Kwame Building Group, St. Louis, has completed the last of eight separate construction management contracts on the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) Lower Meramec River facility in South St. Louis County. Related Links: St. Louis Link Will Be Tough, Diverse, Green Indiana Gets $71.4-Million in High-Speed Rail Funds Repair of I-80 Bridge Near Moline, Ill., Scheduled to Restart April 5 Work Under Way for New Itasca, Ill., Wastewater Treatment Plant MoDOT Says 86% of State’s Major Roads are Now in Good Condition Kwame, which specializes in construction management, has performed 37% of the total construction management work on the
The Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Chicago) has named Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects, Ltd. (Nagle Hartray) as its firm of the year for 2009. Photo: Nagle Hartray Nagle Hartray employees and AIA Chicago offi cers pose after Nagle Hartray was named 2009’s firm of the year. Related Links: William Bast Named President of National Structural Engineers Council AIA Chicago Names Vitale Young Architect of 2009 Lean Construction Institute Forms Ohio Valley Chapter AGC of St. Louis and OSHA Form Partnership Great Lakes Design-Build Institute Elects Officers Two Midwestern Firms Earn National Honors from
Somerville, Inc., an integrated architecture, engineering and construction services company in Green Bay, Wis., has won the Best Existing Building award in the Great Spaces, Great Places (GSGP) contest. Related Links: William Bast Named President of National Structural Engineers Council AIA Chicago Names Vitale Young Architect of 2009 Lean Construction Institute Forms Ohio Valley Chapter AGC of St. Louis and OSHA Form Partnership AIA Chicago Names Nagle Hartray 2009 Firm of the Year Great Lakes Design-Build Institute Elects Officers Two Midwestern Firms Earn National Honors from AIA Northeast Indiana Building Contractors Name Officers for 2010 American Society of Safety Engineers
Only a few months after Muchin College Prep and the Illinois Holocaust Museum had held their respective grand openings, high school students from the Noble Network of Charter School’s Muchin College Prep high school visited the new Illinois Holocaust Museum & Educational Center in Skokie, Ill. Related Links: 2010 Conex Wisconsin/Northern Illinois Show Attracts Fewer Exhibitors but More Attendees Sixty freshman students visited the museum at the invitation of Bulley & Andrews, LLC. As the general contractor that built both Muchin College Prep and the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Bulley & Andrews was pleased to sponsor the event. It provided an
The world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa (formerly Burj Dubai), officially opened Jan. 4 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Related Links: Streeter Place 54-Story Luxury Apartment Tower Completed in Chicago Major Eye Institute is Going from Vision to Reality in Indianapolis Metea Valley High School Completed in Aurora, Ill. Building in Orland Park, Ill., Earns LEED Gold Certification St. Louis Metro System’s New Paint Facility Opens Six Months Early and 10% Under Budget Building Now Houses HQ of Company that Made its Windows R.A. Smith Provides Multiple Services on New Wis. DMV Office Project Green Building Initiative Certifies 100th Green Globes
The Construction Industry Service Corporation (CISCO) honored its project-of-the-year winners for 2009. The awards are part of CISCO’s Pride in Construction award program, which recognizes the top union construction projects in four categories. The program also honors an area educator, Illinois public body, and a labor conciliator. Related Links: William Bast Named President of National Structural Engineers Council AIA Chicago Names Vitale Young Architect of 2009 Lean Construction Institute Forms Ohio Valley Chapter AGC of St. Louis and OSHA Form Partnership AIA Chicago Names Nagle Hartray 2009 Firm of the Year Great Lakes Design-Build Institute Elects Officers Two Midwestern Firms
McGraw-Hill Construction, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies, has released the 2010 Chicago Construction Outlook. After enduring a 46% decline in 2009, Chicago construction starts are projected to rebound 18% to $11.5 billion in 2010, helped by a recovery in all major construction types. Highlights of the report conclude: Residential construction starts will advance 38% in 2010 to $2.9 billion, led by a 70% gain in single family housing. As state programs and federal ARRA stimulus funding provide aid, nonbuilding construction starts will increase 17% to $4.5 billion in 2010, with the largest benefit seen in highways and bridges. Nonresidential construction starts
Purdue University researchers in West Lafayette, Ind., are working with Westinghouse Electric Co. to ensure that a new design for nuclear power plants will stand up to strong earthquakes. Photo: Purdue University Purdue University associate professor of civil engineering Amit Varma stands atop a specimen being tested as part of work with Westinghouse Electric Co. to ensure that a new design for nuclear power plants will stand up to strong earthquakes. Engineers are testing components of an "enhanced shield building" that will contain a plant's main system components. The work focuses on testing structures like those to be used in
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Ottawa River Group and the state of Ohio began construction of phase one of a $49-million clean-up of the Ottawa River and Sibley Creek in Toledo, Ohio, on Dec. 19. Under EPA's Great Lakes Legacy Act, the project partners will remove approximately 260,000 cu yds of contaminated sediment from the river and creek. The project's goal is reducing impact to human health and the environment on the Ottawa River. This is the Legacy Act's eighth clean-up of a contaminated site. "The start of this cleanup brings us closer to the day when the public
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