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Inside this IssueSuffolk Downs Unveils Resort PlansCBC Recognizes Project Teams And Young ScholarsNot Your Grandfather’s UMBASMPS Boston ROC Awards 2012 SCUP Award RecipientsIFMA Boston Winners of 2012 Awards of ExcellenceUMBA and the Life Science Revolution at UMassIntegrated Sciences Complex at UMass BostonLEED Gold Renovation of William James HallDPM Completes Norwalk Community CollegeGriffin Electric Completes School ProjectsFusco Green Builder of the YearDesigning Sustainable Electrical Distribution Systems, By Donald J. MooreImmaculate Conception School Retrofitted with 3M Window Film, by Peter J. Davey

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Not Your Grandfather’s UMBA, an interview with Katherine Craven executive director of University of Massachusttes Building Authority

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productive R&D is critical for venture-capitalized life science companies. The time required to design and fit-out a lab can rep-resent an out-sized portion of the time available for research in the funding cycle. multiple factors make life science real estate chal-lenging to design and build; with its need for heavy structural loads, robust mechanical systems, and a plethora of safety concerns to be taken into account, a life sci-ence company looking to move into a new space is easily looking at eight months to a year or more of time to renovate a lab to meet their particular needs.

Biomed Realty Trust, Inc. com-missioned Arrowstreet, along with Dan winny and builder consigli construction, to find a solution for this challenge as part of the renovation of the existing building at the companyís 325 Vassar Street. The property is situated in the heart of the East cambridge life science submarket, and fea-tures office and laboratory space to attract life science and other high-tech tenants in close proximity to the mIT campus. The 60,000sf of space is configured with the new Universal flex labsô template: mul-tiple suites that offer flexible laboratory bench and casework systems with ceiling-mounted service carriers.

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Beyond rapid initial occupancy, the Universal flex labs concept allows eco-nomic adaptation of the space over time to meet evolving needs at modest construc-tion costs and time losses. mechanical sys-tems are ìplug-and-playî. Bench areas and office areas can be readily reprogrammed.

we are currently working with Biomed Realty to prepare plans to renovate other properties in the cambridge area into Universal flex lab space to increase desir-

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In order to con-struct facilities, the authority borrows funds by issuing tax-exempt bonds. The university has pledged to pay the principal and interest on the bonds issued by the authority over the life of the bonds. The authority is also responsible for the

construction of these facilities and hires ar-chitects, engineers, and construction firms to design and build them. After the facili-ties are completed, they are used and main-tained by the university while the authority maintains ownership of the buildings.

pmA is the owners rep for the Sher-man center, the builder is Suffolk con-struction, and the architect is Arthur co-hen, ARc Architects.

we had the opportunity to chat with UmBA Executive Director Katherine cra-ven recently, providing us with some sur-prising insights.

MB: what is different about doing life science projects for UmBA?

Craven: This is not your grand-father’s Umass Building Authority. The Building Authority was really created to build dormitories, dining commons, and garages, all of which bring in money. You have to pay to park, you have to pay room and board. The facilities that the Umass Building Authority has been undertaking over the past several years have become increasingly complex, and they are not revenue-generating, such as the life scienc-es center in worcester (Sherman center), the E-tech (Emerging Technology and In-novation center) building in lowell, or the bio-processing accelerator in Dartmouth. All those facilities are going to have re-search and development and teaching ca-pacity in them but they are not going to be revenue-generating per se...we’re building clean rooms up at the E-tech building or laboratory space at the Sherman center; these are increasingly complex scientific environments and technologically driven environments that are more complex than buildings…. sort of a cookie cutter, double loaded, four door dormitory. we have to have the best minds in design and project management oversight to make sure that the building works for the long term.

MB: I understand you toured the Sherman center today.

Craven: we had a tour today, and they will be finishing within the next few months. It’s an exciting facility and really the first of its kind, we think, in the coun-

try but certainly in massachusetts. It’s more exciting for us because we see how other universities would envy a building like this. we noticed recently an article in the Boston Globe reporting that harvard University is about to break ground on its version of the science center… and ours is almost done.

MB: what can you tell us about pmA?

Craven: pmA consultants is an out-side owner project management firm; they represent a lot of nonprofits and municipal-ities, regional pool districts, and the Umass Building Authority. They were hired, after a competitive process, by Umass Building Authority to manage the project in worces-ter for us, and they have some other proj-ects as well.

MB: what might be the best way for an architect, engineer, or contractor to ap-proach UmBA for a job?

Craven: I am a relatively new ex-ecutive director. I started in December, and this is one of the things I want to make sure we do. Typically up to this point we adver-tised in places where people who do a lot of state work would know how to find, like state compass system or central register is-sued by the secretary of state’s office, and the central register has all of those. Now I’ve started putting them up on our web-site, but I want to reach out through indus-try publications and other places where people who may not have considered doing a University of mass type of project might look. But we enjoy that kind of competi-tion; we think the fruit of best ideas comes from having a lot of different sets of eyes look at things and we’d like to have more people bid on our work.

MB: Any suggestions for those who might consider working with a UmBA project?

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The $1 billion development plan for the 163-acre site includes a hotel, res-taurants, a casino gaming complex, retail shops, entertainment areas, luxury spa facil-ities, and horse racing. The project includes plans to improve the track’s racing facilities and provide millions of dollars in funding to reduce longstanding transportation con-cerns and to make improvements on the local road network.

“The process of earning a license re-quires significant investment and substan-tial resources and we have worked with our partners at caesars Entertainment to assemble a best-in-class team as we move toward a second phase of larger public re-view of our plans to create thousands of jobs and improve the local economy,” said Joe o’Donnell, principal owner of Suffolk Downs.

“This is an economic development initiative that will set the standard for gam-ing development in massachusetts and will create thousands of new jobs with real ca-reer paths and room for advancement,” said Richard fields, principal owner of Suffolk Downs.

gary loveman, chairman, cEo, and president of caesars Entertainment, Suffolk Downs’ gaming management partner for the development, spoke about the advantages of siting a facility in the state’s tourism capital

and said he looked forward to using cae-sars’ marketing expertise to grow jobs and revenues among area businesses, should Suffolk Downs be selected as a licensee.

“we are proud to join forces with Suffolk Downs to bring the caesars brand, our management expertise, Total Rewards loyalty program, and industry leading best practices to Boston as we develop this world-class destination resort together,” loveman said. “with this project, we are together bringing another world-class at-traction to a top tourist destination and are building upon our vision to develop and manage urban casino resorts that serve as engines for job creation and economic ex-pansion in the surrounding communities,” he added.

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• Generate 2,500 construction and more than 4,000 resort jobs for local resi-dents.

• Commit $40 million to improve local roads and intersections as part of an aggressive transportation demand manage-ment program that relies on public transpor-tation and other alternatives.

• Spend $150 million annually for goods and services among local and region-al businesses.

• Partner with Boston area hotels, res-taurants, entertainment venues, and tourism organizations to attract visitors and to boost the local economy.

Suffolk Downs, operat-ing live horse racing and enter-tainment at the same East Bos-ton site for the past 77 years, has established strong working relationships with neighbors, community leaders and nearby businesses.

while we have had a longstanding and ongoing dia-logue with the local communi-ty, today starts a new phase of that process, so that our neigh-bors, neighboring businesses, and the broader community can have a seat at the table as these plans evolve,” said chip Tuttle, Suffolk Downs’ coo.

“One of the benefits of this development will be roadway improve-ments that the local community has de-served for far too long,” Tuttle said. Suffolk Downs will release detailed plans for pro-posed transportation and infrastructure im-provements in a few days, Tuttle indicated.

The development is being designed and created by the following team of archi-tects, engineers and planners: architect of record, Elkus manfredi; general contractor, Suffolk construction; transportation, Vana-sse hangen Brustlin, Inc., and Seagull con-sulting; geotechnical engineering, haley & Aldrich; civil engineering, Nitsch Engineer-ing; structural engineering, mcNamara/Salvia Inc.; environmental/permitting, Epsi-lon Associates; and parking design, walker parking consultants.

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Bath, maine – Alliedcook construc-tion participated in the groundbreaking ceremony recently held for the new hyde School residence hall in Bath.

Alliedcook will serve as construc-tion manager on this new two-story, 17,000sf building, which will replace an existing residence hall built in 1975. The new hall will include 26 rooms, with a stu-dent lounge located on each floor.

At each end of the building, a three-bedroom faculty apartment will include a full kitchen, dining area, and living room on the first floor and the bedrooms located on the second floor. Each floor will also include a one-bedroom faculty apartment, and a studio apartment will be located on

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Boston - ground was broken recently on the historic hayden Building, designed by the famed architect h.h. Richardson (Trin-ity church). historic Boston Inc. is not only transforming the five-floor building into four apartments with retail space on the ground floor, but also using the official start of work to kick off its Trilogy fund campaign – to raise $1 million that will allow completion of three historic renova-tion and reuse projects in 2012 that also include Alvah Kittredge house (1836) in Roxbury and Vertullo Building (1860s) in hyde park.

hBI bought the hayden Building and an adjacent one-story structure in 1993. The roof had been lost to fire, the structure was compromised, and layers of building alterations masked the historic building’s underlying beauty.

hBI stabilized the building and re-stored its Richardsonian features, reacti-vating the first floor for retail use. HBI’s prudent and patient investments will fully activate the hayden Building and generate revenue that will support the organization’s preservation work citywide.

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Bridgewater, mA- BoND executives and project management team, along with students, faculty, and staff from Bridgewa-ter State University (BSU), celebrated the official groundbreaking of the school’s new $47 million residence hall. BoND, based in Everett, is providing preconstruction and construction management services for the 500-bed residence hall.

“We understand the significance of this project and we are honored to be given this opportunity. This groundbreak-ing brings us one step closer to delivering a state-of-the-art facility which will enrich the university experience for BSU students said Bob murray, president of BoND.

The facility is to be built in the midst

of this active campus with the challenge of an abutting mBTA commuter Rail line that runs adjacent to the residence hall site. overlooking the neighboring courtyard, the 159,000sf project is anticipated to achieve LEED Silver certification. The facility is scheduled for completion in time for the 2013 academic year.

The new 500-bed suite-style resi-dence hall will include four and six-bed-room suites with living/learning units as well as a health and counseling center. The design of living suites combined with learning units will provide for an environ-ment of social interaction combined with a learning experience as well as a sense of community.

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chelmsford mA - Tocco Build-ing Systems of Billerica will partner with p3i consultants of hopkinton on a project for Kronos Systems of chelms-ford to install a new comprehensive data and voice cabling infrastructure within its corporate headquarters.

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complex control sys-tems. per the EpA, labs, on average, con-sume five to10 times as much energy on a square-foot basis as a typical office building in the same climate. furthermore, a single constant volume fume hood will utilize as much energy per year as single family home. with the increasing

costs of energy and renewed focus on the bottom line, more and more companies and institutions have focused on their existing building and operations. furthermore, cor-porate/institutional policies to reduce green-house emissions and/or energy consumption by building or site continue to gain ground, which in turn brings real professional and fi-nancial justification to these programs.

The first step in reducing energy con-sumption is to gain an understanding of how the building operates – both at the infra-structure level, but equally important on the user level. Trending of key variables of a building’s operations can often be reported on directly through the building manage-ment system or recorded through temporary meters/sensors. Simple assessments include “… are lights kept on during unoccupied periods?” “… are the fume hood sashes closed?” “… are the air handlers cooling and heating at the same time?” often the best approach is to have a professional en-gineer perform an energy audit of the build-ing. These energy audits can range from up-per-level assessments to full-scale in-depth

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place to start to achieve immediate energy savings without any capital investment. These typically include improving the ener-gy-savings mindset, awareness, and culture of the lab users and building operators. clos-ing fume hood sashes can typically save at least 50% of the airflow from their open (i.e. 18” sash height) position. Turning lights off during unoccupied periods is the second most effective energy reduction strategy. Each of these zero-cost improvements can be base-lined by performing shadow studies of the lab for a week, and then immediate improvements can be achieved through the communication of these observations to the lab users. continuous encouragement and reinforcement often yield long-term results and effect cultural change.

Since the airflow delivered to the lab spaces requires appreciable amounts of energy to condition the air (filter, heat, hu-midify, cool, dehumidify) as well as deliver the air (fan energy), this is often one of the greatest savings potentials for a lab building once the zero-cost improvements are per-formed. working together with the compa-ny/institution’s environmental, health, and safety (ES&h) group to review occupied and unoccupied air change rates, tempera-ture set points, and conversion of bypass hoods (cV) to restricted bypass (VAV) can often yield dramatic savings. This is espe-cially true of older facilities, which were designed and operated at high air change rates (i.e. 12-18 air changes/hour) versus today’s more progressive designs of (4 – 8 air changes/hour). It’s important to note that depending upon the reduction in airflow for the labs, some distribution changes may be necessary to ensure that the airflow distribu-tion and temperature set points are not ad-versely impacted.

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cranston, RI – on June 18, coast-way community Bank began construction of its inaugural prototype branch office in cranston. Designed by Vision 3 Architects of providence, the new 3,800sf branch office located on Comstock Parkway be-comes the ninth branch location in Rhode Island and second in cranston. E. Turgeon construction corporation of cranston is the construction manager.

Through the use of quality, tradi-

tional materials, the architecture is simple, appealing, and tactile. A combination of brick, masonry stone, and glass are the predominant skin materials used to create a signature building that is respectful of its neighborhood. The interior building design promotes the institution’s brand.

The building’s use of glass and open plan is a deliberate effort to maintain a highly visible, open, and inviting environ-ment.

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meriden, cT - The city of meriden selected Diggs construction, llc to serve as general contractor for the con-struction of its snow-removal equipment storage facility at meriden markham Airport. This 1,764Ssf facility will con-sist of a 42-ft. x 42-ft. pre-engineered

metal building on a concrete/split face concrete masonry unit foundation. The project will also include various site im-provements and will begin this July; it is scheduled to be completed by early oc-tober 2012. mark Ballantoni will serve as the superintendent on this project.

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Somerville, mA - harvard Univer-sity recently reopened the harvard Square hotel. Arrowstreet led the design for the renovations of this prize property, adding to a series of successful campus hospitality venues for institutions in New England.

The key to the design is in the en-hancement of the guest experience and creating an oasis in the heart of harvard Square. The changes are evident upon ar-rival; the entry lobby is enlivened with a

new contemporary stone-and-glass stair that invites guests to the reception area. The lobby includes a sunlit living room with vibrant and comfortable furnishings with access to the latest technology. The mix of glass and natural stone create a welcom-ing atmosphere to this flexible space where guests can relax and enjoy views of harvard Square over coffee or an informal meeting.

guest rooms are fully transformed with new finishes to create a bright and

airy environment. The design takes cues from harvard’s traditions and campus; lightly colored guest rooms are punctuated with crimson accents and oversized campus photographs. This complements the modern, cus-tom furnishings, which are care-fully designed to maximize stor-age and workspace. Dramatically improved baths with glass-tiled showers complete the transformation.

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High-Profile: CBC Awards

hartford, cT – The connecticut Building congress (cBc) held its 16th an-nual project Team Awards banquet recently at the Bond Ballroom in hartford. owners, architects, contractors, engineers, and con-sultants packed the ballroom, drawing re-cord attendance as cBc also celebrated its 60th anniversary.

The cBc Scholarship fund distribut-ed $4,500 in scholarships to three promising graduating high school students:

christopher flanagan, North haven high School. University: worcester poly-technic Institute. major: civil engineering.

Stephanie orts, Seymour high School. University: University of connecti-cut. major: civil engineering.

James wronski, francis T. maloney high School. University: The catholic Uni-versity of America. major: architecture.

