Olympic Village is a 30 Building, multi-family housing complex located in Chicago’s South Suburbs. The community offers 320 tenants spaces comprised by two- and three- story buildings. The client chose HTC Commercial Flooring to execute their 25k SF vinyl-click flooring renovation in an efficient and cost-effective manner. There was just one catch. The second and third stories had existing gypsum subfloors that were cracked, not level and in need of serious attention and modification.
HTC Commercial Flooring partnered with Schonox to provide a new subfloor, priming the existing with KH Fix, overlaying with Renotex, and pouring over 10,000 bags of APF. However, doing so was no easy task. Throughout renovation, 27 buildings remained occupied at all times: requiring 30 different leveling mobilizations. HTC utilized their GRACO ToughTek MP40 mixing pump paired with a static mixer, to allow pumping the Schonox leveler and its embedded fibers up 2 stories. In doing so, reducing the labor costs, and turning each building over back to the client in half the original proposed construction time.
Nancy Thiel, founder and principal of Thiel Architecture + Design, is a licensed architect and an interior designer. With 40+ years’ experience working with luminaries in the architecture world, including Michael Graves, Robert A.M. Stern, and Rockwell Group, where she served as a studio leader, Thiel’s extensive portfolio includes single-family homes and multi-story residences, hotels, restaurants, retail, fitness clubs, offices, theaters, schools and shopping centers. She is a member of the AIA, holds NCARB certification and is a LEED accredited professional. Prior to her career in architecture, Thiel was a dancer and choreographer.
Thiel Architecture + Design is an award-winning multi-disciplinary architecture, interior design, planning, and product design firm with offices in CT and NY. The firm’s work focuses on high-end residential design as well as hospitality, contract, and retail projects. Thiel Architecture + Design’s work has been featured in Interior Design, Architype, New York and Connecticut Cottages and Gardens, Connecticut Magazine, Archello, and Fast Company magazines. In 2022, the firm received a Connecticut AIA Excellence award for Interior Architecture. Thiel earned a BA from Penn State University and her Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University.
