Family-owned since 1979, The Allred Hotel in Newport, Oregon overlooks one of the most scenic beaches on the Oregon Coast. Each of the Allred’s quiet and spacious rooms comes with a great ocean view and easy access to Nye Beach.

For nearly 30 years, there have been plans to expand the hotel (formerly known as the Whaler) to the north to take full advantage of the site’s ocean views. In 2023, we officially kicked off an $11 million Design-Build addition to the original hotel’s 73 rooms and three ocean-front rental houses. Our team designed and built 26 new units, a new amenity spa, updates to the existing pool, a new sauna, hot tub, gym, and outdoor fire pits.

With its massive post-tensioned concrete slab foundation, The Allred Expansion used O’Brien’s image capture and photogrammetry to save oceans of time and money.  A few hours of drone scanning produced detailed as-built records that diminish time-consuming review tasks and reduce the potential of expensive rework by providing simple and easy-to-read digital layouts to designers and builders.