The following outstanding building projects exemplified project team excel-lence and the best practices in teamwork by project owners, architects, engineers, con-struction managers, and trades.

New Construction Award of Merit - camp Niantic – Regional Training Institute Niantic; owner: cT Department of con-struction Services (DcS), hartford; design-er: Newman Architects, llc , New haven; constructor: The fusco corporation, New haven.

New Construction 1st Place Win-ning Team - Armed forces Reserve center middletown; owner: US Army corps of En-gineers; designer: Kleinfelder, Rocky hill; constructor: KBE Ventures, a joint venture

of KBE Building corp. & DeRita construc-tion co., Inc., farmington.

Major Renovations and Expansions Award of Merit - great cedar hotel – fox-woods Resort and casino mashantucket; owner: foxwoods Resort and casino; de-signer: Tecton Architects, hartford; con-structor: Standard Builders, Newington.

Major Renovations and Expansions 1st Place Winning Team - Yale University –

morse and Ezra Stiles colleges Ren-ovation New haven; owner: Yale University, New haven; designer: Kieran Timberlake, philadelphia; constructor: Turner construction company, milford.

Small Projects Award of Mer-it - Yale University – 493 college Street Renovation, New haven; own-er: Yale University; designer: Studio ABK Architects, llc, New haven; constructor: Shawmut Design and construction – Boston.

Small Projects 1st Place Win-ning Team - St. Vincent’s medical center hybrid oR #10 Renovation, Bridgeport; owner: St. Vincent’s medical center; de-signer: BAm Studio, New York, NY; con-structor: petra construction, North haven.

K-12 Schools Award of Merit - Strat-field Elementary School – Additions and Renovations, Fairfield; owner: Town of Fairfield; designer: Silver/Petrucelli +

Associates, Inc., hamden; constructor: mal-kin construction – Stamford.

K-12 Schools 1st Place Winning Team - Kelly middle School – Norwich; owner: city of Norwich; designer: c.J. lawler As-sociates – west hartford; constructor: The pike company – East Berlin.

Transportation/Utilities/Civil 1st Place Winning Team - mayor mike pe-ters pedestrian Bridge at Adriaen’s land-ing; owner: state of Connecticut, Office of policy and management, hartford; program manager: waterford Development group, llc – hartford; constructor: loureiro con-tractors, plainville; engineer: purcell Asso-ciates – glastonbury.

longtime cBc Scholarship fund chair, clifton J. cotter was honored for his commitment to the organization.

John Koplas, Foxwoods, with Graham James and Joel Zimmerman, Standard Builders, receiving CBC Project Team

award for Great Cedar Hotel Renovation.

photot: Associated Builders & contractors-conn. KBE’s project team for the Armed Forces Reserve Center receives the “Best in Show” award at the Associated Builders & Contractors – Connecti-cut’s Annual Excellence in Construction awards.

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You Make it Happen Award: claude lancome, Esq., coast and harbor Associ-ates, Inc.

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E x e m p l a r y Service Provider Award: francine Buck, haworth and guy campagnone, lEED Ap, chapman construction.

This award is presented to the representative of an associate member

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Exemplary End User: Anthony leon-ard, liberty mutual Insurance.

The Distin-guished End User Award is presented to a professional member of the Bos-ton chapter who has provided sustained, outstanding leader-ship to the chapter. This person is highly valued by his or her

company, IfmA, and the facility manage-ment profession. This individual keeps cur-rent on changes in the facility management profession and educates other IfmA mem-bers and peers. Recipients demonstrate the best in leadership and ethics.

Emerging Leader Award: carolyn manoukian, fmp, Blue cross Blue Shield of massachu-setts.

This award is presented to a Boston chapter IfmA mem-ber who has been an active member within the chapter and shows initiative in both their

work and professional settings. They go above and beyond in their efforts with skilled execution and follow through and motivate others to participate.

Education and Professional Develop-ment Award: Tom Dunn, III, cfm, RpA, Eastern Bank.

The Education and professional De-velopment Award is presented to a Boston chapter IfmA mem-ber demonstrating ex-ceptional support of professional develop-ment in their organi-zation and/or facility management commu-

nity. The member re-

ceiving this award consistently presents or plans outstanding programs designed to meet the needs of facility management professionals, pro-vides career support, designs professional development semi-nars or classes and champions cfm cer-tification.

Facilities Management Achievement Awards for Best Practices.

These awards are presented to the individual or team whose facility manage-ment program, project, system, innovation, or idea has had a substantial, positive effect on the success of their organization. The re-cipient demonstrated how their project im-pacted business objectives and contributed to improved success. The award winners demonstrated innovation, and their achieve-ments will be used to educate other facility management professionals. This award is intended to honor those who achieve “above and beyond” the normal scope of job re-sponsibilities.

• Sustainability Existing LEED Prin-ciples: liberty mutual Insurance

• Small Project (<50,000s..f.): Philips North America

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Boston - Bond Brothers (BoND) has recently been recognized as leaders in the field of construction management, receiving three prestigious awards for exemplary work.

IfmA awarded BoND the Best Practices Award for the firm’s work on the holland & Knight project.

BoND was contracted to provide preconstruction and construction man-agement services related to the recon-struction/refresh of five floors within 10 St. James Street office tower. Complet-ed on time and within budget, BoND’s preconstruction team provided multiple level budgeting, value options, and con-structability insights into the challenge of renovating a 24x7 operating law firm while not disrupting daily operations.

The construction program included complete lighting replacement and integra-tion of new energy standards throughout the space as well as the realignment of of-fice layouts. There was extensive demoli-tion within as well as the construction of the conferencing center, which required detailed pre-planning around the law firm’s daily op-eration.

BoND was acknowledged for ex-emplary work by the cmAA, receiving the 2012 Building Project of the Year Award for Renovation/Modernization (Construction less than $20 Million).

Smith college contracted BoND for renovations to an existing 220,000sf multi-building complex within the clark Science complex. The project delivered via a de-sign-build approach with R.E. Dinneen Ar-chitects was completed three months ahead of schedule. programmatic priorities of the

project included infrastructure and code up-grades, and deferred maintenance. All work was completed while the building remained occupied.

BoND, alongside Kyu Sung woo Architects, received the Boston Society of Architect’s Harleston Parker Medal for the team’s successful completion of harvard University’s 10 Akron Street Residence hall.

The $54 million project included a 180,000sf cast-in-place concrete frame graduate student residence hall consisting of two buildings. protecting the integrity of a 100-year-old mwRA masonry sewer bisect-ing the site presented a challenge to multi-ple aspects of the construction process from excavation and earth support to logistics and mitigation.

The project included a 63,000sf un-derground parking garage, residence hall containing 151 apartment-style units, and specialty rooms, including a fitness center and meeting and study rooms.

Boston - margulies perruzzi Architects announced that its high per-formance workspace design for philips healthcare was honored with a 2012 Best practice Award of Excellence by the Boston chapter of the Internation-al facility management Association (IfmA).

The award, given at a celebratory dinner in may, honors the design/client teams whose facility management proj-ect has had a substantial, positive effect on the success of their organization, demonstrated innovation and impact on business objectives, and achieved “above and beyond” the normal scope of job responsibilities.

With no private offices, the open 32,000sf workspace features 200 indi-vidual work-settings for 260 employees in a “free addressing” concept. To promote collaboration and interaction, the open workspace is arranged in seven “neighbor-hoods.” To address privacy needs, small

meeting rooms, enclosed work settings, and file/copy areas divide each neighbor-hood. At the center of the neighborhoods, a large, multi-functional and colorful “Town Square” anchors the office like an urban center, serving as a café and meeting room.

The ceiling layout, finishes, and lighting were strategically designed to pro-vide a clear sense of circulation and aid in differentiating workspaces, collaboration space, and circulation.

The project team included J. calnan & Associates, Inc. for pre-construction and construction management services; cre-sapartners, under the direction of Dwight patten, for project management services; hoK for signage and branding and R. g. Vanderweil Engineers for mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering. cre-ative Office Pavilion provided all the furni-ture for the project.

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Boston - SmpS Boston celebrated the best of the best in professional services marketing at its annual Recognizing out-standing communications (Roc) Awards gala in June. held at the omni parker house in downtown Boston, 2012’s gala provided the opportunity for attendees to connect with peers, colleagues, and friends.

This year’s Roc Award winners:website -- first place: Sasaki for

Sasaki.com; honorable mention was pre-sented to two firms: Design & Co., Inc. for ARcUSA.com and Arrowstreet for Arrowstreet live.

Integrated Marketing - first place: margulies perruzzi Architects for its high performance workspace Video.

Event Marketing - first place: Sa-saki Associates for Urban land Institute: fall meeting Expo; honorable mention: Sasaki Associates for its meet marketing

Holiday Piece - first place: Tsoi /Kobus & Associates for how Sweet it is: cookies and Ana-grahams; honorable mention: VhB for its holiday card.

Target Market - first place: Sasaki Associates for its Sustainable Solutions; honorable mention: Rider levett Buck-nall for its Quarterly construction cost Report.

Brand Identity - first place: lAB/life.Science.Architecture; honorable

mention: Union Studio for its corporate Rebrand designed by grand fury.

Best In-House Design - Tsoi/Kobus & Associates for how Sweet it is: cook-ies and Ana-grahams.

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High-Profile: Awards

Boston - gEI consultants, Inc. congratulates NSTAR, mADEp, and the rest of the project team on being hon-ored with the Environmental Business council’s (EBc) Nicholas humber En-vironmental Award for outstanding col-laboration. The award recognizes an en-vironmentally related endeavor that is a joint or shared project between an EBc member and another person or entity and that reflects the global environmental values and human spirit exemplified by humber, a former EBc member.

NSTAR and its team were honored for remediation work done on the New Bedford Boat Slip mgp Site in New Bedford. NSTAR’s successful collabora-tion included numerous organizations in a public-private partnership that resulted in an expedited, innovative remediation of this critically located, contaminated boat slip in New Bedford harbor.

The project is adjacent to a former manufactured gas plant (mgp) and coal tar processing facility that operated at the site from the 1880s through the 1960s,

resulting in mgp impacts to marine sedi-ments in the harbor. gEI’s contaminated sediment remediation design and engi-neering activities were the first phase of a multi-phase project aimed at redevelop-ing and revitalizing the industrial prop-erty on New Bedford’s waterfront.

Team members include: NSTAR: project owner; Sprague Energy: property owner/operator; massachusetts Depart-ment of Environmental protection: per-mit coordination, regulatory reviewer; US Environmental protection Agency: permitting agency, regulatory reviewer; US Army corps of Engineers: permitting agency; city of New Bedford: stakeholder – economic development interest; gEI consultants: design engineer and con-struction manager; charter Environmen-tal: contractor; lightship Engineering: permitting consultant; Beals & Thomas: permitting consultant; New Bedford har-bor commission: permitting agency; and US Coast Guard Marine Safety Office: permitting agency.

NSTAR Team Awarded

providence, RI – colin gadoury has been recognized for significant academic, profes-sional, and community achieve-ments by receiving the prestigious president’s core Values medallion Award from Roger williams Uni-versity’s School of Architecture, Art & history preservation during the 2012 commencement ceremony in may. he graduated magna cum laude and received the master of

Architecture Thesis commen-dation Award.

gadoury completed an internship at Vision 3 Archi-tects during his senior year and recently joined the firm as in-tern architect. he is currently a member of the project teams for the Johnson and wales Uni-versity parking structure and coastway community Bank.

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Bridgewater, mA: The National As-sociated Builders & contractors (ABc) recently presented callahan construction with a gold level Safety Training and Evaluation Process (STEP) award, the fifth consecutive year that the company has earned this honor. The award, which high-lights safety measures taken in the work-place, was presented to callahan at the

gould construction Institute’s Safety and Education celebration, held recently at the montvale plaza in Stoneham.

Steve O’Reilly, safety officer at Cal-lahan, said, “we are proud of our compa-ny’s commitment to safety and the recogni-tion we have received on behalf of all our employees.”

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Boston - David f. Young, pE, vice president of cDm in cambridge, was awarded the 2011 community Service Award from the American council of Engineering companies of mas-sachusetts (AcEc/mA) at the annual celebration and meeting in waltham in June.

This award recognizes a principal or manager of an ACEC/MA member firm who has made a significant contribution to the quality of life in his or her community.

Young has been educating cape cod citizens by giving public presentations on the importance of reducing nitrogen emis-sions into crucial public waterways.

he led the municipal Building committee in man-sfield for six years and served on the committee for a total of 14 years. During that time he helped guide and implement over $55 million of infrastruc-ture improvements.

he was a founding mem-ber of the “Keep Mansfield Beautiful” program, an effort

that motivated over 700 volunteers to help remove trash and debris from the streets of the town, and he participated in an early education program called “Building Bos-ton” where he conducted five workshops for elementary-school-aged students.

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Boston - margaret o’meara has been named wom-an of the Year by wTS Interna-tional, the association for the advancement of women in the transportation industry.

A vice president in the Bos-ton office of Parsons Brincker-hoff, o’meara is responsible for client relationship management, strategic planning, and business development within the compa-ny’s New England region. with nearly 30 years of experience with consulting

firms and public agencies, she is a recognized leader in the transportation field.

Before joining the private sector, o’meara worked for public trans-portation agencies for over 25 years. At masshigh-way, among other things, she served as assistant area construction manager for the central Artery/Tun-

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worcester, mA - hoffmann Ar-chitects announced the selection of the washburn Shops restoration at worcester polytechnic Institute for a massachusetts historical commission 2012 preservation Award.

completed in 1868, the washburn Shops was the brainchild of worcester polytechnic Institute founder Ichabod washburn, who established a “Department of practical mechanism” in the building to provide hands-on experience for engineer-ing students.

Designed by prominent local archi-tect Elbridge Boyden in the Second Empire style, the washburn Shops is listed on both the massachusetts and National Registers of historic places. It is the oldest structure in the nation used continuously for engi-neering education.

In 1938, a hurricane tore the cupola from the washburn Shops and dropped it through the roof of the building. Although reconstructed shortly after, the cupola was attached insecurely, such that by the time of the restoration, it was loose enough to be

pushed out of place by hand.hoffmann Architects served as the

architect/engineer for the restoration. cut-ler Associates of worcester provided con-struction services.

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13 June 2012 – Hoffmann Architects, an architecture and engineering firm specializing in the rehabilitation of building exteriors, announces the selection of the Washburn Shops restoration at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for a Massachusetts Historical Commission 2012 Preser-vation Award.

The Massachusetts Historical Commission presents Preservation Awards annually to “projects that have displayed an outstanding commitment to historic preservation in Massachusetts.” The Washburn Shops was selected in the Rehabili-tation & Restoration category. Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin, chairman of the Commission, commented that “the careful restoration and rehabili-tation of the Washburn Shops demonstrates a strong commitment to historic preservation that goes well beyond what is normally expected.”

Completed in 1868, the Washburn Shops was the brainchild of Worcester Polytechnic Institute founder Ichabod Wash-burn, who established a “Department of Practical Mechanism” in the building to provide hands-on experience for engineering students. Designed by prominent local architect Elbridge Boyden in the Second Empire style, the Washburn Shops is listed on both the Massachusetts and National Registers of Historic Places. It is the oldest structure in the nation used continuously for engineering education.

