Place
The Residences at The St. Regis Chicago
Supertall condominium tower whose concrete was poured floor by floor by a crew led largely by women.
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Residences at The St. Regis Chicago follows Shelby Griffin, a young civil engineer who spent two and a half years riding a construction elevator toward the sky as the tower's concrete rose one floor every three days. It traces the other women who ran this job site alongside her, a residential build manager, a safety manager who started as a flagger, and the construction firm's first female leader, on a tower designed by architect Jeanne Gang. Listen for how unusual that lineup was against the numbers for the industry as a whole.
This audio guide was created using AI.