Though the $31-million Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School STEM Building places special emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, it also serves as a real-world lesson in sustainable design, as its owner intended.

Meticulous analysis and planning resulted in a decision to erect an onsite, concrete batch plant for construction of Easton-Bell Sports Inc's $31-million, 813,000-sq-ft office and automated warehouse center.

To introduce Michigan's vast recreational offerings to a demographic far removed from the wilderness, construction team members converted Detroit's 120-year-old Globe Trading Company Building—a condemned 40,000-sq-ft structure—into a showcase for the state's natural resources.

Hyatt Place Harper Court brings to Chicago's Hyde Park, home to the University of Chicago, its newest hotel in 50 years and serves as an anchor to the area's 1-million-sq-ft Harper Court, a mixed-use development built simultaneously with the $27-million facility.

Equal parts habitat, exhibit and research facility, the $26-million Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center at the Indianapolis Zoo presented a high degree of difficulty in forming and placing concrete, in one instance due to varying radii among perimeter walls, each too large for a conventional radius-form system.

Additions and renovations for the $74.5-million Camp Randall Stadium Student-Athlete Performance Center encompassed more than 250,000 sq ft of space and involved a pair of existing facilities, McClain Field House and Camp Randall Stadium.

Construction of more than four miles of wave barrier and access road on the Green Bay lake bed served larger efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to restore Cat Islands, a small chain that functioned much like coastal barrier islands, protecting shallow bays and wetlands, before being washed away in the 1970s.

The $13-million, 41,500-sq-ft Berea College Deep Green Residence Hall is among the first facilities in Kentucky to meet sustainable design's Living Building Challenge.

Locating Harry Caray's 7th Inning Stretch Restaurant and Museum on the seventh floor of Water Tower Place, one of Chicago's premier shopping destinations, required tight coordination with dozens of existing tenants, given the need to share vertical transports for delivery of materials and supplies.

The $11.2-million, 65,000-sq-ft Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Franklin Medical Office Building was constructed in only 10 months, with work commencing in late fall and extending through the winter.