Posts Tagged ‘George Podrebarac’
Carle at the Riverfront
Carle at the Riverfront Carle Health provides highly accessible, high-quality care and service to improve health in communities throughout central Illinois and beyond. As the years progressed, the organization noticed a rise in patient needs and an expansion in services offered. Carle acknowledged the constraints of its space with a growing population and decided to…
Read MoreVassar Brothers Medical Center
Vassar Brothers Medical Center The Vassar Brothers Medical Center (VBMC) is a 365-bed facility that has been serving New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley since 1887. As the medical center looks to the future, its vision includes the revitalization into a new and sustainable facility that is a destination of world-class care, and a landmark for the…
Read MoreMeritus Health Center RICU
Meritus Health Center RICU Meritus Health Center submitted an emergency certificate of need to the State of Maryland’s Healthcare Commission, which one day later approved the hospital’s plan for its permanent 2 South Regional Infectious Containment Wing. While the facility originated as a response to COVID-19, it was designed and built to contain and treat…
Read MoreMcCormick Place Expansion
McCormick Place Expansion The McCormick Place expansion, featuring the new 2.5 million-square-foot McCormick Place West, opened in 2008. The facility includes 470,000 square feet of exhibition space, 250,000 square feet of meeting space, and a 100,000-square-foot ballroom, giving McCormick Place West more meeting space than any other facility of its kind. GRAEF teamed with A.…
Read MoreSilver Cross Replacement Hospital
Silver Cross Replacement Hospital Having outgrown its existing campus, Silver Cross Hospital needed an updated facility to continue its mission of providing quality healthcare for a growing community over the next century. With rapid population growth surrounding Joliet, Illinois, Silver Cross was rapidly running out of room on its original 50-acre site. The improved facility offers…
Read MoreRidgeland Commons
Ridgeland Commons Ridgeland Commons is the signature athletic facility for the Park District of Oak Park. The facility includes the Paul Hruby Ice Arena, an outdoor pool, and lighted baseball fields. The aging complex received a $14 million renovation and expansion which preserves its most distinguishing feature – an exposed wood structure over the ice…
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Fountaindale Public Library The City of Bolingbrook was outgrowing its existing public library and sought public support for a replacement. Through a series of public meetings, a design was developed and approved by a community referendum vote. The replacement library is a 96,000-square-foot, three-story structure that blends into a beautiful natural setting and maximizes views…
Read MoreNorthwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital
Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital Northwestern Medicine, Huntley Hospital (previously Centegra Health System) built a new five-story, 380,000-square-foot hospital on their existing 100-acre campus at Reed and Haligus roads in Huntley, IL. The 128-bed facility includes private rooms, an eight-bed intensive care unit, full service emergency department, family birth center, chest pain center, cardiac catheterization laboratory…
Read MoreCamp Porter Barracks and Infrastructure
Camp Porter Barracks and Infrastructure This Design-Build project included the design of several new facilities, major infrastructure improvements and the demolition of 14 existing buildings. GRAEF was retained to provide complete structural and site/civil development design services as part of CBZG Design Builders, LLC. CBZG Design Builders, LLC is composed of Clark Construction Group, LLC, Blinderman…
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