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Historic Bush Stadium Gets New Lease on Life
02/04/01 By Tudor Van Hampton
Indianapolis developer repurposes a 1930s-era ballpark into new apartments, anchoring a budding life-sciences corridor.

Photo by Tudor Van Hampton for ENR Midwest

ENR Midwest Top Starts for 2012
04/01/13 By John Gregerson
Region is marred by stalled economies and weak fundamentals.

Image Courtesy of Indiana Dept. of Transportation

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04/01/13	Coal Plant Spearheads Environmental Upgrades By Ivy Chang New scrubbers and carbon injection systems will reduce sulfur dioxide and mercury emissions by 90%.
11/26/12	Best Project Civil/Infrastructure: Constructed Wetlands for Treatment of Combined Sewer Overflows By John Gregerson Constructed wetlands an economic solution to sewer overflows.
11/26/12	Best Project Cultural/Worship: Garden Mausoleum in Minneapolis By John Gregerson Mausoleum is a monument to the many uses of stone.
11/26/12	Best Project Government: Hanover Park Police Headquarters By John Gregerson Innovation is in evidence at police headquarters.
11/26/12	Best Project K-12 Education: Early Learning Center By John Gregerson Team members aimed to imbue the space with a sense of discovery and learning.
11/26/12	Best Project Landscape/Hardscape/Urban Development: 31st Street Harbor By John Gregerson City harbor is anchored in community uses.
11/26/12	Best Project Multifamily Residential/Hospitality: St. Johns on the Lake South Tower By John Gregerson Senior facility seeks to strengthen community ties.
11/26/12	Best Project Retail/Mixed-Use Development: Maplewood Mall By John Gregerson Renovations to a 140,000-sq-ft mall were performed exclusively at night.
11/26/12	Best Project Specialty Contracting: Citgo Lemont Refinery Coker Turnaround By John Gregerson Contractor has only a small window to execute a large refinery repair.
11/26/12	Best Project Sports/Entertainment: Ford Center By John Gregerson Sports stadium allows concrete to test its mettle.
11/26/12	Best Projects Civil/Infrastructure North 4th Street Bridge Utilities Relocation By John Gregerson Utilities relocated from underside of bridge.
11/26/12	Best Projects Cultural Award of Merit Cranbrook Art Museum and Collections Building By John Gregerson Addition incorporates materials that complement original structure.
11/26/12	Best Projects Green Award of Merit: Rivers Casino By John Gregerson Casino receives LEED-Gold certification.
11/26/12	Best Projects Green Facility: Clock Shadow Building By John Gregerson Sustainable building arises with the help of salvage yards.
11/26/12	Best Projects Health Care Award of Merit: Cleveland Clinic New Data Center By John Gregerson Data center places equal emphasis on image and infrastructure.
11/26/12	Best Projects Higher Education Award of Merit University of Michigan Law School Building/Addition By John Gregerson Contextualism key to executing law school addition.
11/26/12	Best Projects Higher Education/Research: Homeland Security Education Center By John Gregerson Integrated delivery lies at the heart of homeland security facility.
11/26/12	Best Projects Interior Design Award of Merit:vLocal 17 -- Int'l Assoc. of Heat & Frost Insulators By John Gregerson A clean and simple aesthetic keeps spaces welcoming and user friendly.
11/26/12	Best Projects K-12 Education Award of Merit: Westchester Christian Academy New 7-12 Grade Campus By John Gregerson Project team encounters a steep learning curve while building school campus.
11/26/12	Best Projects Landscape/Hardscape/Urban Development Award of Merit: Central Riverfront The Banks By John Gregerson Parking structure elevates buildings and public spaces above the floodplain.
11/26/12	Best Projects Multifamily Residential/Hospitality Award of Merit Ronald McDonald House By John Gregerson Site constraints pose logistical challenges to project’s builders.
11/26/12	Best Projects Office Award of Merit: Astellas Headquarters for the Americas. By John Gregerson Asymmetrical forms form the signature of this pharmaceutical headquarters.
11/26/12	Best Projects Office: Delta of Michigan Headquarters Expansion and Renovation By John Gregerson Dental addition bridges environmental concerns.
11/26/12	Best Projects Project of the Year: Rush University Medical Center-The Tower By John Gregerson Form flows from function at a Chicago hospital focused squarely on patient care.
11/26/12	Best Projects Renovation/Restoration Award of Merit: Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity By John Gregerson Former power house proves a perfect fit for ballet company.
11/26/12	Best Projects Renovation/Restoration: Calfee Building By John Gregerson Law firm provides legal aid to deteriorating Beaux-Arts building.
11/26/12	Best Projects Retail/Mixed-Use Development Award of Merit: Chicago Sports Depot By John Gregerson Steel frame ties into existing stadium structure.
