Sediment remediation of the Sheboygan River required extensive coordination among regulatory agencies, consultants, private stakeholders, municipal and county governments and contractors.
A zoo habitat, an arts center, an art museum and a pair of federal buildings are among the construction work that captured top honors in ENR Midwest's Best Projects competition, an annual program recognizing outstanding design and construction in a variety of categories.
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.
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.
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