Article by: John Gregerson, ENR Midwest

Century-old City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) is rebuilding from the ground up. On a parcel on Chicago’s near west side, crews are drilling caissons for the new Malcolm X College School of Health, a $251-million, 500,000-sq-ft community college that will provide hands-on training for careers in health science with simulated hospital spaces and patient rooms.

Article by: Jon Hilkevitch, Chicago Tribune, March 20, 2014

The four-year, $492 million project to overhaul the O’Hare branch of the CTA Blue Line starts this weekend with temporary track closures between the Western and Logan Square stations, the transit agency said Thursday.

As we close out 2013 and review construction cost issues, the year has been a stable and steady relative to material costs and overall project costs. There have been fluctuations upwards and downwards throughout the year but none of this movement has been significant enough to have major impacts on project costs. Overall the market