In 1938, a hurricane tore the cupola from the Washburn Shops and dropped it through the roof of the building. Although reconstructed shortly after, the cupola was attached insecurely, such that by the time of the restoration, it was loose enough to be pushed out of place by hand. In addition, configuration of tower corners did not adequately

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Boston - winnDevelopment’s apart-ment community, oliver lofts, located at 166 Terrace Street in Boston, was rec-ognized nationally with lEED platinum certification by the United States Green Building council for achievement in green building and design. oliver lofts is the only midrise, multi-family building in Bos-ton to earn platinum distinction, and one of only two historic mid-rise buildings in the entire country to achieve lEED plati-num certification after being converted into mixed-income housing.

oliver lofts, the historic 19th cen-tury Boston buildings formerly known as pickle-Ditson, were recently renovated by winnDevelopment after 30 years of vacan-cy. The mixed-income housing community consists of 62 apartments, located in the two connecting historic mill buildings in

Boston’s mission hill. During construc-tion, approximately 100 jobs were created, of which 50% of the hours were filled by city of Boston residents.

oliver lofts Awarded lEED platinumRenovated by winnDevelopment

Exterior view of Oliver Lofts Boston, mA - Each may, preservation massachusetts holds an event to recognize and celebrate the efforts and accomplishments of those individuals and organizations that have made significant contri-butions to preserving the common-wealth’s historic resources.

The 2012 event marked the 25th anniversary of the paul E. Tsongas Awards Dinner, as held by preservation massachusetts, and also celebrated the value and power of the massachusetts historic Rehabilitation Tax credit on the 10th anniversary of its con-ception.

Thirty projects that have utilized the mhRTc program to revitalize communi-ties, spur investment, create jobs, and en-hance our collective quality of life were honored:

2012 Honorees The Paul E. Tsongas Award

• Residences at Riverwalk, Amesbury• Athol High School, Athol• Nashoba Park Assisted Living, Ayer• Dwinnell Wright Building, Boston• Fenway Park, Boston• Liberty Hotel, Boston• Philip Munroe House, Cambridge• Lancaster Mills, Clinton• Curtain Lofts, Fall River• Chestnut Green, Foxborough• Allen, Pond & Siano Blocks, Greenfield

• Arms Block & Franklin Savings Bank, Greenfield• Hayes Block, Haverhill• hamel lofts, haverhill• Baird & Benton Block, lee• Appleton mills• lofts at perkins park, lowell• coggeshall counting house, New Bed-ford• Union Street lofts, New Bedford• clark Biscuit Apartments, North Ad-ams• linwood mill, Northbridge• Eustis Street firehouse, Roxbury• Salem Jail, Salem• wilber School, Sharon• City View Commons, Springfield• Stately Temple House, Springfield• Red lion Inn, Stockbridge• perkins School for the Blind, water-town• waltham watch factory, waltham• canal lofts, worcester

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cambridge, mA - TK&A was recently awarded rec-ognition by the mayor and city of cambridge, at its 2012 Annual gogreen Awards, held at the mIT museum.

TK&A was recognized for outstanding efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through transport poli-cies and practices, and climate action leadership in waste reduction.

Blake Jackson, sustainability practice leader of the firm accepted the awards.

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provincetown, mA - The provinc-etown public library, a nationally regis-tered historic place, was honored with a 2012 massachusetts historical commis-sion preservation Award in the categories of Adaptive Reuse and Rehabilitation and Restoration. Secretary of State william f. galvin presented the award during the commission’s 34th Annual preservation Awards program held at the massachusetts Archives Building in Boston on may 30.

general contractor colantonio, Inc. of holliston performed the restoration work on the library, architect mcginley Kaslow and Associates of Somerville de-signed the project, and martha lyon land-scape Architecture llc of Northampton created the landscape design.

Renovations to convert the space for the library began in 2002 and were com-pleted in 2005. The interior was gutted, reconstructed, and restored to its original design during that first phase of renovation. The project featured an expanded vault ceiling to incorporate the half-scale replica of Provincetown’s Grand Banks fishing schooner, the Rose Dorothea, previously displayed at the heritage museum.

In 2011, colantonio was charged with restoring the exterior of the building. when the temporary exterior skin was be-ing removed, they discovered that one of the original 60-foot structural wood tim-bers had rotted completely through. They attached bracing to the exterior to keep the

building’s structure sound while they re-placed the timber with a crane. This task was particularly challenging given the small size of the building’s footprint, close-ly surrounded by homes and a busy street.

other minor structural upgrades were made before the Italianate style fa-çade was restored to replicate its original 1860 appearance using historic rusticated mahogany siding and polymer castings. colantonio painted the remaining three sides of the building and installed a new

landscape master plan, which incorporated the placement of large, granite slabs where the property meets the sidewalk. They also built a new research and study area on the basement level.

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washington - Twenty-nine devel-opments from across the globe have been selected as finalists in this year’s Urban land Institute’s (UlI) global Awards for Excellence competition, widely recognized as the land use industry’s most prestigious recognition program. from this elite group, up to 14 will be selected as winners of the competition; the winners will be announced in october during UlI’s 2012 fall meeting in Denver.

The competition, now in its 34th year, is the centerpiece of UlI’s efforts to identify and promote best practices in all types of real estate development. Each of the finalists, selected from nearly 200 en-

tries throughout the world, has been suc-cessful in achieving a high standard of ex-cellence in design, construction, economics, planning, and management.

The two New England finalists were: Atlantic wharf, Boston - developer:

Boston properties; architect: cBT Archi-tects - mixed-use green waterfront sky-scraper integrated with the harbor and sur-rounding neighborhood.

The carruth, Boston - developer: Trinity financial, Inc.; architect: The Archi-tectural Team, Inc. - Transit-oriented devel-opment with a complex financial structure to produce a mixed-use/mixed-income en-clave.

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Boston - ABc massachusetts chap-ter honored RElco with the gold Award for the 2012 Safety Step program. The Safety Training and Evaluation process (STEp) program provides an organized approach to analyze and further develop a company’s safety and loss prevention pro-gram while providing an objective method to measure safety program improvements.

ABc New hampshire / Vermont chapter’s Safety committee awarded REl-co the most Improved - SIc code 17 - over 200,000 man hours for 2012, as its rate is be-low the National Incident Rate for 2012.

The company facilitates on-going training at RElco University, its in house classroom. Safety training, code review courses, solar training, communication skills, and other technical subjects are con-tinually offered throughout the year.

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hartford, cT - The restoration and renovation of the wadsworth Atheneum museum of Art completed by consigli construction co., Inc. recently received a preservation award from the hartford preservation Alliance. The 1920s-themed 11th Annual Awards event was held at the historic Elks lodge in hartford during Na-tional historic preservation month.

hartford preservation Alliance Execu-tive Director laura Knott-Twine said, “The wadsworth is another golden icon of hart-ford.” The oldest public art museum in the United States, wadsworth Atheneum is listed on the National Register of historic places.

work involved reconstruction of the exterior’s Tennessee marble parapet walls, extensive interior upgrades, hVAc upgrades and roof repairs, as well as the re-introduction of the original skylights in the morgan galleries. The comprehen-sive renovation took place across all five of the museum’s buildings and recaptured 10,000sf of refurbished gallery space. The project team included consigli’s hartford office, SmithEdwards Architects, and Alan Barton, director of facilities, who managed the project for the wadsworth Atheneum museum of Art.

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High-Profile Focus: Life Sciences Development News

High-Profile recently interviewed Jim Grunwald, president of SciTech Build-ers, a division of J. Calnan & Associates, and asked him to describe the unique needs and demands of his company’s clients. Here is his response:

we work in a number of vertical markets, including life sciences, advanced

technology, clean-tech, healthcare, data center and gen-eral manufacturing. our clients include genzyme, lonza Biologics, Selecta Biosciences, millen-nium pharmaceuti-cals, BmS, lantheus medical Imaging, l.S.N.E., Aspen

Aerogels, Strem chemicals, percivia, etc., which range from venture backed startups with minimal staffing and experience in planning capital projects, to multination-als with planning, engineering, and project management departments. And while each project will have a very specific program, budget, and schedule requirements, there are a few common needs/demands that carry over to all of our projects....

clients of all sizes are looking to re-duce risk associated with approval of capi-tal programs prior to significant develop-ment of design elements. A response to this need, which may be a direct response to need for budget certainty early in the proj-

ect, is the development of strong teams, consisting of real estate, design, construc-tion management, and project management professionals that are brought together early in the process to leverage expertise among cross functional teams. The other big driver is technology. Technology drives this sector on both sides of the ta-ble. we need to understand and translate the client’s operating environments into program and budget while utilizing the latest technological tools to communicate the program, budget, and project duration. This is one of the biggest areas of change we see.

Running a business is full of un-planned opportunities and challenges. Be-ing able to balance the short-term priorities while staying on track with the long-term strategic goals would be among the biggest challenges faced.

SciTech Builders has developed its project teams, project controls, and technical expertise to meet specific client requirements associated with the industries we serve. our understand-ing of these requirements translates into our ability to go well beyond speak-ing the language. Being

technically focused, while maintaining a flexible approach to our business service platform and continually developing our teams are success factors which contribute to our brand and how we are perceived as a leader in our markets. meeting proj-ect goals, working with great clients, and having the opportunity to grow SciTech Builders, while providing opportunity for our employees and their families is very rewarding and important work.

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waltham, mA - The massachu-setts life Sciences center recently awarded a $500,000 Small Business Matching Grant to Firefly BioWorks of cambridge. The grant will match feder-al small business grant funding that the company has been awarded previously.

Firefly BioWorks,The center’s Small Business

matching grant program, launched in January 2010 as part of the state’s 10-year, $1 billion life Sciences Initiative, leverages federal small busi-ness grant funding that early-stage life sciences companies in the common-wealth have received for their work in life sciences research and development, commercialization and manufacturing.

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lowell, mA - The massachusetts life Sciences center announced the ap-proval of a $10 million capital grant to support construction of Umass lowell’s Emerging Technologies and Innovation center.

The 84,000sf, $70 million Emerg-ing Technologies and Innovation cen-ter, which is scheduled to open this fall, builds on Umass lowell’s unique exper-tise in plastics engineering, nanotechnol-ogy, bioprocessing, electro-optics and advanced manufacturing. The $10 million grant will fund research facilities at the new center, providing the university and companies access to clean-room capabili-ties that are unparalleled in this region of the commonwealth and a state-of-the- art

lab focused on developing new medical applications and other capabilities tied to nano, bio-optics and other technology.

The massachusetts life Sciences center is the agency charged with imple-menting the state’s 10-year, $1 billion life Sciences Initiative, proposed by gov. Deval patrick in 2007 and approved by the legislature in 2008. The center’s $10 million award to Umass lowell, com-bined with $35 million in previously ap-proved state funding from other sources, will pay a substantial portion of the cost of the ETIc.

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Boston - This is an exciting time for the life sciences at Umass with several new research facilities completed recently and several more currently under construction. Just last month, a groundbreaking was held in fall River for the Umass Dartmouth Ac-celerator for Biomanufacturing, a first of its kind in the nation. other new Umass facili-ties that will help transform massachusetts into an international hub for biomanufactur-ing and life sciences include the mass med-ical Device Development center (m2D2) at Umass lowell opened last year, the marine Science center expansion in New Bedford, and the Sherman center at Umass medical in worcester.

“The Umass Building Authority (UmBA) is thrilled to bring projects like these to reality that not only benefit the university and its students, but also serve as economic development drivers for life science industry in the state and beyond,” said UmBA Executive Director Katherine craven. “our goal is to build a world-class facility unlike any other in the country that will keep entrepreneurs in the area and attract new life-science start-ups to massachusetts.”

Umass is currently number one in life sciences patents among universities in mas-sachusetts.Massachusetts Medical Device Develop-ment Center (M2D2) at UMass Lowell

The new massachusetts medi-cal Device Development center (m2D2) at UmASS lowell held opening ceremonies last September. UmBA managed the $4 million ren-ovation of an old textile mill into an incubator for medical device start ups and life science entrepreneurs. The m2D2 features state of the art wet labs, equipment and office space where en-trepreneurs and start-up companies can license cost effective, innovative workspace to focus on growing their medical devices from idea to fruition.

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tories. It will promote collaboration among students, faculty, staff, and visitors while opening doors to strategic and community partnerships and funding opportunities.

The building is designed by Boston-based architectural firm Goody Clancy and is being built by walsh Brothers. The project is managed by the state’s Divi-

sion of capital Asset management. Roger N. goldstein (fAIA, lEED) principal at goody clancy, told High-Profile, “from the outset, there was clearly a high level of anticipation for the ISc and what it can – and will – do for the Umass Boston cam-pus. Beyond simply providing state-of-the-art space for science research and teaching, the new building will be a bold and for-ward-looking statement that the university is open, accessible, and welcoming. The position of the ISc on campus and its high-ly transparent façade, complemented by the major multi-story ‘hub’ at the center of the building and the sustainable landscape design, will establish this end of the cam-pus as an important new place.”

Richard walsh, president and cEo of walsh Brothers, said, “working on Umass Boston’s Integrated Science center

has been very exciting, and walsh Broth-ers is privileged to be a part of chancellor Keith motley’s mission to make higher ed-ucation accessible to everyone. chancellor motley’s hands-on, energetic approach is infectious, and his commitment to improv-ing the quality of urban education contin-ues to inspire the entire project team.”

The new building will provide 220,000gsf of space, featuring a research lab and support space (for biology, chem-istry, environmental sciences, physics, and psychology); undergraduate intro-ductory biology teaching laboratories; an interdisciplinary undergraduate sandbox teaching lab; infant cognition lab and two new research centers—the center for per-sonalized cancer Therapy and the Devel-opmental Sciences Research center.

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Integrated Sciences complex at Umass Boston

The new building brings together all University science departments involved in lab research and teaching and puts “science on display” via a highly transparent façade.


gEI of woburn, massachusetts provided geotechnical and environmental engineering design and construction ser-vices for the ISc building at the Umass Boston campus. The Umass Boston campus is constructed on former tidal marshland (which is underlain by a thick deposit of soft marine clay) that was filled by extensive, uncontrolled dumping and burning of refuse. consequently, gEI recommended deep end-bearing piles, which fully penetrated the landfill refuse and marine clay, for support of the build-ing. The 175-foot-long, 205-ton-capacity end-bearing piles also met the settlement tolerances required for the glass façade of the building. The end-bearing piles were estimated to be $900,000 less costly than friction piles, which were used to sup-port many of the existing Umass Boston buildings.

gEI also recommended the use of ground improvement and lightweight fill outside the ISc building to control settle-ment of site improvements and utilities.

During construction, gEI monitored in-stallation of the driven piles and ground improvement and performed noise, vibra-tion, dust and air quality monitoring.

construction is being performed in accordance with the requirements of the massachusetts contingency plan with respect to managing contaminated soils and groundwater and the disturbed land-fill refuse. GEI worked closely with the project team and contractors to maximize the amount of landfill debris which could be reused on-site to avoid costly off-site disposal.

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views of harvard’s leafy campus and the skyline of Boston beyond, william James hall is one of the few high-rises on the uni-versity campus and the only building by minuoru Yamasaki at the University.

Designed in 1963, it is may be the first high rise with a tubular framing sys-tem to be completed in the United States. Similar in technology to the Sears Tower in chicago, the design of the building allows for a completely open interior, free of col-umns, making this a unique and important

structure.currently under renovation, the 10th

floor of William James Hall is being re-worked to provide laboratory, office, and teaching space for three psychology pro-fessors. comprising roughly 8,500sf, the design combines state-of-the-art technol-ogy with a focus on the historical impor-tance of the building.

Walking onto the floor from the ele-vators, one will view the skyline of Boston directly, through the community spaces of the renovation through the ribbon windows beyond, recapturing Yamasaki’s vision of

an unobstructed view.on target for lEED gold, the proj-

ect utilizes sustainable technologies for its systems. chilled beams provide quiet heating and cooling, and lED lighting lowers power usage and operating costs. over 90% of the occupied spaces have natural light, and large expanses of translu-cent glass bring daylight into the hallways.

