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Marq on Main | Kinzie Builders
Celebrating nine years in business, Chicagoland general contractor Kinzie Builders recently completed Marq on Main, a 202-unit mixed-use development bringing luxury rental and more than 13,000 square feet of ground-floor retail to downtown Lisle, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. This transit-oriented development includes one- and two-bedroom units, and a wide range of indoor and outdoor amenities.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
444 Social | Kinzie Builders
Kinzie Builders, a Chicagoland general contracting company active in multifamily, mixed-use and senior living, recently completed 444 Social, an upscale apartment development in Lincolnshire, Ill. The 302-unit building includes studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units with a robust suite of indoor and outdoor amenities.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Poggemeyer Design Group and Rudolph Libbe Group
Land-Air Industrial Park's latest building is a 105,000-square-foot facility to be completed in December 2020. The building is near Toledo Express Airport in a Joint Economic Development District with the City of Toledo and Monclova and Swanton townships. JobsOhio and the Regional Growth Partnership worked on the project, which will receive assistance through JobsOhio’s Ohio Site Inventory Program. Poggemeyer Design Group and Rudolph Libbe Group are leading the construction team.
Monday, October 19, 2020
2020 Project of the Year Award from the American Public Works Association | Legat Architects
The Village of Arlington Heights’ police station has earned a 2020 Project of the Year Award from the American Public Works Association.
The award acknowledges projects that “promote excellence in the management and implementation of public works projects by recognizing the alliance between the managing agency, the consultant/architect/engineer, and the contractor who worked together.” Key recipients are the Village of Arlington Heights, Legat Architects, and Riley Construction.
Monday, August 10, 2020
1125 W Van Buren | BASE
Construction is well underway at 1125 W Van Buren, a new 23-story mixed-use project between W Van Buren and S Tilden in Chicago. One floor is being constructed every three days and the structure will be topped off by the end of July.
Thursday, July 2, 2020
IDOT US 63 | TrueTech Bridge
Tasked to build a bridge over a heavily traveled rail line, the team from Peterson Contractors, Inc. partnered with TrueTech Bridge to provide the ClearCast SIP Form System. This project required coordination with the railroad to raise the road nearly 50 ft and set the girders and deck while keeping the tracks in service. With the use of SIP forms, the railroad impact was minimized by reducing the time and expense for a flagger and removing the need to strip traditional wood forms.
Friday, January 17, 2020
Tarlton Corp.
St Louis-based Tarlton Corp. completed renovations – new finishes, a raised floor, improved seating, and lighting and projection system upgrades – surrounding the five-story, 80-foot-diameter domed screen of the Saint Louis Science Center’s OMNIMAX® Theater.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Guidon Design Headquarters Exterior - LEED v4 Platinum Certified
The building was designed to set the standard in Indianapolis for sustainability and wellness. The design is inspired by the original storefront glass office design from 1968. The bright Guidon orange is taken from the original bright blue in the design.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Guidon Design Headquarters Exterior - LEED v4 Platinum Certified
Providing daylight and views to the interior work areas was a challenge as the building has a narrow floor plate. It is 204’ x 58’ with a 15’ setback as small as 12’ between adjacent buildings. The design showed creativity introducing a 2nd floor interior light well to harvest daylight.The space also provides an outdoor conference room to the office. Each private office utilizes Solatubes to provide daylight to in rooms in the central core.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Guidon Design Headquarters Exterior - LEED v4 Platinum Certified
A key project goal was to reduce the overall energy use of the building. This is significantly improved with the inclusion of renewable energy through photovoltaic panels. Our photovoltaic system includes 92 panels that provides 32 kW of power. This provides 40% of the buildings projected energy use.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Burns & McDonnell
Burns & McDonnell was awarded an unrestricted Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) with the Omaha District for preparation of studies, analysis and architectural and engineering design services throughout the Northwestern Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), including projects in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota. The IDC positions Burns & McDonnell as a resource when funding becomes available for future projects with various branches of the military.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Willis Tower | Glass Solutions, Inc.
The high standards and attention to detail that our team members here at Glass Solutions demonstrate daily is reflected off this shiny new unit of glass -about to be installed onto Willis Tower
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Willis Tower | Glass Solutions, Inc.
New units just installed on Willis tower by Glass Solutions, Inc.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Willis Tower | Glass Solutions, Inc.
