Updates about construction professionals in the Midwest region
Dodge data on projected 2022 construction starts in Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Dodge data on projected 2022 construction starts in the greater Chicagoland area.
Castle contracting delivers a village for homeless veterans in North St. Louis. The Wisconsin Center expansion breaks ground in Milwaukee and I-69 opens to traffic near Indianapolis.
St. Louis nearly lost the headquarters of the National Geospatial Agency, but a fast turnaround construction plan and local leadership saved it.
Decades after leading protests that shut down Chicago worksites, Paul King hasn’t given up the battle against racial bias.
Midwest Top Young Professionals, 2022.
Updates about construction professionals across the great Midwest.
Reports from key industry events across the Midwest.
Dodge offers data on 2021 construction starts for billings in the Indianapolis area.
Dodge offers data on 2021 construction starts for billings in the Columbus/Cincinnati area.
In 2020 our Best Projects entrants rebuillt, adapted and reused better.
The cost of achieving LEED Silver existing buildings for a more than 100-year-old structure is considerably more than for new construction.
After sitting vacant for nearly 15 years, the iconic Flashcube building in downtown Kansas City is once again lighting up the neighborhood.<
The 60-year-old bridge spanning the Minnesota River has been replaced with a twin-structure crossing that provides long-needed added traffic capacity while also eliminating flooding issues at the approaches.
Taking 106 bridge piers down to 52 on the Illinois Tollway’s Central Tri-State/I-294 Mile-Long Bridge meant bringing in the largest California wide-flange concrete beams ever used in Illinois.
Despite the need to complete unplanned emergency repairs while working in the Mississippi River during the winter months, the miter gate anchorages project was completed with zero recordable incidents and zero lost-time injuries.
To help develop and assess new techniques for capturing stormwater runoff before it enters the combined sanitary sewer system, the Kansas City Water Services Dept. piloted a green infrastructure demonstration project that aims to reduce overflows by more than 20%.
Biogas once used to power the recovery facility’s combined heat and power system is now generating revenue for the city, thanks to an $8.6-million heat and electrical generation system upgrade.
These 80-year-old structures are critical components of a system that ensures consistent navigability and access along the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf Coast.
The TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park in downtown Indianapolis has been a staple of outdoor concerts and events for nearly 20 years. In 2018, the city announced an expansion and awarded the task to Shiel Sexton Co. and Power & Sons Construction.
The 26,000-seat home of FC Cincinnati is not only one of the largest soccer-specific stadiums in Major League Soccer, it’s also one of its most architecturally complex.
The $19.5-million Muscatine Organics Recycling Center is one of just three municipally owned food waste recycling facilities in the U.S. and the only one in the Midwest.
To create the new 11,000-sq-ft SOS Children’s Villages Illinois - Roosevelt Square Community Center, the team designed and built a single-story cross-laminated timber superstructure—with columns, beams and a roof structure that were all executed using CLT.
Located on a peninsula at the confluence of three branches of the Chicago River, crews on the 628,500-sq-ft Wolf Point East project faced significant challenges accessing an already dense urban site.
Cantilevered tiers of four and five floors and a scalloped facade of curtain wall and architectural metal make 100 Above the Park a striking design on St. Louis’ western skyline.<
It’s not easy tinkering with an iconic structure, but that’s what Clayco had to do with Chicago’s famous Marshall Fields State Street building.
Exact Sciences is a Madison, Wis.-based molecular diagnostics and early cancer detection laboratory analysis provider.
The former General Growth Partners building site was one of the few locations available on Wacker Drive to place a tall building, but also one of the most difficult.
The FII High-Performance Computing Data Center is a 100-ft-tall, 28,000-sq-ft glass sphere that’s the centralized network and data center control hub for the Foxconn campus in the Wisconn Valley.