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Historic Restoration
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Owner:	City of Milwaukee
Selection:	Bid
Architect:	Engberg Anderson Design Partnership
Timeline:	August 2005 to December 2008
Size:	13-story Building
Construction Format:	Lump Sum
Self-Performed:	30%

Project Description: J. P. Cullen & Sons Inc. was awarded a bid contract of $59,927,218 million to restore the exterior of the Milwaukee City Hall. Cullen’s competitor’s bid came in at $63,927,000. The project has a targeted completion date of November 2008. Repair work includes the rebuilding of the clock tower (south tower), restoring cracked and chipped terra cotta sculptures and other designs on the building, upgrading 1,900 windows, replacing copper roofing on the building's two spires, upgrading the lightning protection, repairing exterior sandstone, and fixing or replacing hundreds of thousands of deteriorating bricks. The building has been enclosed in scaffolding equipped with netting since 2002 to protect pedestrians from falling bricks and stonework. The building's age, downtown location, state of deterioration, and height make it an especially high-risk job. Cullen crews and trade contractors worked at heights upward of 400 feet while restoring the façade of this outstanding example of Flemish Renaissance architecture in the New World.