GSI glazer on the edge of Willis Tower awaiting the next unit for installation.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
"Lunch atop a Skyscraper" Reenactment | Welty Building Company
Welty Building Company's reenactment of “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” at Akron Children’s Hospital in 2017. All required safety measures were adhered to during the making of the reenactment. Tom Conti, a senior superintendent at Welty Building Company, teamed up with the public relations staff at Akron Children's Hospital to recreate the classic photo "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" taken in 1932 on the 69th floor of the RCA building in New York City. Welty built the 230,000 sq ft hospital expansion.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Special Olympics Eternal Flame of Hope | McHugh Construction
Crews from McHugh Construction recently completed the pro-bono installation and construction of the Special Olympics Eternal Flame of Hope monument at Soldier Field in Chicago. The monument pays homage to the 50th anniversary of the Special Olympics, which held its first games in Chicago in 1968. McHugh Construction was among the first supporters of Special Olympics. Fifty years later, the company is proud to continue its support for the organization and its tremendous athletes worldwide.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
RISE | Wiegmann Associates
Wiegmann Associates has begun HVAC work on the new 16-story, 675-bed RISE on Chauncey student housing property near Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. Wiegmann Associates,the Engineer of Record and design/build HVAC mechanical contractor, designed HVAC systems to serve 300, one to four-bedroom units and 11,000 square feet of retail and community spaces. The general contractor is Brinkmann Constructors and property developer is CA Student Living. Completion is scheduled for Summer 2019.
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Health Pointe
AECOM led the design of Spectrum Health’s newest integrated clinical facility, Health Pointe in Grand Haven, MI. The team was challenged with maintaining warmth in a cold climate, providing natural light and meeting strict CRF requirements. The team chose YKK AP’s YCW 750 XT curtain wall and ThermaShade® sunshade system. This combination provided the best CRF, U-value and thermal performance, maximized natural light for occupant comfort and added design versatility.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Health Pointe
AECOM led the design of Spectrum Health’s newest integrated clinical facility, Health Pointe in Grand Haven, MI. The team was challenged with maintaining warmth in a cold climate, providing natural light and meeting strict CRF requirements. The team chose YKK AP’s YCW 750 XT curtain wall and ThermaShade® sunshade system. This combination provided the best CRF, U-value and thermal performance, maximized natural light for occupant comfort and added design versatility.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Health Pointe
AECOM led the design of Spectrum Health’s newest integrated clinical facility, Health Pointe in Grand Haven, MI. The team was challenged with maintaining warmth in a cold climate, providing natural light and meeting strict CRF requirements. The team chose YKK AP’s YCW 750 XT curtain wall and ThermaShade® sunshade system. This combination provided the best CRF, U-value and thermal performance, maximized natural light for occupant comfort and added design versatility.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
TrueTech Bridge
ClearCast Forms from TrueTech Bridge are in action here at the I-29 project in Sioux City, Iowa. The transparent stay-in-place bridge deck forming system is supporting the weight of rebar, wet concrete, construction workers and equipment during the concrete deck pour.
Monday, March 5, 2018
Knoebel Construction
Knoebel Construction has completed construction of the $54M The Shoppes at Mid Rivers in St. Peters, MO. The project is the largest mall to be built in St. Charles County since 2008. Knoebel divided the work into seven subprojects with separate management teams to meet an expedited schedule. The developer was GBT Realty Corporation. Tenants of the 270,000sf shopping center include Academy Sports + Outdoor, Burlington, Marshalls, Home Goods, Ulta Beauty, Ross Dress for Less and more.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
WSB & Associates
Highway 371 is a highly-traveled Trunk Highway leading to some of Minnesota’s most pristine lakes and tourist attractions. As tourism and travel continued to grow in the area, capacity, safety, social, economic and environmental impacts and concerns began to arise.
Sustainability, safety, efficiency and creative engineering solutions were imperative to WSB throughout the entirety of the project. The $50 million design-build project opened less than two years after initial design began.
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
North-Central Iowa, Prestage Foods
Fusing gas piping at a new pork processing facility in North-Central Iowa, Prestage Foods. RP Constructors has done all large-diameter gas piping for this facility and another facility constructed by Seaboard-Triumph Foods in Sioux City, Iowa. Here we are fusing 6 and 8-inch diameter HDPE piping.
