McHugh Construction Solution
With a passion for delivering projects on time and on budget for their clients, McHugh Construction had a tall order and limited timing to do so: nearly 4000 yards of concrete in one 13-hour continuous pour. This mat slab pour was for the foundation for 1000M, a 73-story luxury apartment building located at 1000 S. Michigan Ave in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago. This historic and milestone pour for McHugh allowed them to complete the foundations for the main towers of 1000M. When completed in 2025, this will be one of Chicago’s tallest apartment buildings standing at 805 feet high.
With lane closures, limited space for traffic, and with timing being a critical factor, there were various logistical challenges throughout the pour. With this project being on Michigan Avenue with limited space and consistent traffic, McHugh had to work carefully to direct trucks on and off site to keep things moving quickly. Ozinga dispatchers, project managers, batch operators, drivers, and operational personnel all had to work together in order to deliver this high-volume request in a short amount of time. “Large volume projects like this one require all hands on deck and really show the capability of our teams,” explained Chad Herst, Vice President/General Manager for Ozinga’s Chicago division, “I was really proud of the service we were able to provide to our customer and the teamwork everyone displayed.”
As the foundation for the entire high-rise, the mat slab pour is a critical part of any project. Having to get this much concrete poured in one day was paramount to keeping the project schedule on time with the rest of the challenges that were faced by McHugh and other stakeholders. “A mat slab pour is always a celebratory day because we can see the project really start to come together, and no we can start to go vertical,” said Rob Muzenjak, concrete superintendent at 1000M for McHugh Concrete, “A concrete pour of this magnitude along one of Chicago’s most famous and popular streets is definitely a rarity and required extremely detailed logistical planning to ensure we had concrete trucks arriving at the site continuously throughout the day.” Continuous trucks arriving required our team of highly-skilled dispatchers, batch plant operators and on-site coordinators to work together to stage and release trucks to keep the concrete moving at a strong pace.
