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Features - November 2003

Project Called Third Largest for Hospitals in Illinois

Prognosis Good for Central DuPage Hospital Expansion
The construction team undertaking the enormous expansion of Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield had to figure out how to keep the acute care facility in full operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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A Look at West Suburbs

DuPage Sees Durable Market
Contrasts among family members are often striking.
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$171 million Fermilab Undertaking

A 'Smashing' Project in Illinois, Minnesota
An experiment that will involve hundreds of physicists from 32 different universities and research institutes has resulted in a $171 million project at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Full Story >>


Midwest Airports Projects

Blue Skies for Airport Construction
Throughout the Midwest, airports are expanding and modernizing, and also incorporating new national security standards into design and construction.
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ComEd Projects

Substations Done in Style
Issues of aesthetics and neighborhood involvement are not usually top priority items in power substation constructions, but when Chicago's 1999 blackouts precipitated a series of construction projects designed to prevent future outages and blackouts, stations had to be nested into some of the city's more upscale residential neighborhoods. Full Story >>


Mitsubishi Motors Expansion

Design-Build Drives Addition
When Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc. announced plans to expand its Normal, Ill., plant to boost production by 300,000 vehicles per year, or 25 percent, the ambitious growth plan and the promise of 300 more jobs made headlines throughout Illinois. Full Story >>





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