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Entering the U.S. market for the first time, GEMS Education built a 12-story, 82,000-sq-ft concrete structure flagship school in Chicago.

Rural Lake Mills, Wis., replaced an overcrowded, outdated elementary school built in 1964 with a K-4 elementary school that was not just up-to-date but also designed under the LEED v4 Beta Program, the next version of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.

A special-projects team of several hundred employees and consultants at Johnson Controls was growing quickly and needed new space.

The strategically located Moorman Yard near Toledo, Ohio, is a major freight center for Norfolk Southern Railway Co.

A grade-separated interchange with roundabouts replaced a major at-grade intersection in a Minneapolis suburb.

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 40-year-old, 300,000-sq-ft pharmaceutical research building was transformed to house Western Michigan University’s new school of medicine.

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.

This replacement of a century-old hospital created a new, 360,000-sq-ft institution.

Today’s hospitals require vast upgrades to electronic infrastructure to make the most of the fast-evolving available technologies.