High-Profile: November 2020

November 2020

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Focus: Life Science and ABX 2020 edition

The Boston Development Group has proposed a 45,000sf life science development in Watertown, Massachusetts / Rendering courtesy of Elkus Manfredi Architects

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INDUSTRY EXPERT ARTICLES:

Imran Khan

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Meagan Charbonneau

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Edwin Hargrave

Matthew Guarracino

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Alondra De Leon

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Phillip Norton Loheed

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

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Greg Angel

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FEATURING:

Somerville Life Science Building Tops Off ACE Launches 2020-21 Virtual Program A Commitment to Giving Back with Bolanle Williams-Olley

Achievement Awards / page 50

Impacts of the COVID Pandemic on Design and Construction: HVAC Upgrades by Niel P. Franzese.

Vertical Housing Development in Suburban Markets: The Time is Now by Brent Maugel Meeting the Challenges of Life Sciences Construction by Ryan LaVangie ABC Receives Presidential Award

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BPDA Names Reaves Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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BDG Proposes Life Science Development

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BPDA Names Reaves Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Somerville Life Science Building Tops Off

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Sections: Publisher’s Message…................................6 Up-Front…...................................................7 Life Science…............................................14 Connecticut…........................................... 27 Education….............................................. 30 Trends and Hot Topics….........32,39,46,48 Mixed-Use…............................................ 35 Technology…............................................ 36 Corporate….............................................. 37 Build Better Podcast….............................. 40 Municipal….............................................. 42 Healthcare…............................................. 44 Awards….................................................. 49 People….................................................... 52 Calendar…............................................... 54

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Publisher’s Message cover shows Boston Development Group’s newest proposed development located in Watertown, Mass. Read about this new development on page 14.

57.2 compared to 51.6 in August. New inquiries means new projects and more work!

Did you know clean energy jobs pay more? Environmental Entrepreneurs’ Clean Jobs, Better Jobs report (https:// e2.org/reports/clean-jobs-better-jobs/) states that median wages in clean energy are significantly higher than median

Anastasia Barnes This month is our annual Life Sciences/ ABX 2020 edition! While the pandemic has taken its toll on industries like retail and hospitality, there seems to be no slowdown for the Life Science industry in New England. In fact, Boston’s Seaport District is the fastest growing urban life science cluster in the country, according to Steve Purpura of CBRE’s Boston Life Science Group.

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Read more about the growing Life Sciences industry and its inevitable expansion into the suburbs in Imran Khan’s article on page 18. This month’s

This month we’re excited to feature the winners of the Boston Preservation Achievement Awards. Originally announced in July of this year, the celebration was postponed to October and was held virtually. Turn to page 50 to see the winners.

AIA National recently reported that inquiries into new projects during September grew for the second time since February 2020, with a score of

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wages in sectors such as retail, services, recreation and accommodations, especially when it comes to entry-level wages. It might be a time for a job change!

I’ll be moderating one of the midmorning panels at this year’s AEC Leadership Conference on Nov. 12, hosted by the Construction Institute. I encourage you to sign up for the one-day virtual event that will leave you feeling inspired about our industry! You can learn more by visiting our events calendar.

Finally, we’ve got two issues left to close out 2020, our annual Green supplement and December’s awards and year-in-review issue! Both digital issues will be available at the ABX 2020 virtual show on Dec. 2-3!

We’ll be setting up our virtual booth this week. I encourage you all to register at https://www.abexpo.com.

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Up-Front Dartmouth College Begins New Construction

Rendering of the Dartmouth graduate student housing project to be developed at 401 Mt. Support Road in Lebanon, N.H.

Lebanon, NH – JSA Design, a Portsmouth architecture, planning, and interior design firm, is partnering with The Michaels Organization for the design and development of graduate student housing on a 53-acre parcel owned by Dartmouth College on Mount Support Road in Lebanon. Groundbreaking on construction was held late this summer.

North Branch Construction has begun extensive site work on the project which will include residential buildings with a management office/community center arranged in a community setting. The project is being designed to appeal to Dartmouth’s graduate students and will have a modern expression, utilizing tra-

ditional materials in a vibrant way. Centered around the clubhouse, it will provide interactive opportunities as well as a strong connection to the natural environment with extensions to the existing trail system that extends from the location.

At the heart of the community, the clubhouse, consisting of a large gathering space, an active fireplace, study booths, gaming area and gym, will be open 24-7 to all residents. Finishes in the clubhouse will be rustic with a modern twist to reflect the historic nature of the upper valley as well as the modern active lifestyle of the residents.

The residential buildings will have a selection of housing choices from studio,

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one-, two-, three -, and four-bedroom apartments. Studies are provided on each floor to promote social and academic interaction. The complex is expected to provide 300 units and is projected to be completed by the fall of 2022.

Phase 1 of the project will consist of significant site work and the construction of one four-story apartment building and one four-and-a-half-story building providing a total of 316 beds in 157 various-sized apartment units to be used as off-campus graduate student housing.

In addition, a clubhouse will be constructed in Phase 1 and will offer a community gathering space, fitness facilities, mail and package delivery services, and work and office space for use by residents and as an on-site management office for Michaels Student Living. The project allows for Dartmouth to have exclusive rental for Dartmouth graduate students through May each year. After this date, any available units can be marketed to non-Dartmouth graduate students utilizing an approved waterfall. The project is slated to open in August 2022.

Phase 2 of the project will include

Gathering and work spaces that will be available in the clubhouse at the Dartmouth graduate student housing complex

construction of the remaining two fourstory apartment buildings providing a total of 326 beds in 152 apartment units of various sizes and an operations building that will provide office space for the development’s operations manager, as well as a work area and storage space for the facility’s maintenance team.

JSA Design of Portsmouth, N.H. is the architectural design firm on the project and Vanasse Hangen Brustlin of Bedford, N.H. is the civil and landscape engineer. Michaels Student Living is part of The Michaels Organization, a national residential real estate firm.

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BPDA Names Reaves Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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He brings over 12 years of experience including employee relations, organizational design, training and development, and strategic communications.

He will serve as a member of the agency’s senior leadership team and be charged with development and oversight of the BPDA’s racial equity and diversity priorities, and will work to establish collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders and foster a more inclusive, equitable, welcoming, supportive, and diverse agency.

Reaves currently serves as the assistant director of investigations and training for the City of Boston. He previously

Washington – The Real Estate Roundtable’s (RER) 24-member board of directors has approved John F. Fish, CEO and chairman of Suffolk, as the organization’s chair-elect, to begin his term as chairman of the Roundtable in mid-2021.

The board also approved, effective immediately, Jodie W. McLean, CEO of Edens, as its secretary and Jeff T. Blau, CEO of Related Companies, as the chair of the organization’s newly established Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Fish will succeed current roundtable chair, Debra A. Cafaro, chairman and CEO of Ventas, Inc., whose term expires July 1.

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Boston – On Nov. 19, Building Pathways is holding its Annual Awards Benefit – The Year of the Tradeswoman. The event will be streamed live at 5:30 p.m. on the Building Pathways Facebook page.

In recognition of 20% Tradeswomen by 2020, the organization is honoring its Building Pathways tradeswomen and the Boston-area registered apprenticeship

programs that have achieved 20% women or have increased their percentage of women apprentices by 20%. The awardees include Plasterers & Cement Masons Local 534, IBEW Local 103, Pipefitters Local 537, Roofers Local 33, and Sheet Metal Workers Local 17.

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Encore Boston Harbor Workers to Join IBEW Local 103 Everett, MA – Recently, 127 technical and maintenance workers at Encore Boston Harbor have voted to become members of IBEW Local 103.

Encore Boston Harbor reopened its doors on June 12 after closing in April due to statewide COVID-19 restrictions.

While shuttered, the casino implemented several new policies, including new social distancing rules and plexiglass dividers, to reduce the ability of the virus to spread indoors.

As part of Massachusetts’ Phase 3 reopening plan, casinos such as Encore

were permitted to reopen if they adhered to specific guidelines detailed by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.

Some of the job titles at the casino that participated in the vote include slot machine technicians, A/V technicians, electricians and Fire Control Center dispatchers. The vote was 95% yes in favor of forming the union.

The vast majority of the workers participating in the election will be

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IBEW Local 103 members (l-r): Rob Van Horn, steward; Rich Antonellis, business agent; Chris Sheehan, steward; and Renee Dozier, electrician

members of IBEW Local 103. A limited number of workers will become members of other specialty trade unions. However, all of the workers will negotiate together under one contract, and as part of one bargaining unit within the casino.

Workers will gain access to a range of training opportunities, courses, and professional advancement opportunities available through the unions.

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November 2020

Cotting Athletics Center Breaks Ground C.E. Floyd Breaks Ground at Library

Cotting School Athletics addition

Lexington, MA – Erland Construction Inc. announced the groundbreaking of the new athletics center addition project with Cotting School, a private, non-profit school serving children ages 3-22 with special needs.

Cotting School has teamed with Erland and ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge to continue to expand its existing athletic facility and teaching spaces. The 25,000sf, two-story addition will house a full gymnasium, bowling

alley, rock climbing wall, and multiple activity spaces and classrooms. The facility is being designed to meet the accessibility needs of the student population as well as ADA (Americans with Disabilities) requirements.

The goal of the 14-month athletics addition is to revitalize the building’s use for students, faculty and staff, creating new places to exercise, learn, and interact with one another in time for the 2021 fall semester.

Members of the Concord Public Library Corporation (CPLC), library committee and friends of the library at the recent groundbreaking.

Concord, MA – The Concord Public Library Corporation (CPLC), library committee, and friends of the library broke ground on an addition and renovation at its main branch with Johnson Roberts Associates and C.E. Floyd Company on Oct. 14. This project has been in the works since 2013, when the CPLC purchased the neighboring 222-year-old HeywoodBenjamin House.

The 23,500sf project includes an addition to connect the HeywoodBenjamin House to the main library along with interior renovations to both buildings. This additional space enables the library to make many upgrades and expand its offerings to the community.

The project includes a new and bigger children’s library with an activity room, a teen space for study and conversation,

an event space that seats 140 people, a cafe area for coffee and conversation, a makerspace with video editing and podcast studios, a new accessible entrance, and much more.

Based on an energy model that was done during the design process, the expansion is expected to use 48% less energy psf than the baseline library project in the U.S. John Boynton, a trustee of the CPLC, thanked everyone who has been so generous with their time and money to make this project possible.

“It’s been an exciting project to be a part of because we’ve had such an outpouring of support,” Boynton commented. “It’s really exciting to see the construction starting. We’ve been talking about this day for a long time.”

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Boston – Kaplan Construction, a WBE general contractor and construction management firm in Boston, has been named to the annual list of Largest FamilyOwned Businesses in Massachusetts published by the Boston Business Journal.

Kaplan made the same list in 2018.

