Project Overview
Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA) Ross Complex Redevelopment successfully modernized its active 260-acre Vancouver campus, with Mortenson delivering the first-phase Technical Services Building (TSB) to consolidate critical lab, office, training, workstation, and control functions while maintaining uninterrupted operations throughout construction.
Key Outcomes:
- Modernized BPA’s active 260-acre campus through phased demolition, new construction, adaptive reuse, seismic upgrades, and civil and security infrastructure improvements.
- Delivered the Technical Services Building as the first major milestone in BPA’s long-term campus redevelopment, bringing critical lab, office, training, workstation, and control functions into a single purpose-built facility.
- Maintained continuous operations across a campus that supports a significant portion of the Pacific Northwest’s electrical power system, with no disruption to mission-critical services.
- Earned a DBIA National Award of Merit and leveraged prefabricated exterior wall panels to improve schedule certainty, quality, building performance, and cost efficiency.
- Delivery Method
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Progressive Design-Build
- Additional Project Facts
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Multiple Projects Spanning 10 Years
Project Summary
Bonneville Power Administration provides clean, reliable, and affordable hydropower across more than 300,000 square miles in eight Pacific Northwest states. To support its long-term operational needs, BPA completed a multi-year redevelopment of the Ross Complex Campus, an active 260-acre facility in Southwest Washington that includes offices, maintenance facilities, and a major electrical substation.
The redevelopment effort included extensive project sequencing, logistics planning, and change management, along with demolition of aging facilities, construction of a new chemistry laboratory and fuel island, adaptive reuse of the hazardous materials building, seismic upgrades, and campus-wide civil and security improvements.
As the first completed project within the redevelopment program, the Technical Services Building established a new operational hub for BPA. The facility consolidated laboratory, office, training, workstation, and control room functions into a modern, efficient environment designed to support BPA’s evolving mission.
Given BPA’s role in delivering approximately 28% of the Northwest’s electrical power and serving more than three million people, maintaining uninterrupted operations throughout construction was critical. Through careful phasing, stakeholder coordination, and innovative delivery strategies, the project was completed while preserving continuous campus operations and positioning the Ross Complex for future phases of redevelopment.
