Months after a scrapped groundbreaking date for Michigan State University's Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum had come and gone, its postponement the result of extended design delays, The State News, the university's student paper, reported the $40-million project had hit another potential snag.
After sitting out much of the nation's economic recovery, the construction industry in hard hit states such as Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan began to see conditions ease this year, stemming the flow of job losses that curtailed thousands of workers year in and year out. Industry members in manufacturing-rich Indiana and Ohio, both star performers earlier in the recovery, weren't as lucky, as global demand for manufactured products slowed and construction job losses mounted. Photo Courtesy of Jim Finch Growth in construction is expected to be more uniform across the region next year. Related Links: Dodge Lead Center McGraw-Hill Construction
The University of Chicago's $91-million, 175,000-sq-ft Reva and David Logan Center consolidates visual arts, film, music and theater within a single complex housing a three-story, 450-seat auditorium, a two-story podium and an 11-story tower.
In building its first natural-gas-fired steam and electric generation plant, Lansing Board of Water and Light (BWL) took care to ensure the facility blended with REO Town, a historic community in Lansing.
Renovations to this 107-year-old federal building and courthouse required team members to seamlessly thread new systems through a richly rendered fabric, including historic marble, plaster and mosaic ceiling tile that underwent restoration in the 1990s.
Before blueprinting renovations to the John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, including the introduction of several sustainable systems into the 39-year-old tower, project team members referenced another set of blueprints, those of the original architect, Modernist pioneer Mies van der Rohe.
To coordinate the myriad components of Owensboro Health Regional Hospital, a facility with 477 beds, 16 operating room suites and an expanded neonatal intensive-care unit, project team members made extensive use of building information modeling, lean construction principals and integrated project delivery throughout all phases of design and construction.
Snaking through the heart of downtown, Wacker Drive presented rebuilders with one of the most challenging transportation projects ever undertaken in Chicago.
Construction of the $40.8-million, 164,000-sq-ft BAE Systems Building allowed its owner, a global defense contractor, to consolidate the 650 employees required to support its engineering, operations and security functions, some of them working in an adjoining 50,000-sq-ft prototype facility.
Operators of the St. Louis Art Museum, a facility built as part of the 1904 World's Fair, took a decidedly global approach when planning for a 200,000-sq-ft addition, pairing London- and U.S.-based architects to execute a modernist design.
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