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Rendering a Downtown Streetscape Improvement

With construction on the Naperville Downtown Streetscape Improvements project about to get underway, the City had reached out to Civiltech’s digital rendering team to provide images of the finished project. Their initial goal was to display the images at a community meeting to build excitement for the project. With a tight timeline, just 2 weeks, […]

Stormwater Management – A Tale of Two Cities

While we didn’t know we needed it, Tom Hanks gave us a pretty comprehensive list of the different types of rain in the 1994 film, Forrest Gump. “We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin’ rain, and big ol’ fat rain, rain that flew in sideways,” he described. But it’s not […]

Improving Depression-era Infrastructure with the WPA Streets Program

Civiltech, together with our C*NECT partners, has been providing design services to the City of Chicago as part of the Chicago Works program to repair streets originally built through the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA reconstruction program, which had been on hold for a decade, has been recently restarted with new funds made available […]

Collaboration is Key: Working Together for a Successful Project Outcome on the Randall Road Reconstruction Project

Civiltech joined Baxter & Woodman to bring a highly experienced and skilled Construction Engineering team to the $47 million Randall Road Reconstruction Project for the McHenry County Department of Transportation. The project involved reconstructing approximately 1.5 miles of a heavily traveled commercial stretch of roadway. The project, stretching from Harnish Drive to Polaris Drive, included […]

Repurposing Street Maintenance Programs

Civiltech is working with the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT), as part of their Arterial Resurfacing program, to implement pedestrian, bike, and transit-focused improvements. The evolution to expand the AR program from strictly pavement rehabilitation to including pedestrian, bike, and transit facility work sprung from the idea that for minimal additional cost, agencies can include […]