The Chapman Elementary School project consisted removal of hazardous materials and replacement of exterior windows and siding. This also included other misc finishes on the exterior and interior to complement the main points of the contract. Blazy was able to work in the confines of the time frame to get the long lead siding ordered…

The Bison Hall project is a 6,059 square foot building that houses educational dioramas, offices for staff, restrooms and a dining area for guests. The building is constructed with an open layout and exposed lumber to give it a craftsman, barn like feel. The concrete slab, being the finished flooring, was poured and then stamped…

Tordrillo Mountain Lodge is a remote, luxury lodge on Judd Lake that is only accessed by helicopter or float plane. This job consisted of 6 new buildings and 1 addition to the existing lodge. The project presented a number of challenges including completing all construction in a 6 month time frame during the winter months…

The Kenai Reservoir project consisted of large diameter underground water pipe to be tied into the existing City water lines for the new 1-million-gallon water storage tank erected onsite. The storage tank itself included welded steel sheets built on a concrete foundation. The finishes were completed with priming and painting of the entire tank inside…

The Alyeska Resort Chair 6 Barn Reconstruction included working from the existing foundation from the old Chair 6 Barn prior to burning down. In doing so Blazy had to redo some of the structural supports and also add an additional slab on grade with a cap on the existing slab. The concrete could not be…

The Alyeska Resort Howitzer Storage project consisted of a two story storage facility to house one of the main artillery guns to set off avalanches at the resort. This includes upgraded structural elements needed consisting of heavy concrete walls for the basement portion of the project as well as structural steel/engineered wood combination for the…

The Sterling Weigh Station Design‐Build, Civil Construction project provided a 134’ scale in addition to the adjoining 1100‐sq. ft. building. The building featured an open workroom with a three‐sided store front that allows employees to see the entire length of the scale without a break in vision. The scale presented the challenge of coordinating subcontractors…

This project was a 10,000 square foot structure. A single story wood framed building it was built as an administrate office complex. Although the basic structural design is somewhat different than the proposed project we feel this building had many features that could be incorporated into the new project such as extensive aluminum storefront, in…

Deconstruction and reconstruction of the 7193 square foot Old Solly’s Building. The Old Solly’s building houses the park’s new headquarters and will include a small visitor area for winter and shoulder season visitors to Seward. The exterior appearance of the Old Solly’s building will be in keeping with its historic appearance with a mix of…

This 19,370 SF facility houses the Process Technology, Instrumentation, and Electronics Programs. Three large labs for instrumentation, electronics, and simulation and a smaller fabrication lab are the core learning spaces of the building. The building also contains three classrooms, a small conference room, eight offices for faculty offices, work area for an administrative assistant, workroom/break…

The Kenai Community Library Expansion project was elegant and simple. The design followed an approach which introduced a less academic yet more familiar and social space. The design consisted of a pure and rectilinear addition to the existing library with projecting nooks, fins, and canopies which resulted in a dynamic exterior design, while establishing private…

The Design-Build Team of Blazy Construction and WHPacific (as ASCG) provided complete A/E services and construction for the 4,787 square foot AVTEC Distance Training Center. The Center was based on program requirements for topography and video conferencing that required acoustical control of interior spaces. To provide excellent sound isolation from outside sources (STC 55+), we…

This project was the final of three senior housing projects (two in Homer and one in Anchor Point) that were constructed under a Design Build contract. Blazy successfully competitively bid for the schematic design and to provide a cost estimate for construction. This project presented a challenge because of a natural creek that ran under…

This was a very quick design/build public facility project, which took six-weeks from beginning to end, including permits. The building was complete and ready for the installation of the simulator on the exact day we listed on our original work timeline. The owners were flawlessly using the facility at the end of the six weeks….

This was a 3,200 SF office building in Kenai, competitively bid as a design/build. This project went very smoothly and the owner was very pleased with the process and the end result. Because Marathon Oil is very proactive with safety, the important feature in this project was safety. This building was directly by the front…

Blazy Construction and WHPacific (as ASCG) worked within a limited timeframe to provide the City of Soldotna design and construction services for this design/build project. The project required construction to commence before winter for 8,400-SF heavy equipment warm storage facility and a 1,800-SF administrative building. This was a fast-track project designed and constructed within six…

Blazy Construction was the prime contractor for this two-story steel structure, 16,800 square foot addition to the South Peninsula Hospital located in Homer. When this project bid it came out $250,000 over budget. The borough requested that Blazy Construction (low bidder) work with them to value engineer certain aspects of the project. With a collaborative…