Construction of the Xavier residential building in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago’s redeveloping Near North Side presented the project team with numerous challenges, including material access and difficult site conditions.
Much has been said about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S., but the jet engine assembly facility design-built for GE Aviation by Brasfield & Gorrie is bringing 250 to 300 new manufacturing jobs to Lafayette, Ind.
Blattner Energy, a family-owned renewable-energy contractor, views environmental sustainability as part of its moral obligation to the health and well-being of future generations.
Increasing capacity at the Burns & McDonnell headquarters complex by 74%, the expansion comprises a four-story, 310,000-sq-ft commercial office facility designed to meet future company growth by housing up to 1,400 people.
It can get quite cold in St. Louis during the winter months, and with the St. Louis College of Pharmacy’s new academic and research building using an exterior fluid-applied foam insulation as an air barrier, a minimum temperature requirement of 40° F for material application was putting the $47-million project at risk.
Faced with rapidly expanding enrollment, the Benedictine University needed a new, state-of-the-art facility with not only enough space to handle an increased population, but one that could also attract top-tier students, educators, speakers and business leaders from around the world.
To update and restore a 115-year-old structure that sits on the National Register of Historic Places, the project team had to work around a busy school site and perform a series of subprojects before even beginning the primary construction task.
Trucking more than 3 million gallons of toxic leachate from the Kandiyohi County Landfill on public Minnesota roads each year was problematic and expensive.
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