I’ve always had a love for field work, and photography, and I’m very fortunate that being a Field and Design Consultant with CDC gets me

out of the office and into some interesting places.

Just for fun, here are 50 random photos with captions that I’ve captured over the years.

Enjoy.

Tim M Hovey

Curtainwall Design Consulting – Colorado

thovey@cdc-usa.com

Standing on top of the skylights at the Chicago Art Museum – New Modern

Wing looking north towards the Millennium Park Band shell.

On the Chicago River looking up towards the Lakeshore East Development, showing The Chandler, The Regatta, 340 On The Park and others.

Looking upwards from the base of The Aqua during construction.

Construction in progress at The McCormick Place West

Expansion.

This west elevation of the grand ballroom was very complicated

including metal studs, dens glass, ice and water shield and Alpolic panels mated to curtainwall with

stainless steel flashings and multi-line silicone sealant joints.

Mock-up testing for The Wit Hotel at Mid-America Test Laboratory.

ASTM E1105 field test in progress at 600 North Lakeshore Drive

Amazing Gartner double-skin wall at the Art Institute of Chicago.

This building is so amazing, it almost overshadows the artwork. Its free to visit, so don’t miss it if your in Chicago.

Brick masonry, curtainwall and precast concrete at the McCormick Place

West Expansion

Centier Bank in Indiana with Harmon unitized

curtainwall. A good example of a small office

building built very well with high quality

products.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals, another very well done

low-rise office. Stick-built Baker Metals curtainwall.

The view from the roof of Trump International Hotel and Tower.

Unitized curtainwall installation at the CCL

Laboratory in Carrollton TX

Ridding scaffold on a COLD day at 600 N Lakeshore Drive. Navy Pier and in

the background.

Metal panel train-wreck at the Construction

Research Laboratory in Miami.

Metal flashings of any kind are 10x harder to get right than everybody

thinks.

Navy Pier, The Gold Coast and Lake Michigan from

the roof of John Hancock.

50 East Chestnut.

Some very exclusive real estate with only one

condo per floor.

340 On The Park.

There are not many condo buildings in Chicago with full unitized curtainwalls, this one features a very

cool Benson system.

1130 S. Michigan Avenue

An old building transformed with a window

replacement project.

Scaffold at 340 On The Park.

Some roped access work for the Critical Façade Inspection at 191

Wacker.

Looking down from the scaffold at Lakepoint Tower.

Structural testing of curtainwall anchors

following a building fire.

Colleague Sergio Cervantes working on scaffold at the Palmolive, I took the photo from the scaffold at the neighboring John Hancock.

Looking down from the first scaffold I ever rode. Prudential Plaza 2, in 2001. A pretty good way to get introduced to work at heights.

Skylight at the Gaylord Opryland Texas Resort in Grapevine.

Dallas, Texas as seen while standing on top of the skylights at The Nasher Sculpture Center.

Dory the peregrine falcon sitting on the parapet at

One IBM Plaza.

Chicago has two pairs of long time resident

falcons who I bumped into regularly. Dory and Jingles, and Adams and

Wacker.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals mock-up at Baker

Metals, Dallas.

Trainor Glass Company fighting through the winter to set unitized curtainwall.

I have the utmost respect for high-end ironworkers and the work they do.

Typical chaotic scene at the CCL Lab in Miami.

Heading up to perform some AAMA 501.2 field testing.

I’ve always found driving boom-lifts to be one of

the most fun things I do.

The first resident at Trump International Hotel and Tower, hiding underneath the tower crane shoring.

Spray rack being calibrated for ASTM E1105 field

testing.

565 Quincy

Loft condo addition added on top of an existing building.

The Museum Park Development

The Clare at Water Tower

Kluczynski and Dirkson federal buildings.

Very unique steel curtainwall with an amazing level of

fabrication.

ABN Amro

I wish I had a photo, I actually walked across

the still on top as part of the Critical Façade

Inspection.

The Wit Hotel

A unique project where our Chicago Office was the

consultant and our Dallas Office designed the curtainwall and strip

window systems.

The Montgomery.

This was the world headquarters for

Montgomery Wards, the original curtainwall was

removed and a new installed when the

building was converted to condos.

250 S. Wacker

This is actually an old building rehabbed and

reclad.

101 N. Wacker.

The floor line spandrel lites were swapped to vision lites, greatly enhancing

the interior of the building. Curtainwall

Services performed the work at night, with no

interruption to occupants.

Sitting in front of the building are props from

Transformers 3.

A detail botched about 8 different ways on a building in the Denver Tech Corridor.

We were able to engineer and implement a repair, hopefully my new Denver area office will help prevent this sort of thing.

Quick and easy ASTM E1105 Field Static Test being performed at The University of Colorado –

Boulder, Center for Community.

I was able to test six specimens in less than one day with minimal interruptions to the

ongoing construction.

This fairly severe test failure was easily remedied by the contractor

ASTM E1105 field testing at The Denver Justice Center

Another fairly severe window test failure. Past experience with this failure on the same product at another job allowed us to recommend a repair easily

implemented by the contractor.