IESI Corp. recently opened a new eco-friendly headquarters in St. Louis, Mo. Housing almost 80 employees, the 17,200-sq-ft building features office space, fleet service and wash bays, and a mezzanine area that will be used for future growth. Related Links: Marquette University, Opus North Break Ground on New Engineering Facility Panduit Opens New World Headquarters Magellan Breaks Ground on Retail Center at Lakeshore East The facility is the first waste hauling facility in Missouri to be built to achieve LEED certification. Showing green innovation, the service bay’s heating system will run on recycled oil from the company’s fleet, cutting down

Panduit recently opened a new world headquarters building in Tinley Park, Ill. The building is the realization of the Panduit Unified Physical InfrastructureSM (UPI) Vision and serves as a blueprint for the “building of the future.” Related Links: Marquette University, Opus North Break Ground on New Engineering Facility Magellan Breaks Ground on Retail Center at Lakeshore East IESI Opens New Missouri Headquarters The World Headquarters Building provides state-of-the-art visibility and control into all critical building systems, integrated and aligned under a single, unified, intelligent infrastructure. Designed to maximize sustainability, global collaboration and innovation, the WHQ will initially serve 800 employees

The new I-35W bridge in Minneapolis recently received an Award of Excellence from the Portland Cement Association at its 2010 PCA Concrete Bridge Conference held in Phoenix, Ariz. The National Concrete Bridge Council and the Federal Highway Administration sponsored the 2010 PCA Concrete Bridge Conference, where a jury of experts selected the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis as one of seven national winners. Related Links: IIT Perfect Power Project Receives DOE Stimulus Funding EPA Adds Illinois Sites to Superfund Priorities List To date, the I-35W bridge has received more than 25 regional and national awards. The National Concrete Bridge Council and

Aldridge Electric Inc. recently completed work on the third phase of the Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) Perfect Power pilot project in Chicago, one of only nine Smart Grid projects selected last summer to receive Department of Energy stimulus funding. Related Links: I-35W Bridge Receives PCA Design Excellence Award EPA Adds Illinois Sites to Superfund Priorities List Once complete, the pioneer project guarantees continuous service or “perfect power” throughout the campus by creating redundancy and an intelligent electricity distribution system that interfaces with a campus-wide energy system controller. The Aldridge Electric crew worked weekends and off-campus hours to safely complete

Construction has surpassed the halfway point on the $35 million Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) comprehensive outpatient cancer treatment and imaging center in Warrenville, Ill., which was master planned and designed by RTKL Associates Inc. Related Links: Aqua Lands International Design Award Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Announces 2010 Design Award Winners HOK-Designed Terminal at Indianapolis International Earns Recognition The location is 5 mi south of the hospital’s main campus in Winfield, where CDH is building a 276,000-sq-ft bed pavilion, also designed by RTKL. “Our goal with this project is to showcase CDH and its cancer program by creating a facility with

Magellan Development Group recently broke ground on a 105,000-sq-ft retail center at the southwest corner of the 28-acre Lakeshore East mixed-use development rising just northeast of Millennium Park near the confluence of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan.

Featured Product   05/01/2010 CS Unitec The CS Unitec Model 7 is a Pneumatic-powered Air Mixer and is intended for mixing paint, glue, epoxy, mortar, concrete, refractory cement and other materials in hazardous environments. The mixer is ATEX-approved for use in EX zones with hazardous atmospheres, and is safe to be used around water. The mixer’s 1.5 hp motor has two speed settings of 0-190 rpm and 0-350 rpm, and has the capacity to mix batches of material up to 110 lb. The mixer uses 49 cfm of air at 90 psi and weighs only 15 lb. Mixing paddles are available

Federal stimulus money will be the financial engine driving about $2.6 billion of high-speed rail work in the Upper Midwest during 2010. About $2.6 billion in federal stimulus money will be provided to the Upper Midwest for high-speed rail work. The Chicago-St. Louis line is scheduled to receive $1.1 billion, the most of any Midwest route. The region’s key routes include Chicago-St. Louis-Kansas City; Chicago-Detroit; Chicago-Milwaukee-Madison (and in the future Minneapolis-St. Paul); and Cleveland-Columbus-Dayton-Cincinnati. Related Links: In High Gear Second Take The federal government announced in late January that it would award $8 billion nationwide this year to projects that

In late April, southern Missouri�s 440-megawatt Taum Sauk hydroelectric plant began generating power for the first time since December 2005, when an old dam gave way and more than a billion gallons of water rushed down the side of Proffitt Mountain through the popular Johnson�s Shut-Ins State Park below. Photo courtesy of AmerenUE Power utility AmerenUE awarded a joint venture Ozark Constructors LLC the contract to rebuild the pumped-storage reservoir using roller-compacted concrete. Power utility AmerenUE awarded a joint venture named Ozark Constructors LLC the contract to rebuild the pumped-storage reservoir�this time using roller-compacted concrete (RCC), which has become an

Seven Chicago-region transportation agencies convened April 22 for a first-of-its-kind Earth Day XL Transportation Summit to improve coordination among the region�s transportation leaders. At the downtown Chicago summit, chairs of Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois Tollway, Metra, Pace, RTA and Illinois Department of Transportation signed the first-ever Earth Day XL Accord. This set of guiding principles for the region�s transportation and transit agencies includes: committing to work toward a shared transportation vision for the region; supporting multi-agency information sharing and coordination; examining programs and proposals to maximize efficiency, reducing costs; and improving service; and reporting publicly