The original design of the hall uti-lized teak throughout. As this renovation is conceived of as a potential model for fu-ture floors within William James hall, the desire was to bring back the woodwork on this floor, but with an emphasis on sustain-ability. fSc hickory, sealed and stained,

was chosen and is used for frames, mill-work, and paneling.

Designed by lab/ life. Science. Ar-chitecture, Inc., the renovation commenced in march and is scheduled to be completed in late July of this year. wise construction is the general contractor. Rist-frost-Shum-way provided engineering services, and Rw Sullivan provided code consulting.

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worcester, mA - general contrac-tor colantonio Inc. of holliston recently began renovations to a

Umass medical School laboratory. The up-grades to the 3,550sf laboratory will make it only the second Biosafety level 3 (BSl-3) lab at UMass Medical, a significant ad-vancement for the program. Beacon Archi-tectural Associates of Boston designed the project engineered by RDK Engineers.

The centers for Disease control and Prevention (CDC) classifies laboratory fa-cilities by the types of agents they work with and ranks labs on a scale of BSl-1 through BSl-4 based on the potential risks these agents pose to the community. BSl-3 labs, like the one at Umass medical, work with highly infectious pathogens such as anthrax, West Nile Virus, SARS, or avian flu, for which there are available treatments.

“Every decision must be approved by several different agencies within the government and the university,” said fran colantonio, president of colantonio Inc. “It’s a meticulous process, and safety is the highest priority. we’re thrilled to be a part

of this huge addition to the Umass medical program.”

The $4.2 million renovation includes a massive hVAc overhaul, including the in-stallation of a secure ducted ventilation sys-tem and HEPA filtered exhaust. Biosafety cabinets - enclosed, gas-tight workspaces - will also be installed throughout the lab for work with harmful pathogens.

“It’s an exciting project, with very strict protocol to follow,” said colantonio’s project manager, Kimberly Joyce. “A BSl-3 requires careful attention to detail.”

The renovation work is made possible by a National Institutes of health grant, The clinical and Translational Science Award (cTSA). “This cTSA catapults Umass medical School into the upper ranks of re-search institutions, positioning us alongside institutions like harvard, Johns hopkins and UcSf,” said John Sullivan, mD, vice pro-vost for research.

The grant places the school among an elite consortium of 55 research institutions in the United States.

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Allston, mA - harvard University re-cently shared news about the future of the health and life Science center in Allston. At a meeting of the harvard Allston Task force, the university announced that scien-tists focused on stem cell science and bio-engineering will colocate in a new build-ing, which will be designed to maximize science square footage with flexible, state-of-the-art labs, and will also feature space for teaching, learning, and innovation.

In addition to sharing the program-matic components envisioned for the center, the university outlined next steps toward resuming construction on the site. Space planning specialists and architects will be engaged to review the configuration of the physical structure, and details about the new building – size, scale, footprint – will be determined in the coming months.

In September 2011, the university endorsed the Allston work Team recom-

mendations, which outlined a vision for near term development, and reaffirmed its commitment to science in Allston.

The health and life Science cen-ter was envisioned by the work Team as a space to build on the innovative culture of the i-lab and harvard Business School and house research and academic programs in science and engineering with an empha-sis on innovative interdiscplinary fields.

Stem cell science has been reaffirmed as an important programmatic component for the building, as previously envisioned. In addition, new teams of scientists in the fields of engineering and applied sciences are now included in the building plan.

The health and life Science center will represent the single largest investment in a science facility ever made by harvard, and the biggest investment in science space envisioned for at least the next decade.

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worcester, mA - A new life sci-ences company founded by two biomed-ical engineering professors at worcester polytechnic Institute will commercial-ize biopolymer microthread technology developed in the laboratory to produce new treatments for common sports inju-ries and heart attacks and new ways to deliver stem cells to regenerate damaged tissues in people and animals. called VitaThreads llc, the company will build on the pioneering research of founders george pins and glenn gaud-ette.

Made of collagen, fibrin, and other biologic materials, biopolymer micro-

threads, which are about the width of a human hair, can be braided into cable-like structures that mimic natural con-nective tissues. first developed in pins’ lab as a potential tool for repairing torn anterior cruciate ligaments in the knee, the microthreads were adapted by pins and gaudette for use as biological su-tures to deliver bone marrow––derived stem cells to regenerate cardiac muscle damaged during a heart attack.

In may, the VitaThreads team took first prize at the Massachusetts Life Sci-ences Innovation Day 2012, sponsored by the massachusetts Technology Trans-fer center.

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cambridge, mA - h3 Biomedicine Inc.,a cancer drug discovery company, un-veiled its first phase of growth with the dedication and official opening of new headquarters and 24,000sf of laboratory space in cambridge.

over the next year, the company plans to increase its staff to 70 people and further expand into more laboratory space within its building as it continues to pursue its mission to fulfill the promise of person-alized cancer medicine.

“h3 Biomedicine is well equipped with our new cambridge facilities to ad-dress some of the most challenging cancers by delivering on our scientific vision of patient-based, genomics-driven drug dis-covery,” said markus warmuth, m.D., h3 Biomedicine president and cEo.

H3 Biomedicine’s scientific vision was established by scientific founders Dr. Stuart Schreiber and Dr. Todd golub of the Broad Institute of harvard and mIT.

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High-Profile Focus: Healthcare Facilities Development News

Boston - The landscape of one of Boston’s busiest intersections is changing, as ground was broken on a major construc-tion project at Brigham circle. Brigham and women’s hospital (Bwh) is build-ing a new 400-space underground parking garage at the corner of francis Street and huntington Avenue. The garage will be topped with a beautifully landscaped park, the Thea and James m. Stoneman centen-nial park, named in honor of the principal donors for the park. construction manager is walsh Brothers; hDR and halvorson are the project designers.

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garage will provide much needed parking in the longwood medical area. It will also improve traffic flow by reducing the num-ber of cars attempting to park on neigh-borhood streets. Additionally, the project includes a parking area for 76 bicycles and an improved, covered mBTA bus stop at Brigham circle.

The park will replace the previous concrete and asphalt driveway, restore the historic grandeur of Brigham circle as a western gateway into the city of Boston, and provide a place for hospital employees, patients, visitors, and neighbors to relax and enjoy the outdoors.

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companies announced the closing of the construction loan for phase 1 of a renova-tion and addition project for repeat client golden pond Resident care corp. The work will take place at golden pond, an assisted living residence located in hop-kinton.

congress has once again partnered with larry Kunst and Kerry Kunst, owners of golden pond Resident care corp., and East Boston Savings Bank, the project’s construction lender.

last fall, congress was selected to provide construction management services

for the golden pond project. The scope of work includes 41,000sf and 47 new beds of assisted living construction, plus total renovations of the main mechanical and electrical plants which service the existing 135-bed assisted living facility to meet the requirements of the new units as well as future expansions of the property. This is the first of a multiphased master expansion plan for the facility.

The additions to golden pond in-clude deluxe-size assisted living units, con-cierge care, and high-end common spaces for residents of this upscale assisted living facility.

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waltham, mA - The new 28,000sf mount Auburn healthcare facility locat-ed at 355 waverley oaks Road, waltham opened recently.

hDS Architecture provided de-sign services for all the healthcare suites, including coordination of hVAc and engineering services. “our goal was to create a warm and patient friendly environ-ment ….” said hans D. Strauch, lEED Ap, principal architect-in-charge. Department of public health (Dph) plan review and coordination for certification was coordi-nated by hDS.

Bristol consulting group provided project management and relocation man-agement services. Services encompassed day-to-day owner project management from consultant and vendor selection in-cluding design and permitting oversight through procurement, construction, and occupancy.

Duffy Brothers construction was the general contractor for the project. Duffy co-ordinated all subcontractors and delivered the building in an aggressive eight month schedule from initial site and building per-mits to occupancy. work included site, building shell and core, and complete inte-rior fit-out. The phlebotomy and radiology suite, which required DPH certification, was delivered within the same-time frame.

The new center includes primary care, obstetrics and gynecology, midwife-ry, geriatric, specialty services, and a com-

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Andover, mA - pare corporation was selected by the town of Andover in early 2012 to perform evaluations and prepare a Site mas-ter plan for seven of the Town’s public schools. The Site master plan included: traffic analy-ses, wetland delineation, geotechnical borings and pavement cores, and the evaluation of parking, site circulation, land-scape, site lighting, pave-ment, and ADA issues. full topographic and boundary surveys were also performed and supplied to the Town for future designs and improvements in ac-cordance with the Site master plan.

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High-Profile Cover Story: Rhode Island Blood Center

providence, RI – construction has started on the Rhode Island Blood center’s new 20,000sf laboratory, a

project that will allow the blood center to increase testing capacity while positioning itself to implement any new blood tests that may be developed or required. The labora-tory is adjacent to the center’s main facility at 405 promenade Street, providence.

The new laboratory, which will test all blood donations for the Rhode Is-land Blood center and many hospitals in massachusetts, is the only one of its kind in New England. By building the new laboratory, the Rhode Island Blood cen-ter continues its leadership in the emerg-ing knowledge-based industries of Rhode Island and Southern New England.

“The new facility allows us to con-tinue to serve the growing need for blood products’ testing services throughout the Northeast,” said lawrence Smith, the Rhode Island Blood center’s chief execu-tive officer. “We’ve had remarkable growth over the last seven to eight years, and our ability to meet the ever more complex re-quirements of providing a safe blood supply will ensure continued growth in the future.”

“The Rhode Island Blood cen-ter plays an important role in our state’s healthcare system,” said michael fine, m.D., director of the Rhode Island Depart-ment of health. “The center is an important Rhode Island-based organization that has put a front-and-center focus on the state’s critical need for a reliable supply of blood

products. This new testing laboratory is an investment in the good health of all Rhode Islanders.

Smith said the center currently em-ploys nearly 400 individuals, and antici-pates that in time the new facility will add jobs. The $8 million project, Smith said, is self-funded, not reliant upon taxpayer dol-lars.

The architect is Vision3, and the con-struction company is E. w. Burman, Inc.

The Rhode Island Blood center was founded by the hospitals in Rhode Island in 1979 to develop a more efficient sys-tem of collecting, testing, and distributing blood products. over the last 33 years it has established itself among the leading blood collection agencies nationally and has grown to a full-service regional blood center, providing testing, collections, mar-

row and cord blood programs, as well as in-hospital patient programs. All labs and donor testing services are fully licensed and accredited.

The Rhode Island Blood center’s donor testing laboratory performs all in-fectious disease tests on donated blood mandated by federal regulatory agencies. The imunohematology reference lab and the DNA/hlA laboratory (human leu-kocyte antigen) provides sophisticated cross-match services for hospital patients. RIBc also operates the only nucleic acid amplification testing (NAT) laboratory for donated blood in New England.

Therapeutic patient services include red blood cell exchange, bone marrow processing, therapeutic plasma exchange, peripheral blood stem cell, directed lym-phocyte, platelet pepletion, white cell depletion, and granulocyte. Additionally, the Rhode Island Blood center works with Dendreon, a Seattle based company that has developed provenge, a drug that treats patients in the late stages of prostate can-cer. The Rhode Island Blood center’s mar-row donor program is recognized among the leading programs nationally, register-ing more than 11,000 individuals annually.

Three years ago, the Rhode Island Blood center, in cooperation with women and Infants hospital, opened New Eng-land’s first public cord blood program. The program has collected more than 4,000 cords, with eight used in life-saving trans-plants.

In 2010, the center became the first blood center to test selected blood dona-tions for Babesia, a tick-borne disease sim-ilar to lyme disease.

The design of the building is based on the programmatic functions and work-flow of the laboratories. Similar to an as-sembly line, there is a complex procedure

with which the blood prod-uct needs to be brought into the building, tested, pro-cessed, stored, then distrib-uted to local hospitals.

Architect Keith Da-vignon, AIA, principal at Vision 3 Architects, said, “one big challenge was that there were several existing buildings on the site, none of which were suitable for adaptive reuse for a labora-tory, and two of which were deemed of moderate his-

toric significance by the city of providence (one of those

had been badly damaged by fire). As the site is in a historic district, it was a lengthy process to obtain approvals from the city to demolish the nonhistoric buildings and the damaged historic building. The one remaining historic building, which is right on the street, has been integrated into the design of the new lab, acting as mechanical space at the basement level, lab offices at the ground level, and future office expan-sion space on the second floor. Because of the project being situated in the historic dis-trict, the design of the new building needed to complement the surrounding buildings in the district, with design approvals being required by both the planning commission and the historic preservation commis-sion. The site was also a brownfield, with contaminated soils, requiring the site to be ‘capped,’ and the design needed to mini-mize the amount of soil leaving the site.”

he continued, ”one unique feature of the building is a central clerestory win-dow designed to bring natural light into the interior work areas of the building, which otherwise would be cut off from the out-side world.”

Ed Burman, Jr., president of E.w. Burman, remarked that EwB has worked for RI Blood center in the past on smaller projects. “This project is like a breath of fresh air. The R.I. construction market has been in a depression for the last two years, unemployment running over 20%. EwB partnered with the local carpenter’s and laborer’s and their market opportunity funds and pursued the project aggressive-ly,” he said.

construction on the new building is estimated to take from 18 to 24 months. Besides the new 20,000sf building, the Blood center is renovating a 2,600sf his-toric building that is on the property.

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consulting firm, recently completed the construction and relocation of the center for Science, health and wellness on the campus of Norwalk community college (Ncc) on Richards Avenue in Norwalk.

Dpm was hired by the Norwalk community college foundation (Nccf) to provide project advisory services to represent the foundation’s interest during construction, which utilized a large sum of funds raised by the Nccf. As part of

its engagement, Dpm’s project team acted on behalf of Nccf/ Ncc at meetings with the state of connecticut, the design-build team, and various other consultants to en-sure that the Nccf’s best interests were met and that the Nccf was kept informed of the project status throughout the con-struction process.

of the total $38.2 million project cost, the Nccf contributed $2.38 million towards construction and $7.55 million for ff&E – the largest sum raised by a con-necticut community college for a project to date. The 55,000sf brick and glass struc-

ture consists of three levels of laboratory, classroom, studio, and office space and houses cutting-edge technology for the sciences, nursing, allied health, fitness & exercise programs, as well as the wellness center.

Dpm also conducted a complete inventory of existing furniture and equip-ment, coordinated the specification of all new equipment for the building, assisted Ncc purchasing with procurement, man-aged delivery and installation of all ff&E, and managed multiple phased moves of staff and contents into the new building.

The new center for Science, health and wellness, along with the renovation of 19,500sf of existing classroom and office space, was coordinated through the con-

necticut Department of construction Ser-vices with the cooperation of the connecti-cut Board of Regents for higher Education. mitchell/giurgola Architects of New York city and fletcher Thompson Architects of Shelton, conn. led the design effort in cre-ating Ncc’s high-tech collaborative and innovative space, all within the guidelines to meet a lEED Silver rating through the USgBc. They worked closely with The whiting-Turner contracting company out of New haven and The liRo group of Georgetown to deliver a first-class, sus-tainable, low-impact facility to accommo-date the technology of the quickly evolv-ing requirements of the growing health and science disciplines.

