The deadliest U.S. tornado since 1947 claimed 161 lives and destroyed much of Joplin, Mo., scoring a direct hit on St. John’s Mercy Regional Medical Center.
This 31,000-sq-ft station consists of cast-in-place concrete spread footings, concrete masonry block bearing walls, precast plank floors and a long-lasting, standing seam metal roof on a steel joist roof structure.
The 158,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility for Method Products pbc, a maker of premium plant-friendly and design-driven products for home, fabric and personal care, is a LEED Platinum plant primarily powered by a 600-kW wind turbine, with solar-thermal water heating and three solar-tracking trees in the parking lot.
A four-year project to upgrade air quality control and improve plant efficiency at Alliant Energy’s Ottumwa Generating Station accomplished all objectives during the same 76-day outage, with results that exceeded expectations.
Wisconsin Power & Light Co.’s largest coal-fired powerplant, Columbia Energy Center, with two subcritical units over 500 MW, was required to bring its air emissions into compliance with federal standards.
To replicate the natural habitat of Japanese macaques, Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo built an 850-gallon hot spring, 1,250-gallon flowing stream and live and artificial trees in a 7,400-sq-ft exhibit enclosed in stainless-steel, woven-wire mesh.
Despite a damaging tornado that rocked the construction site, the $62-million “Airport Experience” renovation project restored Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, a historic mid-century aviation icon designed in 1956 by architect Minoru Yamasaki, to its original splendor.
A 19-story, 350,000-sq-ft hotel designed to achieve LEED Gold certification was built adjacent to the Potawatomi Casino, linked with a pedestrian connector.
Chicago’s financial and construction markets were devastated in the Great Recession, so the completion of work on one of its prominent victims is reason enough to celebrate.