One for the Books

When the University of Chicago’s new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library opens its doors to faculty, students, and visiting researchers in the spring of 2011, it will combine distinctive above-ground architecture with a sophisticated and effective underground storage and retrieval system.
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Top Design Firms for 2009

Midwest Construction’s 2009 list of 80 top Midwestern design firms, ranked by revenue from calendar year 2008, includes 62 companies returning from last year’s list, plus 18 newcomers. Full Story >>

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Cultural and Municipal Building Projects Make Their Marks in the Midwest

Often sources of civic pride, cultural and municipal construction projects can help enrich the lives of a region’s population by enabling people to gather and enjoy all forms of the arts. Other kinds of municipal construction, such as law-enforcement facilities, can help people live more safely by increasing the morale and efficiency of the police departments that protect them. Full Story >>

Wind Farms: Complex Projects in Rural Places

Constructing a wind farm wouldn’t be quite as challenging if the sites weren’t so, well, windy. Not to mention out in the middle of nowhere, often with inadequate roads—or no roads at all—and frequently far from such necessities as concrete plants and adequate lodging for traveling laborers. Full Story >>

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