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TOP PROJECTS OF THE YEAR WIN 2004 MERIT AWARDS!
May 19, 2004 • Union League Club, Chicago
The Union League Club ballroom -- historic site of Chicago Building Congress'
founding in 1939 -- glowed on May 19th with the brightest names in the Chicago
Building Industry. That evening, CBC architects, engineers, builders, developers,
and suppliers of materials and services to the industry assembled to honor
excellence in Chicagoland construction at their 48th Annual Merit Awards Program.
Top Chicagoland projects competed in four categories for distinctive CBC Merit
Award granite "cornerstone" cubes to commemorate their victories in the toughest
competition the program has attracted in years. Originating with 45 nominees
reviewed by a diverse panel of 16 expert judges in March, the competition then
narrowed to 16 finalists in recent weeks, with four projects competing for a
single award in each of four categories:
- New Construction - Chicago
- New Construction - Suburbs
- Rehab Construction
- Construction Under $10 Million
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Merit Award Judge Eli Cohen (Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers, left) greeted
Sherwin Rosenbloom (Kenny Construction) during the cocktail hour.
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Receiving the award were (left to right): Joseph Caprile (Lohan Caprile Goettsch/LCG),
Jack Kennedy (Kenny Construction/KC), Linda Daly (LCG), Joe Burns (Thorton Tomasetti
Engineers/TTE), Joe Dolinar (LCG), David McLean (TTE), Andrew Parkinson & Ann Careyt
(LCG), Art Kardatzke & Mark Simonides (Turner Construction/TC), Harvey Oliva, Barton
Malow Company), Brad Warehime & Kristine Carey (TC), Sherwin Rosenbloom (KC), and
Ahmed Elhassan (TC).
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SOLDIER FIELD AND NORTH BURNHAM PARK
New Construction-Chicago
The Project Team included: Owner: Chicago Park District;
Developer: Chicago Bears; Developer's Representative:
Hoffman Management Construction; Architects: Lohan Caprile Goettsch
architects, Wood & Zapata, Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape;
Engineers: Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers, Ellerbe
Becket, V3 Consultants, and Environmental Systems Design;
General Contractors: Turner Construction Company, Barton Malow
Company, and Kenny Construction; Consultant: Walker Parking Consultants.
Runners-up included the Skybridge at One North Halsted, the Joan W. and
Irving B. Harris for Theater and Dance, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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OAK PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY
New Construction-Suburbs
The Project Team included: Client/Owner: City of Oak Park; Architect: Nagle
Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penny; Engineers: Eva Maddox, WMA Consulting
Engineers, and Graeffm Anhalt, Schloemer; General Contractor: The Meyne Company,
Division of Bulley & Andrews, LLC; Consultants: Owner Services Group, Carol JH
Yetken Landscape Architect,Walker Parking Consultants, and Charter Sills.
Runners-up for this category included the Ambulatory Care Addition at Sherman
Hospital in Elgin, the Governors State University Faculty Office Center in
University Park, and the IBEW Local 701 Offices/Training Center in Warrenville.
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Receiving the award were (left to right): Steve Fruth, John Hayes & Edward Byers
(Oak Park Public Library/OPPL), Julianne Scherer (Nagle Hartray Danker & McKay/NHDM),
Naomi Law (OPPL), Tim Puntillo & Michael Saltenberger (The Meine Company/TMC), Janet
Kelenson (OPPL), Bill Reininga (TMC), Don McKay & Eric Penney (NHDM), and Jim Madigan (OPPL).
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Receiving the award were (left to right): Sue Lara & Scott Flanagan (Wight & Company/W&C),
Brad Paulson & Kevin Havens (Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205/ECUSD205),
Roxanne Knapp (W&C), Marta Davy, Catherine Jordan & Joel Morris (ECUSD205), Tom Smith
(James McHugh Construction), and Andy Joseph (W&C).
