Spotlight On Southwestern Illinois Engineering Architecture And Planning

By RITA DUCKWORTH     Anderson Hospital in Maryville recently completed the conversion from semi-private to private patient rooms. Louer Facility Planning in Collinsville collaborated with Anderson, from the initial planning phases through the recent completion, to select finishes and furnishings for the project.     A major reason for the conversion to private rooms is to…

By RITA DUCKWORTH     Althoff Catholic High School’s sports teams haven’t been able to claim a home field advantage for more than 50 years. “Home” games for the varsity Crusaders are played at Lindenwood University, Whitey Herzog Field, McKendree University, and other venues in the region. Meanwhile, the Belleville school’s outdated and well-worn facility is…

By ROBERTA CODEMO     Construction is nearing completion on the new five-story medical office building at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in O’Fallon, Ill. Plans are to lease the 139,000-square-foot space to physicians with specialty medical practices.    The project began in May 2016 and is expected to be finished in June, at an estimated cost of $25…

By ROBERTA CODEMO     Construction is proceeding on the St Louis Gateway Arch Grounds project. The work is part of a major renovation effort to revitalize the grounds and the surrounding area.     Work commenced in 2013 and is scheduled to be completed this year, at an estimated cost of $400 million. All that remains…

By DENNIS GRUBAUGH     O’FALLON, Ill. — A beautiful, new five-story building at the intersection of Green Mount Road and Pierce Boulevard is an architectural delight, but just as captivating is the engineering work that went into the ground below it.    SCI Engineering Inc., whose Illinois offices are just a short distance away, spent months…

By RITA DUCKWORTH     FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS — Woolpert is in the final planning stages of an $80 million elementary school for the Department of Defense Education Activity on Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. Project Architect William Tongay, RA is leading the design of the facility which will serve approximately 800 pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade students…

By RITA DUCKWORTH     It is staggering to think how the world has changed since C.A. Sheppard started his surveying and civil engineering business in 1892. Two World Wars have been fought. Twenty-two U.S. presidents have passed through the White House. Six states have been added to the union. Six manned flights have landed on…