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Tyler Lane renovated Hyde Park Academy High School in Chicago from the roof to the gym floor. Crews removed asbestos and lead-based paint, restored the masonry, replaced the roofing and installed new windows before finishing the interiors.

The work ran in two phases. Phase 1 took on the shell: brick and stone masonry, concrete repairs, a modified bitumen roof, and aluminum windows and entrances.

Inside, crews restored plaster, terrazzo, tile and the wood gym floor. They converted chalkboards to markerboards and installed lockers, gym equipment and science lab casework. New plumbing, heating and cooling, lighting and fire alarm systems went in.

Phase 2 renovated the auditorium and science labs.

Roger C. Sullivan High School in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood dates from 1926. Tyler Lane repaired the terra cotta and brick of its historic facade and installed new windows and a new roof.

Inside, crews applied new plaster and repainted. They upgraded the science labs and installed a new gym scoreboard, backboards and bleachers.

Tyler Lane also built a new three-story addition with an elevator. The campus work finished in 2021.

Sauganash Elementary needed room to grow. Tyler Lane built a 37,000-square-foot annex for the Chicago school, ready for use in August 2023. It holds 8 classrooms, 2 Pre-K rooms, art, science and music rooms, and a gym with a stage.

The three-story annex has an elevator and connects to the existing school. The work also took down the school’s 1954 gym.

Inside the existing school, crews renovated selected rooms and upgraded the air handling equipment. That work was complete by July 2023, ahead of the annex.

The original school building dates from 1929.

The hospital stayed open while Tyler Lane repaired its outer walls. Crews re-hung precast concrete panels, repaired and replaced windows, and re-roofed 6 roof areas, all beside rooms still in use. The work finished in 2017.

The work ran in six phases. Crews replaced the roofing and repaired the windows first. Then they worked down from the eighth floor to the fifth. On each floor they re-hung panels and rebuilt the walls and ceilings behind them. The last phase repaired the column bases at the southwest plaza.

Crews disconnected induction units, cameras and motion detectors before the panel work and reconnected them after. Before roof work beside the exhaust fans of clinical rooms, the hospital’s safety staff confirmed the area was safe for the crew.

Substantial completion came on May 1, 2017 for the roofing, sealant and panel work, and on September 15, 2017 for the windows.

In 4 months, Tyler Lane gutted a 36,000-square-foot warehouse on Chicago’s northwest side. Crews turned it into 13,500 square feet of offices and 22,500 square feet of warehouse and finished in 2004.

The office side holds a lunch room, a conference room, a training classroom and a gym with a weight room, bathroom and showers. New face brick lines the inside of the outer walls, and glass-block partitions divide the rooms.

Outside, new windows, awnings and landscaping give the building a less industrial look from the street.

Tyler Lane built Broadway Lofts in Gary, Indiana, as a joint venture. The new three-story building covers about 40,000 square feet and has 38 apartments: 27 one-bedroom units and 11 two-bedroom units.

The building also has 4,000 square feet of commercial space for a public health clinic and 2,000 square feet of community space.

The design aims for net-zero energy. It uses Passive House strategies: super-insulation, high-performance windows, no thermal bridging, air-tight construction and heat recovery in the mechanical systems. Tyler Lane finished the building in 2024.

Tyler Lane renovated the Engineering and Technology Center at Harper College while the campus stayed active. The project combined new construction and rehabilitation, and the contract ran 563 days from notice to proceed to final acceptance.

The work involved deep excavation inside an existing building and next to another building. During building demolition the team set temporary structural support, and the structural framing and foundations were revised. The team opened a three-story atrium in the middle of an existing structure.

Tyler Lane coordinated its work with four other prime contractors, and also coordinated tunnel and utility tie-ins with contractors outside the project scope. All of this took place within the limits of an active campus.

Tyler Lane installed security barriers around three federal buildings in downtown Chicago for the General Services Administration: the Kluczynski, Dirksen and Metcalfe buildings.

Crews removed the existing granite curbs and sidewalks, set 353 steel bollards in new concrete and added granite covers and caps. They then reinstalled 22 granite planters and more than 400 granite sidewalk planters on a new waterproof membrane. The work was labor intensive and took place in a busy downtown setting.