Founded in 1976, Kaplan Construction’s highly experienced staff has worked together for many years, building a strong resume of renovation and new construction projects for commercial, healthcare, multi-family, and worship clients along the way. In 2014, Kaplan announced the culmination of a three-year management transition in which Jane Kaplan Peck was appointed chief operating officer and majority owner, and Nathan Peck was promoted to president.

“Family has remained our foundation as Kaplan Construction has grown and evolved since its founding 44 years ago. We celebrate great longevity in our core staff and have welcomed a second generation of dedicated employees to our company,” said Kaplan Peck. “Our family values are infused into our company mission and culture and we are honored to be recognized for our success.”

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Kaplan was recently recognized by the Family Business Association and the Northeastern University Center for Family Business for its accomplishments in family business success, multi-general family involvement, and contributions to the community and industry.

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Alma Del Mar School Breaks Ground

The Dellbrook|JKS team, scholars, staff, and local politicians officially break ground for the Alma del Mar Frederick Douglass Campus on Church Street in New Bedford.

New Bedford, MA – On Sept. 25, Dellbrook|JKS broke ground at the 52,000gsf, K-8 Alma Del Mar Frederick Douglass Campus on Church Street alongside socially distanced scholars, teachers, staff, and the architects of the project, Arrowstreet.

The new campus, which currently sits on a four-acre site, will feature new classrooms, a gymnasium, cafeteria with servery, offices, and support spaces.

Exterior work includes a parking lot, pickup/drop off area, playground, and outdoor recreational and classroom space.

“By utilizing pre-engineered metal buildings as the basis of construction, students will be in their desks and ready to learn just after December 2021,” said Dellbrook|JKS project manager, Carolyn Kimball. “All are approaching this project with a focus on partnership between CM, subcontractors, owner and design team to work together in achieving the team’s goal.”

Members of the Dellbrook|JKS team (l-r): Jerry Emond, superintendent; Carolyn Kimball, project mgr.; Patrick Finn, assistant project mgr.; and Greg Inman, project executive

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Lewiston High Holds Groundbreaking

School and town officials participated in the groundbreaking ceremony.

Lewiston, ME – Lewiston High School celebrated its third week back to school by holding a groundbreaking ceremony for the addition and renovation of the school.

When originally designed in 1970, the arts wing was not included in the project to save time and money.

Lavalle Bresinger Architects designed a 33,000sf addition and a 10,000sf renovation that includes a new arts wing for the school and renovation to the main entrance and front office. The arts wing will include new music, band, and art classrooms.

Ledgewood Construction of South Portland will manage the construction of the project which is expected to take approximately 13 months to complete.

Participating in the groundbreaking ceremony were Mark Cayor, mayor of Lewiston; Denis D’Auteuil, city administrator; Jake Langlais, superintendent;

Luke Jensen, city councilor; Bruce Damon and Francis Gagnon, expansion co-chairs; Jay Dufour, assistant principal; Josh Breau, facilities director; Jay Doherty and Lance Whitehead, Lavallee Brensinger Architects; Pete Pelletier, Ledgewood Construction; and Jody Dube, Lewiston art teacher.

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Focus: Life Science Boston Development Group Proposes Life Science Development

Watertown, MA – Boston Development Group (BDG), a multifaceted investment management and real estate development firm with over 60 years of experience in the Greater Boston market, has recently proposed a major life sciences development at 66 Galen Street in Watertown. The proposed life science campus, comprised of two phases totaling nearly 450,000sf of class A office/ R&D LAB, addresses the goals outlined in The Watertown comprehensive plan, and builds upon the burgeoning life science cluster that has evolved and accelerated over the last several years.

Proposed life science development in Watertown / Renderings courtesy of Elkus Manfredi Architects

The city’s planning initiatives envisioned the South Square/Galen Street corridor as a major gateway into the downtown and an ideal place for a mix of uses including office/R&D, lab and other higher density, transit-oriented development that would serve to transform its character and identity.

BDG assembled several parcels along Galen St. including the former Colonial GMC Buick dealership, a shuttered US Petroleum Gas Station, a Valvoline quick service oil change facility, and a vacant residential lot and property. When combined with BDG’s owned property at

51 Water St., the entire site totals an excess of five acres of prime developable land at the confluence of Watertown Square and the Charles River.

Designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects, BDG’s phase 1 plan features 200,000sf of LEED Gold certifiable office and lab surrounded by extensive open and green space (40%). In addition to the new parks, the development will transform vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian flow by adding new traffic patterns and networks.

Coupled with new sidewalks, streetlights, extensive tree plantings and the elimination of seven curb cuts, these

improvements will enhance pedestrian streetscapes and connections to Watertown Square and the Charles River.

The team – Elkus Manfredi Architects, Ground, VHB, Moriarty, and Vannasse and Assoc. – recently held two public community meetings, following months of discussions and input from planning officials, peer reviews of design, traffic, and other consultants.

The project is set to go before the city’s planning board and zoning board of appeals for site plan review approval and special permit issuance.

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The Role of Bio-Incubators Post-Covid Reception Costs

by Lauren Nowicki

An incubator outside of Cambridge averages 30-50% less in rent. ABI-LAB uses a gross one-year lease, encompassing utilities, amenities and access to readily available shared equipment. Monthly savings turn into triple digit return. ABILAB 2 tenants have experienced a 62% savings in rent versus Cambridge space, totaling $200,000 annually. Shared

Speculation and commentary regarding business life post-COVID has centered on tenant reductions, engagement, long-term design transfigurations and a hypersensitivity towards cleanliness.

While ubiquitously viewed as a profound disruption to life, can COVID have a positive impact on business models? If so, which ones will thrive?

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Bio-incubators occupy a distinct position within the architectural landscape fostering a variety of laboratory disciplines and stages of development. Navigating change makes bio-incubator business models highly resilient – best practices across financial, operational and structural environments optimize potential while moderating loss from situational

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factors. Fueled by entrepreneurship, correct support and direction, success can be achieved on a massive scale.

ABI-LAB in Natick is one that is excelling in this market. Consisting of two facilities, ABI-LAB 1 has had a waiting list and ABI-LAB 2 (opened in January) is 70% occupied. Between the two facilities, over 100 jobs have been created. ABI’s differentiation point is a focus on understanding the start-up mindset centered on the process

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With the long-term outlook of offices ambiguous and businesses navigating disruptive cycles, certain inherent aspects of bio-incubators naturally acclimate to the post-COVID marketplace.

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Life Sciences and the Suburbs: Factors Behind the Real Estate Shift

by Imran Khan Even before COVID-19, seismic shifts in the life sciences industry were encouraging labs to think beyond urban centers. The global pandemic has only accelerated and magnified these changes, particularly in Cambridge and Boston, where real estate and infrastructure challenges pose problems for the booming biotech industry. Follow along to learn more about key factors influencing the life sciences expansion into the Metro and Greater Boston areas.

Resource and Infrastructure Challenges

Resource and infrastructure challenges have also pushed life sciences companies to think differently about location.

Most life sciences startups – even those focused on a narrow specialization – require large laboratories and sterile environments. Greater-Boston, offering

more square feet per dollar, is more conducive to building labs that demand larger footprints and spatial volumes.

Last year, 30% of National Institutes of Health funding went to firms located in the suburbs west of Route 128, according to the same report by CBRE, and venture capital monies funneled into the western suburbs increased 76% from 2010 to 2019.

In Boston and Cambridge, limited lab space, combined with traffic and parking concerns, has made the suburbs even more attractive. At the end of 2019, the vacancy rate for labs in Cambridge was only 1.5%, according to CBRE’s Boston

Last year, 30% of National Institutes of Health funding went to firms located in the suburbs west of Route 128... and venture capital monies funneled into the western suburbs increased 76% from 2010 to 2019.

Life Sciences 2020 report. In response, more labs are moving out of the city.

Government Support of Onshoring

Boston has been a biotech hub for decades, boasting assets like MassBio Edge, a purchasing consortium which allows life sciences companies to use collective buying power to reduce costs and improve access to necessary supplies.

Over time, the Massachusetts state government has played an important part in fostering this growth via regulations supporting “onshoring,” the practice of keeping manufacturing jobs inside the United States. In 2008, for example, the state passed legislation for a 10-year, $1 billion plan to support onshoring in the life sciences.

With the emergence of COVID, onshoring has become even more of a priority as government leaders are focused on ensuring medical facilities have access to critical drugs and equipment. The effects of onshoring will increase virtual integration with an emphasis on all parts of the supply chain being physically near one another to reduce shipping time and improve communication among partners.

In this regard, Boston shines, with life sciences companies from all parts of the supply chain already located in-region.

As the onshoring continues to expand the industry, the Boston biotech zone will need more space for more companies – and that space is found in the suburbs.

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COVID is merely putting a spotlight on

COVID is merely putting a spotlight on a transition that was already in motion. The global pivot toward remote work has leaders in every sector questioning how and where we work; although life sciences employees often need to be in the lab, commute times and quality of life issues give suburban-situated labs a clear advantage. a transition that was already in motion.

The global pivot toward remote work has leaders in every sector questioning how and where we work; although life sciences employees often need to be in the lab, commute times and quality of life issues give suburban-situated labs a clear advantage. And after a year marked by drug, PPE, medical device, and testing shortages, the push to fortify life sciences manufacturing within the United States now has rare bipartisan support. In booming biotech hubs like Boston, these trends mean that the expansion into the suburbs is only likely to accelerate.

Imran Khan is an associate principal and director of science at Margulies Perruzzi, a New England architectural and interior design firm.

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Somerville Life Science Building Tops Off

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Somerville, MA – A nine-story, 290,000sf life sciences building designed by SGA, a Boston and New York City-based architecture firm, recently held a topping off ceremony in Somerville.

Shawmut Design and Construction is the general contractor, and Hashim Sarkis Studios is the design architect.

The property, located at 101 South Street in Boynton Yards, is developed by DLJ

Real Estate Capital Partners and Leggat McCall Properties. The building broke ground in June 2019 and is slated for completion in summer of 2021.

101 South Street is Somerville’s first life sciences building, which will provide state-of-the-art lab space geared towards emerging life sciences companies. The building, which will include first floor retail, community art spaces and a four-

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Upon completion, the building will include advanced wet and dry R&D labs and column free, 35,000sf floor plates for unique and maximum flexibility. It will also feature a below grade parking garage for 250 vehicles, indoor bike storage, and a two-story lobby complete with retail

space overlooking abundant public green areas and walking area.

“We’re very excited that this SGAdesigned building reached its topping off milestones despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and is on track for completion in summer 2021,” said John Sullivan AIA, partner and director of architecture at SGA.

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What Does an Incubator Space Mean to a Life Science Start-up?

by Meagan Charbonneau In the life science industry, the idea of an incubator space is not as black and white as it once was. The catch-all term has evolved over the years to blend with other models such as accelerators and shared/co-working spaces. Each business model is quite different and typically targets specific occupiers within the life science industry. Still, one thing they have in common is to provide fully operational, move-in-ready office and lab space with flexible lease terms. The differences lie with the mentor networks, investor networks, university affiliations, regulatory approvals managed by the operator, capital provided, the level of lab instruments and equipment, etc. The tenants that an incubator wants to attract determines which of these resources and benefits they chose to incorporate into offerings.

