When the developer Ann Pieper Eisenbrown decided to use specially treated lumber, instead of steel and concrete, for her new apartment building in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood, she was mostly thinking about the environment.

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The project will be the product of collaboration among the Milwaukee School of Engineering, We Energies, Rockwell Automation and American Family Insurance. The center is meant to be a place where K-12 students can receive instruction in science, technology, engineering and mathematics – collectively known as the STEM subjects.

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The work connected the church’s existing worship area with its school spaces. It added classrooms, including a lab for science, technology, engineering and mathematics; pre-school and before- and after-care spaces; a large gathering area called the Christian Life Center; and an administrative area.

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The Baumgartner Center for Dance will house the Milwaukee Ballet School & Academy, the only accredited professional studio school in the Midwest.

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Construction for SEVEN04 PLACE, a new 60-unit affordable-housing development in the Walker’s Point neighborhood of Milwaukee, started on Thursday.

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This isn't divide and conquer; call it combine and conquer instead. Two Milwaukee-area construction companies – Inland Construction and Catalyst Construction – announced on Monday they are combining forces to set up a new company: I | C Construction.

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Members of Milwaukee's Common Council were offered a study in contrasts on Tuesday: The construction team working on the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons continue to meet the city's resident-hiring and contracting goal for the massive project. Meanwhile, south of Interstate 94, the group behind a much smaller Freshwater Plaza Apartments project is falling short.

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Scott Boettcher didn’t take the route most travelled by project managers.

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A mixture of grout and gravel is marked with a flag as a crew with Hudson, Iowa-based Foundation Service Corp. constructs 20-inch-diameter grouted piers on Jan. 27 at the Freshwater Plaza project in Milwaukee.

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The new facility will consolidate manufacturing and distribution operations, which are currently split between the headquarters building and Mortara’s warehousing operation on Sleske Drive in Milwaukee.

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