Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. has landed three big projects around the state that have a combined value of more than $150 million.


Lydig was expected to start work this week on one of the projects, a $66.5 million new high school near Pasco, Wash., and is slated to launch another of the big jobs, a $69 million massive emergency services and trauma center in Renton, Wash., late next month. It already is under way on the smaller of the three projects, a $17 million luxury resort complex in Chelan, Wash.


The new school at Pasco, to be called Chiawana High School, will have 315,000 square feet of floor space and will be situated on school grounds that will total 60 acres, says Joe Williams, a project manager for Lydig.


Its bigger than most high schools in terms of square footage and the physical site, Williams says.


Portions of the school building will have two floors. The gymnasium will hold four basketball courts, and the outside athletic area will include a track with a rubberized running surface and a football field with artificial turf.


When the high school opens for the 2009-2010 school year, it will house 2,200 students and will help relieve overcrowding at Pasco High School, which has one of the largest student populations in the state, the school district says.


Loofburrow Architects PC, of Yakima, designed the building.


The school will be located on Argent Road, about two miles west of the Tri-Cities Regional Airport. Pasco is about 135 miles southwest of Spokane.


In Renton, Lydig is to build a 200,000-square-foot emergency services and trauma center at Valley Medical Center, about 10 miles south of Seattle.


The building will have five above-ground levels and two floors of parking below grade.


The first-floor emergency department will be roughly the size of a football field, says Dana Vander Houwen, a hospital spokeswoman.


Above that will be four smaller levels; the first will house a 30-bed intensive-care unit, and the other three floors above that will house patient rooms.


The project will displace some surface parking, a helicopter pad, and a minor structure on the hospital campus. It is expected to be completed in 2009, Vander Houwen says.


Lydig Construction says it will manage the project through its Bellevue, Wash., office.


The structure was designed by NBBJ, a Seattle-based architectural firm.


In Chelan, Lydig began work this month on a 40-unit luxury resort-style condominium project, called the Lake House, in the north-central Washington citys downtown. Four fractional units of time per year will be sold in each unit. The development is being buildt a block from Lake Cheland.


The main, four-story building will have housing units that will range in size from 600 square feet to 1,300 square feet of floor space and will have one to three bedrooms, says Nathan Hambley, a spokesman for the project.


In addition to the main building, the Lake House will have a pool house with a common area, a dining room, an indoor-outdoor kitchen, an exercise area, and an outdoor area with water features.


The project is expected to be completed late next year.


It was designed by Olympic Associates Co., a Seattle-based company that has an office in Spokane.


Contact Mike McLean at (509) 344-1266 or via e-mail at mikem@spokanejournal.com.