Educators Credit Union

One of the largest credit unions in southeastern Wisconsin is also home to one of the newest buildings on Milwaukee's East Side. Located on Prospect Avenue, Educators Credit Union opened its 3-story, 11,000 square foot building in October 2009. The location offered a variety of site constraints and the inability to stockpile construction materials, making the use of precst products the best-suited and most obvious structural and architectural design material. The total precast building features precast beams, 13,000 square feet of hollow core plank and architectural wall panels and columns. Both the wall panels and columns feature a thin brick architectural finish.

The building features a green rooftop garden. The architect, influenced by the prairie style of design, has used the building to show how organic architecture can be relevant and give vitality to its urban setting. In a modern twist, the vertical lines of precast provide a backdrop to an interior courtyard as well as the layering of structural materials on the exterior of the building.

The building received an 2010 AIA Honor Award from the Wisconsin AIA.