Rufus 2.0 – Day 1 and Spheres

East side of roof deck looking south, refurbished initial roof deck conditions at the start of our scope of work.
East side of roof deck looking south, mid-progress installation showing elevated turf system support grating, paver walkway, and adjacent cable tray system along building wall.
East side of roof deck looking south, completed installation of interlocking irrigated turf system, paver walkway, and cable tray system (placement of cables into tray system by others had not yet been completed).
Mid-installation of paver ramp system at southwest entry/exit door. Photo shows swing stage system and typical congested conditions that had to be worked around.
South side of building showing mid-installation of elevated turf support grating system, pavers and cable tray system.
Near completion of installation of interlocking paver deck area and cable tray system where swing stage was previously set up at sloping ramps to and from entry/exit door.
Completed interlocking paver walk and turf installation at one of many deck bump-outs showing surface-level irrigation washwater system in operation.
Completed interlocking pavers, cable tray and turf system during irrigation washwater system operation just prior to project completion.
At northwest building corner looking south, completed interlocking paver deck and cable tray installation at deck corner and bump-outs.
At northeast building corner looking west, completed interlocking paver and cable tray installation just prior to project completion.
At northeast building corner looking east, completed installation of adjoining interlocking turf, paver and cable tray systems.
At southeast building corner looking west, completed turf system with surface-level irrigation washwater heads, pavers and cable grating system.
South side of building looking west, turf, paver and cable tray system, including paver bump-in area.
North side of building looking west showing refurbished initial roof deck conditions with swing stage set up just prior to commencement of our scope of work.
North side of building looking west showing completed installation of turf, paver walkway and deck area, and cable tray system.

Unique high-profile downtown Seattle project including on-structure and on-grade landscaping, and intensive and extensive green roofs. Contracted scope included: deep sand drainage layers and deep soils in all on-structure planting beds, sub-soil preparation and deep import soils at all on-grade and right-of-way planting beds, soil and drip irrigation system installation at right-of-way structural pavement support system, root barrier panels, vertical and horizontal protection fabric at all on-structure planting beds, installation of numerous large boulders, large rock stepping stones, sub-surface drainage systems, drainage inspection/access risers, automatic sub-surface spray and drip irrigation systems, metal edging, extensive planting of exotic and specialty trees and shrubs, bark mulch and several types of decorative gravel mulch and cobble surfacing, field synthetic turf system, pedestal supported pet-relief synthetic turf system, decorative rock & glass filled.

General Contractor: Sellen Construction

Landscape Architect: Site Workshop