Roosevelt University Academic Center
Education
- General Contractor Power Construction
- Architect Stantec, Hollingsworth Architects, and SCB
- Developer The John Buck Company
- Height 469 FT
- Square Footage 393,000 SF
- Concrete Cubic Yards 16,000 YD³
A glass-sheathed 33-story building that contains classrooms, labs, faculty and administrative offices, housing for 600 students, and a recreation center. To meet the challenge of placing over 16,000 cubic yards of concrete over 33 stories on this cramped urban site, we marshaled our expertise to design a unique concrete placing device to allow for pouring the core without using a full-sized placing boom. Other innovations included the use of a self-climbing core form system that rose without the need for any crane time and designing the core forms with a working platform to accommodate loads from reinforcing steel laydown and suspended access stairs.
