Article toolbar The fat lady is about to sing. O’Fallon, Mo.-based contractor and co-developer Paric Corp. is orchestrating a long-awaited second act for the 77-year-old Peabody Opera House in downtown St. Louis. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Shuttered in 1991, the 320,00-sq-ft, limestone-clad Peabody will be dressing the part when it reopens next year, thanks to painstaking efforts to preserve the Beaux-Arts beauty, whose facade features eight Corinthian columns flanked by sculptured panels and a pair of 10-ton limestone Missouri bears adorning its main entrance. “The challenge is inserting 21st-century systems while respecting the building’s original appearance,” says Gary

The Chicago office of architect and engineering consultant HOK has named Robert Bistry vice president and practice leader for the firm’s architecture practice. In addition, the firm has named David Genc as senior associate and senior project director and Andre Baros as associate and project architect. In addition to working with HOK’s architecture practice, both Genc and Baros will work with the firm’s international studio. All three employees are new to the firm. TRACEY BISTRY SmithGroup has named Tim Tracey design director for its Chicago architectural practice. In his new role, Tracey oversees conceptual and design development work for the

On The Scene   January 24, 2011 Harvey Oliva ENR Midwest held its Best Projects of 2010 awards celebration last month at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel, where more than 150 design and construction professionals joined our publication’s team in saluting the most innovative and challenging projects of the year. Of the 175 construction projects nominated to receive an award in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio, our independent panel of judges selected 60 as the winners. Many hard-working people were recognized at the event. Harvey Oliva, senior vice president at Barton Malow Co., Southfield, Mich.,

Gary Fore, a now retired vice president of the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), Lanham, Md., leads a voluntary partnership of asphalt-paving industry organizations that is researching and recommending ways to cut down the amount of silica dust generated by asphalt-milling machines in advance of federal safety and health regulations. Though Fore retired from NAPA in September, he remains active in helping lead the Silica/Milling Machine Partnership, a group developing design guidelines that manufacturers can use to build better dust controls into machines that grind off asphalt pavements. The partnership also is creating guidelines that will help workers cut down

div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" ALLEN SECKINGER WALTER P MOORE, Houston, announced that Ryan Seckinger, P.E., was chosen as the 2010 recipient of the firm’s prestigious “Javier F. Horvilleur Outstanding Young Engineer Award.” The award is presented annually to one young structural engineer at WALTER P MOORE who best exemplifies design excellence, outstanding client service and business acumen. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s of science and master’s of science in civil engineering. Also, it was announced that Hollis Allen, Jr., P.E., Ben Cheplak, P.E., Doug Coenen, P.E., Joseph Dowd, P.E., Daron Hester, P.E.,

Award of Merit - Multi-Family Residential/Hospitality Mather LifeWays of Evanston, Ill., says it has broken the mold of locating a Continuing Care Retirement Community on a suburban campus by embracing the renaissance in urban living and its many benefits for adults 62 and older. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The 496,000-sq-ft community encompasses redevelopment of a 3.2-acre urban infill site previously occupied by two outdated senior residences. The community provides 243 homes comprising 40 different unit plans averaging nearly 1,400 square feet per unit. The community also provides a variety of living options, located in five distinct neighborhoods. Two

Project of the Year - Health Care (Tie) Gilbane Building Co. performed construction management services for Lake Health’s new, four-story, 119-bed, 300,000-sq-ft replacement hospital. Photo: Scott Pease Photography div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" TriPoint Medical Center rests on a 44-acre, greenfield site in Concord, Ohio. Hospital features include private rooms, an ICU, medical/surgical and ICU beds, special-care nursery units, general radiology facilities, gift shop, pharmacy and chapel. Just 16 months into construction, Gilbane was already performing interior framing and in-wall rough-in of the patient room headwalls on the third and fourth floors. However, shortly after Gilbane began constructing the

This project required the renovation and expansion of one of the largest football stadiums in the country.

Project of the Year - Higher Education The program called for large pieces of equipment, including a strong wall, gantry cranes and a hydraulic flume. In addition to these items, the design developed to incorporate three large 36-ft x 24-ft operable doors to facilitate the movement of the cranes through the building and a French drain system to manage stormwater on site. Photo: Kate Joyce Studios div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Since the civil engineering program was new to the university, key stakeholders such as the program head and professors were not yet in place during the design process