Sunday, December 17, 2017
McHugh Construction
Sears’ original catalogue printing facility in Chicago, abandoned for 40 years, has been transformed into 181 units of affordable housing by nonprofit developer Mercy Housing Lakefront. McHugh Construction led the 19-month reconstruction and historic restoration of the structure, originally built in the early 1900s. The Lofts on Arthington will now provide safe and affordable housing to more than 300 children and their families and will once again become an important anchor in the community.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
McHugh Construction
Sears’ original catalogue printing facility in Chicago, abandoned for 40 years, has been transformed into 181 units of affordable housing by nonprofit developer Mercy Housing Lakefront. McHugh Construction led the 19-month reconstruction and historic restoration of the structure, originally built in the early 1900s. The Lofts on Arthington will now provide safe and affordable housing to more than 300 children and their families and will once again become an important anchor in the community.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
McHugh Construction
Sears’ original catalogue printing facility in Chicago, abandoned for 40 years, has been transformed into 181 units of affordable housing by nonprofit developer Mercy Housing Lakefront. McHugh Construction led the 19-month reconstruction and historic restoration of the structure, originally built in the early 1900s. The Lofts on Arthington will now provide safe and affordable housing to more than 300 children and their families and will once again become an important anchor in the community.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
BrightFarms Chicagoland Greenhouse
Mark Gemignani, president of Dominion Builders; Steve Jarzombek, vice president of produce merchandising at Roudy’s Supermarket, Inc.; Paul Lightfoot, CEO of BrightFarms; and Marc Finch, superintendent of Dominion Builders, celebrate the completion of BrightFarms Chicagoland Greenhouse at the new facility on Tuesday, July 12.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Nagle Hartray Architecture / William Rawn Associates
Workers construct the caissons, spread footings and foundation walls for the new multi-story residence hall at 560 Lincoln on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston, IL. The project is scheduled to be complete by Fall 2017.
New and Old at the University of Chicago
This photograph is of the new auditorium structural backbone at The Reva and David Logan Center for the Creative Performing Arts with the Midway Studios historic building, currently used for the University's performing arts, in the background.
Turner Construction Company / The University of Chicago / Tod Williams Billy Tsien Architects / Holabird & Root
University of Chicago [Chicago, IL]
Lewis University Science Building
Since Wight & Company was awarded its first project at Lewis University, the firm has become a trusted advisor to the small but growing, Catholic university sponsored by the De LaSalle Christian Brothers. Wight has been involved in all nine of the new construction, building addition and renovation projects on campus, with more slated for the future. One of those projects involves an addition to the University Science Building.
Intended to accommodate the school's growing enrollment, the project will allow the science departments to expand their instructional potential while enriching the student educational experience. The Science Building addition will include sustainable features is LEED registered.
The project is utilizing the cutting edge technology of Revit to develop the construction documents. Revit incorporates Building Integrated Modeling, or BIM, to provide 4D digital modeling of the Science Building.
Wight & Company
Romeoville, Illinois
Boldt Delivers Massive Power Plant Boilers
When installation of the first two boilers is complete later this year, the plant will be able to permanently retire the existing coal fired boilers. After demolition of the existing coal facilities, the final two boilers, water treatment and cooling towers will be installed. The upgrades in systems will provide back-up and growth capacity needed to heat and cool campus buildings for the next decade and beyond. Work on the power plant is scheduled for completion in early 2013.
The Boldt Company
Madison, WI
Boldt Delivers Massive Power Plant Boilers
Massive power plant boilers slowly snake their way through the pre-dawn streets of Madison on their way to installation at the University of Wisconsin's power plant. After being trucked through four states, the custom built boilers are loaded on a 215-foot semi-trailer and each is 17-feet tall lying on their sides. The shipment arrived in the early morning of July 14.
The Boldt Company
Madison, Wisconsin
Boldt Delivers Massive Power Plant Boilers
Construction crews delivered the massive boilers designed to convert the coal-fired power plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from coal-burning to natural gas. Each of the two boilers weighs 120-tons and was be delivered via semi-truck in the early morning hours of July 14. The custom built boilers are loaded on a 215-foot semi-trailer and each is 17-feet tall lying on their sides. "The size is significant," said Boldt project manager Gus Schultz. "It's a little like moving a small house."
The Boldt Company
Madison, Wisconsin
Construction Commences on Gilbane Building Company's project at Olive-Harvey Community College
Gilbane Building Company has mobilized on site to begin construction on the new Transportation, Distribution and Logistics Center for Olive-Harvey Community College. Demolition of the temporary buildings was completed earlier this year making way for the new construction. This new 105,000 square foot facility includes classrooms with curriculum-driven technology and space for automotive technology and training, electric and A/C technology, diesel engine technology, and supply chain management. The facility will also feature a high-tech central store warehouse environment providing a supply chain hub to City Colleges’ seven campuses, six satellites and District Office.
Gilbane has teamed with DSR Group, Inc. and Jones-Moore to supplement community outreach and project controls support on this important project. The project is targeting LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The project will be completed in the fall of 2015.
Gilbane Building Company, DSR Group, Inc, Jones-Moore
Chicago, IL
Removal of Concrete Dock Slab at Chicago's Navy Pier
Removal of Concrete dock slab at 56 locations for Tree Pits
Madison/Evans JV / Alliance Concrete Sawing & Drilling
Chicago
Redevelopment of Chicago's Navy Pier
Redevelopment of Navy Pier
Madison/Evans JV / Alliance Concrete Sawing & Drilling
Chicago