Lunch Seminar With Charles Cloutier

Please join us February 7th for our monthly lunch seminar. The keynote speaker this month will be Charles Cloutier, Director of Planning & Construction at Northwestern Memorial HealthCare. We will discuss the upcoming Bronzeville Outpatient Care Center. The recently approved 120,000-square-foot facility is said to provide immediate care services as well as diagnostics, mammograms, lab tests and chemotherapy in an area with a population of 50,000 people.

The project is expected to create 1,000 construction jobs in a joint venture between Ujamaa Construction and Power Construction. Ujamaa is a minority-owned firm that specializes in community rebuilding projects with a diverse workforce and an emphasis on sustainable construction.

More About The Speaker: Charles Cloutier has worked at Northwestern Medicine since 2015. In his early beginnings, Cloutier was responsible for Facility Planning & Construction for the West Region of Northwestern Medicine, including both Delnor Hospital and Central DuPage Hospital. The average annual portfolio reached $100 million, with five direct reports. As a driven, and highly skilled leader with extensive experience planning, Cloutier has become a leader in his field. He has managed the construction of five Northwestern Medicine hospitals and multiple offsite locations. 

In 2008, Cloutier graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), and received Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A) from DePaul Driehaus College of Business in 2017.