Tenants target specific incubators, and likewise, incubators target certain tenants.

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hub for a particular industry within life science. For example, Gilbane built an incubator space in Virginia to support start-ups interested in Proteomics, which is the study of proteins. This particular space has a university affiliation with George Mason’s Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine.

It provides start-ups access to talent and university resources like a mentor network. There are also incubator spaces owned by existing life science companies and others privately owned, all whose focus varies. However, the goal among all is to support their tenants in their efforts

to make scientific advancements.

Alongside those advancements comes the access to funding. These start-ups need capital to support their growth. If you’re in the pharmaceutical business and in the preclinical research phase, you need access to an approved vivarium.

Maybe the incubator you’re a member of offers that as a resource through one of their affiliations, but if they don’t, you likely have to pay a third party. Overall, the funding needed for a life science startup to advance is significant, which is why incubators and the investor network that go along with them are so important.

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Incubators are not meant to be anyone’s home forever. Ultimately, growing out of an incubator space depends on how well you’re funded and how you want to run your business. There are many variations, but if we’re talking about a start-up pharmaceutical company at a later stage, they may continue to run their business out of a larger incubator to take advantage of the resources but outsource production to a third party. On the other hand, some may believe moving into their own space would be more attractive to later-stage investors, so they enlist a site selection broker. In contrast, others may find themselves in conversations around acquisition. How you chose to allocate your money at that point is a decision based on the direction you want to take your company.

Gilbane has a long history of working with life science companies of all sizes.

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COVID-19 Fueling Office to Lab Conversions location of air handling units and related central mechanical systems.

Developers contemplating refocusing the design of office projects should first huddle with a team, including architects, to determine what is possible. Here is what the design team will need to consider before making any recommendations.

by Edwin Hargrave

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Imagine being in the throes of designing a gleaming new office building and a global pandemic forces people out of offices and into their homes. It sounds like it could be a scene out of a sci-fi movie but it’s the situation many developers find themselves in as companies scale back on space.

Office projects in design today run the risk of sitting vacant for years. It’s no surprise that in the home of one of the largest life sciences clusters in the country, developers are choosing to convert some or all planned commercial buildings into lab space.

Clients are asking us to reconfigure office projects midstream in the planning process to capture the demand for lab space. The decision to convert depends on several factors including the location of the property relative to existing life science hubs, size of the floor plates, the spacing of the column bays, and the

• Examine the core of the building to determine what modifications are necessary to incorporate adequate shafts and understand the impact on the rentable area.

• Evaluate the roofscape’s potential for large air handling equipment necessary to ventilate the laboratory spaces.

The preference would be to create a centralized air system on the roof, as opposed to on-floor systems serving a single tenant.

• Consider placing building-wide lab support spaces (e.g., mechanical rooms for shared lab services) in less desirable space such as a basement or remote areas of the ground floor. Having activated space such as shared amenities or food and beverage on the ground floor is highly desirable to attracting the best and brightest life sciences workforce.

• Review ground floors to determine if

there is enough loading dock access to handle deliveries for lab-oriented tenants without conflicting with other tenants.

The best time to consider converting an office project to lab is when the building is still on paper, not when cranes are in the air, or worse, when the lights are on.

Tenant Floor Considerations

• Floor-to-floor height: 14’-6” generally accommodates most biology and chemistry laboratory programs.

• Column bay spacing: 33’ is becoming the norm, providing 11’ bays which accommodate emerging oversized automated equipment and large tissue culture labs, while providing adequate aisles.

• Size of the floor plate: 30,000 – 60,000 useable square feet (USF) will accommodate single or multiple tenants.

• Possibility of linking floors for larger tenants: Consider an interconnecting open stair as an active hub to create a sense of community across two or more floors.

Final Steps to Ensure Success

• Confirm with the landlord that capital investments in conversion will meet long-term financial models for the property.

• Determine if the entire property warrants conversion. Chemical Storage Regulations favor situating tenants with labs on floors six or below. In substantially taller buildings, consider a partial mechanical floor midbuilding to serve the lab floors without compromising the floor plates above.

• Conduct test fits of typical life sciences lab/office programs to validate the floor plate configuration will yield a satisfactory arrangement for a wide range of tenants.

• Ensure the design promotes a sense of community throughout the building.

Life sciences companies succeed through discovery, which is fostered by collaboration and interaction.

Reconceiving projects during design from office use to lab/office use is a savvy short-term solution to the current lack of demand for office space. With a wellinformed shift in design focus, the results can be equally as successful as if they were the original intentions.

Edwin Hargrave, AIA is director of integrated design, science and technology/associate principal at TRIA, an architecture and design firm focused on creating spaces that advance scientific discovery.

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In the Face of COVID-19, Boston’s Life Science Industry Continues to Grow

by Matthew Guarracino For many years, Boston has been the world leader in the life science industry, with startups and global giants alike competing for talent, as well as real estate. Last year, a report from commercial brokerage firm CBRE ranked the area as the number one destination for recent graduates interested in the field, as well as first in funding from the National Institutes of Health. It also ranked the region second in total sciences employees, right behind San Francisco.

Meanwhile, earlier this year, the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Fund reported the industry would add 12,000 more jobs in the next five years, bringing the total to approximately 100,000. That makes Boston the secondfastest-growing region in new jobs, a close second to Seattle. For a long time, it has been hard to imagine this momentum – which has driven so much of our historic development boom recently – ever slowing.

Of course, 2020 has been largely

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defined by the impacts of the coronavirus.

And when it comes to the region’s real estate, COVID-19 has reshuffled the deck, even threatening one of Boston’s premier economic drivers. However, recent developments suggest the region’s life science industry will continue to thrive, with an eye toward expanding beyond the Kendall Square corridor.

For a long period, the city’s life science real estate boom focused on a few key clusters, such as Watertown and Cambridgeport, sidestepping Somerville and Charlestown and other parts of the Boston metropolitan area. And the Seaport District remains the fastest-growing urban life science hub in the country, with numerous large companies such as Vertex anchoring the neighborhood. However, now the industry is expanding well beyond those districts and other pockets long associated with MIT and Kendall Square.

Developers are increasingly seeking alternatives to traditional spaces by eyeing new projects in places like Boynton Yards and Assembly Square in Somerville, as well as Charlestown’s Hood Park campus.

And outside Somerville’s Union Square, the debut of a new lab facility will coincide with the completion of the new Green Line trolley extension.

Elsewhere, suburban developments are also being explored. For instance, the

Kendall Square-based firm, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, recently closed on a $330 million deal to buy the Reservoir Woods East campus, a Waltham office park, with plans for possible expansion. And beyond Boston-adjacent developments in nearby spots like West Cambridge, Somerville, and Watertown, future Greater Boston suburban office parks now focused on life science incubation include Lexington, Wakefield, Bedford, and Burlington.

In other parts of Massachusetts, a $473 million renewal of the 2018 Massachusetts Life Sciences Initiative emphasizes workforce development, public school education, and geographic dispersion of life science activity in central and western Massachusetts. An additional $150 million has recently been

made available in tax credits tied to new hiring in regions across the state.

Greater Boston’s life science industry’s recent growth is a natural extension of the city’s world class-institutions, namely its schools and medical facilities. This ecosystem remains the ideal setting for life science companies whose technologies and products often take years to develop.

That is why over 500 life sciences and biotechnology firms are based in Boston and Cambridge alone, with over 100 more located in the suburbs. As long as the Commonwealth’s dominance in funding and talent is maintained, the life science industry will become more than a Boston, or even eastern Massachusetts tentpole, but flourish as an economic engine statewide.

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Meeting the Challenges of Life Sciences Construction

by Ryan LaVangie The current pace of breakthrough innovation in the life sciences sector, with its core disciplines of medicine and biology, is providing much hope with regard to vaccine development, as well as new insight into gene therapies, pharmaceutical discovery, telemedicine and other focuses. As such, life sciences construction is escalating, with this upward trend expected to continue.

Since specific design conditions are required for laser, chemical, wet labs and clean rooms, the challenges to construction in the life sciences segment are many, and specialized expertise is a necessity.

Facilities and laboratories not only necessitate specialized skill and meticulous attention to exacting protocol, but also demand a complete understanding of the project’s current and anticipated end-user needs. With a thorough understanding of the challenges inherent to managing the construction of secure, sterile, and meticulously precise facilities in compliance

with rigorous government and environmental regulations, Acella Construction maintains a collaborative approach in construction to ensure facilities that meet both the present and future needs of the ever-evolving life sciences industry.

Based on our core foundation of learning and research, combined with the experience gained from our life science construction portfolio that includes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science Building, the Plata Lab at MIT and the Northeastern University Vespignani/Lazer Computational Space Lab, Research & Development Laboratories, our team has the skill to plan, coordinate and manage construction of unique and complex life science facilities. Specifically, we understand and can anticipate all the details that must be considered when building research and development laboratories, biotech facilities, clean rooms, biology laboratories and classrooms, data centers, pilot plants, BSL 1-3 laboratories, and cGMP manufacturing facilities.

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The life sciences laboratories of just a couple decades ago were typically windowless “top-secret” facilities.

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After outgrowing its facilities, the need for an outpatient center in Portsmouth was clear. The new Medical Office Building (MOB) provides custom space for interdisciplinary physician groups and is more sustainable, more convenient, more digital and more architecturally pleasing.

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blend of four colors to match the palette of the existing medical campus. Precast concrete sills were cast monolithically in the panels. “The darker brick matched the color and characteristics which is a standard at Wentworth Douglass,” describes Boudreau.

Working on an operational medical campus is always a challenge. Precast concrete like other pre-fabricated systems help limit site disruption. The precast cladding for both buildings was installed in just months allowing for other trades to follow behind for the scheduled fit-out.

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Nick Cassaro Joins Structure Tone

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Boston – Construction management firm Structure Tone has added Nick Cassaro to its team as senior project manager to help the firm continue to develop its work in the life sciences sector.

He has spent nearly a decade working on construction projects for healthcare and life sciences organizations. His projects include full-scale campus developments, complex lab renovations and expansions, manufacturing facilities, process development labs, infrastructure upgrades, and pilot-scale lab and manufacturing. He has also assisted clients in developing systematic expansions, site selections, base building life science readiness, and facility standards.

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building spaces for Biogen, Bristol Myers-Squibb, Alexion, WuXi Apptec, and Novartis. Cassaro will join the team to help expand that work further within the Boston area’s life sciences market.

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lab entry to enforce social distancing, tenants seek greater space, uninhibited conditions and an attractive environment to validate to potential investors money well spent. Suburban bio-incubators offer this, alongside expansive workspace, flexible environments and scalability.