11/26/12	Best Projects Safety Award of Merit: ConocoPhillips Wood River Refinery Stormwater Upgrades By John Gregerson Crews completed the project without a single recordable incident.
11/26/12	Best Projects Safety Award: Settlers Trail Wind Farm By John Gregerson Safety measures help wind farm stay the course.
11/26/12	Best Projects Small Project: St. Louis Science Center Boeing Hall By John Gregerson Safety and specialty systems are key to exhibit hall addition.
11/26/12	Best Projects Sports/Entertainment Award of Merit: Carver-Hawkeye Arena By John Gregerson Addition takes design cues from existing structure.
11/26/12	Best Projects Transportation Award of Merit: Stearns Road Corridor By John Gregerson Massive road project preserves more than 200 acres of surrounding greenery.
11/26/12	Best Projects Transportation: South Bend Regional Airport Concourse ‘A’ Expansion By John Gregerson Airport addition takes flight with wing-like forms.
11/26/12	Digging Deeper: Power Company Goes Lean to Build Clean By Kathie sutin Co-generation facility will derive power from forest residue and wood waste.
11/26/12	ENR Midwest Best Projects 2012 By John Gregerson Winners honored on the basis of quality, innovation and safety.
11/26/12	Government/Public Buildings Award of Merit Livingston County Law & Justice Center By John Gregerson Justice facility revives underutilized parts of downtown.
09/24/12	Collaboration Key to Keeping Ahead of Schedule on Cleveland’s Convention Center By Tom Klemens Bridging design-build, design-assist and high-tech tools help bring medical mart to early completion.
07/23/12	Push Comes to Shove Over the Ohio River By Tudor Van Hampton Workers at the Milton-Madison Bridge are preparing to slide a half-mile-long steel truss sideways over the Ohio River
05/21/12	ADM Moves to Advance Carbon Storage Efforts By Tom Klemens A multiyear, multiphase installation in Decatur, Ill., will be the first in the world to inject two plumes of CO2 in the same saline formation.
03/26/12	BP Primes Its Whiting Plant for Canadian Crude By Pam Radtke Russell Some 8,000 tradesmen converge on a site in Whiting, Ind., that touches three cities.
01/30/12	Digging Deeper: Structural Monitoring Keeps Rail Lines on Track By John Gregerson Refinements may lead to a less expensive method of monitoring the health of aging structures.
01/30/12	Structural Monitoring Keeps Rail Lines on Track By John Gregerson Refinements may lead to a less expensive method of monitoring the health of aging structures.
12/20/11	ENR Announces Best of the Best Projects 2011 Awards By Scott Blair Panel of industry experts awards 18 prizes
11/28/11	Ohio State University Engages in 'At-Risk' Business By Pamela Dittmer McKuen The $1.1-billion, Ohio State University Medical Center is among the first state projects to be delivered via construction management at risk.
11/28/11	Art and Science Meet at Discovery Institute By John Gregerson The facility unites scientists from a broad spectrum of disciplines while immersing them in the arts and humanities, education and outreach.
11/28/11	Blue Cross Raises a Green Shield By John Gregerson Facility is the largest wholly owner-occupied office building in the world to achieve LEED-Platinum Certification.
11/28/11	Cable-Stayed Bridge Built to Span a Century By John Gregerson Cable-stayed bridge is built to span a century.
11/28/11	Chicago High-Rise Apartment Goes for LEED Gold By John Gregerson Sustainable design elements include Energy STAR-rated appliances, low water-use fixtures, and energy-efficient elevators, light fixtures and HVAC equipment.
11/28/11	Cincinnati Tower Capped by Elliptical ‘Tiara’ By John Gregerson The steel tiara consists of 15 ornamental arch elements uniformly supported by 14 arching columns.
11/28/11	Columbus Project Puts River Front and Center By John Gregerson Project called for both a promenade and a new multi-use park.
11/28/11	Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Pursues a Patient-Focused Approach By John Gregerson Design integrates the viewpoints of staff and other stakeholders.
11/28/11	ENR Midwest Best Projects of 2011 By John Gregerson Winners range from a historic hotel and a children’s hospital to a rooftop nightclub and cable-stayed bridge.
11/28/11	Green Systems Shine at Bright Lights Facility By John Gregerson Trading facility is the largest LEED-CI project in the Midwest to achieve Platinum status.
11/28/11	Historic Chicago Park Receives Contemporary Upgrades By John Gregerson Project’s landscaped interventions are intended to resemble bridges.
11/28/11	Hospital Spaces Promote a Healthier Environment By John Gregerson Facility weaves a child-friendly environment with environmentally friendly systems.
11/28/11	Interdenominational Church Showcases Interplay of Materials By John Gregerson Structural steel, stone, timber and light-gauge metal make for tricky intersection points.
11/28/11	Iowa Hotel Reclaims Its Former Glory By John Gregerson Restoration returned key public spaces to their original glory.