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YORK HIGH SCHOOL
Rehab Construction
The Project Team included: Client/Owner: Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205;
Architect: Wight & Company; Engineers: WMA Consulting Engineers, Ltd., and Larson
Engineering of Illinois; General Contractor: James McHugh Construction Company;
Consultants: Tera Byte, Ltd., Al Shiner + Associates, Inc., and TLG Group.
Runners-up for this category included the Humboldt Park Boat House in Chicago,
the Lincoln Park Zoo Regenstein African Journey Exhibit, and the McHugh Construction
Headquarters in Chicago.
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LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE / CHICAGO WATER TOWER WORKS
Construction Under $10 Million
Team included: Client/Owner: Lookingglass Theatre Company; Architect:
Morris Architects Planners; Engineers: Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers,
and R.L. Millies Associates, Inc.; General Contractor: Pepper Construction
Company; Consultants: Schuler & Shook, Inc., and The Talaske Group.
Runners-up for this category included Old St. Mary Church, Governor's State
University Early Childhood Center, and the Warrenville Public Library.
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Receiving the award were (left to right): David Catlin (Lookingglass Theatre/LGT),
J. Scott Pepper & Jay Jacobsmeyer (Pepper Construction Company/PCC), John Morris
(Morris Architects), Joe Burns (Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers/TTE), Jacqueline Russell (LGT),
Shawn Dziedzic (PCC), Garret Browne (TTE), Matt Nielson (City of Chicago), and Suzanne
Provanzano (TTE).
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The 2004 Merit Awards Judges included Chairman Fred Berglund, (Berglund Construction).
David Banks (Travelers Insurance), Bruce Bronge (International Contractors, Inc.),
Raymond Camosy (Camosy Incorporated), Tom Clune (OWP/P), Eli Cohen (Thornton-Tomasetti
Engineers), Anne Edwards-Cotter (Cotter Consulting, Inc.), Robert Finigan (Ross Barney + Jankowski),
John Helms (George Sollitt Construction Company), Michael Kaufman (Lohan Caprile Goettsch architects),
Michael Konieczka (Turner Construction Company), Rick Kress (LaSalle Bank), Sue Lara (Wight & Company),
Lucy Morros (Wight/Campus InDirects), Michael Neswold (Gibson Electric & Technology Solutions),
Camille Tedesco-Stohlgren (International Contractors, Inc.), and Bob Weber (Valenti Builders, Inc.).
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Summer is upon us, a time for both rest and renewal, and more time
with our families.
While our regular CBC monthly meetings will take a short vacation along
with the rest of us until mid-September, the association will not. It is
certainly full speed ahead on several fronts...including gearing up for a
new season of programs and membership recruitment.
We ended our 2004 season on a high note. The May 19th Merit Awards program
was our best-attended event of the year with over 225 industry leaders in
attendance as a result of the tireless efforts of Fred Berglund, the 2004
Merit Awards Chairman. Fred created a program that was both entertaining
and suspenseful, keeping every project team on the seat of their chairs
until the envelope was opened.
The following projects took home the 2004 Merit Award cornerstones:
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New Construction Chicago - Soldier Field and North Burnham Park Redevelopment.
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New Construction Suburbs - Oak Park Public Library.
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Rehab Construction - York High School.
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Construction Under $10 Million - Lookingglass Theatre at the Chicago
Water Tower Water Works.
More information on the winning projects and photos of the event appear elsewhere
in this issue of the Edifice, and there is even more to see on the CBC web site.
Our final program of the CBC year, on June 16th, featured Jerry Roper, Executive Director
of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Roper
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delivered a fascinating and insightful presentation focusing upon developments within
the business community directly affecting the building industry.
The CBC Program Committee is working on an exciting line-up for the 2004-2005 season.
Our first meeting of the year will be on September 15, 2004 at the Union League Club.
We will provide more information on the program topic on our web site and by mail.
The 2004 Award of Honor Committee, chaired by Jim McShane, McShane Construction Corporation
has swung into action. Nomination packages have been sent out to all members and a new
nomination page has been created on the CBC Website at www.chicagobuildingcongress.org.
