Hempcrete blocks and panels could be produced in the U.S. for the first time since 1937 thanks to a facility being built in the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota.
Sustainably preserving and repurposing older buildings and creating entertainment/hospitality venues and high-end apartments and hotels are all dominant themes in the Chicago market.
When Ray Kowalik first interviewed with a recruiter at Kansas City, Mo.-based Burns & McDonnell after graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in civil engineering, the concept of employee ownership didn’t bear all that much weight.
At just 12,000 sq ft, a glass structure is rising in suburban Broadview, outside Chicago, where future occupants will be repeatedly raising up glass curtain walls inside the building.