High-Profile Feature: Norwalk Community CollegeDpm completes Norwalk community college

Norwalk Community CollegeProject Team for Norwalk Community CollegeArchitect of Record - Mitchell / Giurgola Architects

Associate Architect - Fletcher-Thompson, Inc.owner’s Rep - Diversified Project Management, Inc.

general contractor - Whiting-Turner Contracting Companyconstruction Administrator - LiRo Program & Construction

Management P.C.civil and Site Engineer - Purcell Associates

Structural Engineer - Fletcher-Thompson, Inc.mEp Engineer - Fletcher-Thompson, Inc.

fire protection Engineer - Fletcher-Thompson, Inc.consulting Engineers, Abatement - Fuss & O’Neill, Inc.

landscape Architect - Dirtworks, PC lEED consultant - Steven Winter Associates, Inc.

Environmental Services - Bestech

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On August 23-25, 2012 the Boston Chapter will be hosting the ASHRAE Region I Chapter Regional Conference (CRC). This meeting coincides with the BOSTON CHAPTER’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION GALA, which will be held on Saturday, August 25, 2012 directly after the Region I Confer-ence. Both exciting events will be held at the Marriott Copley Place in downtown Boston.

Region I is comprised of 15 Chapters that are located throughout New England, New York, and New Jersey. At the conference, there will be over 150 active ASHRAE members along with their families to enjoy all that the City of Boston has to offer.We are expecting over 700 people at the must-attend Gala! Partygoers from local engineering firms, contractors, manufacturers, facility and building owners, and other professional societies will join in the celebration!

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Goldstein said, “One of the first challenges was developing a program that encompassed all the needs of the various programs that were considered for pos-sible inclusion in the new building. After a thorough, interactive programming pro-cess with Umass Boston faculty and staff, DcAm and UmBA participants and our consultant team, we arrived at a consensus program. A significant design challenge for us was to plan the building and its relation-ship with existing campus buildings so that it works properly (pedestrian connections, service access, program relationships) both upon completion and in the future, as the campus implements the far-reaching initia-

tives implied by the recent campus master plan. Umass Boston is a dynamic place, embarking upon an ambitious building program that will fundamentally change major aspects of campus design, and the process of designing the ISc required the entire team to be thinking in this near/far timeframe on almost every aspect of the project.”

The $155 million project is funded by the commonwealth of massachusetts, the Umass Building Authority, and mass Development.

It is anticipated that the ISc will open for classes in fall 2013.

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ISc at Umass Boston

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Rapid readiness and capability for cost-effective change are essential components of success in the field of life science research. Universal flex Labs provide maximum flexibility and efficiency in the design, development

and operation of life science space, all of which are essential to successfully compete in the global economy and keep pace with the evolving metrics for health care financing.

James Batchelor, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C is President & CEO, Arrow-street, Boston.

Universal flex lab

cambridge, mA - Sony DADc BioScienc-es, the leading developer and manufacturer of the advanced polymer-based smart consumables that form key components for modern healthcare diag-nostic systems, announced the opening of a new US office in Cambridge. This places Sony DADc, an independent subsidiary of Sony corporation head-quartered in Austria, at the heart of one of the biggest and most advanced life sciences innovation hubs in the world. with several leading-edge customers such as Rain-Dance and Quanterix already based in this

area, Sony DADc aims to provide an even closer service to potential partners and continue to add to their global portfolio.

Sony DADC Opens US Office

l-r: Christoph Mauracher, head of the bioSciences unit, Sony DADC Biosciences; Denise Simmons, vice mayor of the city of Cambridge; Susan Windham-Bannister, Ph.D.,

president & CEO, Mass. Life Sciences Center and Ali Tinazli, Ph.D.,director of business development & sales, BioSciences,

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High-Profile: Connecticut Facilities Development NewsHigh-Profile: Connecticut Facilities Development News

hartford, cT - Two construction pro-fessionals have been added to the hartford office of Consigli Con-struction co., Inc., Ed oloff, lEED Ap, as su-perintendent and Kyle Griffin, as M/E/P.

with more than 13 years of experi-ence on large, com-plex projects throughout connecticut and Rhode Island, Ed oloff, lEED Ap has overseen the construction activities of di-verse connecticut projects such as the pub-lic Service Enterprise group Incorporated (pSEg) power plant in New haven; the renovation and new additions at the hart-ford Public High School; Pfizer’s child care center and executive world headquarters in New london; as well as Amgen’s quality assurance lab building in west greenwich,

Rhode Island.Kyle Griffin-

joins consigli with more than a decade of experience as m/E/p superinten-dent, specializing in the mechani-cal, electrical, and plumbing aspects of a wide variety of

projects across the construction industry for academic, pro-cess manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology clients. his diverse experi-ence includes classroom construction and renovation at Three Rivers community college in Norwich, ESpN’s digital cen-ter in Bristol, the massachusetts Biologic laboratories, the wyeth pharmaceutical facility in puerto Rico, and wasserstein hall for harvard University.

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cromwell, cT – The mattabassett District held a groundbreaking ceremony recently to mark the start of construction on a full renovation, expansion, and nitro-gen removal upgrade at its water pollution control facility.

The event was held at that facility on 245 main Street in cromwell and featured guest speakers, including Department of Energy and Environmental protection commissioner Dan Esty and The matta-bassett District board chairman william candelori.

The $93 million project is expected to take three years to complete and will be spearheaded by c.h. Nickerson & compa-ny, a Torrington-based general contracting firm that specializes in water and wastewa-

ter treatment plant construction. “we are excited to begin construc-

tion and look forward to the expansion and improvements that will ultimately save our ratepayers money and have a more positive impact on local ecosys-tems,” said Brian w. Armet, executive di-rector of The mattabassett District.

one of the biggest advantages of the project will be the enhanced ability to re-move nitrogen from water discharged from the plant. This will, in turn, reduce the amount of nitrogen flowing into Long Is-land Sound each year. high levels of nitro-gen in the Sound fuels the growth of algae, which causes low levels of oxygen in the water and destroys aquatic life.

mattabassett Breaks groundSpearheaded by c.h. Nickerson & co.

Brian W. Armet, P.E., executive director of The Mattabassett District; Jon Miller, presi-dent of C.H. Nickerson & Company; William P. Candelori, Ph.D., The

Mattabassett District board chairman and Commissioner Dan Esty, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

providence, RI - KBE Building cor-poration of farmington, conn. has com-pleted renovations at Rhode Island college and has work under way on two projects for the University of Rhode Island.

At Rhode Island college, KBE has completed the $11.5 million renovation and addition to Rhode Island college’s rec-reation center.

The project included the renovation of the 75,000sf, two-story recreation cen-ter and a 5,600sf recreation center. The project included a new wrestling room, multi-purpose dance studio, cardio fitness room, natatorium, and locker rooms, as well as complete interior renovations of the existing locker rooms, the indoor track,

and three basketball courts. The recreation center will serve as the primary fitness and weight center for the campus and also houses a sports medicine area, coaches’ of-fices, and a field house.

At the University of Rhode Island, KBE has completed life safety upgrades to memorial Union hall. The $1.9 million project included a new fire alarm system, new sprinkler system, fire door replace-ment, stair guard rail, and new ceilings.

KBE is also currently constructing a new residence hall for the university. The $32.8 million project consists of a new five-story, 97,618sf residence hall that will include 429 beds, multipurpose spaces, classrooms, and residential life offices.

KBE Renovates RI college and Univ.

farmington, cT - KBE Building corporation earned a first place Award for the Armed forces Reserve center (AfRc) at the 2012 connecticut Building congress (cBc) 16th Annual project Team Awards Banquet in the category of Best New proj-ect over $10 million.

The $54 million, 203,000sf AfRc fa-cility in middletown,encompasses a training center, a vehicle maintenance facility, and a field equipment storage facility for the Con-necticut National guard and Army Reserve.

KBE Building corporation was the Design-Builder for the project in a joint ven-ture with DeRita construction company, with Kleinfelder as the Architect of Record.

The construction phase was complet-ed in just 16 months, a remarkable achieve-ment given the scope of work, which included the removal of nearly 500,000 cubic yards of soil and rock from the site. The new Reserve center features numer-ous “green” building measures, including a “green” roof, photovoltaic arrays, and high-efficiency heating and cooling systems.

other awards received by The Armed forces Reserve center project include Best in Show from connecticut’s Associated Builders and contractors, Inc., as well as the 2012 Engineering Excellence grand Award from the American council of Engi-neering companies.

KBE wins Top honors

KBE’s Project Team for the Armed Forces Reserve Center receives the “Best in Show” award at the Associated Builders & Contractors – Connecticut’s Annual Excellence in

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High-Profile: Green Facilities Development News

watertown, mA - mount Au-burn cemetery’s board of trustees, consigli construction co., Inc., wil-liam Rawn Associates, and officials from watertown and cambridge recently gathered to break ground for mount Auburn cemetery’s new greenhouse at the project site in watertown.

mount Auburn cemetery is listed on the National Register of historic places and designated as a National historic landmark.

Replacing an existing 41-year-old facility, the new greenhouse will greatly reduce en-ergy demands while improving the cemetery’s ability to propagate his-torically and ecologically appro-priate plantings for its nationally significant landscape. Among the new facility’s features are open-roof vent-ing, computerized climate controls, and an underground 30,000 gallon cistern for col-lecting water off the greenhouse roof to be used to irrigate the plants propagated inside.

construction will begin with the de-molition of a small house, once occupied by the cemetery’s gardener, and its exist-ing greenhouse facility, both located along grove Street in watertown.

construction of the new greenhouse is the first phase in the Mount Auburn Cem-

etery’s long-term vision for a new horti-culture center that will include classroom and community meeting space, new offices for the cemetery’s horticultural staff, and expanded facilities for its growing volun-teer program.

Designed by the Boston architectural firm of William Rawn Associates, the cen-ter is targeting the highest level of certifica-tion (platinum) from the lEED program of the US green Building council. Sus-tainable initiatives will include geothermal wells and photovoltaic systems.

mt. Auburn greenhouse Breaks groundDesigned by william Rawn Associates

photo by mt Auburn staff photographer Jennifer Johnston l-r: Sam Lasky, architect, William Rawn Associates; Ann Roosevelt, Mt. Auburn Board of Trustees Chair;

Dave Barnett, president and CEO of Mt. Auburn Cemetery; Tom Cooper, Mt. Auburn Board vice

chair; Anthony Consigli, president and CEO of Con-sigli Construction; Morgan Palmer, project donor.

by Donald J. MooreIt has long been recognized that har-

monic currents, particularly the third, gener-ated by the high-tech equipment in modern buildings, cause electrical system overheat-ing, waste usable system capacity, reduce electrical system reliability and efficiency, while increasing energy costs.

harmonic currents are a direct result of the way in which the switched-mode power supply (SmpS) in the load draws current from the system. These harmonic currents do not provide power to the SmpS, but they do take up distribution system ca-pacity. The principal harmonic current is the third (180 hz) and the amplitude of this current can be equal to or even greater than that of the fundamental current.

The effect of harmonic current dis-tortion on the distribution systems can be serious, primarily due to the increased cur-rent flowing throughout the system. All distribution systems are rms current limited, and the more harmonic current flowing, the less room there is for fundamental current. Since the harmonic current does not deliver any power, its presence uses up system ca-pacity and reduces the number of loads that can be powered. harmonic currents also increase I2R heat losses throughout the sys-tem. The third harmonic current flows in all phase wires and is additive in the neutral wires. It is possible for this extra current to overload and overheat the transformer pri-mary windings and the associated wires and switchgear.

over the years, various methods have been used to mitigate the effects of harmon-ic currents involving “accommodation” of the currents after they were in the system. A

first step was to overbuild the system to han-dle the extra current. Double-sized neutral wires, oversized switchgear, and transform-ers de-rated to less than their full capacity are examples of system overbuilding. To reduce the chance of transformer failure due to overheating, special transformers, known as “k-rated,” were designed to be able to handle high harmonic loading; including third harmonic currents circulating in the delta primary. The k-rated transformer will survive overheating when subjected to high harmonic loading, but the harmonic cur-rents are still present in the system.

Another method of protecting trans-formers from circulating 3rd harmonic currents is to use a “zig-zag” transformer to replace the standard transformer in the system. This device has the special wind-ings of a zig-zag reactor built into the trans-former secondary so that the third harmonic currents are cancelled in the secondary and do not circulate in the primary winding. Again, the phase and neutral wires from the transformer to the loads still carry all the harmonic currents, and double neutral wires are required.

The third harmonic suppression system uses a different approach, which uniquely eliminates harmonic currents from the distribution system. The hSS is designed to stop the generation of the har-monic current at their source, hence, these harmful currents do not exist in the distribu-tion system in the first place.

The hSS, which can be integrated in a new transformer or retrofit onto any ex-isting unit, consists of a passive network tuned to the third harmonic. The hSS is connected between the neutral wire and the

transformer Xo and is characterized by an extremely high impedance, thereby prevent-ing the flow of third harmonic current by the SmpS. hence, the damaging third harmon-ic current is eliminated throughout the entire distribution system from the transformer out to the furthest load. phase wires have more capacity remaining to carry useful load, and double neutrals are not necessary. The neu-tral, for code purposes, need no longer be considered a current-carrying conductor. overheating of transformers, switchgear, and wiring is eliminated, increasing the life-time of all system components.

Excessive heat in electrical distribu-tion systems means wasteful energy. The heat is due to I2R losses in all system com-

ponents, and appears directly in energy bills as increased kw hour charges. Installation of the hSS eliminates this wasted energy and leads to a direct reduction in energy costs. A recent study showed that, depend-ing on the transformer loading profile, the energy saved by eliminating third harmonic currents ranged from a minimum of 2.5% to a maximum of 8%.

It is important to note that the har-monic suppression system uniquely elimi-nates the third harmonic current from existing in the system and so is the only alternative capable of generating significant system energy savings.

Donald J. Moore is CEO at Harmon-ics Limited.

Designing Sustainable Electrical Distribution Systems

New london, Nh - The windy hill School on the campus of colby Saw-yer college in New lon-don, built by North Branch construction of concord, has received lEED Sil-ver certification by the US green Building council.

This is North Branch’s fifth LEED cer-tified project, more than any other contractor in the state of New hampshire.

The windy hill School program at colby Sawyer is a college-community partnership providing families of the

area with day-care, kindergarten, and after-school programs serviced by the students and faculty of colby-Sawyer’s Social Sciences and Education program. The new facility brings the program under one roof.

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Niantic, cT - fusco corporation an-nounced that The camp Niantic Regional Training Institute (RTI) recently received LEED Gold certification. The Connecti-cut Army National guard occupies the 81,000sf RTI, which serves as the regional headquarters for officers’ cadet training and includes billeting and dining areas, ad-ministration space, classroom and training areas, auditorium, and kitchen.

By utilizing a highly efficient build-ing envelope, chilled beam system, and de-mand controlled hVAc, the annual energy demand of the building will be reduced by approximately 32%. with the installa-tion of low flow fixtures, the Connecticut Army National guard will reduce water consumption by over 41%. Throughout the submittal process, fusco ensured that only the most sustainable materials were incorporated into construction. over 20% of the materials were harvested and manu-

factured locally, 18% of the materials are recycled, and 77% of the wood used on the project is FSC certified.

Special attention was also given to improving the indoor air quality of the building, and prior to occupancy, exten-sive air testing was done to confirm that all spaces met stringent EpA and lEED stan-dards.

“fusco constructed our regional training institute in camp Niantic, which replaced 25 world war II-era wooden buildings. The project meetings were mu-tually rewarding. The fusco team was great to work with.” said colonel gerald lukowski of the connecticut Army Na-tional guard.

The success of the RTI project proves that high-performance construction can be accomplished without adversely impacting the schedule or budget.

camp Niantic gets lEED goldconstructed by fusco corporation

The Camp Niantic Regional Training Institute

New haven, cT - The con-necticut Energy Efficiency Fund, in partnership with The United Illuminating company, presented The green Builder of the Year Award to the fusco corpora-tion at the Business New haven green Awards ceremony in June.

