a peek at what's soon to come....

The majority of my job is fairly uninteresting, but one recent project I'm involved in has peaked my interest greatly. Eventually, a link of Sound Transit's light rail system will be constructed under the UW campus - and directly under some of the College of Engineering's buildings. We are working to insure that our sensitive research labs in those buildings can remain operational during both construction of the tunnel and operation of the trains. What that equated to on Tuesday was a chance to tour the new Operation and Maintenance Facility (OMF) south of downtown. Here's some of what we saw: