High-Profile: December 2020

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Awards

and 2020 Year In Review

ABC NH/VT recently honored PROCON Inc. with an Excellence in Construction award for the AC Hotel by Marriott project in Portsmouth, NH Joseph St. Pierre Photography / Full story page 24

INDUSTRY EXPERT ARTICLES:

FEATURING AWARDS FROM: page 28

Jen Luoni

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Philip Norton Loheed

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Kenneth A. Sherman

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Hearns Named Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Architecture Firm Certified as LGBT Business Enterprise

CONNECTICUT page 30

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Annual Green Supplement 2020-2021

Lisa Wexler Named to Top 100 A Long-term Approach to Addiction Recovery with Lisa Ublrich BSA Names 2020 Canstruction Winners Turner Construction Holds Donation Drive

CTGBC Honors the Frick Park Environmental Center with Best In Show The Frick Park Environmental Center in Pittsburgh was named Best In Show at this year’s Connecticut Green Building Council Awards. / Full story page 10

Stark Creative Wins Gold at MUSE Creative Awards

INDUSTRY EXPERT ARTICLES

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2020 Winning projects announced / page 10

GCI Rises to Challenge of Remote Learning by Charlie Chippeo

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AC Hotel Recognized

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Architecture Firm Certified as LGBT Business Enterprise

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Hearns Named Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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Publisher’s Message constant: the industry’s refusal to give in. Can’t make in-person meetings? No problem, we’ve got applications for that.

Can’t work in the office? Fine, the dining room or spare bedroom will do. Don’t want your colleagues to see your messy room? You may want to try out the builtin background your video conferencing software has.

Anastasia Barnes Even large conferences and trade shows have adapted.

To say this year has been challenging This year’s ABX would be an understatement. The global show is promising to pandemic has affected us all, both transform the standard in-person event 2-3, 2020 personally and professionally. What DECEMBER into a technology-driven, streamlined we thought might be a few months of a experience that maximizes value.

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Ex X V High-Profile pe irt will be a part of this rie with u It’s hard to find peace, sometimes experience nc al our virtual booth, digital e even at home. For me, peace has always publications, and marketing materials been practicing yoga with a room full available for download. An attendee can AD G of strangers. When your daily routine is even “stopabexby” a booth and chat, as long po .co taken away from you, and even going for a m as the exhibitor’s chat box remains open. run requires wearing a mask, it’s hard not I’m excited to take part. I hope you can to get grumpy. stop by and say hello to me or one of our Jim McManus, one of HP account executives! the founding members High-Profile has remained steadfast of The Construction as a dependable news outlet for the Institute, sums this year industry. We will continue to bring to up quite well in his year light the news and stories highlighting end review article on topics of equity and diversity, and what page 9. While we’ve had to tackle one organizations are doing to further address crisis after another, one thing has been these important issues.

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We will continue to bring to light the news and stories highlighting topics of equity and diversity, and what organizations are doing to further address these important issues.

We also continue to highlight the thought leaders who study our impacts on the Earth and provide innovative approaches to building sustainably.

Philip Norton Loheed’s ten part series entitled, “Bioregional Urbanist Design Principles,” presents a holistic approach to urban areas affected by climate change.

In his last installment, he encourages us to come together to create a new era of “We,” and challenges us to consider our impact on the whole bioregional system.

Read more on page 42.

Giving back is more important than ever. AEC firms have been successful organizing their own in-house charitable events, like Turner Construction’s “Mac Attack” donation drive which is geared

for veterans and their families or City Realty Groups’ nonprofit, City Kids, which recently supplied new Chromebook laptop computers to the Eliot K-8 Innovation School in Boston. Check out page 37 to read both stories.

Pictured outside the Eliot School with students are (l-r) Sal LaMattina, City Realty managing partner; Stephen Whalen, Eliot School principal; Traci Walker Griffith; and City Realty VP of operations, Jimmy Caruso.

HP’s next issue is Forecast 2021.

Does your organization have a pulse on a particular market sector? Let us know what you feel the next 12 months and beyond will look like. The deadline is Dec. 23.

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Up-Front Dyer Brown Certified as LGBT Business Enterprise Boston – Approaching its 50th year in practice, national architecture and interior design firm Dyer Brown has announced its recent certification as an officially certified LGBT Business Enterprise (LGBTBE) by the business voice of the LGBT community and the nation’s exclusive certifying body for LGBT-owned and -operated businesses.

As a firm that increasingly values diversity and seeks out certified LGBTBE (Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans Business Enterprise) service providers, Dyer Brown has been certified by the Washington, D.C.-based National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) through its Supplier Diversity Initiative. According to Brent Zeigler, AIA, IIDA, president and principal of Dyer Brown, the NGLCC serves as the business voice of the LGBT

With this designation, Dyer Brown is now eligible to participate in the NGLCC’s supplier diversity programs with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies nationwide.

Dyer Brown management team (l-r): Ashley L. Dunn, director of workplace; Rachel Woodhouse, director of operations; Brent D. Zeigler, president; and Sara Ross, director of corporate services

community and acts as the nation’s exclusive certifying body for LGBT-owned and -operated businesses.

With this designation, Dyer Brown is now eligible to participate in the NGLCC’s supplier diversity programs with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies nationwide. Dyer Brown can also take advantage of a broad array educational opportunities promoted

by the NGLCC, and the firm can work to foster business-to-business relationships with other certified LGBTBE companies.

Dyer Brown’s latest announcement signals the firm’s continued robust growth and expansion in both project types and scales.

The move also speaks to Dyer Brown’s expansion in new national markets, including higher education and hospitality, which demand vision and experience.

“It is an honor to be welcomed into this organization. As a design-driven organization and as an LGBT-owned and -operated business, we look forward to working side by side with other organizations within our diverse community to democratize access to design excellence and workplace strategy, among other valuable services,” says Zeigler.

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Svigals + Partners Announcements

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New Haven, CT – The leadership team at Svigals + Partners, an architecture, art, and advisory firm, has announced the recent accomplishments of four team members.

Associate principal Julia McFadden, AIA, ALEP has added Accredited Learning Environment Planner (ALEP) to her list of credentials. The new designation from the Association for Learning Environments signifies a high level of achievement and expertise in the practice of planning, designing, equipping and maintaining educational environments.

Alana Konefal, Assoc. AIA, has been elected vice president of the Connecticut Building Congress (CBC). She is serving in her second year on the CBC board, having been active with the organization in both membership and programming capacities.

Omarys Vasquez, AIA, LEED AP, NOMA, an associate with the firm, is one of three Connecticut architects to

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Hearns Named Director of DE & I

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spearhead the establishment of a National Organization of Minority Architects Connecticut chapter. Vasquez was also recently named to the University of Hartford Department of Architecture Advisory Board and serves on the committee for the AIA-Connecticut Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Community.

Architectural designer Katie Scanlon, Assoc. AIA, has been honored with the Emerging Professional Award by the Connecticut chapter of the AIA, which recognizes emerging graduate architects for “outstanding contributions to their profession or have rendered distinguished service in the public realm.”

Svigals + Partners has also been designated an Emerging ProfessionalFriendly Firm by AIA-New England for the third year in a row, a welcome reaffirmation of the firm’s commitment to the development of individual architectural careers, and the evolution of the profession as a whole.

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Quincy, MA – New England fostering equity and inclusion at construction management firm, Dellbrook|JKS. Dellbrook|JKS, has welcomed Hearns brings more than 16 Sheryce Hearns as its new years of experience working director of diversity, equity and with the City of Boston in inclusion. project management, workforce She will play a significant compliance, M/WBE (Minority/ role in growing internal Women Business Enterprise) diversity, expanding outreach Hearns participation monitoring, and efforts in communities across equity strategy planning.

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Educational Nonprofit Expands

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Beverly, MA – Educational nonprofit Change is Simple expanded this fall from an office in north Beverly to a 3,600sf facility at 100 Cummings Center. The new space houses the organization’s administrative function, as well as its virtual teaching operations.

Co-founded in 2011 by Co-directors Lauren and Patrick Belmonte, Change is Simple partners with Boston-area elementary and middle schools to deliver a multi-year STEM-based curriculum to more than 8,000 students each year.

The nonprofit integrates hands-on environmental, sustainability, and climate education into the schools’ traditional teaching programs.

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Change is Simple staff at a 2019 fundraising event (l-r): Back row: Dom Martinelli, staff director; Elisa Figueras and Tyler Comino, interns; and Skye Fournier and Ethan Janis, lead educators. Middle row: Amy Holland Crafton, director of outreach; Tayler Laycox and Sarah Couture, interns; and Patrick Belmonte and Lauren Belmonte, co-directors.

Front row: Eric Owens, lead educator

According to Lauren Belmonte, the firm’s new base of operations has allowed its seven-person full-time staff and team

Cummings Properties chairman and CEO, Dennis Clarke (l) with Lauren and Patrick Belmonte of Change is Simple, at the 2013 Cummings Foundation Grant Winner Celebration

of college-aged interns to spread out in a socially distant setting. The space also houses multiple video studios, where instructors digitize educational content and deliver virtual lessons to live classrooms.

“Our goal is to help kids understand and become empowered by their place in the world; to know they don’t have to wait until they’ve grown up to improve their own health and the health of the planet,” she says. “Students develop a clear understanding of how they can live in the 21st century while remaining mindful of how the choices they make each day affect both the environment and their bodies.”

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Focus: Year-In-Review Construction Institute: Year End Review

The year 2020 is one best forgotten.

We have experienced unprecedented economic turmoil, a disastrous pandemic costing hundreds of thousands of lives and a toxic partisan political campaign. Our country seems to have lost its way. We have been separated from loved ones. The travel, retail and entertainment industries have been all but shut down.

Some refused to acknowledge the serious threat to society resulting in a crisis in the health care industry.

On the other hand, we are remarkably adaptable, and we continually learn and adjust. Perhaps through it all we have made progress.

Since we have been unable to travel, we have learned to communicate in new

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ways. The idea of video conferencing has been slowly developing for years. Some firms had become fluent in its use. When faced with the inability to travel, video platforms suddenly became an important part of our lives. We needed them for work, shopping, and social activities.

Providers of the service jumped into high gear improving and distributing their products. They became amazingly simple to use. The implementation curve accelerated dramatically.

Some people routinely “shopped by mail.� Suddenly we were dependent on it as stores closed and reduced their hours or capacity. Internet retail and grocery delivery took off and is now commonplace.

In my neighborhood, dozens of small panel trucks roam the streets seven days a week delivering groceries, appliances, and all the necessities of life.

Restaurants, unable to serve meals indoors, reverted to outdoor seating, curbside delivery, and take-home meal kits. They continue to struggle with limited capacity, and many will fail.

Organized sports play to empty stadiums and games are frequently cancelled or rescheduled. Only a complete control of the virus will permit us to fill

stadiums and arenas.

Early in the pandemic, construction came to a halt. It was short-lived and soon every part of the industry was back at it.

Construction sites developed innovative safety measures; designers learned to work from home and found they were sometimes even more productive than in the office. Again, technology that was slowly evolving quickly became essential.

Vendors stepped up and adjusted their products for ease of use.

On site observation by architects and engineers became impossible, so alternatives needed to be developed.

Today, architects keep live webcams active at their workstation. Contractors can beam photographs back to the office using drone technology. Digital communication makes the process more efficient, if not as personal as in the past.

The overall economy was devastated as millions lost their jobs, businesses closed, and normal life came to a standstill.

The health care industry finally began to get ahead of the curve. New treatments were developed to help reduce the mortality of the virus. Fast expansion of facilities provided more capacity.

We will begin 2021 with a public health

disaster, but with the knowledge that effective vaccines are coming in the short term. Together, with better understanding of the virus and new treatments, we will turn back and control the threat. The economy will rebound as more and more companies find better ways to cope with the disruption they experienced. The likelihood of new government spending on infrastructure, green industry, re-training and personal assistance grants promise for a strong rebound in the year to come.

While not everyone will recover from this disruption, innovators will take advantage of new methods and create entire new ways of doing business. In every industry, survival techniques will lead to the development of more permanent lines of service that will remake society going forward. By focusing on solutions to global problems of climate change and economic inequality, we will again demonstrate the resilience that has produced the greatest country in the world.

James McManus F.A.I.A., is the chairman emeritus of The S/L/A/M Collaborative and SLAM Construction Services. He is among the founding members of the Construction Institute and currently serves as the chair of its Senior Industry Advisory Group.

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2020 Groundbreakings Editor’s note: Groundbreakings reported here to High-Profile are in order of date posted on the www.high-profile.com blog. This list, with active links to the full stories, can also be found online by clicking on the “All News” tab, and then “Groundbreaking” in the drop-down menu.

JANUARY

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Lynn Apartment Complex Breaks Ground

C.E. Floyd Breaks Ground at Carleton-Willard

Breakwater rendering

Lynn, MA – Callahan Construction Managers has broken ground at Breakwater in Lynn. The Dolben Company, in a joint venture with Minco Corporation, is developing the future luxury waterfront apartment complex, with HDS Architecture serving as the architect. Read More...

Foghorn Therapeutics HQ Breaks Ground

Carleton-Willard Village groundbreaking

Bedford, MA – Carleton-Willard Village broke ground on its latest expansion project with C.E. Floyd Company, general contractor and construction manager, and Tsomides Architects on March 4. The senior living community is adding a new loop road with cluster homes to its campus. Read More...

JULY

BOND Breaks Ground On Middle School

Maria Weston Chapman Middle School / Rendering by HMFH Architects

Mary Beth Brown, Fanny Cavalié, Chris Maciejczak, Alex Main, Ron Ashton, Tim White, Bill Olson, Leanne Smith, Marc Consalvi, Matthew Walfield, and John Wise / Photo courtesy of Combrink Commercial

Cambridge, MA – Foghorn Therapeutics, located in Winchester, has selected Wise Construction to build its new Kendall Square headquarters. On Jan. 10, the entire project team, including Alexandria Real Estate Equities, CBRE, Wise Construction, Tria, R.W. Sullivan, and Code Red Consultants, gathered to celebrate the occasion with a groundbreaking ceremony. Read More...

Weymouth, MA – BOND Building Construction, Inc. of Boston has broken ground on the new Maria Weston Chapman Middle School in Weymouth. Read More...

Renovation to Boston City Hall Breaks Ground

School Renovation Breaks Ground

Burrell Elementary School groundbreaking

Foxborough, MA – CTA Construction recently joined local officials, the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA), school administrators, students and other members of the Foxborough community to mark the official groundbreaking of the Burrell Elementary School renovation and expansion. Read More...

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Rendering by Shawmut Design and Construction

Boston – The city of Boston and Shawmut Design and Construction broke ground on a renovation to Boston City Hall Plaza. Beginning with phase one, the project will deliver updated civic spaces and programming capabilities, as well as additional infrastructure to make the plaza a welcoming, everyday destination. Read More...

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Mixed-Use Development Breaks Ground Boston – Nauset Construction Corporation has begun construction on ebo condominiums, a mixed-use development that will deliver 49 condominium units and 3,630sf of groundfloor retail space for Woburn-based developer Joseph Nogueira, principal of Charter Development. Read More...

Groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the new VA clinic / Photo by Tim Greenway

Portland, ME – FD Stonewater, J.B. Brown & Sons, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently held an official groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the new VA community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC), located at 141 West Commercial Street in Portland. Read More...

ebo condominiums / Rendering by BH+A

New Table Talk Bakery Breaks Ground

AUGUST

Filtration Center of Excellence Breaks Ground (l-r) Harry Kokkinis, president, Table Talk Pies; James Chacharone, founder and principal of Chacharone Properties; Robert Chacharone; Mayor Joseph Petty; Worcester councilor Candy Mero-Carlson; Edward M. Augustus Jr., Worcester city manager; and Peter Dunn, Worcester chief development officer of the executive office of Economic Development / Photo by Andrea Seward, Habakkuk Media Services

Groundbreaking of Lydall’s Filtration Center of Excellence

Rochester, NH – Lydall, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of value-added engineered materials and specialty filtration solutions, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony recently to celebrate a major expansion of its production facility in Rochester. Read More...

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Worcester, MA – On Aug. 13, Table Talk Pies, Chacharone Properties, and the city of Worcester celebrated the groundbreaking of Table Talk’s new state-of-the-art bakery with a gathering of employees and several Worcester city officials and dignitaries at the former Crompton & Knowles Complex in Worcester’s Main South. Read More...

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SEPTEMBER

NHSPCA Celebrates Groundbreaking

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(l-r): Paul Bonacci and Lucy Schlaffer, ARQ Architects; Joshua Scott, president, NHSPCA board; Ed Rimm, project manager, North Branch Const.; John W. Kellar, III, Kellar Assoc.; Joseph Campbell, president, North Branch Const.; David Choate, chair of NHSPCA properties committee; Bill Richard, NHSPCA board and properties committee construction liaison; Shanti Wolph, CEO/ building inspector, and Tavis Austin, town planner, Town of Stratham; Karen Grover, co-chair, Campaign for Changing Times; Thomas Haas, cabinet rep, Campaign for Changing Times; Joanne Lamprey, co-chair, Campaign for Changing Times; and Lisa Dennison, exec. director, NHSPCA

Stratham, NH – The New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NHSPCA) held a ceremonial groundbreaking celebration recently at its location at 104 Portsmouth Ave. in Stratham. The celebration marks the beginning of a construction project of 6,700sf of interior renovations, two additions to the existing structure totaling approximately 4,900sf, and the required site work and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing requirements for a new 9,500sf riding arena and 3,000sf horse barn. Read More...

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OCTOBER

Lewiston High School Holds Groundbreaking

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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. Read More...

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Cotting School Athletics Center Breaks Ground

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. Read More...

Alma Del Mar Charter School Breaks Ground

Downtown North redevelopment project - Parcel C 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. Read More...

Hartford, CT – Developer Randy Salvatore, Mayor Luke Bronin, and a delegation of stakeholders and state and city leaders celebrated the long-anticipated start of construction yesterday of the $50 million first phase of the Downtown North redevelopment project..

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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 Heywood-Benjamin House. Read More...

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Lebanon, NH – JSA Design, a Portsmouth architecture, planning, and interior design firm, announced its partnership 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. Read More...

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Focus: Awards Amenta Emma Receives Industry Awards

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Hartford, CT – Amenta Emma architects and designers wrapped up 2020 with award recognition in several studio types.

In September, Amenta Emma was awarded the IIDA New England Award for Best Senior Living for the design of the Southington Care Center second floor nurses’ station, garden room and outdoor patio. For this project, the senior living design team was tasked with reimagining the institutional feel of the center which is home to 65 residents living with varied stages of dementia.

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The Amenta Emma K-12 team received a CREW CT Best in Class: Academic Award for the transformation of Weaver High School in Hartford, Conn., which was announced at the virtual Blue Ribbon Awards presentation held on Oct. 1. As part of a team with the SLAM Collaborative, the renovations to the 1960’s building include a new transparent facade which brings much needed light into the building, and collaborative multi-use spaces that give greater access to resources, programming

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The building meets Connecticut High Performance Building Standards (LEED Gold equivalent).

Amenta Emma was also honored with three Merit Awards in the AIA Connecticut Design Awards which were presented at the AIA CT Awards Gala in November. The New Haven offices for quasi-public venture capital firm Connecticut Innovations was recognized in the Interior Architecture category.

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Finally, Amenta Emma’s design for renovating and expanding Lafayette Hall at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Conn. also received a Merit award in the Built category. Amenta Emma’s Higher Education team’s design of the 48,000sf addition to the main campus building adds critical program areas and radically changes the college’s relationship to its urban context.

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O’Sullivan Wins PRISM Awards

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Boston – At the recent Annual PRISM Awards Gala, held virtually this year, BRAGB (Builders and Remodelers Association of Greater Boston) presented O’Sullivan Architects, Inc. with three PRISM Awards.

The firm received two Gold awards for the Ocean Edge Estates restoration project at a seaside mansion estate property in Swampscott, Mass.

The Ocean Edge Estates was a unique opportunity to restore a rare seaside property with a 100-year-old mansion and carriage house, in disrepair. The goal was to transform the property into a luxury 55+ community with views of the ocean and

the Boston skyline. The old tennis courts became the site for an additional unit. The sea wall was rebuilt, and designs reviewed by the Historical Commission before any work on the property. Small additions allowed the Carriage House to become a modern home, and the mansion to be converted to four luxury townhouses.

The A. J. Letizio Enterprise Center project, which includes the corporate headquarters for A. J. Letizio Sales & Marketing company in Windham, N.H., earned a Silver award.

The A.J. Letizo Enterprise Center was a fulfillment of the client’s vision for a vibrant hub where employees and clients

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could convene, train, demonstrate and develop new concepts. As a professional sales and marketing agency serving the food and non-food industry throughout the nation, the program was carefully planned with elements that reflect the roots of the family business. The owner also wanted to recognize the history of the nearby Searles Castle, a Tudor manor historic to Windham.

“During these challenging times, relying heavily on remote working, our team was thrilled to have been able to earn these awards from the judges,” said David H. O’Sullivan, president of O’Sullivan Architects, Inc.

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Arlington, MA – BW Kennedy & Co. announced the Associated Builders and Contractors’ selection of 75 Hayden Ave. in Lexington to receive a prestigious Eagle Award for construction excellence.

This complicated project consisted of a new Class A, 221,300sf, 4-story life science building; 9-story, 1091-car parking garage; and unique precast boardwalk that crosses protected wetland stream channels and connects various areas of the campus to parking. A beautiful building entry, added landscaping, site lighting, parking, and upgrades to an adjacent trail head bordering the property, create a welcoming campus atmosphere.

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King Street brought BW Kennedy & Co. on board during the conceptual design of the project. BW Kennedy’s design-build approach, including architect Perkins + Will and its MEP team partners, allowed for an iterative design process, giving the client real time pricing feedback as the architectural concepts were refined.

The BW Kennedy project team completed the project in multiple phases to accommodate the needs of the existing campus.

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The NAIOP President’s Award will be presented to Amanda Strong of MIT Investment Management Company and Taidgh McClory of T.H. McClory LLC in recognition of their exceptional

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Kaplan One of Top Women-Led Businesses Boston – Kaplan Conmanagers are women. I feel struction, a WBE general it is essential to our firm’s contractor and construction future to recruit, train, and management firm providing mentor women in the field comprehensive building of construction.” programs across Greater In October 2014, one of Boston, announced that it Kaplan Peck’s first underhas been named to the list takings as newly appointed of Top 100 Women-Led COO was spearheading the Businesses in Massachueffort to be certified as a setts by The Commonwealth Women Business Enterprise Institute (TCI) for the sixth (WBE) by the CommonJane Kaplan Peck year in a row. wealth of Massachusetts.

Finalists were honored during a WBEs are entities that are at least 51% virtual event on Nov. 6 and Kaplan ranked owned and/or controlled by women. Kanumber 67. This is the 20th year TCI plan also frequently performs on projects has recognized women-led businesses requiring Boston Resident Jobs Policy in Massachusetts and the list will be (BRJP) compliance and has employed a published in the Women & Power issue significant number of women and minoriof The Boston Globe Magazine on Nov. 8. ty-owned subcontractors in doing so.

TCI was founded in 1997 to help TCI’s membership includes CEOs, women-led businesses in Massachusetts senior corporate executives, entrepreneurs, become and stay successful. executive directors of nonprofits and “We are honored to be once again solo professionals who are committed acknowledged as a top woman-led to building successful businesses, business and congratulate the other organizations, and careers. Since 2002, women and companies recognized at this TCI has created a list of the Top 100 year’s awards breakfast,” said Jane Kaplan Women-Led Businesses to highlight the Peck, majority owner and chief operating achievements of these women throughout officer (COO) at Kaplan. “According to the state. Past honorees have come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women fields ranging from biotechnology to working in construction make up 1.5% architecture to retail, illustrating the of the entire U.S. workforce. We are diversity of women-led organizations proud that two-thirds of our project across the Commonwealth.

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Redbrook Wins Six PRISM Awards

Your Mayflower II Home by The Stabile Companies at Redbrook Photo by Les Jorgensen Photography

Boston – BRAGB (The Builders and Remodelers Association of Greater Boston) presented Team Redbrook with six PRISM Awards at a recent virtual awards ceremony.

The annual awards celebrate the best of the best in the region’s residential building industry. The new village’s four gold awards included top honors in the most coveted categories: Best Team of the Year and Best Ad Campaign.

The team represents the A.D. Makepeace Company as developer and its builder-partners, The Valle Group of Falmouth, Whitman Homes of

Canton, and The Stabile Companies of Nashua, N.H. In addition, the team won gold awards for Best Interior Merchandising of a Model Under $650,000 for The Fern, and Best Attached Home Under 2,000sf for The Mayflower II. Both homes are designed and built by The Stabile Companies.

Redbrook netted silver awards for Best Attached Home Under 1,800sf for The Emerald Townhome by Whitman Homes, and Best Universal Design for the Redbrook Apartments, a joint venture of the A.D. Makepeace Company and Campanelli of Braintree.

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December 2020

Ohanian Wins ACEC/MA Award

Lisa Wexler Named to Top 100

Boston – The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named Eric Ohanian, PE, a structural engineer at Tighe & Bond, as a winner of its 2020 Young Professional Award.

During his career, he has worked on various bridge and culvert replacement projects. He has assisted numerous towns in receiving over $3 million in grant funding for bridge rehabilitation projects.

He has helped pioneer a cost effective and innovation culvert inspection practice utilizing a submarine, which has saved communities approximately $500,000 of unnecessary replacement costs.

Ohanian also helped support the city of Quincy’s emergency triage on the seawall protection system after devastating storm surges and flooding in March of 2018,

Newton Upper Falls, MA – Elaine Construction Company, Inc. announced that, for the seventh consecutive year, Lisa Wexler, president of the firm, was named to The Commonwealth Institute/Boston Globe’s Top 100 Women Led Businesses in Massachusetts.

Elaine Construction noted that the firm is proud to keep company with this group of innovative businesses that are helping to drive the Massachusetts economy.

The 2020 Top 100 were honored virtually on Nov. 6.

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Wyman Farms Wins PRISM Award

Weston & Sampson Wins BSCES Award Boston – At its virtual 171st Annual Awards and Business Meeting on Oct. 29, the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section (BSCES) presented Weston & Sampson with its 2020 Large Employer Recognition Award.

BSCES gives the award to an organization with more than 50 employees that encourages its engineers to actively participate in ASCE and BSCES. Weston & Sampson was recognized for

supporting those who wish to get involved in these societies by paying their dues and allowing them time to attend ASCE/ BSCES activities and serve in leadership roles should they choose to do so.

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Shrewsbury, MA – Casa Builders and Developers announces its Wyman Farms development has received a 2020 PRISM Award and was named Best Multi-Unit For-Sale Community: Attached or Detached by the Builders and Remodelers Association of Greater Boston.

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Wyman Farms consists of 26, newly-constructed, duplex-style homes, all designed for the 55+ demographic.

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BSA Names 2020 Canstruction Winners

Margulies Perruzzi won the People’s Choice Award for “We’re not in CANsas anymore” with 3,988 cans.

Boston – The Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) announced the 2020 “Canstructures” that won the top awards at the Canstruction Awards ceremony.

Best Concept Award Wilson Butler Architects for “The Show Will Go On” with 5,000 cans Best Use of Labels Award Dimeo Construction Company for “Mulan” with 2,763 cans People’s Choice Award Margulies Perruzzi for “We’re not in CANsas anymore” with 3,988 cans Director’s Favorite Award Arrowstreet for “Zooming in to Fight Hunger” with 5,964 cans

Social Media Soup-er Star Award – the highest number of Canstructionrelated Instagram posts Wilson Butler Architects for “The Show Will Go On” with 5,000 cans Fundraising Soup-er Star Award Dimeo Construction Company for “Mulan” with 2,763 cans

Salem, MA – The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named Thornton Tomasetti as a winner of the 2020 Bronze Engineering Excellence award for work on the Peabody Essex Museum renovation in Salem. The awards celebrate innovation, ingenuity, and excellence in engineering achievement.

The museum renovation provides a new gallery wing and south-facing Asian garden, and renovations to the existing Asian export art wing and East India marine hall. The 40,000sf expansion features dedicated gallery space, a lightfilled atrium and a group entrance.

There is also a new 5,000sf garden with unique water features and plantings that offers an inviting space to sit and relax and contemplate. Rising three stories and adding a facade to the Essex Street

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pedestrian way, the new wing enhances the older sections while providing space dedicated to presenting the museum’s extensive collection.

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A&M Named ‘Best Of 2020’ Woburn, MA – Allen & Major Associates, Inc. (A&M) was recognized as “Best of 2020” in the 13th annual Banker & Tradesman (B&T) readers’ poll in two categories.

B&T asks its readers to cast their votes for the best providers of services and goods in the banking and real estate professions. A&M was named SILVER in the Real Estate category for Site Survey as well as earning its first recognition for GOLD in the Commercial Real Estate category for Engineering.

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East Main Street Water Treatment Plant in Middleborough, Mass

Middleborough, MA – Tighe & Bond, Inc. of Westfield received the Bronze Engineering Excellence Award from The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/ MA) for its work on the East Main Street Water Treatment Plant in Middleborough.

The annual awards recognize recent engineering achievements that demonstrate the highest degree of merit, ingenuity, complexity, and client satisfaction.

The East Main Street Water Treatment Plant is a sustainable and economic project that reduces the levels of iron and manganese contaminants in the town’s drinking water supply. Tighe & Bond’s design allowed for the application of biological filtration process, a relatively new water treatment technology application in

the United States that does not use chemicals to filter out the iron and manganese.

The East Main Street Treatment Plant became the first MassDEP (Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection) approved biological iron filtration system in Massachusetts to be placed into operation. Since the plant has been on-line, the town has noticed a significant decline in water quality complaints and residents have commented on the noticeable improvement in their drinking water.

With the completion of this project, Tighe & Bond has now designed three out of the four operating biological water treatment plants in New England, providing more sustainable alternative solutions for water treatment.

Stark Creative Wins Gold MUSE Award Wolfeboro, NH – Stark Creative has taken Gold in the 2020 MUSE Creative Awards competition. The winning work was created by Yvonne Lauzière for Castle in the Clouds, in the Experiential and Immersive category for the gallery show “The Shoes That Built the Castle.” The curating and writing was crafted by the Castle’s curator, Robin Sherman.

The MUSE Creative Awards is an international competition catering to professionals from the creative and design industries who help foster new horizons for their industries. Under the administration

of the International Awards Associate (IAA), the awards are judged by a panel of professionals, who have received accolades in international settings.

With submissions numbering up to 4618 and submitted from more than 57 countries, all entries were evaluated based on their respective industry’s standards. During blind judging, panelists look at factors such as the quality and effectiveness of concepts utilized, then select winners from a deep pool of international submissions.

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2020 Excellence in Construction Award Winners: R.H. White Construction

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Haynes Group

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ABC NH/VT Announces Excellence in Construction Award Winners Concord, NH – Associated Builders & Contractors New Hampshire Vermont Chapter (ABC) recognized the best of the best construction projects at the 22nd Annual “Excellence in Construction” awards program on Oct. 29.

The top award, called the “Chairman’s Award,” was presented to DEW Construction Corporation for its work on the Windham School District SAU #95.

The complexity of the scheduling and building around an active school helped the team at DEW Construction earn this prestigious award.

Night view of Golden Brook Elementary School (Windham School District SAU #95) / photo by Ryan Bent Photography

Excellence Award Winners: CIANBRO – ECU Module Project Atlantic Prefab – Portsmouth Medical Park: Building A DECCO – Tri-K Proteins Plant Relocation DEW Construction – Windham School District SAU #95 Eckman Construction – The Derryfield School Athletic & Wellness Center/ Science & Innovation Center

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Merit Award Winners: Atlantic Prefab – All American Assisted Living Atlantic Prefab – Garrahy Courthouse Parking Garage Bonnette, Page & Stone – Hampton Academy Renovation and Addition Fulcrum Associates – 6th District Court Probate Division Sullivan Construction, LLC – Catholic Medical Center Vein & Viscose Specialties

“We were thrilled by the quality and caliber of projects recognized at the event,” said Josh Reap, president and CEO of ABC. “On display was the best of the industry; the projects and the local companies that built them are truly world class.”

Fifteen projects from 12 contractors received awards. Projects were recognized for the highest-quality standards and safety, as well as the individual “heroes” on the project and their efforts to get the job done. Entries were rigorously judged by a panelist of engineers, architects and contractors who evaluated each build’s challenges and solutions along with the uniqueness of the project.

A recording of the livestream presentation and individual project awards are available at http://abcnhvt.org/eic.

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Northeastern Bridge Recognized

Northeastern University’s new pedestrian bridge

Boston – The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named Arup as a winner of its 2020 Silver Engineering Excellence Award for work on Northeastern University’s new pedestrian bridge in Boston.

Arup provided structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and geotechnical engineering; and facade and lighting consulting to Payette for the design of this new pedestrian bridge.

Spanning five MBTA/Amtrak rail lines, Northeastern University’s new pedestrian bridge provides a link between

two halves of campus, the interdisciplinary science and engineering complex, and the neighborhoods of Fenway and Roxbury.

The bridge’s curved, asymmetric form required careful engineering design and is realized through two parapet barriers that flank the structure. These barriers lean 10 degrees outwards and use overlapping panels of solid specialty steel plate, which mask railroad infrastructure and direct views outwards and upwards.

The specialty steel’s corrosion resistance means the bridge will not require repeated painting, resulting in lower operational expenses and few disruptions in rail service.

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Boston – The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named Michael Baker International as a winner of its 2020 Bronze Engineering Excellence Award for work on the MBTA Rail Transit Tunnel Inspection Manual.

The awards, which celebrate innovation, ingenuity, and excellence in engineering achievement, were recently announced and will be celebrated at the 2021 ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence and Awards Gala.

Michael Baker developed a unique, element-level inspection manual for transit and commuter rail tunnels in

the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s transit system. The manual details procedures for assessing universal aspects of transit tunnels, defines state of good repair and levels of deterioration, and provides calculations for prioritizing maintenance and rehabilitation, allowing repairs to be quantified and prioritized.

The firm also performed a 200-foot calibration inspection to set a foundation for qualifying future inspection teams, created start-up guidelines for the manual and, since the project was delivered under-budget, has offered to provide training to tunnel inspectors.

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AIA CT Celebrates Design Awards New Haven, CT – The Connecticut chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) celebrated their 2020 Design Awards virtually on Nov. 12. The AIA CT staff produced an hour -long tribute video honoring firms, members, allied members, and public servants for their work, business acumen, years of service, and support of the organization.

Additionally, jurors from all over the country chose the “Best of the Best.”

Award categories included Alice Washburn, Business Architecture, Design, Elizabeth Mills Brown, Chrysalis, Emerging Firm, Emerging Professional, Allied Members, Public Service, Connecticut Treasures, Volunteers of the Year, and the President’s Award. New this year, the AIA Connecticut Design Committee added two awards to the group: the Sustainable Architecture Award and the Women in Architecture Award. The Project of the Year awards were not revealed until the night of the virtual celebration.

The following are this year’s winners: Project of the Year

• Residential: Slice House – Joeb Moore & Partners, Architects, LLC • Commercial: Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center, Duke University – Centerbrook Architects and Planners

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EXCELLENCE AWARDS: • Anne Curtis House Garage – Paul B. Bailey Architect • Carriage House – Scot Samuelson Architects • Classical Revival Residence – Douglas VanderHorn Architects • French Country Residence –Mark P. Finlay Architects • Stone Country Residence – Charles Hilton Architects • Washington Pool House – Haver & Skolnick Architects MERIT AWARDS: • Classic Georgian Pavilion – Douglas VanderHorn Architects • Country Home – Huestis Tucker Architects, LLC

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• Pool Pergola on a Country Estate – Charles Hilton Architects • Tudor House Restoration & Renovation – Saniee Architects, LLC Business (Employing over 50 People)

EXCELLENCE AWARD: • FactSet Research Systems Inc. HQ Relocation – Perkins Eastman Architects MERIT AWARD: • ATCO Park – Pickard Chilton Business (Employing less than 50 People)

EXCELLENCE AWARD: • Avidia Bank – Studio Q Architecture, LLC Elizabeth Mills Brown

EXCELLENCE AWARDS: • Beinecke Library – Newman Architects

• Historic Taft Hotel Dining Room – Patriquin Architects • Mark Twain House Mahogany Suit – David Scott Parker Architects MERIT AWARDS: • Moses Bulkley Homestead Rehabilitation – J. P. Franzen Associates Architects, P.C. • Ridgefield Library – Newman Architects • Two Roads Brewing – Neil Hauck Architects Sustainable Architecture – New Construction (Built)

EXCELLENCE AWARDS: • Stonington Passive House – Wyeth Architects, LLC • 609 Main Street – Pickard Chilton MERIT AWARDS: • Pound Ridge Net Zero – Trillium Architects • Slate School – Patriquin Architects

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Beehive Bridge / Photo by Olson Photography, LLC, Land Sea Air Media, LLC Commercial Project of the Year: Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center at Duke University / Photo by Peter Aaron

Sustainable Architecture – Conceptual or Research-Based Projects (Built or Unbuilt)

MERIT AWARD: • Adams Street – Studio Q Architects Commercial, Institutional, Educational, or Multi-family Residential Design

EXCELLENCE AWARDS: • 609 Main St. – Pickard Chilton • Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center, Duke University – Centerbrook Architects and Planners • McLeod Tyler Wellness Center, College of William and Mary – EYP • Yale Science Building – Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects MERIT AWARDS: • 165 Capitol Avenue – Amenta Emma Architects • 2+U – Pickard Chilton • Lafayette Hall at Housatonic Community College – Amenta Emma Architects • Obama Magnet University School – Pickard Chilton • Sacred Heart University, Bobby Valentine Health & Recreation Center – The S/L/A/M Collaborative • Citation- Contribution to the Urban Realm: The Pavilion at Grace Church – Centerbrook Architects and Planners • Citation – Contribution to Community Life: The Westport Library – HMA2 Architects • Citation – Revitalization of a Downtown Historic Fabric: Bedford Square – Centerbrook Architects and Planners

& Manuscript Library – Newman Architects; Mark Twain Suite – David Scott Parker Architects Residential Architecture

EXCELLENCE AWARDS: • Ledge House – Desai Chia Architecture • Salt House – Joeb Moore & Partners, Architects, LLC • Slice House – Joeb Moore & Partners, Architects, LLC MERIT AWARDS: • Oenoke Lane Residence – Neil Hauck Architects LLC • Sackett Hill House – Deborah Berke Partners • Three Bar House – Pirie Associates

The Distinguished Awards:

CHRYSALIS AWARD (Emerging Firm) • Ming Thompson, AIA, IIDA – Atelier Cho Thompson EMERGING PROFESSIONAL • Katie Scanlon – Svigals+Partners VOLUNTEERS OF THE YEAR • John Butkus, AIA • Greg Grew, AIA ALLIED MEMBERS • Dave Locasio – Marvin • Deborah Maffettone – J Geiger DRAWING AWARD • Andrea Boyle, AIA – The Biltmore Hotel • Brian Varano, AIA – British Palace of Westminster Big Ben

• Anthony Markese, AIA – Shinagawa Watercolors • Robert Metzgar, AIA – Knot • Paul Baldinger, AIA – Performing Arts Center • Brendan O’Rourke – Performing Arts Center PUBLIC SERVICE • Beverly Field Pierz – Environmental Designer • Daniel Tierney – Retired Deputy State Building Inspector • Deb Cohen – Founder of The Front Door Project • James Paley – Executive Director of Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven CT TREASURES • Westport Bank and Trust Company, Westport, Conn.

Citation – Rigorous Architectural Folly: Pool Cabana – Sanie Architects Architecture: Encompassing Art

MERIT AWARDS: • Baker Hall Gate – Pirie Associates • Beehive Bridge – Svigals + Partners • St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church Bell Garden – Newman Architects, PC Unbuilt Design

EXCELLENCE AWARD: • Wesleyan Art Gallery – Newman Architects, PC Urban Design and Planning

EXCELLENCE AWARD: • Resilient Bridgeport – Yale Urban Design Workshop

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MERIT AWARDS: • Connecticut Innovations – Amenta Emma Architects • Historic Library Rehabilitation – J.P. Franzen Associates Architects, P.C. Citations- Historical Research and Preservation: Beinecke Rare Book

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December 2020

CT ABC Hosts Virtual ‘Excellence in Construction’ Awards

The new Lighthouse Surgery Center at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, a member of Trinity Health Of New England / Photo courtesy of The S/L/A/M Collaborative / Christa Maull

Plainville, CT – On Oct. 22, the Connecticut chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (CT ABC) held its annual Excellence in Construction awards ceremony. CT ABC members attended the virtual event that honors the “Best of the Best” of Connecticut merit shop contractors.

Following are this year’s winners: Best in Show (Historical Restoration/Renovation)

• Kronenberger & Sons Restoration, Inc. – Springfield Central Library Access and Envelope Improvements in Springfield, Mass.

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category) – Willow Creek in Hartford, Conn.

Large Projects – First Place Winners

• SLAM Construction Services (Healthcare category) – Lighthouse Surgery Center in Hartford, Conn.

• (Infrastructure Heavy category) – Rehabilitation of Bridge Nos. 02366, 02367 and 02369 in East Hartford and Bridge No. 00847 in Willington Design-Build Project (I-84/Route 2 Bridge Bundle) in East Hartford and Willington, Conn.

• KBE Building (Residential category) – Maplewood Senior Living in Southport, Conn.

• C.E. Floyd Company, Inc. (Preengineered Building category) – Big Y Warehouse Distribution Center in Springfield, Mass.

Large Projects – Merit Awards

• Wohlsen Construction Company

• Nosal Builders (Institutional category) – The Boathouse at Canal Dock Phase 2 in New Haven, Conn.

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(Residential category) – Sunrise of Fairfield in Fairfield, Conn.

• Viking Construction, Inc. (Residential

• Cianbro Corporation (Industrial category) – ECU Module Project in Brewer, Maine

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Night view of the Boathouse at Canal Dock from Long Wharf Drive / Photo courtesy of Nosal Builders, Inc.

Sterling Hall of Medicine Library in New Haven, CT / Photo courtesy of Petra Construction

• Petra Construction Corporation (Institutional category) – Church of St. Michael the Archangel Restoration and Renovation in Pawcatuck, Conn.

• Petra Construction (Renovation category) – Sterling Hall of Medicine Library Renovation in New Haven, Conn.

Small Projects – First Place Winners

• Interstate Electrical Services Corp.

(Electrical – Commercial category) – University of New Haven Bergami Science Building in West Haven, Conn.

Small Projects – Merit Awards

• Mohawk Northeast, Inc.(Infrastructure – Heavy category) – Rehabilitation of I-395 Bridge over Route 85 in Waterford, Conn.

• Directional Technologies, Inc. (Other – Specialty category) – River Crossing in Willimantic, Conn.

• Mohawk Northeast, Inc. (Historical Infrastructure category) – Rehabilitation of Bridge 00696, Lake Ave. over Rte 15 (Merritt Parkway) in Greenwich, Conn.

• Notch Mechanical Contractors (Mechanical- Industrial category) – Callaway Rubber Mixing Project in Chicopee, Mass.

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Coreslab Structures Wins CT ABC Award Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc (CT ABC) presented the Award of Merit Infrastructure in Heavy class to Contractor Mohawk Northeast for the rehabilitation of the CT DOT I-395 Bridge over Route 85 in Waterford, Conn. Coreslab Structures (CONN) Inc. received an award for supporting manufacturer for the bridge deck replacement job.

Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc (CT ABC) presented the Award of Merit Infrastructure in Heavy class to Contractor Mohawk Northeast for the rehabilitation of the CT DOT I-395 Bridge over Route 85 in Waterford, Conn.

The existing CIP and steel structure needed full depth deck replacement and rehabilitation of Bridge 00255 in Waterford. Connecticut DOT replaced existing deck with precast concrete deck slabs manufactured by Coreslab Structures (CONN) Inc.

The project involved superstructure steel repairs, replacement of the existing two-span deck carrying I-395 over Route 85, as well as other associated rehabilitation work. Precast deck panels were installed, and a deck membrane was added to prevent water infiltration to the superstructure, followed by asphalt overlayment and the installation of a precast concrete center median.

The project utilized Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) techniques to minimize the impact to the traveling

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public associated with conventional construction methods. The work required two 10-day traffic diversions of both I-395 and Route 85 during the summer of 2019.

The interstate was diverted around the bridge by directing traffic off Exit 2 and then immediately re-entering traffic to the highway using the Exit 2 on-ramp. The ramps were modified to carry two lanes of traffic each during the diversions. Route 85 was detoured around the worksite during the two 10-

day intense work periods.

Mohawk Northeast was awarded the $6 million contract and worked with Coreslab Structures on the delivery of the precast deck slabs. The team included precaster, Coreslab Structures (CONN) Inc., Thomaston; owner, State of Connecticut, Hartford; structural engineer, AI Engineers, Middletown; and contractor, Mohawk Northeast, Plantsville.

I-395 and Route 85 combined handle more than 50,000 vehicles per day in the area. The state was lucky to have a rare layout of both north- and southbound off- and on-ramps directly across from each other, enabling the temporary detour of I-395 traffic. Occasionally Mohawk had to temporarily stop traffic on Route 85 while the crane hooked up the precast bridge deck panels and swung them onto the bridge.

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Foundry Place Precast Garage Eases Parking Crunch The city of Portsmouth opened the $26.2 million Foundry Place Parking Garage to help alleviate the city’s downtown parking crunch. The 5-story structure has 616 spaces and was constructed as part of a public/private partnership with Deer Street Associates, which is also building four mixed-use projects in the vicinity. Historic downtown Portsmouth had been lacking parking and this project will encourage further development in this sought-after area of the city.

City officials worked for more than a decade finding a location. According to Marc Stonier, PE, director of design with Walker Consultants, one of the challenges was the congested site in an urban environment situated between the neighborhood on the south and an active railway to the north.

The logistics dictated the structure and construction method and made precast concrete the most viable system. Installation went up quickly and eliminated the need to have batching on site. Trucks delivered precast components just in time so that site constraints were eased and schedule improved with the precast structure.

Dailey Precast project manager, Dan Dailey, explained that they made use

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of BIM to coordinate with the general contractor and the team during the project’s erection phase. “As we came off the foundation, we were able to use BIM to show the Consigli team how all the precast pieces fit with what was already in the ground. Our use of BIM greatly improved coordination and we could review every component in 3D and show exactly where it is in the job. Any changes to the project are immediately reflected in the model, with the impact

flowing through the entire project’s timeline.”

The Foundry Place Garage took its name from the site’s historic use as a metal-casting foundry. The original buildings on site represent an important aspect of Portsmouth history and so the project team incorporated metal gears in prominent ways on the exterior.

Dailey Precast cast enormous gears into the concrete stair tower. Dailey’s use of lasers in the production process

helped with the placement of the gear shapes in the precast components.

Additional ornamental gears were added onto the long southeast elevation.

In addition to the gears cast into the precast concrete panels, extruded aluminum plate fabricated gears were secured to the precast spandrels with concealed pin-type connectors.

Aluminum decorative fins with curved center c-channel were flanked by flat panels on either side. The structure was also set off with exterior decorative lighting. The fins were attached to break up the long expanse of the precast facade into more manageable segments and add some dimensionality to the flat panels, describes Stonier.

Incorporating four colors of concrete, the garage is a very stylish addition to the urban landscape. The shear walls at the end of the garage feature a russet color that resembles existing buildings in the Portsmouth area. The new precast parking garage is a welcome addition to the neighborhood, both aesthetically and functionally.

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Restoration and Renovation Construction Begins on Museum Renovation

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Greenwich, CT – Construction has begun on the renovation and expansion of the exhibit galleries and support spaces of the Bruce Museum, a community based, world-class institution highlighting art, science and natural history in Greenwich.

The general contractor for the project is Turner Construction. Stone Harbor is the owner’s rep. The design is being led

by EskewDumezRipple, a New Orleansbased architecture, planning and interior design practice.

The reimagined new Bruce will more than double the size of the museum, from 30,000sf to 70,000sf, adding education and community spaces and significantly

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expanding its space for permanent and temporary installations of art, science, and natural history exhibitions.

The centerpiece is a three-story addition that will be integrated with the current structure while connecting the project to its adjacent park setting.

The design vision for the project ties the building to the landscape and to the unique geology of its New England context. Drawing inspiration from stone quarries found along the Connecticut coast, the design features a delicately striated facade of cast stone and glass that will be animated by the play of light across the building, changing appearance

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with the weather and time of day.

The new entrance will face Bruce Park, connecting the project to the community while drawing the landscape in to create a light court in the center of the museum.

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public phase of a transformative, $60 million capital campaign in support of this multi-phase expansion and renovation project. The first phase will renovate and revitalize the existing structure, which includes a private residence built in 1853 and deeded by Robert Moffat Bruce to the town of Greenwich for use as “a natural history, historical, and art museum for the use and benefit of the public.”

