Ball Elementary School Completes $4.5M Geothermal System Conversion

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S. M. Wilson & Co., serving as general contractor, has completed a $4.5-million comprehensive upgrade project for Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5 in Chatham, Illinois. The project at Ball Elementary School was designed to enhance energy efficiency and indoor comfort for students and staff, while supporting the district’s commitment to sustainable infrastructure and long-term operational savings. The project centered on converting the school’s existing variable refrigerant flow system to a geothermal system. In addition to the HVAC conversion, the project included complete ceiling replacement throughout the school to accommodate the new mechanical systems and refresh the interior environment. Significant […]

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Ground Broken on MOB for Central Health in Austin, Texas

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Ground has been broken on a $37-million, 32,000-square-foot medical office building for Central Health in Austin, Texas. The project sits within the Colony Park community in East Austin, set to provide vital health services to nearby residents. Hoar Construction is serving as the general contractor on the project, which is set to be completed by summer 2027. Called Colony Park Health & Wellness Center, the four-story MOB will include a dental office on the fourth floor, patient care rooms on the third floor and will house a pharmacy, lab and kitchen on the second floor. The first floor will hold […]

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Celebrates Completion, Grand Opening

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As the United States commemorates its 250th anniversary, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, is now complete. The milestone culminates a dedicated, multi-year partnership to create a world-class institution honoring the 26th president’s legacy of leadership and conservation. As construction manager, JE Dunn Construction helped bring the project from concept to completion through a Construction Management at Risk delivery model alongside the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, Snøhetta as design architect and JLG Architects as the architect of record. Construction began in June 2023 and required intensive coordination across a remote Badlands site, innovative procurement and phasing […]

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Slag Cement in Sustainable Concrete Award Winners Announced

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The Slag Cement Association announced the winners of its 2025 Slag Cement in Sustainable Concrete Awards. The winning projects were unveiled and celebrated during the spring ACI Concrete Convention in Rosemont, Illinois. Fourteen construction projects from across the United States were chosen to showcase the broad applications of slag cement and its impact on creating more durable and resilient concrete. These construction projects were awarded in six categories. The categories include lower carbon concrete, infrastructure, high performance, architectural, durability and innovative applications. The 2025 Slag Cement in Sustainable Concrete Construction Award Winners: Lower Carbon Concrete Meta AI-Designed Mix for Rosemount […]

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Sustainability’s Missing Dimension: Time

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A Case for Measuring Sustainability in Decades, Not in Moments By Thomas L. Ketron I’ve spent more than 20 years around prefabricated concrete building systems — first on the manufacturing side, now working for the broader industry on sustainability initiatives. In that time, I’ve come to believe sustainability conversations are missing a dimension. Today’s dominant framing measures a structure’s environmental performance at a single moment: embodied carbon of the completed project. It’s an important number, but it’s also the easiest one to calculate, and that has let it stand in for the whole conversation. What’s missing is time — how […]

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