I urge you to nominate an industry leader for this lifetime achievement award. We will
present the 2004 Award of Honor at our October 20th CBC luncheon meeting.
Finally, the staff has mailed invoices for 2004-2005 dues and will soon launch an
aggressive direct mail campaign to attract new members.
I urge you to submit payment as promptly as possible. Be sure to complete the companion
Directory information sheet as well, so our database and web site have your current
information. I would like to personally challenge each member to recruit just one new
member. We could easily double our membership this way.
Have a wonderful summer.
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AWARD OF HONOR NOMINTIONS DUE:
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Each year, Chicago Building Congress recognizes the lifetime achievments of a senior
industry leader through the "Award of Honor" Program. This year, the Award of Honor
will be presented at the October 20th Membership Luncheon at the Union League Club.
Consider now whom you could nominate as the next AOH honoree. The Nomination Form is
included here, and available on-line at
www.chicagobuildingcongress.org.
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Five Ways To Help Business Grow In Chicagoland
By Jerry Roper, President & CEO, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
There are five specific actions that public and private leaders of the
region -- including the leaders and members of the Chicago Building
Congress -- need to take to address the problem of our presently
under-performing small and emerging business sector.
Recommendations For Improving Funding & Support For Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs.
As organizational leaders, you need to commit your own and your organization's
time and management expertise to helping local entrepreneurs.
How? By supporting the programs of the Chamber's Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center,
such as providing advice, sponsoring an event, lending a staff member, leading a
seminar, or donating in-kind services.
You can also get involved with the Chicagoland Business Bridge Program.
Here you can help emerging companies by making them a supplier and
committing new business to them.
As individual investors, you can seek opportunities to invest in local
start-up companies. You can do that by offering pro-bono legal and financial
services to local angels or by leveraging your collective network to encourage
outside investors to make co-investments with investors in the region.
If you are a director or trustee of a local lending institution,
you can encourage your investment managers to look for local investment
opportunities, or
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we can guide you. You can evaluate local venture
capital firms, and support the establishment of the Governor's Illinois
Opportunity Fund and Chicago's Fund-of-Funds concept that facilitate
institutional investment in local venture capital firms.
As leaders of local companies, you can encourage "intra-preneurship"
and technology transfer by providing encouragement and support for
employees and faculties at universities who want to start their own ventures.
You can also assign a member of your staff to develop ideas from local
university technology transfer departments, participate in the Chicagoland
Bridge Program and make a start-up company one of your suppliers, or just
refer small businesses with whom you work to the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial
Center as a source of support.
Lastly, as civic leaders, we must advocate Illinois and Chicago policy
makers taking meaningful action to address our recommendations, including:
establishing the proposed "fund-of-funds;" providing appropriate tax i
ncentives for emerging businesses and their investors; increasing government
funding for public universities tech transfer departments, the Chicagoland
Entrepreneurial Center and the ITECs; and fostering collaboration among
organizations and governmental entities.
Mr. Roper presented his dynamic ideas for invigorating the Chicago area economy at the
June 16th CBC Membership Luncheon at the Union League Club in Chicago. This article has
been excerpted from his remarks. Following his speech, Joe Krusinski (Krusinski
Construction Company) and CBC President Anne Cotter (Cotter Consulting, Inc.)
presented him with a CBC Skyline speaker award.
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We're Looking For Your Dues & Data!
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Chicago Building Congress keeps busy during the Summer preparing for the new
year ahead (did you know that our Fiscal Year actually begins in July and ends
in June?) with several important tasks, beginning with billing for dues. By now,
all members have received their invoices for their 2004-2005 dues, and we would
be most appreciative of your prompt attention to paying the dues.
That mailing also included a data update request form, which we use (a) to
maintain our membership database, and (b) to develop and publish the CBC Directory.
The latter project is, in itself, a lengthy and involved, detailed process. And,
because change is constant, we really need up-to-date information on all members
names, addresses, phones, faxes, etc., to keep the print Directory and on-line version
current.
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