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Regardless of short- or long-term growth, access to professional mentors is an invaluable investment in bringing ideas to fruition. Strategic partnerships, financial guidance, legal services and idea exchanges augment development, raising industry exposure and knowledge.

However not all bio-incubators are equally scalable. Those with the highest potential are marked by partnerships with leading medical firms. ABI-LAB 2 shares with its tenants a congruence of values fostering quality research with quality product. Thermo Fisher Scientific and Eppendorf are partners supplying the communal labs, enabling tenants to begin research day one.

Private vs State Funding

Currently MA receives 10% of all NIH funding totaling $28B. State funded bio-incubator labs such as MBI and LabCentral benefit from state support via Deval Patrick’s $1B life sciences bill and Charlie Baker’s Life Science Bond Bill. This legislature supports workforce development, biomanufacturing and early stage science. Yet there is a hidden challenge to state funded labs – tenancy is limited to 12-18 months to demonstrate results. This seemingly works against fledgling life science entities. “In the start-up model, there are several cycles punctuated by data generation and fundraising. In a process that averages 8-10 years before FDA approval and commercialization, a brief tenancy in a state funded location doesn’t allow for the science to come to fruition,” explains Gary Kaufman, COO of ABI-LAB. “Great science takes time.”

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Focus: Connecticut Impacts of the COVID Pandemic on Design and Construction: HVAC Upgrades but also core components of buildings themselves that have long been the focus of “green” construction discussions, such as those focused on improving

by Niel P. Franzese As we approach the one-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is becoming increasingly clear that many of the rapidly developing strategies being adopted in all sectors of the economy and public life for dealing with the pandemic are here to stay. Acceleration of already existing trends such as working from home and online shopping are some of the most apparent, but other developments affecting the AEC community may be less obvious. New educational, medical and office spaces are being designed and constructed to better accommodate social distancing, easy sanitation and flexible usage patterns, and these trends are impacting not only obvious areas like floor plans and layouts,

...one focus of improvements to the design and construction of new and existing facilities has been HVAC systems. These improvements include better circulation of fresh air, heightened filtration standards, and the deployment of newer technologies like ultraviolet germicidal irradiation to clean the air we breathe. environmental air quality and overall quality of life for building users.

Since the leading scientific and medical authorities have formed a consensus that the coronavirus can be spread through aerosolized droplets remaining suspended in indoor air supplies, one focus of improvements to the design and construction of new and existing facilities has been HVAC systems. These improvements include better circulation of fresh

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air, heightened filtration standards, and the deployment of newer technologies like ultraviolet germicidal irradiation to clean the air we breathe. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has taken note of these trends, and issued its own set of recommendations for creating safe and healthy work and business spaces, which include: • Increasing the percentage of outdoor air, potentially as high as 100% (after considering HVAC system capabilities for both temperature and humidity control as well as compatibility with outdoor/ indoor air quality considerations).

• Increasing total airflow supply to occupied spaces, if possible.

• Improving central air filtration.

• Increasing air filtration to as high as possible without significantly diminishing design airflow.

• Generating clean-to-less-clean air movements by re-evaluating the positioning of supply and exhaust air diffusers and/ or dampers and adjusting zone supply and exhaust flow rates to establish measurable pressure differentials.

• Using portable high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) fan/filtration

systems to help enhance air cleaning (especially in higher-risk areas).

• Considering using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) as a supplemental technique to inactivate potential airborne virus.

These and other recommendations, including the input of HVAC and related design professionals, can be implemented in existing structures, as well as during the design or construction phases of new projects. They also nicely compliment traditional green building concerns related to pollution reduction measures and creating designs that enable smooth adaptations to changing environments.

The AEC community, and those focused on the green building space in particular, are well suited to lead and advance these efforts, and to help ensure that we do not lose sight of them as we move through this pandemic and into the future.

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SLAM Names Five New Principals

November 2020

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Glastonbury, CT – In February, SLAM completed the acquisition of five CBRE | Heery architectural design practices focused on healthcare, sports facilities and justice, adding to the firms existing education, corporate, healthcare and sports/recreation practices.

SLAM completed the acquisition of five CBRE | Heery architectural design practices focused on healthcare, sports facilities and justice Five new principals, and approximately 70 Heery employees, joined SLAM’s team of 210 professionals.

John Castner, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, with more than 36 years of experience, leads the Philadelphia office. His expertise includes complex renovations and additions, transforming emergency departments, cardiac care, surgery, and radiology facilities.

Scott Hansche, AIA brings more than 35 years of experience as the lead of the Iowa City office. He specializes in leading project teams for teaching hospitals and academic medical centers worldwide.

Michael Holleman, RA, NCARB, LEED AP has joined the Atlanta office.

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Douglas Kleppin, AIA, as the lead of the Orlando office, has more than 33 years of experience as designer and planner for courthouses.

Sedmak Russell Sedmak, RA, with more than 33 years of experience, leads the Denver office. He has led the award-winning design of large and technically complex healthcare projects.

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New Britain, CT – On Oct. 1, Downes Construction Company, along with the Hospital for Special Care (HFSC), City of New Britain officials, and members of the community, celebrated the grand opening of the new $13 million inpatient and partial hospital facility at the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain.

Downes Construction Company served as the construction manager at risk on the new 18,000sf project.

The new state-of-the-art facility is one of only 11 in the country and will provide superior service to families and children with autism. The 12-bed inpatient unit will provide single-patient rooms in a care environment designed by HFSC’s

clinical staff to meet children’s needs and maximize opportunities for parent education and training, a key component to success in the community.

The new partial hospital program will offer the first step-up and step-down level of care, an entirely new option in care to help bridge difficult transitions, divert inpatient stays and maximize continuity in care. In addition to meeting urgent community need for access to autism care, this project has been a regional economic driver throughout the pandemic and creates new employment opportunities.

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the Downes team delivered this project weeks ahead of schedule and under budget.

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Education

NECA Apprentices Receive Scholarships

ACE Launches 2020-21 Virtual Program Boston – ACE Mentor Program of Greater Boston recently launched its 2020-2021 virtual program. The free after-school program is run by local design and construction professionals with the goal of encouraging high school students to pursue careers in the architecture, construction and engineering industries.

The program provides an opportunity for high school students, grades 9-12, to learn about design and construction from mentors who currently work in those fields.

Some activities will include virtual tours of construction sites, engineering labs, and professional offices to give students a sense of what real-life work environments are like in respective industries of architecture, construction and engineering.

Diversity and inclusion has remained a top priority for the program over the years. Seventeen percent of ACE college seniors in mechanical, electrical and civil engineering are African American compared to only 6% nationally. Similarly, only 12% of first-year college students studying in those fields nationally are

Hispanic compared to 25% of students in the ACE program.

The program will meet once a week online in the fall through early spring, and students will be provided with take-home kits to work on assignments remotely. For this year’s major project, students will design and create plans for working within certain budgets in addition to specific environmental and project requirements.

Students will reap the benefits of working with mentors who are full-time architects, engineers and project managers for companies such as Turner Construction Company, Gilbane Building Company, Boylston Properties, and Perkins + Will, learning valuable skills and practices of working at a construction site.

The virtual program is adding Dyer Brown and Related Beal to the strong list of participating firms and will also be adding a new host site at Roxbury Community College. Also, in an effort to continue growing inclusion efforts, the ACE team is collaborating with the Boston chapter of the National Association of Minority Architects (NOMA) for the upcoming year.

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John A. Penney Scholarship Awards at JATC / Photo by Cindy M. Loo

West Newton, MA – The JATC Greater Boston officially announced that firstyear JATC Greater Boston apprentices, Glayce Loren Miranda-Sena, Yeymi Verde, and Jordan Nott, are the recipients of the 2020 John A. Penney Memorial Scholarship for the Greater Boston JATC Electrical Industry Training Program.

Each scholar was selected on the basis of need and having demonstrated the drive, determination and skill to achieve success in the intensive five-year JATC training program. The $1,000 John A. Penney scholarship for each apprentices is applied to the purchase of books and tools required in the program.

Glayce Loren Miranda-Sena, of Woburn and Yeymi Verde, of Chelsea, were accepted into the five-year JATC apprenticeship program after having been introduced to the electrical trade through the Building Pathways Building Trades

Pre-Apprenticeship Program. Both are serving their apprenticeships with NECA Boston Chapter contractor, J&M Brown Company.

Jordan Nott, of Billerica, a graduate of Shawsheen Valley Technical High School, is serving his apprenticeship with NECA Boston Chapter contractor, Gaston Electrical Company.

The scholarship awards were presented at the JATC Training Center in Dorchester by the late John Penney’s family: his wife, Margaret Penney; his three daughters; Alicia Penney, Donna McKinnon and Gina MacDonald; and members of the John A. Penney Company team, Alan Scharfe, executive VP of the firm who also serves as president of NECA Boston Chapter; and Wendy Zarrella, VP and comptroller, who has been an employee of the company for 40 years.

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Marr Provides Facade Access at MIT Site Cambridge, MA – At MIT’s Site 3 building project on 238 Main Street, Marr Scaffolding Company’s Scaffold Division has contracted with Karas & Karas Glass to develop a solution for worker access at a 12-story addition currently under construction in Kendall Square. The access will enable Karas to install an aluminum panel system to the underside of a seventh floor cantilevered section, as well as provide access to other trades for fireproofing, electrical work and piping.

Considering various factors, including the cantilever being approximately 75 feet above ground and concurrent work being done on lower floors, Marr’s in-house engineers worked closely with Karas and GC Turner Construction to establish a plan that mitigated these concerns.

On the sixth floor below the cantilevered section, a five-man scaffold crew built a 40 foot x 120 foot systems scaffold work platform, known as a dance floor. The platform was securely suspended from 130 hangers that clamped into Aluma beams supported by structural steel on the seventh floor. Marr’s Aerial Lifts Division provided a telescopic boom lift to assist in the installation of the hangers and scaffold, which were strategically placed to accommodate the dimensions of the aluminum paneling

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Despite challenges brought on by the building’s unique architectural design and the simultaneous work of multiple contractors, Marr reported that it safely installed the staging on schedule. The

platform will remain in place through the end of the year.

The 12-story addition will offer commercial laboratory and office space and will connect to the existing building via a five-story atrium.

Marr’s Aerial Lifts Division installed four suspended scaffold work platforms, 160 feet in length, for Karas to install glass on one side of the atrium. The platforms will remain in use for a couple of months as work continues.

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Employee Resource Groups Drive Inclusion and Workplace Change

by Alondra De Leon Bringing one’s authentic self to work is a common phrase used to define the ideal state of employees, but a difficult decision to make for people from marginalized communities. When navigating layers of bias and stereotypes that we feel we have to constantly overcome or overcompensate for, some of us choose to conform or code switch as coping mechanisms.

In my personal experience, having found affinity and role models was crucial to comfortably bring my true self into the workplace. This is how employees resource groups (ERGs) can contribute to creating a culture of inclusion. It is an empowerment tool to have critical mass and drive the culture and structure of the workplace to change. Since my involvement in the ERGs at Gilbane, I have an enhanced purpose as a woman

of color in the construction industry.