The project was finished on time and on budget, with no disruption to traffic, and the look of the buildings was preserved. The work took about 12 months.

A fire in the third-floor gym at Burley Elementary School in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, only weeks before the school year began, caused fire damage to the gym and water damage to the rest of the building from the sprinkler system. Tyler Lane was called in for emergency repairs for Chicago Public Schools.

The team worked seven days a week in two shifts to get classrooms and corridors ready for the first day of school. That work included replacing buckled floors, removing and replacing wet drywall and plaster, repairing electrical and low-voltage systems, installing new lighting and fumigating to remove the smoke odor.

After classes resumed, the work moved to the gym. It received a new floor with sound insulation, new walls and doors on the east side, new backboards and lighting, refinished stage areas and new logos and court markings. The gym was returned to students on December 1.

Mather High School was a comprehensive renovation completed between April 2009 and May 2011, with the building fully occupied throughout. Tyler Lane served as general contractor.

New construction included a library addition, chiller and storage room additions and a greenhouse. The exterior work also covered masonry restoration, a new parking lot, skylights, permeable pavers, an LED sign, curtain wall and storefront, ADA ramps, landscaping and iron fencing.

Inside, the building’s mechanical and plumbing systems were fully replaced. That included 11 new air handlers, chillers, cooling towers, hot and cold water lines and VAV boxes and spiral duct in every classroom. A major electrical service upgrade came with a new automated building control system. The pool was relined and refurbished, and the auditorium received new seating and stage rigging. Other work included new gym floors and bleachers, lockers, casework, lighting and ADA upgrades.

The project earned LEED Silver certification with zero lost-time injuries.

This project covered accessibility upgrades at two Chicago Park District sites under a single contract: Indian Boundary Park and Gill Park. At Indian Boundary Park, whose fieldhouse is a Chicago Landmark, all new work had to match the existing details. The new ramp on the north side was built to match the masonry in color, style, texture and mortar. Inside, the bathrooms were upgraded for ADA access, and doors were modified or replaced to meet code.

At Gill Park the work focused on the interior. Crews removed walls and renovated the bathrooms and locker rooms. The challenge was matching several different tile colors while adding the accessories that make the rooms ADA accessible. The scope also included bleachers for the baseball field and new exterior drinking fountains.

The work took about six months. Accessible ramps and railings, bathroom renovations and door modifications made up the main scope.

Taft High School was built in 1939 and has two parts: a main building of brick and terra cotta and an annex of precast concrete. Decades of weather and its location next to the Kennedy Expressway and under the O’Hare flight path left the masonry failing and the windows fogged over. The project had two goals: restore the exterior and modernize the interior to support an International Baccalaureate World School, including advanced studies classrooms and science labs.

The work included 1,150 new windows, restoration cleaning of 145,000 square feet, nine new science labs with three prep rooms, one new classroom, 3,000 linear feet of new hot and cold water piping and 47,800 square feet of new ceiling grid and tile.

The original schedule was 20 months, and the team finished in 8. They reworked the schedule so trades overlapped, and ordered long-lead materials early. The masonry subcontractor ran two shifts and two crews, with noisy demolition and grinding after dismissal and quiet work in the morning, so the window crew could follow right behind the masons. Teachers got areas of the school back earlier than planned.

This was a high-profile, time-sensitive renovation of the exterior and infrastructure at Charles R. Steinmetz High School, and the second Tyler Lane project at this school. Earlier work included science lab upgrades and a swimming pool renovation.

The scope covered replacement of all exterior windows, doors and roofing, restoration of the exterior masonry, rebuilt masonry parapet walls, new exterior concrete entrance stairs and a new masonry trash enclosure. Crews also did interior plaster and paint repairs and mechanical and electrical work.

The architect recommended a cold-applied roofing system so there would be no tar odor while students were in the building. The team met weekly with school staff on site to keep the work on schedule and limit disruption to school activities.

The contract allowed 365 days. The work was finished in 275 days, and preliminary acceptance came 90 days early.

Roosevelt High School opened in 1922 as William G. Hibbard High School, and moved into its current building and took its present name in 1927. Tyler Lane served as general contractor for a renovation that ran from May 2012 to October 2013 and kept the building fully occupied throughout.