“fusco strives to deliver high performing buildings that promote resource conservation as well as community enhance-ment. Sustainable construction is a key initiative at fusco, and we are grateful to be recognized as leaders within our industry,” said lynn fusco, president, fus-co corporation.

fusco is currently con-structing several high-perfor-mance and lEED buildings and has recently received lEED gold certification for the Yale-New Haven Hos-pital clinical lab and for the connecticut

Army National guard Regional Training Institute at camp Niantic.

fusco green Builder of the Year

l-r: Roy Haller, manager, commercial and industrial energy services, The United Illuminating Company; Nora Rizzo, LEED AP BD+C, sustainability coordi-

nator, Fusco Corporation; and Lynn Fusco, president of Fusco

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Northwood, Nh - Rpf Environmental has complet-ed environmental testing and consulting for the pavilion at hampton Beach for the N.h. Department of Resources and Economic Development. The multimillion dollar renova-tion is a major improvement for the hampton Beach wa-terfront area.

Rpf performed haz-ardous material testing and indoor air quality testing ser-vices to help ensure compli-ance with various state and federal regulations.

Rpf completes hampton Beach project

Pavilion at Hampton Beach

Belmont, mA - IRc Solar Roof Sys-tems, an affiliate of IRC Industrial Roof-ing companies, has recently completed a 186kw solar photovoltaic installation at Belmont hill School, a private school in Belmont.

IRc and Belmont hill School have entered into a solar power purchase agree-ment (ppA). As a result, the school will reduce its annual energy costs from the system’s first day of operation and for the duration of the ppA.

The 778-panel project is one of the largest school-based projects in eastern Massachusetts and the first commercial in-terconnection for the Belmont municipal light Department.

The project covers 14,000sf on the roof of the school’s Jordan Athletic center.

According to IRc Solar Roof Sys-tems, the solar power panels produce enough electricity to offset approximately 20% of the athletic center’s annual electri-cal demand.

IRc completes Solar Installation

Solar photovoltaic installation at Belmont Hill School Aerial by lesvants.com

peterborough, Nh - The peterbor-ough Town house’s new wood pellet boiler system is saving the town $17,200 per year.

“clean, green, local, carbon Neutral heat” for the entire building. That’s what the two newly installed wood pellet boilers in the Town house’s boiler room are now providing— today and for decades to come.

The new pellet boilers have been providing 99.9% of all space heating since December 1, 2011. In the past, the old oil boilers used 7,200 gallons per

year, on average.At $3.25 a gallon that would be

$25,200 a year.In an average annual heating sea-

son, it is projected that the Town house will burn 40 tons of wood pellets at $200 a ton for a total of $8,000. This would make the annual savings estimate $17,200 per year. Since the installa-tion cost of the pellet boiler system was $138,000, there would be a return on the investment of 12.4%–an eight-year direct payback.

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High-Profile: Educational Facilities News

Derry, Nh - Eckman construction of Bedford re-cently broke ground for two new buildings at pinkerton Academy in Derry. They will provide expanded space for several programs within the school’s center for career and Technical Education (cTE), one of 16 cTE centers at high schools throughout the state.

The new buildings will provide expanded space for several of the career areas within the cTE program. A two-story brick building on the school’s quad will accommodate architectural draft-ing, manufacturing, electrical, and natural sciences curriculums—including laborato-ries and a greenhouse. The second building will house both the animal science and cos-metology curriculums in separate sections of a single-story wood frame building.

In addition to these two new struc-

tures, Eckman will also renovate spaces in pinkerton’s Shepherd and low buildings and add a new canopy on the piper Building as classes within cTE are relocated. Eck-man will also complete the sitework and concrete slab for a third new building to be completed by the students in the Building Trades program. marinace Architects of New hampton designed the project.

Eckman Begins pinkerton Expansionmarinace Architects

Architectural rendering of one proposed new building at Pinkerton Academy

Boston - construction is under way on a major renovation of Northeastern Uni-versity’s curry Student center and Eatery. working closely with Northeastern Dining, prellwitz chilinski Associates (pcA) is reviving the center to create a “hip” social and dining hub for the campus.

The curry Student center – located at the epicenter of student life on campus – operates as a venue for special events, student services, dining, and student activi-ties. The university sought to revitalize the center, which was last renovated in 1992, to become a renewed center of activity and a showcase for students, faculty, and visitors.

pcA’s design program includes the complete renovation of the 514-seat, ground floor dining area and the addition of a new 3,000sf structural glass mezzanine with 168 dining seats and 28 lounge seats.

The mezzanine – “floating” within the two-story space – links dining and student cen-ter functions, creating vibrant flow-through and gathering places for both commuter and resident students.

Chic, up-to-date finishes and com-fortable seating areas create a student-friendly ambiance, offering a variety of dining experiences from counters to lounge areas and encouraging use throughout the day. The wide array of dining options and vendors are unified with muted individual branding and the use of Northeastern’s bold red color to create a cohesive iden-tity for this active space. Dining selections include Northeastern’s own branded food concepts, popular local operators, and na-tional vendors.

Rindge, Nh - Eckman construction of Bedford recently completed con-struction of an addition to the field house at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge. The addition, comprising the Dr. Arthur and martha pappas health Science and Athletic Training Center, totals 9,200sf on two floors and includes a classroom, lab, athletic training facilities, offices, and spaces for the rehabilitation needs of the intercollegiate sports program.

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Springfield, MA - The Hartford, Conn. office of Consigli Construction Co., Inc. has begun renovation of the of the Forest Park Middle School in Springfield, mass., which serves nearly 700 middle school students. perkins Eastman of Bos-ton is architect of record, responsible for programming and design of the renovation and addition, and Reinhardt Associates of Agawam is associate architect, responsible for the exterior building envelope upgrades and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing.

The educational program calls for the development of 24 classrooms, six science labs, six special education, and four re-source rooms, which will support a house-style curriculum. In addition, music, art, and vo-tech specialty spaces will augment the overall teaching environment.

The construction includes the addi-tion of a new 10,000sf gymnasium and a new entrance, as well as 141,000sf of reno-vations, upgrades, and restoration, includ-ing new mechanical, electrical, technology, plumbing and fire suppression systems; the addition of elevators for improved handi-cap accessibility; the renovation of the ex-isting classrooms and a complete interior renovation; and the replacement of all win-

dows, roof, and boiler plant.The entire project will be construct-

ed to meet USgBc lEED for Schools certification standards. Green Building initiatives on this project include the use of a number of products with significant percentages of recycled content, products constructed within 500 miles of the proj-ect site, maximum use of daylight views, and the installation of energy-efficient win-dows and building systems.

To maintain the historic architectural character of the building, original wood trim will be reused whenever possible; the existing wood flooring in the auditorium will be saved and refinished; and built-in wood casework in classrooms will be re-stored. In addition, new wood flooring will be installed in classrooms in lieu of the typical vinyl flooring to continue the period theme; existing terrazzo flooring in the hallways will be restored to its original luster; replacement windows in the exist-ing buildings will reflect the original con-figurations; and the masonry façade of the gymnasium addition is derived from the look and feel of the original structure

wellesley, mA - Acentech Inc., of cambridge has completed consulting work on the newly constructed 280,000sf wellesley high School. Acentech pro-vided architectural acoustics, audiovisual systems design, community noise control, mechanical system noise and vibration control, and sound isolation services for the $110 million public high school, which was completed under budget and several months ahead of schedule.

Acentech worked closely with the Cambridge-based design firm Symmes maini & mcKee Associates to design ap-propriate acoustics and audiovisual sys-tems to serve shared learning spaces in the new high school. These spaces include the 700-seat auditorium, common spaces, general classrooms, offices, multipurpose drama room, band/orchestra room, choral room, mIDI room, ensemble room, gym-nasium, library, production recording facil-ities, dance studio, wrestling/fitness room, and cafeteria.

The auditorium’s sound system and digital video projection system, including a 15-by-26-foot screen, allow for compatibil-ity with the latest digital video standards. The band and choral rooms are linked to

the audiovisual system, giving these rooms a direct connection to the auditorium for backstage use and prompting performance entrances.

To address community noise zoning regulations, Acentech consulted on noise control treatments of the exterior mechani-cal system, which included the addition of sound attenuation devices on the equip-ment itself, as well as noise barriers with sound absorptive material to quiet the noise emission.

wellesley high School was designed to exceed the massachusetts collabora-tive for high performance Schools (mA-chpS) classroom standards.

Boston - The college of fine Arts (cfA) at Boston University selected wil-son Butler Architects of Boston to design a series of new and upgraded performance and exhibition spaces in the CFA’s five- story building on BU’s west campus.

wilson Butler Architects will re- envision and redesign some of the build-ing’s most visible components, including music rehearsal studios, the music hall,

the BU Art gallery, and the Theatre lab. A new public entrance and theatre marquee are preliminary elements in the cfA’s up-grade plans for the 885 commonwealth Avenue building.

The new spaces will help make the arts presence at BU more visible and avail-able to those outside of the college. Design will commence by July 1 with a phased schedule of project design and construction.

canaan, Nh - Engelberth construc-tion, Inc. announced that cardigan moun-tain School, a junior boarding and day school for boys in grades six through nine, has officially broken ground on the new cardigan commons. Students, parents, members of its board of trustees, faculty members, and guests recently celebrated the start of construction with a ground-breaking ceremony during the school’s spring family weekend.

The 27,000sf facility will soon be-come the campus hub, with a new dining hall and kitchen, a student center, school store, mail room, presentation theater

(movie, lecture, and meeting room), stor-age areas, and more. centrally located be-tween classrooms and athletic facilities, the commons will include bright spaces and commanding views of canaan Street lake and mount cardigan. with transport and delivery vehicle access from Alumni Drive, the new facility will also enhance both safety and convenience for the entire cardigan community.

The commons project is being led by Engelberth construction project man-ager, Bob mildrum, and superintendent Ed madison. omR Architects of west Acton, mass. designed the new facility.

cardigan School Breaks groundEngelberth cm - omR Architects

Students, parents, and guests joined faculty members to celebrate Cardigan Commons groundbreaking.

Needham, mA - Erland construc-tion of Burlington recently completed the 32,000sf science, math, library center for St. Sebastian’s School in Needham. Team-ing with Robert olson + Associates of Bos-ton, Erland completed this construction and renovation project in just over one year.

The new two-story classroom facility – built as an addition to the existing main building –features eight math classrooms; two biology labs; and two science class-rooms on the first floor.

The second floor has two chemis-try labs; two physics labs; a math/science computer room; a seminar room; and a reading room. In addition, the new building has a rotunda that will be used for physics lessons.

As part of this project, Erland also renovated a section of the existing main building to connect the old and new build-ings together and performed life safety up-grades to the church on campus.

Acentech completes wellesley highDesigned by Symmes maini & mcKee

photo by Symmes maini & mcKee AssociateWellesley High School

construction Begins at historic Schoolperkins Eastman Architect of RecordReinhardt Assoc. Associate Architect

wilson Butler Selected for BU project

Erland completes St. Sebastian’s ctr.Teams with Robert olson

New science, math, library center for St. Sebastian’s School.

Rendering of Forest Park Middle School addition by Robert Silbsy


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cambridge, mA - on June 16, as part of a community open house, a group of excited young students were recognized for their work creating fort Agassiz, a new play structure designed and built by them for the children attending neighbor-hood programs sponsored by the Agassiz Baldwin community (ABc) of cambridge.

participating in a whirl-wind adventure during the feb-ruary vacation week, 10 fifth, sixth, and seventh grade students harnessed their imagination and energy to design the new play structure and then build it during April vacation week.

Under the guidance of wendy prell-witz, architect at prellwitz chilinski Asso-ciates and teacher at ABc’s maud morgan Arts (mmA), they learned to build sketch models, to use an architect’s scale with a T-square and triangle, to make measured drawings, and to build a final model. They set out to satisfy their “clients’” desires and concerns in every way, doing research touring neighborhood playgrounds, under-standing pre-schooler scale and play, and discussing safety issues with maria laine and priscilla Browne from the ABc chil-dren’s programs.

Throughout the process, the children were encouraged by wendy and the mmA

to use inspiration and innovation, to think outside of the box, and be comfortable ex-ploring ideas in a realm where there are no right answers. Ultimately, their creativ-ity took the idea far beyond the playhouse originally imagined. “The results prove that community arts projects give students the skills they need in a world of increas-ing complexity, as well as fun and pride of accomplishment,” says catherine Kernan, mmA director.

At the end of the design phase on April 1, 2012, the proud students presented their model to their clients and parents and to the ABc Agency Board. Inspired by the hard work of the children, the board and Executive Director Terry Delancey de-cided to proceed with construction, trust-ing that the community and parents would once again show support with contribu-tions. During April vacation week, under the guidance of their teacher matt Neu-man, 10 middle school students measured and sawed, sanded, screwed and nailed, painted and carried. They spent four days installing a donated slide; building ladders, handrails, and side walls, and adding them to the basic structure that had been detailed by prellwitz chilinski and framed by high-land construction. By the end of the week, it all came together with astonishing speed, and fort Agassiz was declared open with cookies and juice.

Burlington, mA – Erland construction was recently award-ed a multiphased renovation and new construction project for Ded-ham country Day School’s lower School.

Teaming with Epstein Joslin Architects of cambridge, Erland will complete this project before the start of the 2012-2013 school year.

To start, one of the two exist-ing classroom buildings will be demolished and a new two-story, 8,382sf building will be built to replace it. This new structure will house the kindergarten and first grade on the first floor and the third grade on the second floor and will feature reading and music spaces in addition to regular class-rooms.

once that phase is complete, Erland will renovate the lower School’s remain-ing two-story, 8,333sf building, which will accommodate the first and second grades on the first floor and the third and fourth grades on the second floor. Modifications to toilet rooms and offices will also be done.

Holliston, MA - Wayne J. Griffin Electric, Inc. has completed the electrical installation work at Taunton high School and John f. parker middle School.

A six-phased project which began over three years ago included extensive renovations to the existing 496,500sf high school and the addition of a new 62,365sf middle school, with occupancy maintained within the high school throughout the dura-tion of the job.

Able to accommodate approximately 3,000 students, the three-story Taunton high School was redesigned internally, al-lowing for reconfigured academic areas, and included all required code upgrades, with new features such as roofing, elec-trical systems, a fire protection sprinkler system, and entry to the school, in addi-tion to the abatement of asbestos, renova-tion of hVAc systems, and partial window replacement.

originally part of the high school’s main building, John f. parker middle School was constructed as a three-story ad-dition to the existing academic structure,

allowing for the school to function inde-pendently, while sharing the central heat-ing plant and other building services.

The Griffin Electric team was re-sponsible for installing new high-voltage services, along with a new 4,000amp sec-ondary service, in addition to exterior light-ing on-site. life safety systems, including fire alarm, lightning protection, and back-up generator, were set-up by Griffin, plus state-of-the-art interior lighting, with an energy-saving lighting control system.

furthermore, telecommunications, data, clock, paging, and A/V systems were integrated into the new middle school and updated high school.

Bacon/Agostini construction, Joint Venture, based in East providence, R.I., served as the construction manager at-risk for the project, while gilbane Build-ing company, of providence, provided the program management. Design partnership of cambridge, mass. was the project archi-tect, and RDK Engineers of Andover, the electrical engineer.

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and all those who enter this private school in cranston, see the light in a whole new way. A modern 21st century archi-tecturally impres-sive building, the Immaculate con-ception catholic Regional School has been retrofitted with 3m window

film to reduce heat gain, glare, and utilities expense as well as to improve safety and security concerns.

