More than two years after announcing plans to construct the $220-million Ryan Fieldhouse, an athletic and recreational complex sited on Lake Michigan, Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern University plans to file a permit request with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in anticipation of proceeding with the project.
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) plans to invest $2.4 billion in transportation construction this year, including 990 road projects, the agency announced last week.
Modular classrooms arrived on site this week at the Winnetka, Ill, campus of New Trier High School, kicking off a $100-million program to overhaul portions of the 114-year old school, with Wight and Co. and Pepper Construction, both of Chicago, serving as project architect and construction manager, respectively.
Demand for design services among Midwest architects softened in February, though the region continued to log positive growth for a third consecutive month, according to Washington, D.C.-based American Institute of Architects' Architectural Billings Index (ABI).
Average construction backlogs in the South, including Texas and Louisiana, surpassed nine months during the final quarter of 2014, a feat regional builders haven't achieved since the first quarter of the year, according to data compiled by Washington, D.C.-based Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). Backlogs in the region rose .30 months, to 9.29 months, in quarter-to-quarter comparisons but declined .36 months, from 9.65 months, in year-over-year comparisons for the same period, data indicate. The Midwest and Eastern regions also logged increases in quarter-to-quarter comparisons, though a 21% decrease in the West, from 9.42 months to 7.42 months, contributed to a
Related Links: Best of the Best 2014 ENR Northwest Best Projects Spending several days per week on site to resolve issues as they arose during erection, teams of designers took to the field during construction of the University of Oregon's 145,000-sq-ft Hatfield-Dowlin complex, home to an array of spaces for college football's Oregon Ducks. Prior to that, the design team crisscrossed the country to evaluate both college and professional sports facilities and used their observations to inform the programming and design of Hatfield-Dowlin, a facility that hosts weight rooms, video theaters, a player's lounge and a "war room" for Oregon's
Photos courtesy of ODOT Photo & Video Services The 2,000-ft-long Interstate 5 Willamette Bridge is Oregon's largest single-arch span. Its construction called for complex logistics and close collaboration under a delivery method known as construction management/general contracting. Related Links: Best of the Best 2014 ENR Northwest Project of the Year While executing construction of the $152-million Interstate 5 Willamette River Bridge, project team members detoured into unfamiliar territory. The 2,000-ft-long span, bordering Eugene and Springfield, Ore., is not only the state's largest single-arch span but also one of only a handful of U.S. transportation projects to forgo traditional delivery for
An “engineering mistake” may have contributed to the January collapse of an overhead exit ramp in Cincinnati that killed a construction worker, according the CEO of Kokosing Construction Co. Inc., the Westerville, Ohio-based contractor charged with demolishing the ramp.
In fall 2009, Philadelphia-based Drexel University broke ground on the $70-million, 130,000-sq-ft Papadakis Integrated Science Building, a project seeking LEED Silver certification under the auspices of the U.S. Green Building Council.