This 6100 sf. Office space is built out in a wing of a 1920’s era Collegiate Gothic building at the UIC Medical School. The space, built-out for the Department of Internal Medicine, was demolished prior the completion of the contract documents to reduce the undiscovered conditions, conflicts, utility access and routing issues and access to valves , controls dampers and other devices, to limit surprises that naturally accrue to working in a 100-year-old building. The idea was to reveal all issues prior to committing to the final scheme. His approach saved a considerable number of potential change orders down the road and allowed the scheme to coordinate field conditions in the drawings prior to bidding rather than as more costly construction changes.

The scheme was able to reduce the number of office types to just 4 and standardize the build out to streamline the buildout. The two previous sub-standard toilets in the existing space were revised and reconstructed as fully accessible, gender-neutral toilets to simplify their use.

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