Despite a depressed U.S. construction market in 2009, Walsh Construction Co. of Chicago managed to generate $1.3 billion in regional revenue and more than $3.3 billion nationwide. For the second straight year, it repeated as the top contractor in Midwest Construction’s ranking of regional contractors and repeated as the 17th largest U.S. contractor in Engineering News-Record’s rankings. ENR and Midwest Construction are both published by McGraw-Hill. History of Growth and Family Ownership Founded in 1898 in Chicago by Matthew Myles Walsh, an Irish immigrant, Walsh Construction has grown into the Midwest’s largest general contractor. Now headed by the founder’s grandsons—CEO

Sheldon J. �Red� Mandell, Chicago demolition industry veteran and first president of the National Demolition Association, received the association�s Lifetime Achievement Award for the influential role he played in the growth of the association. He currently serves as chairman of the Board of National Wrecking Company, a family-owned business he has managed since 1952. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" HONORS St. Louis Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 apprentice Dustin Walker was awarded top honors as a service apprentice at the Annual International Sheet Metal Competition hosted by the International Training Institute in Las Vegas, Nev. Walker is in the

Cost: $97 million The University of Wisconsin�s Biochemistry II building is an interdisciplinary facility that will replace the 1956, 1937 and part of the 1912 wing of the existing Biochemistry complex. Photo: Courtesy Of Flad Architects Biochemistry II, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts This teaching and research building will bring undergraduates, graduate students and staff together from departments in the college of agricultural and life sciences and the medical school. The new, 250,000-sq-ft facility will include laboratories for 20 research groups, three teaching auditoriums, three smaller classrooms, three biochemistry instructional laboratories, an animal

Cost: $150 million Located at 215 West Washington Street in Chicago, the 50-story building is the first high-rise rental residence to be built in Chicago�s Loop in 15 years. The building features 389 studio/convertible, one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartment homes. Photo: Courtesy Of Doka Usa Ltd. 215 West Apartments, Chicago Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The tower also includes a 12-story parking garage and 14,000 sq ft of retail space at street level. The project was completed three months ahead of schedule due to the use of Doka USA�s unique formwork systems. The project was one of the

Cost: $45 million Ayres Associates designed the reconstruction of 5 mi of I-94 from the Badger Interchange (I-90) on the east side of Madison, Wis., to just east of the CTH �N� interchange. Photo By T-bo Photography I-94 Reconstruction, Madison, Wis. Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The existing four-lane segment from I-90 to CTH �N� will be reconstructed and expanded from four to six lanes. The project includes the construction of eight new bridges, replacement of two box culverts and temporary widening of four existing bridges for traffic staging. Extensive traffic control plans are required to maintain four

Cost: $486.7 million The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission�s Safe & Sound Bridge Improvement Program is a two-phase program to improve 802 of the state�s lowest-rated bridges by October 2014. Photo: Courtesy Of Missouri Dept. Of Transportation Missouri Bridges Project 554, Multiple Cities, Missouri Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts In the first phase of the program, 248 bridges have been identified for rehabilitation, and many of those are already under construction by other contractors. They are being put out for bid in groups according to location, type or size to expedite the design and construction process. In the

Cost: $60.5 million Monroe Clinic�s need to accommodate growth, to attract and retain top caregivers, to continuously improve their ability to offer health care are the drivers for this project. Photo: Courtesy Of Kahler Slater Architects Monroe Clinic Hospital, Monroe, Wis. Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The northwest addition project will house both hospital and clinical services, providing expanded and more convenient access to care. Some features of the campus expansion include: � Convenient day-surgery access and private exit. � An emergency helipad and covered ambulance entrance. � An expanded family birth center featuring large birthing suites. �

Cost: $466 million The University of Chicago Medical Center�s New Hospital Pavilion will be a 21st-century technological and architectural tour de force, designed to accelerate medical progress and to leverage the close collaboration between the university�s world-class clinicians and researchers for the benefit of patients. New Hospital Pavilion, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The futuristic 10-story, 1.2-million-sq-ft hospital pavilion, designed by renowned architect Rafael Vi�oly, provides a high-technology facility that combines the optimal setting for patient care and collaborative clinical research with the flexibility to adapt to and drive forward rapid changes

Cost: $370 million This project requires the new construction of a 800,000-sq-ft, nine-story replacement hospital for Parkview Regional Medical Center, supplying 430 beds to the surrounding communities. Photo: Courtesy Of Hks Inc. Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, Ind. Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts This new facility includes a brand-new, state-of-the-art core hospital, central plant, heart center and other additions. The contractor is using Building Information Modeling for all above-ceiling trade coordination, clash detection. The MEP contractor is utilizing the technology to prefabricate sections. Key Facts Start/Completion: September 2009/June 2012 Owner: Parkview Health, Fort Wayne, Ind. General Contractor:

Cost: $270 million Silver Cross Hospital�s new replacement hospital is located minutes from the existing campus and supports the hospital�s mission of quality services and healthcare for the growing community. Photo: Courtesy Of Rtkl Associates Inc. Silver Cross Hospital, New Replacement Hospital, New Lenox, Ill. Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The all private and family-friendly 289-bed hospital features 184 med-surgery, 16 pediatric, 30 OB, 22 ICU, 20 behavioral health and 17 rehab beds. The 600,000-sq-ft facility includes 11 surgical suites and an Emergency Department with 39 private treatment rooms and one CT Scanner. The Imaging Department has two