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How the Chicago Park District Is Capitalizing Growing Partnerships The Chicago Park District is Capitalizing on Urban Lumber The Chicago Park District is expanding the utilization of its urban lumber resource across a multitude of initiatives and applications. The Park District is forging partnerships with like-minded organizations, for the creative use and re-use of its urban lumber resource. These are both internal and external partnerships including: The Arts Capital Construction and Planning Operations The Arts Chicago Tree Project o 31st Street Beach Trees – Sculpted and Painted o 22 District-wide sculpted trees – CSI Partnership CPD Woodshops o CPD Forestry/Sterling Lumber Garfield Park Conservatory o CPD Forestry/G. H. Woodworking and Sawmill, Inc. Partner (CPD/Sterling Lumber) Donations o Individual Artists o Organizations Chicago Tree Project (2010) o 31st Street Beach Trees – Sculpted and Painted Benjamin Schiltz, And You and I Milton Mizenburg Jr., Assemblages 31st St. Bike Path North Chicago Tree Project (2010) o 31st Street Beach Trees – Sculpted and Painted Christine Perri, Picture Tree Mike Bihlmaier, The Perch 31st St. Bike Path North Chicago Tree Project (2012) o 31st Street Beach Trees – Painted, Playground 31st St. Beach Playground Chicago Tree Project (2014) Partnership project with CPD and Chicago Sculpture International(CSI) Transforming condemned trees into Living Sculpture – Various parks across the City Margot McMahon, Checkmate – Knight and Queen Phillip Shore, Eternal Connections Lincoln Park – Belmont at Lake Shore Drive Palmer Park Chicago Tree Project o 22 District-wide sculpted trees – CSI Partnership o chicagosculpture.org, www.chicagotreeproject.org Indira and Karl Johnson Kara James, Lead with the Heart SOS-Questions not Answered 5000 N. Simmonds Dr. - Lakefront Olympia Park Chicago Tree Project Jim Long, Fishing Eagle Marc Schneider, Birdhouse 6500 South Lake Shore Drive – Lakefront Bike Path Bessemer Park Chicago Tree Project Margot McMahon, Flock Karen Gubitz, Baske Tree 6400 South Lake Shore Drive – Jackson Park Harold Washington Park Chicago Tree Project Vivian Vissar, Pods Ron Gard, Dying to Survive Armour Square Park Lincoln Park South – North Avenue Chicago Tree Project Jim Long, Wolfie Ron Gard, Fair Curve, Phoenix Rising Nichols Park Lincoln Park South – North Avenue Chicago Tree Project Jim Long, Ol’ Blue Bryan Northrop, Message in a Bottle Nichols Park Hiawatha Park Chicago Tree Project Karen Gubitz, Gaggle Burnham Park, Lake Shore Drive/South McCormick Chicago Park District Woodshops Calumet, Foster, Grand Crossing, Graver, Horner, Lincoln Park, Loyola, Mann, Marquette, Merrimac, Portage, Rainey, Ridge and Shabbona Chicago Park District Woodshops Annual Woodcraft Exhibit 2014 South Shore Cultural Center Chicago Park District Woodshops Annual Woodcraft Exhibit 2015 South Shore Cultural Center Chicago Park District Woodshops February – 540 Board Feet – 8/4 Ash pick-up at Sterling Lumber, Phoenix, Illinois Garfield Park Conservatory Gerry Hamm Milling Demonstration – 2014 – CPD Art Materials o Conservatory landscape/ special projects materials o GPC Director’s artifacts Garfield Park Conservatory Gerry Hamm Milling Demonstration – CPD Art Materials o Milling 101 o 3” slabs for future GPC features Garfield Park Conservatory Gerry Hamm Milling Demonstration – CPD Art Materials o Milled ash has been stacked inside for drying and will re-emerge as the new design-built reception desk Capital Construction/Planning Maggie Daley Park Build-out o Phase 1 contract (removal/foundations) McHugh was the GC, who subbed the tree removal to Clean Cut Tree Service, subcontractor - G. H. Woodworking and Sawmill, Inc. - Tree Processing Technical Expert. There was a turnover of contracts from Phase 1 to Phase 2 (park construction). From that turnover the trees transitioned to Walsh Construction who worked with Clean Cut to deliver the trees back to the park and then Walsh crews installed. Soldier Field – Bear’s Den – Midway o Sterling Lumber, subcontractor CPD Harbor Dock Decking o Thermally-modified ash Maggie Daley Park Build-Out Urban Wood Utilization Maggie