To transform St. Norbert College’s 100,000-sq-ft, 50-year-old science center into a state-of-the-art research and learning facility for the 21st century, all mechanical and electrical systems were completely replaced, the building shell was renovated to add daylighting and two wings totaling 60,000 sq ft were added.
The Budweiser Bleachers are the first phase of the restoration of Wrigley Field aimed at preserving the beauty, charm and historic features of the “Friendly Confines” while upgrading the overall game-day experience and ensuring the viability of the ballpark for future generations of Cubs fans.
The design of this 10,000-sq-ft, inflected deltoid of unequal sides is based more on geometry than on linear dimensions, and construction required extraordinary care and precision.
The 6,300-sq-ft Knoch Knolls Nature Center—LEED Platinum certified and the only staffed nature center in a city of more than 144,000 people—was developed as a home base for nature exploration and a model of sustainability.
The Snap-on museum, located in the tool manufacturer’s original factory space, is both a showcase and a banquet hall for clients, retirees and social events.
The 260,000-sq-ft home office and global technology center for Schreiber Foods, a maker of dairy products, includes office space, a kitchen and servery, multiple test kitchens, laboratories, a data center and a pilot plant for evaluating new dairy processes.
The Heart of Africa exhibit fulfills Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s dream of creating an authentic savanna in central Ohio where hundreds of animals large and small occupy familiar habitats.
Rural Lake Mills, Wis., replaced an overcrowded, outdated elementary school built in 1964 with a K-4 elementary school that was not just up-to-date but also designed under the LEED v4 Beta Program, the next version of the LEED rating system.
Faced with the need for a full-depth reconstruction of seven miles of Interstate 96 in suburban Detroit, including rehabilitation of 37 bridges, new LED lighting and storm sewers, geometric upgrades, signing, extensive landscaping and safety improvements, Michigan Dept. of Transportation modeled 24 closure options and then reduced them to five, including full closure and several options for partial closures.
A 19-story, 350,000-sq-ft hotel designed to achieve LEED Gold certification was built adjacent to the Potawatomi Casino, linked with a pedestrian connector.
The deadliest U.S. tornado since 1947 claimed 161 lives and destroyed much of Joplin, Mo., scoring a direct hit on St. John’s Mercy Regional Medical Center.
This 31,000-sq-ft station consists of cast-in-place concrete spread footings, concrete masonry block bearing walls, precast plank floors and a long-lasting, standing seam metal roof on a steel joist roof structure.
The 158,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility for Method Products pbc, a maker of premium plant-friendly and design-driven products for home, fabric and personal care, is a LEED Platinum plant primarily powered by a 600-kW wind turbine, with solar-thermal water heating and three solar-tracking trees in the parking lot.
A four-year project to upgrade air quality control and improve plant efficiency at Alliant Energy’s Ottumwa Generating Station accomplished all objectives during the same 76-day outage, with results that exceeded expectations.
To replicate the natural habitat of Japanese macaques, Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo built an 850-gallon hot spring, 1,250-gallon flowing stream and live and artificial trees in a 7,400-sq-ft exhibit enclosed in stainless-steel, woven-wire mesh.
Despite a damaging tornado that rocked the construction site, the $62-million “Airport Experience” renovation project restored Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, a historic mid-century aviation icon designed in 1956 by architect Minoru Yamasaki, to its original splendor.
Wisconsin Power & Light Co.’s largest coal-fired powerplant, Columbia Energy Center, with two subcritical units over 500 MW, was required to bring its air emissions into compliance with federal standards.
Chicago’s financial and construction markets were devastated in the Great Recession, so the completion of work on one of its prominent victims is reason enough to celebrate.