An addition to a concourse at Indiana's South Bend Regional Airport takes flight with a steel-framed, barrel-vaulted structure intended to mimic the forms of an aircraft wing.
Settlers Trail Wind Farm was constructed during extremely cold winter weather, with crews fighting freezing rain, snow and temperatures as low as -20˚F. Photo Courtesy of Jim Finch With both the weather and schedule churning, safety was paramount during construction of Settlers Trail Wind Farm in Watseka, Ill. Photo Courtesy of Jim Finch In all, the project logged 151,574 working hours while achieving OSHA and lost-time rates of zero. Related Links: Click here to return to Introduction Click here to read about Best Projects 2011 Building a wind farm is inherently dangerous due to, well, the wind. Despite the cold
This exhibit hall, an addition to the existing St. Louis Science Center, shines a spotlight on specialized lighting, air-quality and acoustical systems, as well as other features critical for contemporary exhibit space.
Funds for public portions of The Banks, Cincinnati's largest mixed-use project, allowed builders to raise the development out of the floodplain and construct a new neighborhood street grid, along with transit infrastructure, traffic control and a 45-acre park. Photo Courtesy of John Deatrick An intermodal transit center and accompanying 6,000-space "floodable" parking structure lift the Banks, Cincinnati's largest mixed-use development, out of the floodplain. Related Links: Click here to return to Introduction Click here to read about Best Projects 2011 An intermodal transit center and accompanying 6,000-space "floodable" parking structure serve as the base for buildings and streets above, elevating
Issues of preservation and modernization figured prominently in the renovation and 37,000-sq-ft expansion of the Cranbrook Art Museum and library, originally designed by father and son architects Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Photo Courtesy of Paul Haefner This project called for renovation and expansion of the Cranbrook Art Museum and Library, originally designed by father and son architects Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Photo Courtesy of Paul Haefner Materials incorporated into the addition recall those of the original structure. Related Links: Click here to return to Introduction Click here to read about Best Projects 2011 In addition to replacing mechanical and electrical
A homeland security center, a mausoleum, a public park and a harbor are among the developments that captured top honors in this year's ENR Midwest Best Projects competition, an annual program recognizing outstanding design and construction in a variety of categories.
Sited adjacent to an 1872 courthouse, the Livingston County Law & Justice Center provides Pontiac, Ill., with updated courtroom and judiciary space while meeting an objective to redevelop underutilized parts of its downtown.
Even as Chicago ponders the fate of one medical icon, Northwestern's Prentice Women's Hospital, a 1975 structure slated for the wrecking ball, it welcomes another, The Tower, centerpiece of a 10-year, $1-billion overhaul of Rush University Medical Center on the city's west side. Related Links: ENR Midwest Best Projects 2012 Click here to read about Best Projects 2011 Like the cloverleaf-shaped Prentice, Rush's new acute- and critical-care center is an exercise in form flowing from function, in this case an initiative to decentralize nursing by organizing patient floors in quadrants. Perched atop a rectangular base, the result is a curvilinear
Before replacing its only bridge, the city of Tomahawk, Wis., was tasked with relocating dozens of utility cables and lines secured to the bridge's underside. Photo Courtesy of SEH Relocation of utilities on the underside of North 4th Street Bridge involved dredging a packet of conduits across a river. Photo Courtesy of SEH The packet contains three 12-in. conduits, six 4-in. conduits, and two 6-in. conduits. Related Links: Click here to return to Introduction Click here to read about Best Projects 2011 The city weighed several options before deciding to dredge a packet of conduits across the river, an approach
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