5354 N. Paulina
Architect: Alphonso Peluso, Vertex Architects, LLC
By Jason La Fleur, LEED AP
On a cold February day, Alphonso Peluso of Vertex Architects, LLC laughed when asked about his motivations for pursuing LEED certification. “We were doing all of the right things anyway, so we figured why not get LEED-certified as well?”
During one of Alliance for [...]

Location: Sloan Valve Company, 10500 Seymour Ave., Franklin Park, IL
Developer: Aerotecture
Builder/General Contractor (for Sloan Valve Site): Englewood Construction
By William Olson

The Chicago region has been a natural laboratory of sorts for sustainable design, having earned itself the moniker of the “Green Roofs City” and a top rating among US cities for its number of LEED-certified buildings.
Now [...]

Location: 155 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606
Owner: JBC Opportunity Fund II & III / Morgan Stanley Real Estate
Developer: The John Buck Company / Brijus Property Company
Architect: Goettsch Partners
General Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease
Structural Engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Mechanical Engineer: Hill Mechanical Group
Owner-advocate for LEED Management: Environmental Systems Design Inc.
Project Manager: Raphael Carreira—The John Buck Company
Certification: U.S. [...]

DIVERT YOURSELF!
Celebrate the Rebuilding Exchange’s One Year Anniversary February 12th
Celebrate the Rebuilding Exchange’s first anniversary and help raise funds to support building deconstruction and reuse on February 12, 2010 from 6 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the retail warehouse, 3335 West 47th St., Chicago, Ill. The event includes a variety of diversions, [...]

By William Olson
Introduced by the Office of Richard M. Daley in 2001, the O’Hare Modernization Program (OMP) is a plan to reconfigure O’Hare International Airport’s intersecting runways into a more modern layout and bring a new western terminal facility with additional airline gates and parking. The $6.6 billion program is intended to substantially reduce delays [...]

By Garratt Hasenstab
Owners: Beth & Jim Masterson
Architect: Sullivan Goulette & Wilson – www.sullivangoulette.com
Engineer: dbHMS – www.dbhms.com
Builder/ General Contractor: Crescent Rock – www.crescentrock.com
The Masterson Residence, located at 735 West Willow St. in Lincoln Park, is a truly striking example of “Adaptive Reuse”—the greenest of green building practices. Projected for completion in February 2010, this charming brick [...]