Cost: $85 million A 280,000-sq-ft, 11,000-seat multi-purpose indoor arena, the Evansville Arena will include an event level, main concourses, suite level, balcony, upper/deck/press level, private suites and a club lounge. Photo: Courtesy Of Populous Evansville Arena, Evansville, Ind. Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts This facility will host basketball, hockey, family shows and other entertainment events and is the future home of the University of Evansville�s Purple Aces. The first two steel beams that will make up the skeleton of the new Evansville arena were recently set in place. Arena Project Director John Kish called it a great milestone
Cost: $36.6 million Express Scripts Inc., one of the largest pharmacy benefits management companies in North America, is building its new High Volume Filler pharmacy in St. Louis. Express Scripts High Volume Filler Facility, St. Louis, Mo. Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The decision to bring advanced pharmacy technology to St. Louis will create nearly 300 new jobs for the region. Express Scripts� development of HVF technology advances its leadership in providing solutions for today�s healthcare challenges. The new facility will feature pharmacy automation for the dispensing, packaging and shipment of 110,000 prescriptions per day. The technology developed
Cost: $77.2 million Phase two of the Fowler Ridge project spans across 17,000 acres of Indiana farmland in Benton County. Fowler Ridge II Wind Farm, Benton County, Indiana Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Located approximately 90 mi northwest of Indianapolis, Fowler II has the potential to power approximately 50,000 average American homes. Mortenson Construction�s scope of work included the installation of 133 GE SLE 1.5-megawatt wind turbines, 133 foundations, 19 mi of access roads, 40 mi of underground collection, 345 kV transmission line and one 345 kV project substation. Fowler Ridge II will deliver more than 1 billion
Cost: $98 million The joint venture of Tarlton Corp. and Interface Construction is providing construction management services for this 12-story building in St. Louis� Central West End. Photo: Courtesy Of Bjc Healthcare Barnes-Jewish Hospital Outpatient Services Expansion, St. Louis Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The 300,000-sq-ft building will house physician offices and outpatient clinics, as well as BJC HealthCare administrative offices. The first floor will provide a lobby and about 10,000 sq ft of street-level retail space available for lease. A pedestrian bridge at the fourth level will link the building to the adjacent parking garage and to
Cost: $99.5 million This $99.5-million, three-story addition will expand Purdue University�s Mackey Arena basketball facility into a resource for all of the university�s 500 students that compete in intercollegiate sports. Photo: Courtesy Of Hntb Mackey Arena Expansion, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Purdue is financing the project without using taxpayer money. Funding is coming from Big Ten television contracts and private donations. The addition will put athletic, academic and training facilities under one roof. It will house a sports-medicine facility, strength and weight training areas, an oversized basketball practice facility, new locker rooms,
Cost: $150 million Located in the Clayton, Mo., Business District, this 17-story high-rise is being constructed with a concrete frame and transparent glass skin. Photo By Matthew Mcfarland Centene Headquarters, Clayton, Mo. Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The facility will include a plaza area with decorative landscaping features, including outdoor seating, a waterfall and a fire pit. More than 1,000 parking spaces are located in the eight-story parking garage, which includes underground executive parking spaces beneath the facility. In addition, this project includes 28,500 sq ft of retail space. The project is pursuing LEED certification by the U.S.
Cost: $131.8 million Work consists of a new 310,000-sq-ft, 202-patient room pavilion that includes an administrative area, auditorium, conference rooms and a new ambulance bay. Photo: Courtesy Of Rtkl Associates Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, Ill. Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The project also consists of a 32,000-sq-ft interior buildout for a new Diagnostic Imaging Department, which includes 17 procedure rooms. A lower level Diagnostic Imaging Department, an Emergency Department expansion, data center upgrades and an emergency power buildout are also included. Building Information Modeling was used extensively on the project as a 3D coordination component for above-ceiling mechanical
This $650-million, nine-year remediation project is the world’s largest PCB cleanup in history. The massive project is dredging and processing 3.8 million cu yd of river sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls that can cause severe health problems for wildlife and for humans who eat fish from PCB-contaminated spots. Photo: WESTON IMAGING GROUP LLC Related Links: Midwest Constructions Best of 2009 Awards It will clean up 13.3 miles of the lower Fox River near Green Bay in northeastern Wisconsin. The project’s newly constructed 250,000-sq-ft processing facility in Green Bay, Wis., houses equipment used to treat the PCB-contaminated sediment dredged out of
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