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Project of the Year-Engineering Design: Lawrence University/Warch Campus Center, Appleton, Wis.

Midwest Construction's Best of 2010
12/01/2010 Annual awards program recognizes the best projects in eight states.

Photo: Carla Brue of IMAGE Studio

Project of the Year-Engineering Design:
Lawrence University/Warch Campus Center, Appleton, Wis.

2011 Midwest Forecast
12/01/2010 By Mike Larson
There are faint glimmers of hope that next year will be another small step on the long, steep road to recovery.

10/01/10	Attention to Detail By Mike Larson Chazen Museum addition is work of art. Complex design and mountains of fine detailing have presented the contractor with challenges but will result in a community icon.
10/01/10	Government Goes Full Throttle By Paula Widholm Mechanical rehabs, restorations and new construction supply much-needed jobs.
10/01/10	Midwest's Top 80 Designers Billings hit $1.7 billion despite recession.
10/01/10	Profile: Flad Architects Wisconsin firm grows revenue in tough times.
10/01/10	Profile: HNTB Firm flourishes across Midwest.
10/01/10	Birch Bayh Federal Building Greening a Century-Old Architectural Gem.
08/01/10	Illinois Report The state’s construction jobs totaled 198,500 in June, down 19,100 or 8.8% from the June 2009 figure of 217,600.
08/01/10	Engineering Marvel A deep-section steel truss mounted to an elevator core provides support for cantilevered ends at 215 W. Washington St. in Chicago.
08/01/10	New Ship in an Old Bottle The $182-million project includes renovating the idled nine-story Ottawa Street Power Station and converting it into office space, as well as building a new four-story office next to the existing power plant.
06/01/10	Top Project Starts Midwest Construction presents its annual list of Top Project Starts, which ranks projects that broke ground in 2009 by their contract cost.
06/01/10	Spotlight on Power By Sam Barnes Duke Energy’s $2.88 billion coal degasification power plant under construction on 100 acres in Edwardsport, Ind., is a colossal endeavor with an endless number of firsts.
06/01/10	2010 Contractor of the Year By Mike Larson Despite a depressed U.S. construction market in 2009, Walsh Construction Co. of Chicago managed to generate $1.3 billion in regional revenue and more than $3.3 billion nationwide.
05/01/10	Top 100 Contractors of 2010 By Mike Larson The last year has been difficult for the construction industry. Who has weathered the storm best? Which companies have climbed—or fallen—and how far? Who leads in Illinois,Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin and overall? Who are the 10 newcomers? Midwest Construction’s Top Contractor charts tell it all.
05/01/10	High Speed Rail: Federal Stimulus Funding Puts Midwest Rail Projects on Track in 2010 By Mike Larson Federal stimulus money will be the financial engine driving about $2.6 billion of high-speed rail work in the Upper Midwest during 2010.
05/01/10	2010 Owner of the Year By Steve Kaelble Midwest Construction introduces the 2010 Owner of the Year, the City of Carmel, Ind. Rapid growth and change have presented the city with the opportunity to literally construct its own future.The city has orchestrated some $300 million worth of infrastructure projects in the past five years or so, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in brickand-mortar projects of all types.
05/01/10	Office Construction Trends By Mike Larson To find out what trends are at work in the office-construction market, Midwest Construction talked to a leading developer, two noted architects and three major general contractors. Here is what they told us.
05/01/10	Low Energy By Mike Larson One of Chicago’s hottest new boutique hotels is also proving to be high on the energy-efficiency list.
05/01/10	In High Gear By Mike Larson The second season of construction for the largest transportation project in Wisconsin history is now in full swing as Chicago’s Walsh Construction Co. and its subcontractors replace pavement, bridges, interchanges, frontage roads and storm sewers on sections of Interstate 94 in the southeastern corner of the state.
05/01/10	Second Take By Mike Larson After opening the initial round of bids from three prominent area contractors on Feb. 11 for reconstruction of the Wacker Drive/Congress Parkway Interchange, the City of Chicago disqualified two, then rejected the third for being too expensive.
03/01/10	Higher Education Construction By Mike Larson By most accounts, 2010 looks to be another rugged year for much of the construction industry, though things may improve a little near year’s end. In what promises to be a difficult business climate overall, higher-education construction seems to be a relative bright spot.
03/01/10	Midwest Hotel Construction: Big projects are few and far between By Steve Kaelble With occupancy and revenue rates plummeting over the past four years and financing continuing to be tight, few large hotel projects are being built in the Midwest. But even in tough times a few notable projects are under way.
03/01/10	Active and Growing Markets By Pamela Dittmer McKuen Although 2009 was grim overall for the construction industry, not all numbers were negative. Several niche project categories saw significant increases in the four metropolitan statistical areas within Midwest Construction’s coverage: Milwaukee, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Chicago.
03/01/10	Above and Beyond Two owners of large tower crane fleets cut risks by stepping up safety programs By Tudor Van Hampton Kansas City’s J.E. Dunn and Salem, Ore.’s, Morrow Equipment Co. are making their huge fleets of tower cranes as safe as possible with safety and inspection programs that go above and beyond regulations
01/01/10	Regional Outlook: 2010 a Bit Better than 2009 By Mike Larson Industry indicators show that the construction industry’s decline has slowed and many industry experts expect the upturn to start sometime in 2010. Although many factors can affect the recovery, nearly every expert we interviewed thinks the industry faces a long slow climb back to prosperity.
01/01/10	National Forecast 2010 By Bruce Buckley Continuing tight credit, an overabundance of retail and office space, and excess manufacturing capacity will keep non-residential construction in the doldrums during 2010, despite more stimulus-funded projects starting.
01/01/10	Milestone Project Just What Doctor Ordered By Steve Kaelble The new Milestone hospital renovation and construction project in Peoria, Ill., built two new hospitals, renovated parts of an existing building, and tied the three together into one large unit.
01/01/10	High School Renovations Earn High Marks By Paula Widholm Working on an historic landmark high school in Joliet, Ill., a design and construction team brought HVAC, electrical, and other systems up to date while respecting the historic architecture.

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