The passion to become a professional in the AEC industry also includes being a champion of change – driving our culture of inclusion and representation at Gilbane.

The efforts to redesign the workplace and influence the culture to challenge the status quo in our organization has led to teams of cross-functional individuals organizing toward this purpose. ERGs,

In my personal experience, having found affinity and role models was crucial to comfortably bring my true self into the workplace. This is how employees resource groups (ERGs) can contribute to creating a culture of inclusion. It is an empowerment tool to have critical mass and drive the culture and structure of the workplace to change. like the ones we have at Gilbane, have formed organically as grassroots organizations with individuals that share common identities. These groups seek to empower the workforce into having places of inclusion, where they

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can organize to work toward common goals of professional advancement, networking and influencing the culture.

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Hispanics Organizing Leaders @ Gilbane (HOL@) is the first employee group that serves as a resource for

the Hispanic/Latinx community and its allies. We seek to forge a cultureforward workplace that is inviting to the workforce we look to attract. Our highly motivated leaders work together to voice our collective experiences to have a presence and enhance the opportunities for advancement of our Latinx employees.

Borrowed from the widely-known phrase “fashion-forward,” this “culture forward” concept came about thinking of a way to summarize the idea of creating a workplace environment where individuals can find inclusion and belonging even if they are not represented in large numbers.

Our chances to recruit, retain and grow Latinx talent depends on our ability to also bring our genuine selves to a workplace that is ready to embraces us as we are. With a whole lot of work and our shared passion to make a difference, HOL@ Gilbane serves our community and contributes to becoming the best company for Latinx to work in the construction business.

Alondra De Leon is a project manager with Gilbane Building Company and is currently working on the West Haven High School Renovation Project in West Haven, Conn.

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November 2020

Green The Earthos Lens – Part Nine

Toward Resource Self-sufficiency – One Region at a Time

by Phillip Norton Loheed As president of Earthos Institute, I have helped to create Bioregional Urbanism, a process to encourage changes back to “One Planet Living.” This is the ninth of 10 installments describing Bioregional Design principles.

In our newly challenged world of 2020, all people are faced with the sort of “broken field running” needed to reinhabit and readapt our patterns to new lifestyles, economic realities, and problems of restoration of the resource base of earth.

This is a level of “redesign” so fundamental and comprehensively driven by environmental over-consumption and destruction by us humans. As Earthos has long observed: We are facing the forced relocation, as climate change refugees, of roughly half the human population.

Yet place-based realities are still important. This makes the Bioregion the primary practical action scale for necessary reinventions and resurgence in the US of American ingenuity, can-do spirit, and war footing to defeat perceived evils.

However, it is equally clear that the problem remains “One Planet Living.”

Global realities dramatize our three time sensitive strategic key words: Mitigation, Adaptation, Retreat.

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foolish decisions by politicians, investors and developers wedded to long obsolete so-called “master plans.”

In recent years in Boston, for example, billions of new development has been placed in harm’s way within flood zones (rapidly becoming chronic with monthly indications). Critical infrastructure such as major hospital complexes remain highly vulnerable to storm surges and other flood types.

Our experiences in 2020 dramatize our mortality, our need for social unity and grace, our core of serious purpose – all the very best of human nature – deeply informed by objective realities. Thus each bioregion is a unit of a global task force of exciting innovation and progress into a very different future. A highly spiritual challenge: To the Children To all the children To the children who swim beneath The waves of the sea, to those who live in The soils of the Earth, to the children of the flowers In the meadows and the trees in the forest, to All those children who roam over the land And the winged ones who fly with the winds, To the human children too, that all the children May go together into the future in the full Diversity of their regional communities.”

— Thomas Berry, National Geographic, September 2020: “The Cost of Harming Nature”

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THE PANDEMIC PROVES IT: BY DAMAGING THE PLANET WE HAVE SAPPED NATURE’S POWER TO PROTECT US FROM DISEASES.” —Enric Sala Sala is writing about loss of biodiversity in the oceans of Earth, and goes on: “The [corona] virus has struck people I knew, in Europe and ’round the world. But this pandemic is a powerful argument for something I believe unequivocally

that biodiversity is necessary for human health, and ultimately, human survival.”

Later in the same issue, Sala, with Kennedy Warne, chronicles his replacement of “death notices” in the obituary of the ocean with a project to save it through THE POWER OF PROTECTION. Please tune in next month.

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Mixed Use LBC Boston to Create Allston Green Allston, MA – LBC Boston, a diverse group of companies developing complex projects, is in the process of securing permits to begin work on a new mixeduse development project in Allston under the city of Boston’s Compact Living Pilot program.

Located at 20 Linden Street and named Allston Green, the $140 million, 250,000sf complex features three buildings on approximately two acres, 350 housing units, and 34,000sf of open space.

Working with architect Prellwitz Chilinksi Associates, Inc./PCA of Cambridge, the design strategically places three buildings and two green spaces on the site. The project team also includes MEP engineer, R.W. Sullivan.

Variations in building planes and setbacks, a rich palette of exterior materials, and the playful use of color frame active, public ground floor uses that engage residents and neighbors alike.

Proposed ground floor uses include a gallery/retail and artist coworking space, as well as the tower’s lobby and amenities.

Over 20,000sf of open space will

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be accessible to the public and will be used for community gatherings such as farmers’ markets, outdoor movie nights,

and exhibits. LBC Boston plans to invite local artists to paint murals and to create unique sitting cubes to be installed

in the public parks.

The project is slated to be completed in the spring of 2024.

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Technology LAN-TEL Installs Thermal Imaging Cameras in Winthrop Schools Winthrop, MA – As schools prepared for the upcoming year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, LAN-TEL Communications was called upon to deploy FLIR stand-alone thermal imaging cameras/scanners for all schools in the Winthrop district.

The cameras are used to screen and detect students and staff who have an elevated body temperature, a symptom of coronavirus.

The cameras are used to screen and detect students and staff who have an elevated body temperature, a symptom of coronavirus.

LAN-TEL’s Eric Johnson, security division PM; Mike French, director of IT; and Shaun Kennedy, PM; headed the LAN-TEL project team.

The fast-track project was completed by the NECA contractor in late August, prior to the start of the school year.

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Norwood, MA – Joseph H. Bodio, CEO and founder of LAN-TEL Communications, Inc., headquartered in Norwood, was honored with installation into the Academy of Electrical Contracting, during NECA 2020 LIVE, the virtual convention and trade show on Oct. 6.

Bodio, a past president, governor, and now director of NECA Boston Chapter, was one of 17 electrical industry professionals in the U.S. who were installed by Academy Chairman David Hardt.

Fellowship in the Academy of Electrical Contracting is one of the highest recognitions of achievement an individual can receive in the electrical contracting industry. The Academy honors outstanding industry leaders, preserving and utilizing their wealth of experience and knowledge for the benefit of the industry.

Academy members have rendered exceptional service to the industry and the National Electrical Contractors Association. Their service is continued and enhanced through their fellowship in the academy. This is accomplished

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through the academy’s Working Group, special papers presented by fellows, participation in the annual meeting and the general camaraderie among fellows.

Along with his installation into the academy, Bodio was also honored during the convention with the NECA 2020 Coggeshall Award for his outstanding contributions to the industry in the technical and service field.

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Corporate Eck MacNeely Selects New Office Space MassDev Provides Loan to Boston Startup

The Armored Things team at the 2020 Q1 kickoff (taken in early 2020)

Boston – MassDevelopment has provided a $2,250 million Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) loan to Armored Things, Inc., a Boston-based software developer startup.

The company has developed proprietary software, the Armored Things Crowd Intelligence Platform, which unifies existing data to support decisions around operations and security.

Armored Things will use loan proceeds to hire additional full-time employees and support continued product development.

Armored Things provides SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions for crowd intelligence. By combining data from existing security and IT systems

Eck MacNeely Architects’ new office

Boston – Eck MacNeely Architects, a Boston-based architecture firm specializing in private campus buildings and custom homes, has moved to a new office. The firm’s new space at Suite 3N, 580 Harrison Ave in Boston will maximize access to digital technology and improve support for future client needs.

The company is moving to a recently renovated space in the same former piano factory complex it’s shared for the past 20 years. The updated space provides the firm with upgraded internet, connectivity and communications utilities to work with clients virtually through online designs.

The new office will provide the architects with increased flexibility for social distancing as well as ample space to expand the team to meet the demands of upcoming 2021 projects, including plans to increase staff by 15-30%.

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with predictive analytics, its platform provides facilities management teams with a real-time visual representation of people and flow within any campus or venue space.

Easy-to-use dashboards equip clients to anticipate changes and inform decisions to improve service, operations, staffing, and security.

Since the company’s founding in 2016, it has built a team of security and technology experts to deliver world-class solutions to stadiums, corporations, and campuses around the country.

MassDevelopment’s ETF provides low-cost, long-term venture debt to earlystage, emerging technology companies.

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Expansion plans come on the heels of Eck MacNeely’s promotion of Meredith Chamberlin, AIA, LEED AP and Dan Eldredge, R.A., LEED AP to principals of the firm. Chamberlin has been a member of the firm for 19 years, and Eldredge joined the team in 2009. Both have overseen a wide variety of the firm’s residential work as well as campus work, including projects at Thayer Academy, Shady Hill School, Dedham Country Day, Fay School and Lasell College.

Integrated Interiors Rebrands Boston – Integrated Interiors announced that it has rebranded, adopted a new logo, and will be known as Integrated at Work (IAW).

The organization’s name change reflects the company’s expanded product offering to include both interior and now exterior architectural products and engineered solutions. “We aim to over-service our construction partners to ensure project execution is seamless,” said David Atwood, general manager.

The decision to rebrand allows IAW to fulfill the market need for successful architectural integration of both interior and exterior systems and ensure both spaces work as one. This expanded

offering allows the team to assist with the consult/design, procurement, project management, and installation of any commercial building project.

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Dacon Completes Hilco Redevelopment Project

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Canton, MA – Dacon Corporation has completed renovations of a 75,000sf, three-story office building at 720 University Ave. in Canton for Hilco Redevelopment. As the asset improvement division of Hilco Global, its expertise is in repositioning underappreciated properties with valued strategic placement.

Dacon Corporation is a fully integrated design build firm providing comprehensive facility development services to address clients’ project requirements.

The merits of this project rest in aligning priorities to develop a modern

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Open areas – atrium, glass entranceway, cafe, exterior window surrounds, elevators, and gym – maximize natural light, reinforcing a casual sense of business and entrepreneurship. The exterior modernization is punctuated with a patio for tenant socialization and upgraded site features.

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Vertical Housing Development in Suburban Markets: The Time is Now

by Brent Maugel The pandemic has caused us to question our approach to design: Are our cities too densely populated to be healthy? Do our building codes have to be re-written for safety protocols? Are our zoning bylaws antiquated? And, what do we do about the housing crisis?

