• The Residence Halls are a 4 building assembly of residential towers on the southern half of the site.
  
• The buildings parallel assemblies of a 3,000 seat Convention Center, 150 seat Event Center, and academic building on the northern half of the site.

The 750 room towers will primarily be a concrete structure. LeJeune will have approximately 1,300 tons of steel to fabricate for these five buildings.

General Contractor: Power Construction
Architect: HOK
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Owner: University of Illinois at Chicago

The UIC Forum

The Jewel of the project will be the Forum building. The structure features 5 Trusses and 2 end wall frames with a 124' span. The W36 top cords will be rolled to feature a sloping roof line. Nearly half of the structural steel will be architecturally exposed to feature the trellis overhand system. The most substantial elements of the project will be the single 4 foot diameter pipe column which reaches to a height of over 120 feet. A 60 inch deep plate girder with a 140 foot length frames into the pipe column to increase stability.