The second phase of the project entailed a 40,000sf addition, more than doubling the existing size of the museum while providing expanded collection continued to page 46

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Isaac Blair Installs Shoring at Historic Watertown Arsenal Submitted by The Marr Companies Watertown, MA – The Watertown Arsenal was first established in 1816 by the U.S. Army in Watertown. It was the first major engineering testing laboratory in America, created for a variety of warrelated activities including storing and manufacturing cutting-edge military technology and weaponry. Arsenal functions shut down in 1968 and the U.S. Army ceased operations there in 1995.

Inside an old mansion at the Watertown Arsenal, Isaac Blair shored two 50-ton columns so that asbestos found beneath and around the footings could be safely removed.

On the Arsenal’s 40-acre site, Isaac Blair worked on an adjacent building to shore a 10-foot-high by 20-foot-wide opening for the installation of a new natural gas generator.

Today, the 40-acre site is home to the Arsenal Mall, a park, restaurants, and many offices. A three-story, 12,700sf brick structure on the property is listed on the U.S.’s National Register of Historic

Places; during the Civil War, the mansion served as the largest Commanding Officer’s Quarters in the U.S. Army, home to Captain Thomas J. Rodman, and is currently undergoing renovation to prepare for new tenants.

Earlier this fall, Isaac Blair was contracted by A-1 Concrete Leveling to support two of the mansion’s structural columns because newly discovered asbestos, found beneath and around the

footings, had to be removed. Isaac Blair worked with engineers of record Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SG&H) to install a specialized shoring system to support the 50-ton columns, using 30-foot long steel beams and shoring towers. By design, the length of the beams allowed the column weight to be supported and distributed over a distance, permitting A-1 Concrete to access a greater amount of surface area to remove the contaminants at one time.

On an adjacent building at the same location, Isaac Blair shored a 10-foothigh by 20-foot-wide opening for the installation of an 8-foot x 8-foot natural gas generator. To accomplish this, Isaac Blair installed a 20-foot-long steel beam along the top of the opening supported by 8-foot timbers on either side. In both locations, the shoring remained in place for approximately one month as work was completed.

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Trends and Hot Topics Making it Happen:

Design Build Achieves the Impossible

by Jen Luoni As with other industries, productivity within architecture and construction necessitates coordination of factors to reach a project’s realization. Poor communication and misunderstandings undermine timelines, along with the varying factors of year end spending, lease expiration and manufacturing demand. Under normal conditions, these elements interplay culminating in a project’s lifecycle, however under duress become exacerbated, particularly when the traditional construction methodology is used.

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Project Case

For those employing design build, acceleration of schedules becomes an innate capability, enhanced by strategic planning and partnership to meet schedule demands. In mid-August, Dacon was approached by an electrical subcontractor needing a complete office renovation in four months, including a certificate of occupancy and final billing, yet there was no set scope, plans or budgeting available.

In recompense for this, in-house drawing

production, costing and readily available construction talent enabled quick strategic deployment. While the scope was being formed, budgeting ran simultaneously.

The construction team aligned with the pre-construction group to devise a strategy for permitting, mobilization and long-lead items. While permits were submitted, pricing was finalized.

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With the client fully immersed in design build’s attributes, they became invested partners in rapid execution. Long lead times were integrated and accounted for, enabling a smooth project cycle. Not only was the project’s execution feasible, but Phase 2 scope was integrated as well into the current work schedule, contributing to overall project transitioning.

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Pandemic-driven uncertainty and economic fluctuation has the potential to hinder any and all facets of scheduling.

Providing an option to meet demand, along with built-in quality control mechanisms, ensures progress of facility design and construction in a contributory effort to move this industry and our economy forward.

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Boston – Capstone Headwaters has released its latest Construction Services Industry update, reporting that COVID-19 induced headwinds through Q2 2020 manifested in project delays and cancellations, supply chain challenges, and workforce capacity restrictions, contributing to substantial declines in construction spending.

However, industry demand has rebounded in recent months, with construction notching three consecutive months of gains, rising 1.4% in August, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

“The worst is behind us and we believe there is a significant opportunity for growth across most end-markets for the next several years,” said managing director Darin Good.

Merger and acquisition activity in yearto-date 2020 has trailed the prior year by 29%, largely due to the significant decline in Q2 transaction volume. However, consolidation has begun to show signs of accelerating, with Q3 recording the highest quarterly deal count of the year with 97 transactions.

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Philanthropy

City Realty Group Donates Laptops

Turner Construction Holds Donation Drive Revere, MA – The Turner Construction Company Boston team has established a unique way to support local, former servicemen and women and their families by holding an annual macaroni and cheese, “Mac Attack,” donation drive.

The 2020 drive was the third successful event, with collection locations across nine project and office sites in addition to a new option this year for virtual giving.

Turner’s employee led resource group, the Military Veterans Network, has worked with staff to collect over 1,500 boxes of macaroni and cheese to donate to the Revere Veteran’s Service Office, an organization that services over 400 families throughout the city of Revere.

Since its inception in 2017, the drive has expanded with help from Turner Boston’s Military Veterans Network, an employee resource group with the mission to ensure a positive working environment for veterans and position them for success in their careers. The employee resource group creates outlets to help foster relationships and trust among Turner veterans, similar to the camaraderie established when serving in the armed forces, with the goal of echoing

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this positivity to Turner peers and the greater community.

“As the office of Veterans’ Services, helping change lives is what we strive for daily,” said Marc Silvestri, director of Veteran Services for the city of Revere.

“In doing so we are not only strengthening our veterans and family members, we are strengthening our community as a whole.

This being our goal, it can’t be done alone… It has been an honor a company the size of Turner Construction still has the respect to honor the smaller veteran organizations such as the city of Revere.”

Since its inception, Turner’s Mac Attack drives have provided thousands of boxes of macaroni and cheese to local veterans and their families.

Pictured outside the Eliot School with students are (l-r) Sal LaMattina, City Realty managing partner; Stephen Whalen, Eliot School principal; Traci Walker Griffith; and City Realty VP of operations, Jimmy Caruso.

Boston – City Kids, a youth education nonprofit founded by City Realty Group managing partners Fred Starikov and Stephen Whalen, donated 10 new Chromebook laptop computers to students at the Eliot K-8 Innovation School, the oldest continuously-operating public school in Boston.

City Kids and City Realty Group were joined by former District 1 city councilor, Sal LaMattina, to personally deliver the Chromebooks to Eliot School principal, Traci Walker Griffith, and students who need them for at-home learning.

This timely donation comes when Boston Public Schools has paused reopening plans after the city’s COVID-19 positive test increased. This means there is

more at-home learning and more urgency to help students-in-need to ensure they have the proper resources to participate in school from home.

To date, the City Kids program has donated more than 2,000 laptops to local schools and educational programs.

City Kids is a nonprofit program whose goal is to spark intellectual curiosity in the children of Boston by providing them with unique experiences and powerful educational resources.

The program provides summer camp scholarships, art programs, free yoga classes, playground clean-ups, backpack giveaways, community meals and even surfing trips to New England beaches.

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Corporate Loureiro Announces Relocation

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Providence, RI – Loureiro Engineering Associates, Inc., a full-service engineering and construction company, announced the relocation of its Rhode Island team to an expanded office in Providence. This move solidifies Loureiro’s geographic footprint and supports the firm’s continued expansion throughout New England.

At 4,000sf, the new space is approximately double the size of the firm’s previous location at 400 South Country Trail in Liberty Hill Office Park in Exeter.

Loureiro will occupy a newly-

renovated suite on the third floor of 10 Admiral Street, a historic mixed-use facility originally constructed in 1850, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and known locally as the Union Paper Company building.

“We’ve had a home in Rhode Island for the past decade,” states President Brian Cutler. “While our previous location in Exeter has served us well for many years, we were presented with an opportunity to immerse ourselves in the capital city that we could not refuse.”

JM Electrical Announces New Division Lynnfield, MA — JM Electrical (JME) has announced the launch of a new division focused solely on maintenance and recurring service. The new division will focus on direct, on-site service related to electrical installation and repair, troubleshooting and proactive prevention, infrared thermal scanning and imaging, special projects, and emergency repair of electrical issues.

