Completed
2013
Address
5025 S. St. Louis Street
Chicago, IL
General Contractor
Wight & Company
Services
Equipping eight rooftops with 246 tons of cooling for 33 classrooms—while dealing with a government hold on funding.
Back in 2013, CTM faced one of our biggest challenges as a company when our project with the UNO Soccer Academy hit a major speed bump.
Just as we were in the heart of working on the complete design and build of this three-story, doughnut-shaped building, the governor pulled funding on the project. To make matters worse, this was just one day after we set our eight RTUs onto the roof—and we hadn’t yet been billed for the equipment we set.
Our company, faced with a hold on our biggest project yet at $2.5. million, didn’t know when funding would be reinstated. Yet that didn’t stop us from turning this sh!%#y day on the job around.
Catherine made calls to every supplier and vendor, keeping everyone informed at every step of the way. It was one of our first major lessons as a company: Communication is always key. We kept in regular contact with the general contractor to share all the information we had with our subcontractors and suppliers until funding picked back up about 60 days later.
Thanks to our planning and communication practices, we were at the ready to keep the project moving the minute we got the green light to go ahead. In the end, we equipped eight rooftops with 246 tons of cooling for 33 classrooms just in time for occupancy in August of 2013.
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