The abandoned former Cook County Hospital building was a wreck. “The term ‘fully depreciated’ was an understatement,” says Kenneth Johnston, senior project manager with Walsh Construction.
The team working on this Chicago riverfront tower faced a variety of constraints, from the narrow trapezoidal site to historic preservation requirements and a city-mandated public walkway.
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.
Located on a peninsula at the confluence of three branches of the Chicago River, crews on the 628,500-sq-ft Wolf Point East project faced significant challenges accessing an already dense urban site.
The former General Growth Partners building site was one of the few locations available on Wacker Drive to place a tall building, but also one of the most difficult.
For its new Chicago office, Gilbane created a workspace that also serves as a company showroom, exhibiting the contractor’s project portfolio and demonstrating its people-first approach.