Our meeting this week started with a presentation on Construction Management. Mentors from Lend Lease described each facet of the profession, including safety, estimating, cost control, scheduling, and project close out. Following the presentation, the students broke into two groups for a scavenger hunt activity. Each team was given a series of questions that had to

College Night…Resumes…What to expect… “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” –Nora Roberts   Week 6 was held at Gilbane and we learned a lot about College and what the different majors entail

For Week 6’s activity, Team 4 met at the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Lego Studio. The space is open to the public and has open build opportunities weekly. CAF led the Week 6 activity which explored texture, span, elevation, and enclosure. The students and mentors were each asked to build something using the Legos at hand

This week Team 3 focused on Sustainability and Site Planning. The meeting started with a presentation on sustainable concepts and the LEED program, and included a case study of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, MA. This was followed by a brief introduction to Site Analysis, showing how to study local effects of pedestrian and vehicular traffic

This week’s meeting began at Power’s field office for the new Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago building in Streeterville. During dinner, we saw a quick presentation about the project background. We then donned our hard hats and safety glasses and headed a few blocks over to the construction site entrance. We took the elevator lift up