All catholic schools in the Diocese of providence adhere to rigorous com-pliance standards for child welfare and safety. father Ron Brassard, pastor of Im-maculate conception parish in cranston, is committed to maintaining these stan-dards of safety. creating a safe, comfort-able, nurturing environment for all who enter their school and providing such a space with fiscal responsibility is a chal-lenge that falls on father Ron’s shoulders.

“We were very aware of the benefits of window film after American Window film completed an installation at our par-ish center and Rectory. Very pleased with the installations at the center and Rec-

tory, we knew who to call to help resolve multiple environmental as well as safety concerns we had for our parish school.”

with a list of concerns that ranged from protecting students and faculty from potential injury in the event of glass breakage to reducing discomfort due to the sun’s rays heating up windows, class-rooms, and causing substantial nuisance glare, American window film suggested 3m window film S35NEAR400, a medi-um-tint, safety and security film with high heat rejection qualities. 3m company’s patented technology utilizes multiple microlayers in this 5 mil film to provide enormous strength and tear resistance, presenting a strong deterrent to smash-and-grab and breaking-and-entering crimes. This film meets Safety Glazing Standard cpSc 16cfR category II (400 ft./lb.) and ANSI Z97.1, and passes the In-tensified Weathering Test.

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cambridge, mA - ARc/Architectural Resourc-es cambridge, along with USA Architects, planners + Interior Designers and Brinjac Engineering, have been awarded a laboratory project by the pennsylva-nia Department of general Services (DgS) to design a new 250,000sf, multistory science, education, and re-search center on Temple University’s main campus in philadelphia. This is a DgS project under direct assign-ment to Temple University.

ARc is working with locally based USA Architects on the new facility. Brinjac Engineering will be providing MEP, fire protection, telecom/security, lighting, structural, and commis-sioning services throughout the design and construction of the project. hunt en-gineering is providing civil engineering, and lRSlA studio is doing the landscape architectural design.

The ARc/USA team, which will be responsible for designing high-tech class-rooms, lecture halls, teaching and research labs, and collaboration space, will also

maximize the use of technology to enhance learning experience and research effective-ness of the students and faculty.

A new two-story atrium will serve as the gateway to the research corridor. The upper floors of the building will contain flexible research and teaching laboratory space designed to accommodate both wet and dry labs. The basement is being de-signed to accommodate specialized, vibra-tion-sensitive imaging and characterization equipment.

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Boston - Tocci Building compa-nies announced that the historical renova-tion of the monarch lofts in lawrence is substantially complete. currently owned by monarch on the merrimack, llc, the 360,000sf project was once the longest building in the world. It now offers 200 units of luxury apartments along the south bank of the merrimack River.

The project, formerly stalled due to the poor economy, was in various stages of construction when Tocci assumed respon-sibility in february 2011. To jumpstart the project after a three-year hiatus, the owner reworked the product from condominiums to rental housing.

Tocci’s ability to recognize potential problems and develop solutions helped

the owner, architect, and project consul-tants adopt solutions in a timely manner. as many as 180 concurrent workers, and 40 distinct trades were all coordinated in a massive effort to restore, renovate, and construct a key building in the continued renewal of the city of lawrence.

In addition to Tocci, the project team included massinnovation llc, developer; finegold Alexander and Associates, Inc, architect; Allied consulting Engineering Services, mechanical, electrical, plumbing engineers; hancock Associates, site and civil engineers; weidlinger Associates, Inc, structural engineer; Koningisor, luciano & Associates, owner’s project manager; and Stefura, interior design consultants.

Tocci completes monarch lofts

The Monarch Lofts

hingham, mA - A&o Danner com-panies, a full-service general contractor and builder based in hingham, was re-cently chosen to up-grade the envelope for the Rollins court condominiums in cambridge. The complex includes 11 units with three buildings. Unit size ranges from about 2,000 to 3,000sf each.

The project includes 8,500sf of fiber cement siding, replacement of 80 win-dows and numerous french doors, and new pVc trim.

“The way a building looks speaks volumes about the quality of your prod-ucts or services, and says you have pride in what your business stands for,” says Ste-phen Danner, president of A&o Danner. “Subconsciously, a pleasing exterior can give employees a more positive attitude and put customers in a more friendly frame of mind.”

Danner adds, “Even more important than the building’s appearance – its design, landscaping, and amenities – are the less

obvious aspects – the ‘exterior envelope.’ The building envelope is the outer shell, the physical separator between the interior and the exterior environments. This is what protects the value of the investment.

“owners and facilities managers shouldn’t cut corners on the envelope,” says Danner. when installed and main-tained properly, the envelope will guard against moisture, protect the entire struc-tural integrity, help maintain a healthy and comfortable working environment, and may result in significant energy conserva-tion. “cutting corners can end up costing more over time.”

Danner to Upgrade condos

Rollins Court Condominiums

Dover, NH - It’s been five years since mark Dickinson, president of Dickinson Development of Quincy, Mass., first in-troduced his vision to transform a blighted municipal public works yard near down-town Dover, N.h. into an upscale, mixed-use lifestyle concept project.

In early may, Dover’s cocheco wa-terfront Development committee unani-mously approved Dickinson’s revised plans, paving the way to move ahead with the estimated $65 million project known as Dover landing. The 21-acre site hugs the scenic cocheco River and is connected di-rectly to the downtown commercial district by a new bridge.

The project timeline calls for site and building design to proceed through 2012; complete permitting and closing with the city in early 2013; and construction in two phases from mid-2013 through early 2016.

Dickinson was named designated developer for Dover landing in 2007.

Since then there have been numerous change requests.

Under phase 1, a 16,000sf, two-story waterfront building will include one or two restaurants on the ground floor and offices on the second. This will be a visual gateway from downtown Dover to Dover landing.

Across from the waterfront park will be three townhouse-style buildings of live work units. The first floors will be office or retail, with residences above and garages behind.

As part of the agreement, Dickinson agreed to build a waterfront park from the bridge to henry law park. This park will include a riverwalk and event pavilion ad-jacent to the parking. A new pier will be built for excursion and day boats, a short walk from downtown and the restaurants.

The target demographics for Dover landing is a relatively high median house-hold income, people who are probably col-lege grads without children.

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Burlington, mA - Erland construc-tion participated in oShA’s Braintree Area’s regional Electrical Training / In-spection “Roll Up” program. A total of 72 workers at two different job sites – a reno-vation for oneBeacon Insurance in canton and a new dormitory at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield – were trained in electrical

safety during the event.In addition to training individuals

on-site, Erland conducted a thorough in-spection of 26 extension cords, 21 power tool cords, and 26 gfcI receptacles. only one extension cord was found to be defec-tive; it was immediately replaced.

Erland at oShA Training program

OSHA’s regional training session held in Canton

Somerville, mA - Abbot Building Restoration company of Boston recently completed a masonry restoration project on the north and east elevations of the elegant brick tower at St. Anne’s parish in Somer-ville.

on the north elevation, Abbot re-moved and replaced several areas of brick at the top right corner of the tower that had become dislodged over the years. In addi-tion, Abbot repointed the left corner sec-tion of the tower.

on the east elevation, the right cor-ner section and several areas near the bot-tom of the tower were repointed.

A critical component of the project was to assure that the color of the existing brick and mortar used in the restoration of the tower would replicate the original ap-pearance. Toward that end, Abbot provid-ed multiple samples to the architect from which to select an appropriate color match. The result was so exact that it is difficult to discern the replacement bricks and mortar from the original.

Abbot Restores church Tower

St. Anne’s restored brick towerAuburn, mE - Upgrades and reno-

vations to Emerson Toyota’s automobile dealership at 990 center St., Auburn were recently completed by Jewett Automotive Design & construction of Raymond, N.h.

The project involved an expansion and renovation of the current 4,600sf show-room, including structural steel upgrades and interior finishes (acoustical ceiling sys-tems, ceramic tile, carpet, and painting), as well as design - build modifications to the existing sprinkler, hVAc, plumbing, and electrical systems.

Exterior renovations included build-ing envelope upgrades and finishes, updat-ed Toyota entry element and signage.

Emerson Toyota Upgrades completed

Emerson Toyota automobile dealership

manchester Nh - Rpf Environ-mental of Northwood announced its in-kind donation of site survey services and laboratory analysis for the renova-tion and repair work to the manchester girls center, working with girls Inc. and Building on hope.

for the renovation project, Rpf performed hazardous building material testing to help ensure compliance with various state and federal regulations for materials such as asbestos and potential lead waste disposal. The girls center,

housed in a 27-year-old former church located at in manchester, offers a wide variety of services and programs for at-risk girls, their families, and community members.

“This facility will undergo major interior and exterior renovations, from a new roof and windows to new play-ground and landscaping. we’re excited to begin recruiting volunteers to help make this dream a reality,” said Jonathan halle, co-chair of Building on hope.

Rpf Donates to girls center

Derry, Nh - Jewett construction company, Inc. recently completed con-struction of a new panera Bread bakery/restaurant at 17 manchester Rd., Derry, part of the new 49,000sf pinkerton place retail/business complex.

The project included construction of a 4,500sf steel-framed, load-bearing build-ing, including all roofing, electrical and

HVAC work, plumbing, exterior flatwork for patio seating, and all exterior finishes (CMU block with EIFS accent finishes).

major subcontractors included Stel-los Electric of Nashua, pynn masonry, Inc. of plaistow, and Southern Nh concrete construction and American Excavation—both located in Derry.

panera Bread completed

New Panera Bread bakery/restaurant

UmBA life Science overview

research capacity and support the school’s new learner-centered curriculum. This in-terdisciplinary, state-of-the-art research and education facility will foster interac-tion and collaboration among scientists and promote innovation and synergies across disciplines. programs located in the Albert Sherman center will include the UmmS Advanced Therapeutics clus-ter, comprising the RNA Therapeutics Institute, center for Stem cell Biology and Regenerative medicine and the gene Therapy center; the Department of Quan-titative health Sciences; and the center for Experiential learning and Simulation.

The ASC will have a significant impact on the state’s position as a global leader in the life sciences and the region’s economy. Since the beginning of the proj-ect, more than a thousand individuals have worked on the site in various capaci-ties. when completed laster this year, the Albert Sherman center will add nearly 500,000 square-feet of research, educa-tional and administrative space to the worcester campus.

UMass Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology

UmBA is currently in the process of selecting an owner project manager for the expansion of the School of marine Science and Technology in New Bedford

(SmAST). The SmAST project will in-clude the construction of 55,000 square feet of new education and research space, doubling its current size. The new facility will expand the school’s signature marine science program and allow faculty and students of Umass to continue to play a regional and global leadership role in sus-taining our marine environment. There are currently 17 faculty members and 71 graduate students at SmAST focused on fishery habitats, coastal environmental protection, ocean modeling, marine re-newable energy and other fields critical to the economy and quality of life of mas-sachusetts. SmAST’s goal is to grow the faculty to 27 and graduate student enroll-ment to 123 by 2020.

working with Umass president Robert l. caret, the Board of Trustees, and the campuses, UmBA strives to de-liver the most cost-effective, highest qual-ity construction of world class buildings to support the mission of the University. currently, UmBA is managing more than 20 projects on all Umass campuses. The new research facilities, venture develop-ment centers, dormitories and student life facilities and other buildings strengthen the University’s reputation as one of the top educational institutions in the country and as a top economic driver for the com-monwealth of massachusetts.



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High-Profile: News

Bridgewater, mA - callahan, Inc. recently completed the construction of two new market Basket stores in massa-chusetts. The 81,000sf Brockton store cel-ebrated its grand opening in may, and the 64,600sf Bourne store, located on the site of the old factory mall outlet, opened in June. The stores bring the total number of locations for the grocery chain to 67.

Both stores feature 24 check-out counters, eat-in café and coffee bar, fresh-made sushi bar, brick oven pizzeria, full

service deli, in-house bakery, and fresh fish and meat counters. The extra wide food aisles and fresh produce and floral depart-ments enhance the shopping experience.

combined, the new stores will bring several hundred new jobs to the area. “we are proud to be part of building strong lo-cal businesses,” said patrick callahan, president of callahan, Inc. “The addition of these new locations will help stimulate the local economy and create hundreds of new jobs within the community.”

callahan completes Two markets

Recently opened Market Basket

colchester, VT - Engelberth con-struction, Inc., with offices in Colchester, Vt., and Keene, N.H., announced that five foremen – Ron Ashley, phil Bissonette, Corey Cook, Terry Lafland, and Eric Palm-er – have recently been promoted to project superintendents/supervisors.

Ashley has been with the company for over eight years and is a 25-year sea-soned United States Army veteran with 2,364 combat duty days in Afghanistan and Iraq. he has worked on several medical center projects, Ben & Jerry’s, and Keene State college. he is currently supervising the Shearer Audi Alterations and Addition project.

Bissonette has been with Engelberth since 1986. The last several years he has worked on a multitude of projects for Rut-land Regional medical center. his current assignment is working on projects for mid-dlebury college, pBm Nutritionals, and green mountain coffee Roasters.

cook works from the Keene, N.h. office and has been with the company for

over 10 years. his experience includes working as a supervisor at the Brattleboro Retreat osgood Building renovation. cur-rently he is working on the Technology, Design, and Safety center at Keene State college.

Lafland joined Engelberth in 2000. Also based out of the Keene office, his most recent work includes several Dart-mouth college projects; and the King Ar-thur flour Expansion. he is currently at working at the hanover Inn renovation project.

palmer has been with the company for nearly 10 years and specializes in civil site work. he is currently supervising the parking lot improvements to St. pius X parish in Essex Junction, Vt., lake cham-plain chocolates in Burlington, and Ben & Jerry’s in waterbury. he also has played a role in civil site work of several current projects. palmer has served two tours with the Vermont National guard in Afghani-stan and Iraq.

Engelberth New Employees

Roxbury, mA - historic Boston Inc., a nonprofit redeveloper of historic build-ings, has launched a campaign to preserve and reuse the 1874 malcolm X-Ella little-collins house, the last known surviving residence of the young black civil rights ac-tivist and the family of his older half-sister, Ella little-collins.

historic Boston Inc. will raise $750,000 to restore and establish a new use, possibly as housing for graduate stu-dents for a Boston area college or univer-sity, over the next year.

The home, located near a park now named for malcolm X, was built in 1874

and has been vacant for several years and underused for decades. malcolm X lived there with his sister and her husband and was in and out of trouble with the law be-fore joining the Nation of Islam while in jail in the 1940s.

“historic Boston Inc. and the Na-tional Trust are all about saving places,” said Kottaridis. The home will be restored to its 1941-1947-era condition, as money is raised and a new, sustainable use is sought.

mayor menino praised historic Bos-ton Inc. for acting to preserve this impor-tant piece of history.

Boston to Save malcolm X house

by Annie McEvoyAfter a five-year apprenticeship,

combining on-the-job training and class-room instruction at the apprenticeship school in Dorchester, graduates of the 2012 Sheet metal workers Union local 17 Ap-prentice and Training program, attended graduation and award ceremonies at the marrriot in Quincy in June.

Awards presented: Francis X Lawton Award - Ryan

Irizarry.Michael Donovan Award -

“Apprentice(s) Of The Year” - Andrew maxwell, william felix, Timothy Borden, and Erick Duarte.

Outstanding Apprentices of the Year - michael harn, Jason wright, michael Richardi, Daniel Scopton, Jeffrey walls,

Jason Joyce, David lester, craig mclaren, Douglas maccallum, Andrew Doherty, mi-chael Burns, mark Blouin, Ryan Burg, and Richard collins.