The Third Rail of Economic Development

Housing development has become the “third-rail” for many suburban communities.

It’s an emotionallycharged issue that creates opposing forces between residents, zoning boards and town economic development officials.

I was recently a panelist at a virtual real estate event hosted by a regional economic development coalition. Much of the discussion focused on the need to

create enough housing stock to attract businesses to area towns. One clear message emerged: If workers cannot find affordable housing, companies will look elsewhere. Unfortunately, current suburban zoning bylaws limit creative design options to solve the housing shortage.

I am not suggesting tall towers in the suburbs, but rather six- to 12-story structures that could be woven into the fabric of midsized towns along the circumferal highways. This would allow for housing within walking distance of restaurants, offices, and shopping that create vibrant mixed-use communities.

Other benefits include more attractive and diverse building typology with smaller building footprints that preserve open space for socialization and save construction costs, if designed properly.

Housing Density Disparity

The Boston area has a wide disparity in housing density. Our office is located in a pastoral, agrarian community west of Boston where housing has two-acre zoning. In suburban communities closer to the city, building height restrictions, and to some degree old social norms,

stories, housing 215 hotel suites and 160 luxury condominiums on little more than an acre of ground, the equivalent to 375 dwelling units per acre. That is quite a range of housing densities.

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dictate we build horizontally. As a result, we are designing numerous 200- to 300-foot long structures that cover all available ground, except wetlands, and offer few site amenities such as parks.

The massing of these horizontal buildings is not conducive to beauty, neatness or organized visually imagery.

At times, we have been asked by clients or zoning officials to make these developments look like something they are not: Twelve gables in a row will never look like an elegant house in an affluent community.

By contrast, One Dalton is Boston’s third tallest building at 742 feet and 61

The current housing crisis demands that we look for a more creative approach – one that increases suburban dwelling density, protects the environment, reduces traffic congestion, and elevates the quality of residents’ lives. To succeed, suburban zoning must change. Architects, developers and builders need to work in partnership with town planners and planning boards to eliminate obstacles and encourage new zoning laws that allow for well-designed and properly sized market rate and affordable housing with a mix of convenience retail and open amenity spaces. If real estate leaders and town officials give vertical housing a chance, we can significantly improve and expand high-quality housing options.

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Build Better Podcast A Commitment to Giving Back with Bolanle Williams-Olley

by Emily Langner On season 2, episode 3 of the Build Better podcast, Anastasia welcomed Bolanle (Bola) Williams-Olley, partner and chief financial officer at architectural firm Mancini Duffy.

Williams-Olley is also the founder of the SheBuilds Movement and a mom of two. As a CFO, Bola is setting an example for women throughout the AEC industry with her leadership and commitment to giving back. She continues to pursue her passion for helping the communities in her home country of Nigeria, along with creating opportunities to empower women here in the U.S.

Williams-Olley has founded four impact organizations: SheBuildsWaves, SheBuildsLives, SheBuildsMoney, and REACH Nigeria. On her passion for

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giving back, she comments, “I’m always thinking about how I can solve a problem or bring a solution to something that people might be struggling with.”

When she became CFO at Mancini Duffy, she says she wanted to find a way to “foster and hold space for women within the industry to come together and have real honest conversations about their career paths, career trajectories…and understand that they are more than just their jobs.” She believes that “when you

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Williams-Olley also created SheBuildsLives, a nonprofit that focuses on addressing needs of children and improving quality of education in lowincome schools in her home country of Nigeria. This includes providing meals in addition to materials such as book bags, shoes, and uniforms that the children need. She also recently completed her first school building, and the organization is finding unique ways to make sure the kids are able to continue their education during the pandemic.

Most recently, Williams-Olley created SheBuildsMoney, a tool that helps small

firms set the right financial foundation by better understanding, mastering and taking control of their cash flow process.

Her passion comes from a deep-seated belief in the purpose and potential of every individual. She says she wants to provide the means for all those she helps to achieve that potential without being limited by their circumstances.

Her advice for those wanting to make an impact is to “Dream big but start small, and start now.”

Williams-Olley says, “I truly believe that when you want to do something good and you put it out there, the right people who are supposed to support your efforts will come in.” She adds, “If you want to start a nonprofit, be clear on what it is you want to do. Do your first project, and it can be small. No matter the size, don’t be afraid to start.”

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Building the ‘Hazard Girls’ Community with Emily Soloby In addition to in-depth discussions on topics that affect all women in these fields, there are opportunities available to become a mentor for other members of the group (or to be mentored), or to participate in Zoom sessions on specific topics of interest.

by Emily Langner On season 2, episode 4 of the Build Better podcast, Anastasia welcomed Emily Soloby, founder of Juno Jones and coowner of the AAA School of Trucking.

In addition to designing work boots and gear specifically for women, Soloby is passionate about advancing women in nontraditional fields.

She started the Facebook group, Hazard Girls, a positive and inclusive group of women in hazardous fields like architecture, engineering, the sciences, construction, aviation, and firefighting, as well as other male-dominated fields like finance, law, filmmaking, and startups. Hazard Girls includes women at every stage of their careers from CEOs to students, who connect to support and empower each other online and through educational events and outreach.

Soloby says the Hazard Girls community started when women she knew began requesting that she connect

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them with other women in their fields. She says the goal is to create that community of women in these nontraditional fields, but also “to introduce these fields to young women as a real possibility.” She adds, “By providing a role model for young women, when they see a real life other woman doing these jobs, it then becomes a possibility for them.”

A unique quality of the community is that it brings together women from many different male-dominated fields.

As a result, Soloby says, “the women are finding that they have a lot in common that they never realized.”

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Municipal BPDA Launches Interactive Map Boston – The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) unveiled a new, interactive online map displaying BPDA-owned property and data.

The BPDA also made data about agency-owned property publicly available in May and since then the agency’s Real Estate and MIS departments have been working together on a more user-friendly way for residents to interact with this information.

The property inventory consists of land parcels ranging from small, unbuildable parcels best suited for use by abutters, to larger parcels and sites consisting of contiguous land parcels that are suitable for residential, mixed-use or commercial development. Each property includes a status field with information on whether a parcel is appropriate for development, and the BPDA may choose to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to develop the parcel in the future.

In partnership with the BPDA Planning Division and the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development (DND), the BPDA’s Real Estate Department has helped mobilize community-driven development on agency and city-owned land in Roxbury through the BPDA’s

PLAN: Nubian Square, that includes income-restricted housing and job opportunities.

In the Charlestown Navy Yard, one of the agency’s largest land holdings, the Real Estate Department is advancing the public activation of the waterfront for residents and visitors from across Boston to enjoy. Additionally, in the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park in South Boston,

the Real Estate Department is working to preserve, support and grow Boston’s maritime industry and create and protect jobs that pay decent wages for people at a variety of skill levels.

Most recently, the BPDA reissued RFPs for three separate development proposals on BPDA-owned property which had not sufficiently outlined plans to further the agency’s mission regarding

diversity and inclusion.

The City of Boston and BPDA have also updated the language in RFPs for public land to provide greater clarity on the expectations for submissions, further prioritize diversity and inclusion during the selection process, strengthen the city’s and the BPDA’s commitment to outcomes which enhance equity, and committed to weighting diversity and inclusion at 25%.

PWC Boston Announces 2020-21 Boards Boston – The Boston chapter of Professional Women in Construction (PWC) announced its incoming 20202021 board of directors and its newly formed advisory board.

The Boston chapter was formed through the collective effort of seasoned AEC professionals and will be further strengthened by the advisory board comprised of a diverse group of owner representatives from different AEC market sectors.

PWC’s mission is to “connect, promote and advance women in the AEC industry” and actively engages both women and men from AEC and affiliated firms. Owner representation ensures the organization will focus discussions and program content directly related to our current environment in a targeted and impactful way.

“I am honored to serve as the PWC Boston president and am looking forward to supporting the continued growth of our Boston chapter,” said Sarah McGillicuddy, director of business development at BR+A Consulting Engineers and incoming PWC Boston chapter president. “I’d also like to recognize the past board and welcome our incoming board and advisory board members. We look forward to 2020-2021 and thank our members and supporters for their interest in our organization.”

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Debunking Distracting Design-Build Myths

by Jay Connolly Design-build is the fastest-growing method for construction project delivery in the U.S. and Connolly Brothers Inc. has selectively employed this method on many projects since before the term was widely used. We have done so due to design-build’s efficiencies of cost and time, and because it can be a more collaborative approach that provides the client with a single point of responsibility.

Each of these benefits is worthy of an article unto itself, but our purpose here is not to extol the virtues of design-build but rather to debunk some misconceptions that tend to circulate about this method.

Myth #1: The method does not allow for creativity in design.

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On projects where function is prioritized over aesthetics, the architect must still deliver a pleasing space via creative use of materials that fit within the budget.

On a recent corporate headquarters for HighRes BioSolutions, for example, we delivered a structure that was functional, within budget, and stylish by using exposed structural elements as accent points and polished concrete in lieu of tile, to name a few cost-effective creative design elements. As this project demonstrated, there is more than one way to achieve a vision, and design-build outcomes are only as limited as the designer’s imagination.

complete transparency throughout the process. We begin with frank discussions leading to the development of a crystalclear budget. Once established, it is in the design-builder’s interest to prevent costly “scope creep” unless additions are specifically requested by the client.

Another check is tied to the design-build firm’s reputation. Callbacks for inferior work cost the design-build firm money, but more importantly, create unsatisfied clients – so it is not only for the client’s benefit, but for ours, to address issues early on. With this shared goal in mind, we work with an open book and an eye on serving everyone’s long-term interests.

Another potential check for a design-build project is to work with an owner’s representative, as we recently did in completing a corporate headquarters for the Japan-based Harmonic Drive.

The representative not only reviewed our work, but also served, informally, as an international “process translator,” bridging any potential geographic or cultural gaps and keeping all parties aligned.

Myth #2: The method lacks checks and balances.

Myth #3: There is greater risk of non-competitive pricing on project components.

To ensure checks and balances on a designbuild project, the team must operate with

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cies of design-build does not mean a client must cede knowledge of project details and pricing. Again, the answer is transparency. At Connolly, we share all bids we receive with the client and then offer our recommendation. Usually, we suggest the lowest qualified bid. If not, we have a good reason (e.g., discomfort with an inexpensive subcontractor’s service).

Ultimately, not all design-build firms are created equal. It remains important to evaluate a construction team on its reputation and merits, whether that team uses a design-build or traditional approach (or both, as we do at Connolly, depending on client preferences). Design-build does not make sense for every project, but it does make sense for many projects, so do not allow the oft-repeated myths above to distract you from considering, and potentially embracing, this increasingly popular approach.

Jay Connolly is president Connolly Brothers Inc., a construction management firm serving commercial, industrial, and institutional clients throughout New England since 1880. For more, visit connollybrothers.com.

