As seen on IllinoisTollway.com
04-03-2023
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When Jennifer Kelecius and a business partner launched Foundation Mechanics in 2011, they mostly did consulting work for another company, then began doing a variety of smaller construction and landscaping projects.

The firm continued with only a handful of employees until 2016 when Kelecius won an Illinois Tollway contract under a small business set-aside program to serve as the prime contractor on a $1.4 million project to make landscaping improvements along a 30-mile stretch of the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90).

Buoyed by that success, Kelecius soon enrolled her business in other Tollway diversity initiatives intended to give small, diverse, woman-owned firms more opportunities to compete for Tollway projects–and the company began winning additional contracts for Tollway construction and landscaping work.