Kaylee Tucker

Experience

Kaylee Tucker leverages her dual structural and architectural background to evaluate and develop solutions for a wide variety of projects. Ms. Tucker’s projects typically involve assessing existing structures and building enclosure systems, designing repairs, developing construction documents, and performing construction observations.

Prior to joining WJE, Ms. Tucker’s experience spanned both traditional architectural design and research combining structural engineering and architecture. Her previous architectural work was mainly within the education sector, and her two theses explored novel structural systems using computational design and physical prototyping. Her architectural thesis work included designing, fabricating, and load testing joints for an innovative timber pavilion. Ms. Tucker’s structural thesis work focused on developing and testing small-scale prototypes of deployable anchor piles.

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

Repair and Rehabilitation

• Six-Story Hotel - Chicago, IL: Analysis, repair design, and construction period services for reinforced CMU shear walls of a hotel with construction defects
• Educational Facility - Chicago, IL: Investigation, load analysis, and repair drawings to stabilize aluminum composite facade panels on a three-story building
   

Wood Structures

• Eight-story apartment building - Chicago, IL: Investigation and strengthening repairs of failed and failing heavy timber columns and beams, including condition assessment, analysis, repair design, construction documents, and construction period services
• Six-Story Apartment Building - Chicago, IL: Investigation of sloping floors in a heavy-timber-framed building, including field condition assessment and assessment of structural grade
• SPLAM Pavilion - Chicago, IL: Design and fabrication of a timber weave framing system *

 

Windows and Curtain Walls

• 939 North Avenue - Chicago, IL: Wind load analysis for the replacement of a curtain wall damaged by vehicular impact
• 875 North Michigan Avenue - Chicago, IL: Load analysis and repair drawings for a curtain wall damaged by vehicular impact
• Willis Tower Skybox - Chicago, IL: Periodic inspection of structural glass boxes at the 103rd story
• Hub Ann Arbor - Ann Arbor, MI: Enclosure consulting for a new seventeen-story residential building
• Prudential Link - Chicago, IL: Facade consulting for new enclosed pedestrian walkway
   

Concrete Structures

• Food Production Facility - Chicago, IL: Inspection, nondestructive evaluation, and analysis of 1950s conventionally reinforced concrete two-way slab
• 111 S. Wacker Drive - Chicago, IL: Repair drawings and construction administration for plaza repairs
• 5757 Sheridan Road - Chicago, IL: Condition assessment, repair design, and construction administration for concrete repairs
   

Facade Access

• Lakeside Towers - Waukegan, IL: Design of facade access plan to supplement existing dedicated equipment for a fourteen-story residential building
• Multiple High-Rise Buildings - Chicago, IL: Inspection, load testing, and certification of dedicated facade access equipment
   

* Indicates work with previous firm

Professional Affiliations

American Institute of Architects
Chicago Women in Architecture, Advisory Committee
Structural Engineers Association of Illinois

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science, Architectural Studies, 2019
Master of Science, Civil Engineering, Structures, 2023

University of Michigan
Master of Architecture, 2021