11/28/11	Missouri Coal-Fired Plant Comes Clean on Emissions By John Gregerson Renovation project required more than 2.2 million man-hours and as many as 550 craftsworkers during peak periods.
11/28/11	New Energy Center Ranks Among Nations Cleanest By John Gregerson Coal-fired plant equipped with state-of-the-art emissions reduction technology.
11/28/11	New Lobby Signals New Era for St. Louis Building By John Gregerson Renovation sets the stage for the rebirth of aging office tower.
11/28/11	New Police Headquarters Sets Up Shop in Former Industrial Structure By John Gregerson The pairing of a precast warehouse and police facility wasn’t made to order.
11/28/11	Ohio Center Aims to Advance Tissue Transplant Technology By John Gregerson The Center for Tissue Innovation and Research houses 14 state-of-the-art clean-rooms to process human tissue for bone, skin and tissue grafts.
11/28/11	Old-World Design Meets New-World Technology By John Gregerson Its neoclassical trappings belie the contemporary design solutions required to harmoniously blend form and function at the $118-million, 1,600-seat Palladium Center for Performing Arts in Carmel, Ind.
11/28/11	Produce Distributor Turns Brownfield Site Green By John Gregerson Facility is poised to become the first structure of its kind in the nation to gain LEED-Platinum certification.
11/28/11	Ronald McDonald House Accents Residential Ambience By John Gregerson Donations of items ranging from wall paints to the mechanical system required tight coordination to deliver a cohesive, aesthetically pleasing project.
11/28/11	School Provides a Lesson in Precision Scheduling By John Gregerson The team had just a year to complete substantial renovations and construct a 71,000-sq-ft addition.
11/28/11	St. Louis Hilton Builds A Bar With a View By John Gregerson The structural engineer resolved the issue of steel reinforcement by applying a reinforcing material to the underside of a concrete slab.
11/28/11	Sustainability Drives Design of New Volvo Dealership By John Gregerson Project includes wind turbines, a rainwater harvesting system and solar panels.
11/28/11	Sustainable Courthouse Receives Positive Verdict By John Gregerson Courthouse makes a sound case for sustainable design by incorporating elements that reduce the facility’s annual energy consumption by 25% and annual water consumption by 1 million gallons.
11/28/11	Sustainable Design Reaches New Heights By John Gregerson New 42-story skyscraper incorporates a full array of sustainable systems.
11/28/11	Table Tennis Club Served Up With Lighting Speed By John Gregerson Project blends clean, contemporary aesthetic with the timber structure and masonry shell of a former warehouse.
11/28/11	Team Executes Roadway Revamp in Roundabout Fashion By John Gregerson Six interchanges incorporate an innovative double-teardrop configuration.
11/28/11	Vegetative Roof, Other Green Systems Qualify Inner-City School for LEED Gold By John Gregerson Dense urban site prompted planners to locate a playground atop the school’s roof.
11/28/11	Warm Environment Creates Haven for Homeless Youth By John Gregerson Minneapolis center provides a warm and welcome haven for homeless youth.
09/26/11	Roosevelt University Moves Into Modern Digs By Tudor Van Hampton The latest addition to Chicago’s skyline is a mixed-use, 32-story ‘vertical campus’ towering above Louis Sullivan’s Auditorium Building
07/25/11	Chicago's Wacker Drive Is A Summer Blockbuster By Tudor Van Hampton After a six-year hiatus, crews return to finish up Chicago’s epic bridge rebuild.
05/23/11	No Slippage, But Not Much Traction Either By John Gregerson The region’s top engineers advanced, but most Midwest designers merely maintained their footing in 2010.
05/23/11	Sustainable Streetscape Paved With Green By Pamela Dittmer Mckuen A gritty Chicago thoroughfare proves that sustainable design need not be pretty in order to be green. Photo courtesy of Chicago Department of Transportation
03/28/11	A Rocky Road Back To Regional Recovery By John Gregerson Although some sectors are showing signs of life, a paucity of public funds could stall a full-scale recovery in the region.
03/28/11	Illinois Landfill Turns Trash Into Cash By Mike Larson A new $9.5-million generating plant at the Chicago area’s Prairie View Landfill will convert methane to energy.
01/24/11	Iconic Opera House Stages a Comeback By Mike Larson The fat lady is about to sing. O’Fallon, Mo.-based contractor and co-developer Paric Corp. is orchestrating a long-awaited second act for the 77-year-old Peabody Opera House in downtown St. Louis.
12/01/10	Best of 2010 By Mike Larson Midwest Construction’s Best of 2010 Construction and Design Awards recipients were recently chosen from a pool of 175 nominated projects in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio.
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	Greening a Century-Old Architectural Gem Birch Bayh Federal Building
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 By Mike Larson 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.
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	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	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.
05/01/10	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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