Faced with the need for a full-depth reconstruction of seven miles of Interstate 96 in suburban Detroit, including rehabilitation of 37 bridges, new LED lighting and storm sewers, geometric upgrades, signing, extensive landscaping and safety improvements, Michigan Dept. of Transportation modeled 24 closure options and then reduced them to five, including full closure and several options for partial closures.
To transform St. Norbert College’s 100,000-sq-ft, 50-year-old science center into a state-of-the-art research and learning facility for the 21st century, all mechanical and electrical systems were completely replaced, the building shell was renovated to add daylighting and two wings totaling 60,000 sq ft were added.
The deadliest U.S. tornado since 1947 claimed 161 lives and destroyed much of Joplin, Mo., scoring a direct hit on St. John’s Mercy Regional Medical Center.
This 31,000-sq-ft station consists of cast-in-place concrete spread footings, concrete masonry block bearing walls, precast plank floors and a long-lasting, standing seam metal roof on a steel joist roof structure.
The 158,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility for Method Products pbc, a maker of premium plant-friendly and design-driven products for home, fabric and personal care, is a LEED Platinum plant primarily powered by a 600-kW wind turbine, with solar-thermal water heating and three solar-tracking trees in the parking lot.
A four-year project to upgrade air quality control and improve plant efficiency at Alliant Energy’s Ottumwa Generating Station accomplished all objectives during the same 76-day outage, with results that exceeded expectations.
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