To support retail uses, exhibitions and immersive, interactive technologies, the 150,000-sq-ft Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons incorporates a variety of group study and instructional spaces in addition to areas aimed at promoting social interaction, including a café.

The size and scope of the $349-million, 1-million-sq-ft Global Center for Health Innovation and Cleveland Convention Center required creative thinking throughout all phases, including use of parametric modeling to develop precast paneling for exterior cladding.

Renovations and additions to its 8,000-sq-ft office and 12,000-sq-ft warehouse afforded concrete contractor Adjustable Forms Inc. the opportunity to showcase the craft and expertise it provides to clients.

The introduction of a new ultraviolet disinfection facility at a St. Joseph, Mo., wastewater treatment plant ensures that up to 54 million gallons of water per day will be 100% clean prior to discharge into the Missouri River.

Sited on the south lawn of the Ohio Statehouse, the $2.1-million Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial stands as a monument to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Constructing a 10,800-ft-long by 200-ft-wide runway at the center of the world's second-busiest airport not only required complex phasing to maintain full operation of the existing airfield but also the relocation of an active cemetery and major cargo facilities.

Project team members had only 32 months to retrofit a wet-flue gas desulfurization (WFGD) system and construct a 500-ft dual-flue chimney and common wastewater treatment facility at the four-unit, coal-fired R.M. Schahfer powerplant in Wheatfield, Ind.

Integrated design guided construction of the Waukesha County Health and Human Service Building, a $36.7-million, 136,500-sq-ft facility that consolidates an array of functions, including veterans services, adolescent and family services and economic support services under a single roof.

A cornerstone of continued regional revitalization, University of Dayton's Electrical Power Integrated Systems Research and Development Center—or EPISCenter—simulates and tests enhanced power starter/generation, conversion and distribution technologies for civil and military applications, a mission that is unique among research centers.

Offsite construction of arch span steel allowed builders of Hastings Bridge, said to be the longest free-standing tied-arch span in North America, to execute one of the heaviest bridge moves ever in the U.S.