PROJECT PROFILE WJE www.wje.com The Field Museum Vibration Testing and Mitigation Design for SUE Gallery | Chicago, IL CLIENT The Field Museum BACKGROUND SUE and the accompanying steel- framed base, supporting posts, and armature that supports the fossils were moved from Stanley Field Hall, where the exhibit was located for eighteen years, to a new location on the second floor of the museum. The new gallery is located in a portion of the museum building that was originally a full-height, open-air light well. In 2002, the light well was infilled with three levels of steel-framed, lightweight concrete slab floors spanning 39 feet. The floor structure at the new locat

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