Turning an abandoned Kmart into a school for 400 underserved students when another site fell through was a tall order for JGMA and McShane Construction.
While drawing plans for Detroit’s 28,000-sq-ft Marygrove Early Childhood Education Center, lead architect Marlon Blackwell and general contractor Barton Malow met with parents, caregivers and existing child-care providers in the area to receive input on the center’s design aesthetic and services to really get a sense of community needs.
For its new Chicago office, Gilbane created a workspace that also serves as a company showroom, exhibiting the contractor’s project portfolio and demonstrating its people-first approach.
In just 33 weeks, an abandoned 130,000-sq-ft big-box retail space was transformed into an office and community center that provides health and wellness services.
Chicago’s Lakefront Trail Pedestrian Bridge incorporates architectural steel railings and panels, custom steel deck nosing and a LED lighting system to improve visibility.
On Nov. 11, 2020, a trucking accident on the Brent Spence Bridge—a key thoroughfare between Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati—caused a fire that damaged the double-decker cantilevered truss bridge’s upper deck floor system steel, drainage, deck, barriers, electrical components and the lower deck’s overlay.
Adjacent to one of the largest college football stadiums in the U.S. and situated on a site of a decommissioned power plant, Michigan State University’s STEM Teaching and Learning Facility faced a mountain of challenges.
The $59-million, 146,000-sq-ft Iowa State University Student Innovation Center was designed to be flexible. Unlike so many buildings on campus, the SIC was not defined by one college, user group or entity as the sole occupant.
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