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Trends and Hot Topics

Opportunities for Small Contractors

by Greg Angel Due to the Federal Miller Act (1935), principal contractors are required to post surety bonds on public and municipal projects. These surety bonds guarantee performance and payment to subcontractors and material suppliers.

The guarantee can often find its way onto private and commercial jobs as well, depending on the owner’s or lender’s demands.

For many small and emerging contractors, obtaining mandatory surety bonding to bid on public and municipal contracts is difficult. The required bonds are underwritten by surety companies, each of which has its own appetite for risk, underwriting criteria, and area(s) of specialty.

Certain contractor characteristics,

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however, consistently make receiving bond approval challenging including prior bankruptcies, existing liens, negative net income, “thin” working capital, and limited experience with a particular size or type of project.

Sometimes even if a bond is approved under these circumstances, surety companies may apply higher premiums

MP Offers Guidance

How COVID-19 Affects Building Design

or require other conditions, such as funds control or collateral. These “extras” add time and cost, potentially making the contractor less competitive when bidding for bonded jobs.

Leveling the Playing Field

Launched in 1958 by the Small Business Administration, the Surety Bond Guarantee Program (SBG) is intended to “provide bonding assistance, in partnership with surety companies, to qualified small businesses.”

Launched in 1958 by the Small Business Administration, the Surety Bond Guarantee Program (SBG) is intended to “provide bonding assistance, in partnership with surety companies, to qualified small businesses.”

Boston – Architectural and interior design firm Margulies Perruzzi (MP) has released a new report on the challenges facing commercial real estate and building design due to COV In the spring of 2020, MP surveyed thousands of industry professionals to gain an understanding of the impact that Covid-19 had on the office environment.

This report is being continuously updated to share the current thought leadership on the nature of work and how it is evolving.

The report covers topics such as:

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• What are the new challenges landlords face?

• What will tenants ask of landlords?

• How much real estate will tenants look for?

• How might amenities change in size?

• What new design concepts can separate you from your competition?

• What are the new technologies to manage space?

The firm’s research is available online and as a downloadable PDF at https://bit. ly/3cL4GVE.

Under this program, the SBA guarantees a percentage of the bond (typically 80% or more) for certain surety companies which creates more opportunities for smaller contractors.

Under this program, the SBA guarantees a percentage of the bond (typically 80% or more) for certain surety companies which creates more opportunities for smaller contractors. The fee to the SBA is small – approximately 0.6% of the contract value – and is paid by the contractor.

The SBA Program, however, does not

guarantee approval; the SBA will consider several factors in determining entry. It will also require that certain minimum standards for both the contractor and project are met. These include: • The contract or subcontract cannot be larger than $6.5 million for public and private prime contracts and all subcontracts.

• The contract or subcontract cannot be larger than $10 million for federal projects.

• The contractor must meet the definition of a “small business” under federal regulation.

To apply for the SBA Program, the contractor will typically work through a surety bond agent. These professionals guide the contractor in assembling the required financial documentation and in submitting the completed bond application to the surety underwriter. Because of both the amount of detail required and the sensitive information involved, it’s important to choose an experienced and trustworthy surety bond agent.

From there, the surety underwriter will complete the necessary due diligence, with the understanding that the SBA will guarantee a portion of the bond. Once satisfied, approval is granted subject to acceptance by the SBA. A Boost for Small Contractors

The SBA program is a valuable and effective tool for helping small contractors to capitalize on new opportunities and remain competitive in the public and municipal sectors.

The SBA’s objective in offering this program is not for contractors to remain within it indefinitely. Rather, the expectation is that the contractor will “graduate out” of the program and become bondable without the SBA’s assistance. For this reason, it’s essential that the contractor and surety bond wholesaler are a good fit so when the time comes to move on from SBA-backed bonds, the foundation has been laid for future success.

For more information, contact Greg at Greg@suretybondprofessionals.com or visit www.suretybondprofessionals.com.

Greg Angel, CPA is a Surety executive at Massachusetts-based Surety Bond Professionals. SBP is a bond-only agency with access to over 25 different surety markets allowing for the largest programs and most competitive terms for contractors.

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Awards

Avenu at Natick Wins Award

Stebbins Named Award Winner Hooksett, NH – PROCON announced that Mark Stebbins, chairman and CEO, was awarded the 2020 Business Excellence Award in Real Estate and Construction for Large Organizations from NH Business Review. The annual awards recognize New Hampshire’s top business executives for their imagination, industriousness, innovation, and achievements.

Stebbins is the third generation to lead PROCON, which is celebrating 85 years in business.

Under his leadership for the last 40 years, PROCON has grown from a company that only performed construction services with sales of less than $5 million to designing and building projects throughout the Northeast with $200 million in revenue.

PROCON has 95% repeat business — a statistic that is virtually unheard of in the construction industry — and employee turnover of less than 6%.

Stebbins prides himself on the family atmosphere at PROCON, and truly cares about his employees and his community at large. When Covid hit, he offered Granite United Way a $100,000 challenge match to

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help those most in need. He also worked with the Manchester Boys & Girls Club to completely renovate Camp Foster and also gave $1 million toward their goal with a challenge match. He knows the value of success is enjoying it with those around us.

“This is an exciting award for the entire company. We are so proud to be recognized as a Business Excellence Award recipient,” said Tracey Pelton, executive director of business development and marketing.

Pledge to America’s Workers

ABC Receives Presidential Award Woburn, MA – Associated Builders and Contractors Massachusetts Chapter announced that ABC National, through it’s 69 chapters and over 21,000 members, has received the Pledge to America’s Workers Presidential Award.

ABC was selected based on its achievements in workforce education and fulfilling its 2018 pledge to recruit and upskill at least 500,000 workers by 2023.

In 2019 alone, ABC members invested $1.5 billion to provide more than 1.1 million course attendees with craft, leadership and safety education to build a construction workforce that is safe, skilled and productive. Safety education accounted for nearly half of the total workforce investment, averaging more than $1,100 per employee.

Natick, MA – National Development has received an award from Multifamily Executive for Avenu at Natick, its new 62+ active adult apartment community.

Avenu was the Grand Winner in the senior housing category and recognized for offering an alternative to traditional housing for the area’s aging baby boomer population.

National Development partnered with Elkus Manfredi Architects, Stantec’s Boston site design and landscape studio, and Cranshaw Construction, transforming the site of the former Sam’s Club in Natick into a vibrant new community.

On-site features include a gourmet chef’s kitchen, upscale private dining room, state-of-the-art theater and salon.

An expansive landscaped courtyard features lush plantings, a resort-style pool, putting green, and outdoor lounge with fire pits. Residents enjoy robust events and programming (virtual for now in the time of COVID) such as courtyard concerts, chair yoga, golf lessons,

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lectures, cooking demonstrations and a grow-your-own community garden.

An adjacent 136- key Residence Inn

by Marriott contributes an additional amenity for residents, visiting family members and guests.

“Avenu fills an important need in the community, providing a stimulating environment for today’s active seniors looking to downsize from their singlefamily homes. It has been great to see Avenu grow into a vibrant community over the past year,” said Ted Tye, managing partner at National Development.

City Point Partners Wins Project of the Year

The inaugural award was created by the Department of Commerce in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Baldrige Performance Excellence program and with support from the Department of Labor.

“These 2019 training accomplishments are phenomenal,” said Steve Sullivan, director of workforce development at the ABC Mass. chapter. “Our member companies invest mightily in their workforce. Construction training is not inexpensive. Our companies form worker loyalty when they spend thousands of dollars a year to train their employees.

This is precisely what our association is all about!”

Boston – City Point Partners provided owner’s project management services for the MassArt Art Museum (MAAM), a winner of the Construction Management Association of America, New England Chapter Building Renovation Project of the Year award for projects greater than $20 million.

The newly renovated building is a reconstruction of the 25,275sf Bakalar and Paine Galleries within the south building at MassArt, originally constructed in 1906.

The project included developing a new more prominent, visible entrance along Huntington Avenue, and grew from a building upgrade project to a larger gut renovation requiring upgrades to several major building systems, including fire protection and mechanical systems, to create controlled gallery environments capable of supporting museum quality shows.

The MAAM project was managed under the Mass. State College Building Authority (MSCBA). City Point Partners worked closely with the MSCBA, advising with respect to the scope of work and

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providing owner’s project management services, cost estimates and overall project budgets, schedule overview, and performance monitoring.

A project 12 years in the making, MAAM is a free non-collecting contemporary art museum open to the public, hosting temporary exhibitions of both emerging and established artists.

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November 2020

Boston Preservation Achievement Awards Celebrated Virtually On October 15, the 32nd annual Boston Preservation Achievement Awards were celebrated. The virtual event was hosted by award-winning journalist Katie Couric.

Bestowed annually since 1988, the Preservation Achievement Awards honor outstanding achievements in historic preservation and compatible new construction in Boston. Celebrated for their positive impact on the city’s built environment, winning projects are looked upon as models for future preservation work.

The Boston Preservation Alliance has begun to roll out two films a week (featuring each winning project) on its YouTube channel and awards page at https://www. bostonpreservation.org/awards/2020.

The following are this year’s Boston Preservation Achievement award winners: Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston

Boston Landmark District Owner/Developer: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Architect: Elkus Manfredi Architects General Contractor: Suffolk

Dillaway-Thomas House / Roxbury

Owner/Developer: Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation Architects: Arrowstreet Leonardi Aray Architects General Contractor: Campbell Construction Group LLC The house was built in 1750 as a parsonage for the First Church in Roxbury. Reverend Amos Adams lived in the house with his family until 1775 when they offered the house to General John Thomas to act as headquarters during the Revolutionary War.

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross stands in the South End like a monument to the history of the Catholic immigrant community. The cathedral sits about a block away from Franklin Square, the site of the first Catholic church in Boston, which was built in 1808.

Graves Light and Fog Signal Station / BostonHarbor Owner/Developer: Graves Light and Fog Station LLC Architect: John Chapman Architects Parkside on Adams – Substation / Roslindale

Owner/Developer: Peregrine Group, LLC Architect: PCA/Prellwitz Chilinski General Contractor: H.V. Collins

Many of the period materials used were repurposed from lost or renovated antique buildings, steamships, and other lighthouses to enhance the authenticity of the restoration.

Once a part of the bustling MBTA (and the Boston Elevated Railway before that), the substation in Roslindale was one of seven throughout the city that managed the electric currents that ran the trolleys.

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Hub History Podcast / Citywide Owner/Developer: Hub History North Square / North End

Owner/Developer: City of Boston General Contractor: Sons Construction The North Square project was commissioned by the city of Boston to make the square an accessible focal point of the area that would better serve residents and tourists. Four new sculptures were added.

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Each episode explores a topic in incredible depth and by demonstrating a wide variety of connections to associated topics and facts. Several hours of research and writing are required to create the thirty-minute to hour-long episodes each week.