On the exterior, crews replaced more than 1,000 windows, installing them through a winter, along with doors, the full roof and its drains and the skylights. They renovated the masonry, replaced lighting, built new sidewalks and a new entrance walkway, and repaired and restriped the parking areas.

Inside, the work included new domestic hot and cold water lines, select mechanical renovations, ADA upgrades, a unisex toilet room, new drinking fountains, auditorium rehabilitation, new acoustical ceilings and patching and painting throughout. Classrooms were renovated for new career academies: a culinary lab and computer classroom, an early childhood education classroom, a hospitality demonstration room, a teacher academy classroom and two IT computer labs for gaming and networking.

Preliminary acceptance was received one month early.

Lane Tech is the largest high school in Chicago: a 607,500 square foot building on a 30-acre campus serving about 4,500 students and 300 faculty and staff. Tyler Lane served as general contractor for a full rehabilitation that took 17 months while the school stayed occupied.

Years of leaking roofs and skylights, crumbling masonry and failing windows had caused water damage. The work replaced 215,000 square feet of roofing and the skylights, rebuilt masonry parapets, restored or replaced about 15,000 terra cotta pieces and installed 2,568 new windows. A limited-use elevator was added for accessibility, and interior spaces were repainted, including 1.5 miles of corridors, 187 classrooms and 20 stairwells.

To protect classes, noisy work was scheduled after school and quieter work went on during the day. Full-time safety staff were on site, and the team worked about 265,000 hours without a lost-time incident.

The project won two Chicago Building Congress Merit Awards in 2017 and an AGC Build America Merit Award in 2018.

Altgeld Hall is a historic building at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. The restoration covered tuckpointing the mortar joints, repairing the exterior stone and cleaning the exterior walls. The work took about 20 months.

The building has medieval-style merlons and crenels along the top of its walls. These are the stone battlements once used to protect castles, and each distinct piece needed careful restoration. Several missing gargoyles were replaced, and all of the walls were cleaned and repointed.

The result is a restored landmark for the DeKalb campus.

The Hammond Water Treatment Plant dates from the 1930s. Weather, age and its location near Lake Michigan had badly deteriorated the building envelope. The City of Hammond, Indiana hired Tyler Lane for masonry, window and roofing repairs.

The scope grew after it was first identified and before the contract was awarded. Crews repaired bowed walls, replaced steel lintels, rebuilt parapets and tuckpointed the masonry. They replaced the exterior windows and the roof system, repaired the concrete roof deck, beams, columns and basins, and installed steel support brackets. Existing brick was reused so repairs match the original look of the plant.

The plant stayed in operation throughout, so the team coordinated closely with plant staff. Some work took place over operating filter tanks, with no accidents. The contract time was 365 days, and 27 more days were added for the extra work.

At Bowen Campus High School, Tyler Lane ran two projects at the same time: a full exterior renovation and an interior and parking lot ADA upgrade.

The exterior package included tuckpointing, chimney repairs, window replacement and replacement of the entry doors. The ADA package covered science lab upgrades, fire alarm upgrades, new signage, accessible ramps, a new elevator and miscellaneous plumbing and mechanical upgrades.

Partway through, the school asked for a major science lab upgrade that had to be finished over the summer. Tyler Lane added a second superintendent to the site, and the subcontractors agreed to meet the schedule within a not-to-exceed cost limit. The work was finished before students returned.

The contract time was 365 days.

Austin Campus High School is a 1920s building whose facade, steel and windows had severely deteriorated. The renovation took 18 months, and the school stayed fully occupied while the work went on.

The exterior was restored to the original 1920s design. Terra cotta was restored and the brick veneer was ground and repointed. Most piers and parapets were removed and rebuilt to match the original. All existing windows were replaced, and abandoned window openings were reopened. The roofing system was removed and replaced, and new exterior entrance doors were installed.

The site was improved as well, with new sports fields, landscaping, parking lots with lighting, a custom lighting package and an underground stormwater retention system. Interior finishes were upgraded. The work also readied the building for a new charter school operated under Chicago Public Schools.