Seven graduates are members of hel-mets to hardhats, men and women serving in the armed forces while also participat-ing as an apprentice. members of helmets to hardhats: Stephen mcKunes Jr., mark Blouin; Steve longacre; william felix, Shaun Stokes, michael Shapanus, and michael Tracewski.

To be eligible for the program, an applicant must be at least 18 years of age. There is no maximum age limit. The 2012 class ranged from early 20s to early 40s.

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Sheet Metal Workers Union Local 17 graduation

waltham, mA - wB Engineers | consultants, along with Nelson, recently completed the Verizon lTE Experience center in waltham. wB Engineers pro-vided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and information technol-ogy design for the center.

The lTE Experience center project consisted of the ground up construction of a new building for Verizon. The center fea-tures a 20,000sf showcase that is used for Verizon to demonstrate new technologies at every stage throughout development, from concept to commercial products.

The highlights of the showcase in-clude high-end reception areas and pub-lic spaces, demonstration rooms, meet-ing rooms, a 22 seat conference room equipped with a cisco Telepresence Vid-eoconferencing system, a cafeteria, a 32 person theater space with a 22-ft.-wide curved video wall, and a 12-rack server room to drive all of the technology sys-tems in the center.

The lighting system is flexible, in-tegrated, and energy efficient. Daylight harvesting was implemented at all exterior lighting zones. lighting in all of the pre-sentation spaces was integrated into the au-dio visual control system. Energy efficient

LED light fixtures were specified in many of the spaces to meet the lEED requirements of the project.

The two floors above consist of 40,000sf of office space for Verizon, in-cluding open office space, enclosed private offices, conference and training rooms, and pantries.

Verizon lTE Experience ctr. completedwB Engineers, Nelson Team Up

Above and below: Highlights include high-end reception areas and public spaces

Wissler

Raymond, Nh - Jewett construction co., Inc. recently welcomed project manager mike wissler to its job manage-ment team. he brings more than 20 years of commercial construction experience to JccI, having specialized in the areas of municipal, industrial, financial, retail, and automo-tive facilities.

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woburn, mA - worldTech Engineering announced that michael pascavage, AIA, lEED Ap has joined its team. As prin-cipal, he adds architectural design and development solutions consulting to WorldTech’s civil and traffic engineering platform.

pascavage brings with him 20 years of design, construction, and development experience as the former chairman of cummings properties and more recently launched the New England commer-cial development division of Skanska International.

pascavage Joins worldTech

Pascavage

we s t b r o o k , mE - E.S. Boulos company (ESB) an-nounced that Thomas Nason has been pro-moted to the position of manager of project performance for its commercial division. his responsibilities will include man-agement and review of the division’s project management team, customer relations and new business de-velopment, and financial reporting with the company’s upper management.

Nason joined the company as an es-timator/assistant project manager in 2002. most recently he served as a senior project manager. In that capacity, he has worked on diverse prominent projects, including oxford casino in maine, hollywood ca-sino in maryland, the m.c. Smith federal Building renovation, as well as numerous healthcare facilities and public and private sector projects.

prior to joining ESB, Nason was president of NasonElectric in leeds.

E.S. Boulos company also an-nounced that Joseph Bradley has been pro-moted to manager of estimating for the com-mercial division from his prior position as senior project manag-er. In his new capacity, he will be responsible

for the management of all commercial project estimating, supervi-sion of the ESB estimating team, as well as interfacing with senior project manage-ment and upper management on new busi-ness development.

Bradley has worked on numer-ous key projects integral to the division’s growth, most recently the Bigelow labo-ratories facility, molnlycke health care at Brunswick landing, portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and the portland Jetport Expan-sion. Since joining ESB in 1996, he has also served ESB as field supervisor, esti-mator and project manager.

he has 34 years of experience in the electrical construction industry.

Boulos personnel Announcements

BradleyNason

Boston - gEI consultants, Inc. an-nounced recent promotions within the firm.

Robin Dehate, ph.D., is the senior risk manager and corporate health and safe-ty officer for GEI. She is responsible for managing and coordinating human health and ecological risk assessment practices. She previously served as florida’s Envi-ronmental protection Agency (EpA) on-scene coordinator for emergency responses that required management of federal, state, and private resources to mitigate the effects of released materials.

gillian gregory, ph.D., p.E. is a geo-technical engineer with more than 26 years of experience in dam safety investigations and design and analysis work for a variety of dam projects. She has performed nu-merous dam inspections, prepared plans and specifications for dam design and re-habilitation projects, and performed slope stability analyses and seismic and liquefac-tion analyses of dams.

Stephen Sarandis, p.E. is a geotech-

nical engineer with more than 27 years of experience in a wide range of proj-ects involving sub-surface explorations, geotechnical instru-mentation, construc-tion observation, and geotechnical analysis and design. Sarandis has played a key role as project manager for many of gEI’s major projects.

DeHate Gregory

Sarandis

Rumford, RI – New England construction company announced that Shelly peckham Berardinelli has joined the organization as direc-tor of marketing. She has over 17 years of construction industry mar-keting expertise having previously held positions at A/Z corporation, fluor corporation (ADp marshall), and Dimeo construction.

As a member of New Eng-

land construction’s manage-ment team, Berardinelli will be responsible for overall de-velopment and implementation of marketing efforts, including public relations, communica-tions, social media, brand man-agement, etc. all with a focus on increasing the organization’s reach throughout the New Eng-land region.

Berardinelli Joins NE construction

Berardinelli

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South hamilton, mA - Rhino pub-lic Relations recently welcomed franceen Shaughnessy as account manager and Kait-lyn Ethier as account coordinator. The new additions bring the Rhino pR staff to a total of six talented public relations and market-ing professionals.

Shaughnessy joins Rhino pR with more than 12 years of experience in public relations, journalism, and marketing. most recently, she served as corporate market-ing specialist: media relations for Simpson gumpertz and heger Inc. previously she was the newsletter editorial director for Zweigwhite and held journalist and editor roles at several publications

As an account manager, Shaughnessy will be responsible for developing, manag-ing and executing pR programs to support Rhino pR clients; overseeing the day-to-day operations of client programs; managing and developing junior-level team members; and working directly with principal Susan Shelby on the management of client accounts.

Ethier served as a public relations in-tern at Rhino pR. She also served as public relations intern for the Special olympics Rhode Island.

As an account coordinator, she will provide daily support for the operations of each account, including research; client reporting; tracking deadlines for editorial opportunities, awards and speaking oppor-tunities; distributing press releases; coor-dinating media outreach; tracking media coverage; and overall administration.

Rhino pR hires Two

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Westfield, MA - Tighe & Bond re-cently welcomed two new engineers into its growing Westfield office.

Eric fontaine, lEED Ap has more than 10 years of mechanical engineering experience in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. his expertise includes sustainable and integrated sys-tem designs for education, government, commercial, industrial, and residential buildings. fontaine is a lEED Accredited professional with a specialty in building design and construction

Jean christy, p.E. has 10 years of ex-perience in the management, design, per-mitting, and construction of civil engineer-ing design projects that range from site and roadway design projects to complex storm-water management analyses. She is also a licensed soil evaluator.

In addition, Brian goetz recently joined Tighe & Bond, Inc. as a project manager who will work primarily out of the firm’s Portsmouth, N.H. office. With 24 years of water system management and consulting experience, he will also serve as the technical specialist for all water re-

sources and supply projects within the firm’s overall water practice group.

for the past 12 years, goetz has worked extensively with public and pri-vate clients in New hampshire, massa-chusetts, and maine. his expertise includes public drinking wa-ter systems, water rights, source protection, water resource development, rate studies, conservation, and public outreach.

Tighe & Bond Adds Three

Fontaine

Boston - Tocci Building companies has hired three people to staff construction projects.

michael collins joins Tocci as project manager and assistant superintendent, pri-marily assigned to the hartz mountain har-mon cove project in Secaucus, N.J. As assistant superintendent, he will provide leadership as the liaison to the owner and subcontractors, and will pro-vide day-to-day field management. Prior to joining Tocci, he worked for callen con-struction in cherry hill, N.J. as construction manager and superintendent. he also served as construction manager and owner’s repre-sentative at winther Investment Inc. in phil-adelphia, and as quality assurance manager and sales representative at Northeast Build-ing Systems in levittown, penn.

Drew Dana is a cost estimator in the planning and cost estimating depart-ment working primarily on the 140 pleas-ant Street project in watertown, mass. he

understands building science, materials and systems, and building information modeling. he is a thorough ana-lyst who works with subcontractors and vendors to determine system specifications, installation param-

eters and costs to meet the project budget.

Dave pilcher is an assistant project manager allocated to the 75/125 Binney Street project, a biopharmaceutical laborato-ry building in cambridge, mass. he comes from an architectural and construction back-ground with more than 20 years of experi-ence working in the store planning and construction departments of major retailers such as grossman’s and Shaw’s Supermar-kets. he has also served as a superintendent overseeing tenant fit-out construction for re-tail as well as federal government projects. pertinent experience includes extensive work constructing LEED certified, ground up life science buildings.

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New haven, cT - John mcclure has joined the fusco corporation as director of marketing. mcclure has over 10 years of marketing experience in the architectural/engineer-ing/construction industry and is an active member of the SmpS community.

Responsibilities in his new role will include facilitating and managing all marketing, business development, and pub-lic relations efforts. prior to joining fusco, mcclure worked as a marketing professional at The S/l/A/m collaborative, securing opportunities for the education studio.

mcclure Joins fusco

McClurecambridge, mA

- Acentech Inc. an-nounced that James D. Barnes has been des-ignated a fellow of the Institute of Noise control Engineering of the USA (INcE/USA) and Jeffrey l. fullerton, INcE Bd. cert., lEED Ap, has been elected to the INcE/USA Board of Directors.

Barnes, a supervisory consultant at Acentech, concentrates on noise and vibra-tion control, with an emphasis on resolving community and workplace noise problems in the power industry. his projects have en-compassed interior and community noise and vibration control studies for existing sources, prediction of construction and operation noise and vibration levels, and

ambient sound and vibration studies for proposed industrial and research sites and transportation corridors.

fullerton is a supervisory con-sultant and acousti-cian working with

various projects in-volving institutional,

commercial, and residential facilities. his areas of concentration include architec-tural acoustics, mechanical systems noise and vibration control, and environmental acoustics. his experience includes a wide range of facilities, including performance facilities for musical organizations, class-room buildings for universities, exhibition spaces for museums, and laboratories for pharmaceutical companies.

Acentech personnel Announcements

Fullerton Barnes

michael wilson has been promoted to director of strate-gic development by J. calnan & Associates, Inc. In his new role, he will work closely with the se-nior management team to ensure the execution of overall strategic plan for relationship develop-ment. he will also support the development of new business

opportunities as well as the cul-tivation of existing relationships.

wilson has over 12 years of construction industry experi-ence and has worked on projects for high profile clients such as Boston properties, Divco west, Ropes & gray, Acme packet, and wellesley college.

wilson promoted

Wilson

Boston - Amy DiBattista has joined margulies perruzzi Ar-chitects as director of business development. In her new role, she will be responsible for facilitating strategic planning processes, iden-tifying and pursuing new business opportunities, promoting aware-ness of the firm, and developing

relationships in the real estate, design, construction, and busi-ness communities.

prior to joining mpA, DiBattista was a property man-agement coordinator at Boston properties. She also has eight years of experience working in broadcast television.

DiBattista Named in New Role

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mBcSeptember 17 mBc 63rd Annual golf outingwoodland golf club1897 washington StreetAuburndale (Newton), mass.This one sells out fast...reserve now.http:/ /buildingcon-gress.org/golf

AfEAfE facilities EngineeringSeptember 10 - 12, 2012, washington, D.c.Registration is open!facilities America Education forum, at the hilton crystal city at Reagan National Air-port—AfE’s annual conference and Expo for facilities engineering, operations, man-agement, and related professions. come network with peers and experts in the in-

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AgcAugust 16 & 17, 20129 a.m. - 5 p.m.Agc of massachusetts - lEED Ap+ BD&c 2-Day class - This course is perfect for developers, contractors, architects, law-yers, builders, and engineers.Everblue’s exam prep courses and mate-rials include a credit-by-credit overview of the lEED Ap BD&c rating system, as well a review of the processes, procedures, and calculations associated with attaining

LEED certification for a building.for more informa-tion: agcmass.org

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IfmAJuly 19 - 5 p.m.fan pier, BostonTime again for the annual Schmooze cruise. A favorite event of the year. Join us for the fun.information: http://www.ifmaboston.org

AISc Annual SteelDaySeptember 28, 2012SteelDay is your opportunity to experi-ence firsthand what the structural steel industry can do. The industry’s largest educational and net-working event returns for a fourth successive year. hosted by the American Institute of Steel construc-tion (AISc), its members and partners, SteelDay is a national event for the design and construction community to learn how design becomes project re-ality by exploring the structural steel supply chain live.for more information on SteelDay 2012 and to sign up for an event near you, visit www.SteelDay.org or contact AISc’s maria Blood- tel. 312.670.5433 - [email protected].

NEwiREJuly 25, 2012 New England women in Real Estate will host a project spotlight tour of wa-terstone at wellesley at 27 washington Street, wellesley lower falls, mass.Networking and registration will begin at 6 p.m. with a 6:30 p.m. presentation by Ted Tye, managing partner of na-tional development. A tour highlighting all of the site’s amenities and the resi-dential units will follow. waterstone at wellesley represents the “best in class” for senior housing in the greater Boston area, and is one of Na-tional Development’s 21 senior housing communities.for more details go to Newire.com

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SfNEJuly 27Northern New England10 a.m. - 5 p.m.Northern New England motorcycle Ride To support the wounded warrior fundRegistration deadline is July 15The SfNE Board of Directors is pleased to invite you to participate in the first ever motorcycle Ride on friday, July 27 - This event is another in a series ofprograms that SfNE has created to provide members with an opportunity to network with colleagues in the steel industry. we hope that you will join us for a fun ridethrough the New hampshire countryside.application deadline July 15. for more in-formation and to register: ssfne.org

NAIopRock N’ Real Estate harbor cruiseAugust 15, 2012 5:00 pm - 7:30 pmSamuel clemens 60 Rowes wharf, Boston, Join us as we take to the waters of Boston harbor! mix business with pleasure on the decks of NAIop’s harbor cruise, featuring networking, cocktails and entertainment. connect with friends and colleagues, lis-ten to live music and enjoy a 360-degree view of Boston’s ever-changing waterfront. come rock the boat, this special summer event now features two bars!Agenda5:00 p.m. Registration at the Samuel clem-ens, 60 Rowes wharf, Boston5:30 p.m. Boat Departs (promptly!)7:30 p.m. Boat returns to dockTicket price includes cocktails and hors d’oeuvresfor more information contact: pauline Rand phone(781) 453-6900 x4Email: [email protected]


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Inside this IssueSuffolk Downs Unveils Resort PlansCBC Recognizes Project Teams And Young ScholarsNot Your Grandfather’s UMBASMPS Boston ROC Awards 2012 SCUP Award RecipientsIFMA Boston Winners of 2012 Awards of ExcellenceUMBA and the Life Science Revolution at UMassIntegrated Sciences Complex at UMass BostonLEED Gold Renovation of William James HallDPM Completes Norwalk Community CollegeGriffin Electric Completes School ProjectsFusco Green Builder of the YearDesigning Sustainable Electrical Distribution Systems, By Donald J. MooreImmaculate Conception School Retrofitted with 3M Window Film, by Peter J. Davey

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Rhode Island Blood CenterVision 3 Architects Designs, E.W. Burman Builds

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Existing Labs – Waste Not, Want Not by Chad Wisler, Managing Principal at Vanderweil

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