Portland VA Medical Center
The Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus sits on a 450-foot-tall basalt-rock hill south of downtown. Marquam Hill is also crowded with homes, steep slopes and daily commuters (during non-pandemic times), making construction a difficult challenge that engineers and designers are grappling with as they make plans for a seismic retrofit of the hospital.

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