Category: Chicago, IL

Paul D. Little Honored for Georgia 500 in Georgia Trend Magazine

Alston Construction's Paul D. Little has been honored as one of Georgia's 500 Most Influential Leaders in the Engineering/Construction category. Atlanta, Georgia (November 1, 2023) - With more than 40 years of industry knowledge and experience, Paul Little is a well-recognized leader in the construction management field. He assumed leadership of Alston Construction Co. in [...]

Procter & Gamble New Greater Chicago Fulfillment Center Earns LEED Silver Certification

Procter & Gamble recently opened a new 1.3 million square foot fulfillment center in Morris, Illinois. On Monday October, 9, the Green Building Certification Inc. (GBCI) recognized the design and construction of the facility with LEED for Warehouse & Distribution Silver level certification. LEED certification is a recognition of the sustainable design, construction and operational [...]

Alston Construction Receives ABC 2023 STEP Platinum Level Award

Alston Construction announced it has achieved Platinum Level in Associated Builders and Contractors’ STEP Safety Management System. Founded more than three decades ago, STEP is a proven system that provides the framework to measure, strengthen and build industry-leading safety programs that enable top-performing ABC members to achieve incident rates nearly seven times safer than the [...]

Medline Grayslake Wins Illinois ReJournal Real Estate Award

The Alston Construction Chicago office is thrilled to announce that they have received the prestigious "Industrial Manufacturing Science Warehouse Logistics Project of the Year" award at the 2023 ReJournal Real Estate Awards. The recognition highlights the exceptional expertise, innovation, and dedication of the Alston team and their partners in successfully delivering the 1,426,800 SF LEED [...]

Alston Completes Construction of 1.4 MSF Distribution Center for Medline in Grayslake, Illinois

GRAYSLAKE, ILL. — Alston Construction Co. has completed a 1.4 million-square-foot distribution center for Medline in Grayslake, a city in Northeast Illinois. The facility is estimated to be the largest medical-grade distribution center in the United States, according to the project’s architect, Ware Malcomb. The final phase of development was a 2,700-square-foot office buildout for [...]

2022 Year in Review | Alston Construction

2022 Year in Review At Alston Construction, 2022 was a year of change and growth. We view change as an opportunity and how you forge forward and overcome any obstacles can be one of the most impactful times for a business. Our strong foundation and culture enabled us to execute key business objectives that set [...]

Alston Construction Wins 2022 ABC STEP Award for Safety Management/Program

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has awarded Alston Construction the 2022 STEP Award for Safety Management. Alston Construction has been recognized multiple times for their safety program and is honored to add this prestigious award to their accolades. Founded in 1989 as a safety benchmarking and improvement tool, STEP has evolved into a world-class safety [...]

Alston Chicago Office Breaks Ground on Milwaukee Speculative Industrial

Alston Construction, Transwestern Development Company, Architects Plus, and Ruekert Mielke broke ground on the Milwaukee Spec Industrial project. The project is located on a 33.56-acre site off of W. Brown Deer Road near Interstate 41 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The speculative park has a 61,906 square foot facility with a 32' clear height and a divisible, [...]

Alston Construction Featured in BD+C Top Trends in Industrial Buildings

Industrial building sector construction, while healthy, might also be flattening Building automation is expanding, and so is employee-friendly ventilation, according to the nation's largest engineering firms. For all the hoopla about the ecommerce boom and “last mile” order fulfillment driving demand for more warehouse and manufacturing space, construction of industrial buildings actually declined over the [...]

Celebrating our Veterans at Alston Construction | 2022

There are over 665,000 U.S. veterans working in the construction industry. Each year, more than 200,000 service members return to civilian life and over 15% of all veterans enter the construction industry. Individuals from the Armed Forces use skills learned from their time in service to their civilian professions. In construction, the entire project team [...]