Best Project Small Project: SOS Children’s Villages—Illinois’s Roosevelt Square
To create the new 11,000-sq-ft SOS Children’s Villages Illinois - Roosevelt Square Community Center, the team designed and built a single-story cross-laminated timber superstructure—with columns, beams and a roof structure that were all executed using CLT. As one of the first large such projects built in the Chicago area, the team had to navigate unfamiliarity with the permit review process. A local erection company and carpentry union had to coordinate training efforts to improve its understanding of how to work with the material. Lendlease also had to solve coordination challenges between the CLT structure and supplemental steel used for canopies and window headers.