Attention ACE students, Please be reminded that ACE will announce our 2011/2012 internships and scholarships at the final presentations on March 27! Online applications are due by February 27 and we encourage every participating ACE student to apply. Detailed instructions for the on-line scholarship application may be found here – ACE 2012_Scholarship Instructions to Students and the […]
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Building a Foundation for the Future The Seventh Annual Chicago ACE Luncheon The Chicago ACE Mentor Program invites you to join us on February 23 as we help build a healthy future for our workforce and celebrate those making a difference. Network with your colleagues and make new contacts too! DATE: Thursday, February 23, 2012 TIME: Reception
Annual FUNDRAISING LUNCH for ACE Supporters! Read More »
This past week’s meeting got a little behind and ran a little long, so sorry for that everyone, I hope we didn’t screw up anyone’s Valentine’s Day plans! Nevertheless, I hope everyone enjoyed the sustainability study and learned a little about building efficiency. There are two major contributors to optimize a building’s sustainability. Siting a
This last week things got REAL. And by real I mean we split into 4 groups — one for Site Design, one for Building Mass, one for Building Envelope, and one for Engineering. Taking what we learned from our clay massing models, our site analysis and visit, and everything we’ve learned throughout the year our
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Soo, the burning question on everyone’s (or just my) mind…anyone get lost on the way to Cannon’s office? Sorry for sending you guys running around town every week, but it’s really nice to see the way different offices function. In case anyone missed the meeting, I think it’s safe to say that the “shake table”
Ah, again, a meeting I wish I wouldn’t have missed. It’s always fun watching the blind leading the blind, especially when it comes to mixing food coloring and water. And Construction 201 did just that! The activity emulating the construction process established a chain of command where each member of the team could only speak
Last week we had the opportunity of visiting the site. Below you can download the pictures from the site visit and start collaging them and developing your ideas. We would love to start posting your work on this blog, shoot an email to acechicagoteamseven@gmail.com. All the techniques we have developed at ACE should start to prepare
Hey Team 7-ers, Don’t forget! For this week’s ACE meeting we will be meeting at Thornton Tomasetti’s office at 4:30PM. Directions to TT’s office are below and shown in this map: Map to TT. The plan will be to meet early and head to Wolf Point to see the project site for our museum before it
ACE Team 7 Meeting for Wednesday, February 1, 2012! Read More »
Programming was so much fun this past week! Maybe you all weren’t starry-eyed with everything going on, but as of Tuesday, we kinda have a building guys! DISCLAIMER: so, this building is going to change a lot over the next couple of weeks, and in the end, it won’t look anything like what we started
Aw fiddlesticks guys, I’m so disappointed that I couldn’t go to the site visit last week, but I hope everyone else had a good time! In case anyone else missed the site visit, our group met at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and got to peek around at this hospital in progress. It was