Daley Park is Chicago’s newest downtown destination for families. The Chicago Park District’s goal for the site was to create a world class, multi-functional park and develop landscape experiences that reflected the evolving open space needs of Chicago. The landscape spaces encountered through the park vary in character, scale and seasonal attributes creating a progression that unfolds in space and time. As visitors follow major pathways through the park, they are introduced to a range of multisensory landscape experiences which are interspersed with views of the lake, the city and the rest of Grant Park. The park renovation harvested 160 trees that could not be transplanted and re-used them in new and interesting ways. The harvested wood was re-used as play elements in the Play Garden while others were turned into log benches to provide seating for park users. At the beginning of construction, a tree removal contractor was brought in to remove the trees, all honey locust, that were identified for the wood harvest. The upside-down trees for the Play Garden were harvested first; the contractor began by removing the tree crown and then using a special piece of equipment was able to hold, cut the salvaged wood, and then load it onto a flatbed trailer for transport to an off-site storage and drying facility. At the off-site facility, the trees were immediately debarked, sealed and then dried for a period of 16 months before being brought back to the site. Following the removal of the upside down trees, work to salvage the bases of the trees for the log benches and the Play Garden flooring elements began. Similar to the upside down trees, once the wood elements were cut to size, they were loaded onto a trailer and transported to an off-site storage and drying facility. The wood was debarked and cut to size for the log benches and the wood planking in the Enchanted Forest. Capital Construction/Planning Soldier Field – Bear’s Den – The Midway o Sterling Lumber, subcontractor – Park District Ash Capital Construction/Planning CPD Harbor Dock Decking o Thermally-modified ash, Sterling Lumber – Tournesol Siteworks o Pilot Program – DuSable Harbor, Belmont Harbor (12’ x 200’ Fueling Dock) o DuSable Harbor Pilot Dock o Belmont Harbor Fueling Dock Pilot Operations Forestry Operations o EAB Removal, Log Cutting Protocols, Aggregation and Transportation o Sterling Lumber Agreement o Realizing savings in machinery operations and labor hours CPD/Sterling Ink Lumber Agreement 2015 2016 CPD EAB PROJECT MARQUETTE PARK CPD EAB PROJECT HUMBOLDT PARK o EAB Removal, Log Cutting, Aggregation and Transportation Sterling Woodmizer Mill Set-UP Initial Finished Product Tagged Urban Timber o Currently 1600 B.F. of CPD ash has been milled for the Park District! Growing Partnerships The Chicago Park District is Capitalizing on Urban Lumber The Arts Initiatives o Chicago Tree Project, Chicago Architectural Biennial, Burnham Wildlife Corridor Gathering Spaces, Park District Woodshops, Garfield Conservatory and Individual Artists Capital Construction and Planning Capital Projects o Maggie Daley Park o New Initiatives/Urban Lumber implementation Soldier Field – Bear’s Den – Midway o Sterling Lumber, subcontractor CPD Harbor Dock Decking o Thermally-modified ash pilots at DuSable and Belmont Harbors Operations o Sterling Lumber Agreement o CPD Forestry Operations/Protocols Special Thanks to: o Edith Makra - Director of Environmental Initiatives, Metropolitan Mayors Caucus o The Illinois Wood Utilization Team Members - illinoisurbanwood.org o Rich Christianson - Richson Media, LLC o Mike Brown - Assistant Director of Landscape, Chicago Park District o Carter Sterling – President, Sterling Lumber Company o Jim Semelka – Urban Forestry Advocate, Sterling Lumber Company o Operations Staff - Dept. of Forestry and Dept. of Natural Resources, Chicago Park District o Gerry Hamm - G. H. Woodworking and Sawmill, Inc. o Linda Daly, Deputy Director of Construction, Capital Construction, Chicago Park District o Nicole Sheehan, Project Manager, Capital Construction, Chicago Park District o McDonald’s Corporation – Conference Host .
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