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The Revolution Hotel / South End

Owner/Developer: The Mount Vernon Company Architect: PCA/Prellwitz Chilinski Associates General Contractor: Kaplan Construction Creative reuse of original elements leaves a stripped-down style exposing long-covered mid-century features such as concrete floors, a sweeping mezzanine, and a bank of original YWCA resident mailboxes.

The Whitney Hotel / Beacon Hill Owner/Developer: Related Beal, LLC Architect: Hacin + Associates General Contractor: Commodore Builders

The Whitney Hotel project blends old and new, with a refurbished John Jeffries House and a highly contextual but clearly complementary new addition along Charles Street.

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Myles Standish Hall / Fenway/Kenmore

Revival Styles Boston Landmark District Owner/Developer: Boston University Architect: MDS/Miller Dyer Spears General Contractor: Shawmut Design and Construction Myles Standish Hall, formerly the Myles Standish Hotel has hosted everything from grand social events to Prohibition era speakeasies. As a dorm for Boston University, notables such as Howard Stern and Martin Luther King, Jr. graced its halls.

The 2020 Codman Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Announced

The Boston Preservation Alliance presented its 2020 Codman Lifetime Achievement Award to Carl R. Nold, retiring president and CEO of Historic New England.

Nold steps down after a successful career at preservation organizations and museums across the country. He is past chairman of US-ICOM, the International Council of Museums.

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People

Colantonio Hires Three

TFMoran Adds Two Bedford, NH – TFMoran recently welcomed two to its team. Jacob Pouliot, PE joins the company as a structural engineer.

He brings eight years of experience in the design and inspection of commercial and residential projects. Pouliot’s experience includes structural steel, concrete, and timber, as well as design of cold-formed steel and fabric-covered structures. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of New Hampshire.

TFMoran’s Seacoast Division welcomes Justin Macek, EIT to the team as a civil project engineer. He has civil/

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site engineering experience in both New Hampshire and California, including environmental sampling, stormwater management, hydraulic modeling, parking lot design, and construction inspection.

DPS Welcomes Brian Duffy Boston – DPS Group, a privately-owned, global engineering, procurement, construction management and validation firm, announced that Brian Duffy has joined the firm as senior director of engineering and architecture for Boston project operations.

Reporting to Paul DePriest, senior vice president for Boston project operations, Duffy will be responsible for the consistent and coordinated execution of engineering and architecture project

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deliverables. In this role, he will manage and coordinate the cross-discipline interaction between managers with a focus on developing talent and providing innovative and technical solutions.

Duffy brings over 20 years of experience in the biotechnology industry.

He has held multiple positions at Sanofi Genzyme, including as the design and engineering lead, associate director of process engineering, and senior process engineer.

Holliston, MA – Colantonio Inc. recently welcomed Project Manager Jacob Robitaille, Assistant Superintendent Daniel Sampson and Assistant Superintendent Cory Madore to the firm.

Robitaille joined the firm with 15 years of experience as a project engineer, superintendent, estimator, project manager and director of construction in the senior living Robitaille and multifamily residential markets. He will manage the construction of the Haywood House project for the Newton Housing Authority.

Sampson has worked as an assistant project manager, lead carpenter and carpenter in his 15 years of construction experience. He also served as a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps infantry, complet-

Copley Wolff Promotes Two Boston – Copley Wolff Design Group, Inc., a Boston-based landscape architecture and planning firm, announced that it has promoted Marcus Cantu Parker, PLA and Christine Wilson, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP to the position of associate to be responsible for project management, staff mentoring, and overall business development.

Parker started at Copley Wolff in 2012 and has managed some of the firm’s more notable projects including the J Malden Center development in the heart of Malden, the Serenity Apartments in the Longwood Medical area, and the Fenway Center development project.

Wilson brings close to 10 years of landscape planning and design

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experience to the firm. She has taken on challenging projects such as three urban park/playground projects with the Boston Parks and Recreation department, a mixed-use development in Lawrence, and the redevelopment of the Harbor Garage site (aka The Pinnacle) located along Boston’s waterfront.

Two Named Top Young Professionals Boston – Gilbane Building Company announced that General Superintendent Danielle Crafford and Senior Operations Excellence Manager Derek Ullman have been named 2020 Top Young Professionals by ENR New England.

Crafford is one of the youngest women general superintendents within the entire Gilbane organization.

She began her career as an intern while still attending school, Crafford and joined Gilbane full time in 2008 in the management candidate acceleration program. This intensive two-year program offers the opportunity to discover a focus area that best suits one’s skills through exposure to

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ing two deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq. Sampson is currently assigned to the modernization of a renovation for the Brookline Housing Authority.

Madore has six Sampson years of construction experience specializing in the construction and renovation of affordable housing developments, including the adaptive reuse of historic mills. He works on Madore the McCormack Building team, renovating DCAMM’s headquarters at One Ashburton Place in Boston.

the many facets of Gilbane’s construction methods and operations.

Ullman began his career with Gilbane as a drawing clerk in 2010 working alongside industry veterans on the Lowell General Hospital project.

From his beginnings Ullman as a drawing clerk, he has risen through the ranks, working in a myriad of capacities from superintendent, project engineer, project manager and now his current role as senior operations excellence manager.

He shares his knowledge base with his peers by preparing fellow Gilbane employees to take and pass the Massachusetts Unrestricted Construction Supervisors License exam.

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ABX will partner with IWBC in 2020, bringing two unique but closely related communities together to offer new products, services and opportunities.

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Calendar AIA CT November 12 at 5:00 PM 2020 Design Awards This virtual event celebrates the accomplishments of Connecticut architects and the excellence of Connecticut architectural projects.

Construction Institute November 12 at 8:15 AM AEC Leadership Conference Leadership challenges do not occur only in the boardroom, or with the most experienced in our industry. It takes a village to instill a culture of leadership and to develop future leaders. Different types and generations of leaders will collaborate during this year’s virtual AEC Leadership Conference to learn about themselves, their colleagues, and how to lead during times of change, disruption, and uncertainty.

IIDA NE November 16 at 12:00 PM What are All Those Letters Worth?

The letters after a name spark many

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, industry events have been cancelled or postponed.

Most of the events below are either virtual events or webinars.

emotions in our industry - NCIDQ, IIDA, AIA, NCARB, LEED, WELL, Fitwel - the list is long and often confusing. In this presentation, IIDA will break down why you may pursue any of these, the requirements and costs over time, and the perceptions within the industry as well as self-esteem.

Ecological Landscape Alliance November 17 at 12:00 PM The Challenges and Complexities of Ecological Gardens: A 5-year Journal of Discoveries Take a five-year photographic journey through one of the largest ecological and bio-diverse built landscapes in Rhode Island: St. George’s School. In this webinar, Lori Silvia will share the process, challenges, and discoveries she has made while managing concept, design, installation, plants, and daily maintenance of the landscape. Broader philosophical questions regarding the landscapes’ evolution will also be considered.

Next Issue December Award Winners Send news of your recent award(s) in safety, design or construction.

HP will feature recent awards from AEC organizations and companies.

If your firm has been recently recognized, let us know!

Year in Review This is the time to thank your team, clients, and vendors for their support!

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BOMA Boston November 17 at 5:30 PM The 2020 TOBY & Industry Awards BOMA Boston will recognize the best and brightest in property management, building operations and service in the commercial real estate industry. BOMA’s entire membership and individuals from the local real estate community will come together virtually to find out who will win the coveted awards.

BSLA November 17 at 7:30 PM GSD Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Lecture: Black Reconstruction Collective, “Black Reconstruction” The Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) provides funding, design, and intellectual support to the ongoing and incomplete project of emancipation for the African Diaspora. The BRC is committed to multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary work dedicated to dismantling systemic white supremacy and hegemonic whiteness within art, design, and academia. Founded by a group of Black architects, artists, designers, and scholars, the BRC aims to amplify knowledge production and spatial practices by individuals and organizations that further the reconstruction project.

SMPS CT November 18 at 1:00 PM The Art of Influence and Negotiation Effective influence and negotiation skills aren’t just for lawyers and salesmen. By learning and leveraging these skills, business professionals at every level can realize winning outcomes for themselves and their companies. In this session, we’ll explore the dynamics of influence, dispel the myths and fears associated with negotiating, and present ideas to help attendees utilize their personal power with confidence.

AGC MA November 18 at 4:00 PM Conversations with Kick Ass Women in Construction These conversations aim to build connection, advance an initiative, and

maybe even solve a problem or two. AGC MA will welcome prominent women within the commercial construction industry to share the intentional and the serendipitous, their heroes and the villains, the opportunities captured, lost, and set free, and what they spend far too much time doing with their time.

BSLA November 19 at 7:30 PM GSD Sylvester Baxter Lecture: Sheila Foster, “Co-Cities: Reimagining the City as a Commons” In the U.S. and around the world, vacant and abandoned urban land and structures are more ubiquitous than most people realize. In this lecture, Professor Foster will argue why we should think about this urban infrastructure as a “commons” capable of meeting the social and economic needs of the most vulnerable urban populations.

SMPS Boston November 19 at 9:00 AM Rise and Lead: Strategic Planning Best Practices & Pitfalls Strategy is more than simply achieving organizational goals. Strategy unifies people. It aligns perspectives of an organization with its customers, environment, and competition. Strategy creates focus and clarity. OnStrategy Strategist Kamryn Mock will discuss strategic planning best practices, tools, and methodologies.

CBC December 8 at 4:00 PM 2020 Project Team Awards Virtual Celebration Join the Connecticut Building Congress for a virtual celebration with the project owners and teams that represent the 2020 project team award winners, with moderators Ron Goodin, Phase Zero Design, CBC president, and Rich Bergan, Bergan Architectural Woodworking, CBC immediate past president.

Participate in virtual social time in small breakout rooms toward the end of the event so you can meet, greet, and network with others in attendance.

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congratulations AWARD WINNERS! C.E. Floyd Company, Inc.

First Place Pre-Engineered Building/Large Projects

Cianbro Corporation

Award of Merit Industrial/Large Projects

Directional Technologies, Inc.

Award of Merit Other-Specialty/Small Projects

Interstate Electrical Services Corp.

First Place Electrical Commercial/Small Projects

KBE Building Corporation

First Place Residential/Large Projects

Kronenberger & Sons Restoration, Inc. Best in Show Historical Restoration

Mohawk Northeast, Inc.

Award of Merit Infrastructure-Heavy/Small Projects First Place Historical Infrastructure/Small Projects

Nosal Builders, Inc.

Award of Merit Industrial/Large Projects

Notch Mechanical Constructors

First Place Mechanical Industrial/Small Projects

Petra Construction Corporation First Place Institutional/Small Projects First Place Renovation/Small Projects

SLAM Construction Services First Place Healthcare/Large Projects

The Middlesex Corporation

Award of Merit Infrastructure Heavy/Large Projects

Viking Construction, Inc.

Award of Merit Residential/Large Projects

Wohlsen Construction Company Award of Merit Residential/Large Projects

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