“We are thrilled to introduce this new offering which focuses on high-level recurring service and timely customer support,” says Matthew Guarracino, principal at JM Electrical. “The same highly trained, licensed electricians who handle onsite project installations are now available as an on-call partners, ready to meet our clients’ electrical and energy efficiency needs.”

According to a recent study from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 77% of equipment breakdowns can be reduced by implementing a preventative maintenance program.

The same study reported the failure of electrical components is three times higher for systems without preventative maintenance programs in place.

JME’s new service division is designed to provide diverse electrical services that help ensure optimal operating performance for clients, their facilities,

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and tenants throughout New England.

As part of the launch, JM Electrical has formed a new service sales team to oversee client engagement.

“For 35 years, JM Electrical has contributed to numerous high-profile projects that are visible across the changing Boston skyline. This new offering will build on our proud legacy of service and innovation.”

– John Guarracino, principal at JM Electrical “For 35 years, JM Electrical has contributed to numerous high-profile projects that are visible across the changing Boston skyline. This new offering will build on our proud legacy of service and innovation,” added John Guarracino, principal at JM Electrical. “With our responsive, highly skilled team in place, our electrical preventative maintenance program will help building managers and developers avoid disruptions and added expenses, making the buildings we service run more efficiently.”

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Multi-Residential

New Multifamily Facility Underway

Providence Multifamily Project Underway

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Providence, RI – Churchill and Banks teamed up with ZDS Architecture, DiPrete Engineering, and The Torrey Company to design and build a 60,000sf, five-story multi-family building at 580 South Water Street in Providence. The building will include 69 residential units, 69 parking spaces, and luxury living conditions.

DiPrete Engineering is providing site design, survey, and permitting through the City of Providence, RIDEM, CRMC and Narragansett Bay Commission. The site was a previous industrial site which contained part of I-195 that was relocated in the 2000’s.

The site had challenging underground conditions that led to difficult design considerations for building and stormwater management. The design team coordinated with the City of Providence Downtown Design Review Committee to create a project that fit into the city’s vision of the I-195 redevelopment area.

The building will have easy highway access and will be located near restaurants, the city’s Riverwalk, and downtown entertainment. Construction of the residential building is set to be complete by spring 2021.

Northampton, MA – MassDevelopment has announced the sale of a 23.37-acre parcel at Lot 1, Olander Drive in Village Hill Northampton to North Commons at Village Hill, LLC, an affiliate of The Community Builders (TCB), which will build a 53-unit mixed-income multifamily housing facility on the parcel. Construction of the new facility, named North Commons, is expected to be complete in 2022.

North Commons will include 12 units that will be rented to households earning no more than 30% of area median income, 27 units that will be rented to households earning no more than 60% of area median

income, and 14 units that will be rented to workforce households.

The building will be constructed with energy efficiency standards, all of which will reduce the building’s external energy demand. In partnership with the Village Hill Northampton community, TCB plans to build a neighborhood recreation area at North Commons that will feature a playground, pavilion, picnic tables, and an open-grass lawn.

TCB has also conveyed over 18 acres of the property, known as Mill River Greenway, to the city of Northampton as conservation land.

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NEI Completes Village at Nauset Green MassDev Provides Loan for Redevelopment

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Boston – NEI General Contracting, an award-winning general contractor and construction management firm, announced the completion of Village at Nauset Green for Pennrose, LLC in Eastham, Mass.

The $16.4 million, 65-unit development provides much needed affordable and workforce housing by offering 39 affordable units for people earning 60% of the area median income (AMI), 11 affordable units for people earning 30% of the AMI, and 15 workforce units. Four units are ADA accessible.

Designed by The Architectural Team (TAT), the design aims to evoke the local Cape Cod style and create a small village feel for residents and the community at large. Centered around two common green spaces that offer recreation opportunities for people of all ages, the development features 27 one-bedroom, 31 two-bedroom, and seven three-bedroom apartments across 18 two and three-story wood-framed buildings.

Located within walking distance of shops, restaurants, and the Cape Cod

Rail Trail, Village at Nauset Green amenities include a community building, community garden, playground, and picnic area for residents.

“For nearly 50 years, Pennrose has been working to improve the lives of working families by creating safe and secure housing communities. When we were chosen for our first venture in Massachusetts, we selected NEI due to their long history of building high quality affordable housing,” said Charlie Adams, regional vice president at Pennrose. “They worked closely with our team during pre-construction, design, and construction and we appreciate all their hard work in helping us stay within our budget and schedule.”

The project team includes owner/developer, Pennrose LLC; general contractor, NEI General Contracting; architect, The Architectural Team (TAT); structural engineer, L.A. Fuess Partners; mechanical and plumbing engineer, Peterson Engineering; electrical engineering, Engineering Building Systems; and civil engineer, Horsley Witten Group.

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Haverhill, MA – MassDevelopment has provided a $2 million loan to 27 Washington Street, LLC for the redevelopment of the former Magnavox Building at 21-27 Washington Street in Haverhill. The organization will use loan proceeds to renovate the building, which was previously vacant, into two groundfloor commercial units and nine marketrate rental housing units to be located on the three upper floors.

“This project will preserve the former Magnavox Building’s status as a treasured landmark while creating new housing and retail space on downtown Haverhill’s main thoroughfare,” said MassDevelopment president and CEO, Lauren Liss.

The first floor of the historic former Magnavox Building was occupied by

“This project will preserve the former Magnavox Building’s status as a treasured landmark while creating new housing and retail space on downtown Haverhill’s main thoroughfare,” – Lauren Liss, MassDevelopment president and CEO Haverhill TV and Appliance from the early 1900s until September 2019. The building’s three upper floors served as office space and warehouse storage, but have been vacant for years. Construction began in September.

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As Dimeo Construction Company heads into 2021, we will continue to Act Green!

For over 20 years, Acting Green has exhibited itself in our teams making a concerted effort to learn and employ approaches and systems that result in energy efficient buildings and reduce or eliminate negative impacts on our climate. Recently, the new Citizen’s Bank Corporate Campus received a Gold LEED Certification and in 2020 the Lowell Justice Center was awarded with a Platinum LEED Certification, our fourth such platinum recognition.

As we head into 2021, we are excited to be building the first Dimeo PHIUS + Certified Housing Project - Old Colony Phase 3 in Boston, MA. and even more excited to have several more PHIUS projects on the immediate horizon.

At Dimeo we will continue to Act Green through seeking innovative ways to build environmentally conscious construction while delivering excellence on every project we build.

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Green The Earthos Lens – Part Ten

Bioregional Urbanist Design Principles

by Philip 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 final installment describing Bioregional Design principles.

Let’s revisit briefly basic principles of creating as a “bioregional urbanism team”: As creators on a bioregional team we work to identify projects that benefit the Bioregional Systems, then look at how our own disciplines and skills can contribute.

If we only see projects through our disciplinary lens, we can easily succumb to the old adage, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

Humans have been consuming Earth’s resources faster than the annual cycles can be renewed since about 1975 (presently about 1.6 times faster). Over the 20th

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century, we have also experienced two major eras of human greed, bracketing the altruism and economic balance of the “great generation”: A. the so called “golden era” of greed following the civil war brought on the great depression; B. the mobilization of the great generation’s unity and balanced economic success through the war years and well into the 1960s; and C. the second great era of greed that has evolved since. This “I-WE-I” history is chronicled in The Upswing, by Robert D. Putnam which provides much data documenting “How America came together a century ago and how we can do it again…”

As we work to address our global problems, dramatized by the pandemic, climate change, social justice and so on, we are actually working to create a new era of “WE” – very much like a war footing but based upon cooperation, empathy, and just action systems.

Bioregional Urbanism, a component of Hawkins’ “blessed unrest” is Earthos’ contribution to our shared imperatives and goals.

We can work together like an ecosystem. When creating as part of a bioregional team, we need multiple disciplinary perspectives in order to effectively implement projects to address the holistic needs of the local community and bioregion. We actively understand how each discipline can and needs to contribute leadership to the project, not just as input.

A landscape architect provides leadership in helping the team to conceptualize landscapes that help stakeholders explore bioregional knowledge and economies.

While outdoor and environmental educators provide leadership in helping the team conceptualize education about

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bioregional resources, economic development, and processes; entrepreneurs and economic innovators provide leadership in conceptualizing ways to develop industry and economy based on bioregional resources.

It is important to note that no one actor or discipline drives a bioregional project.

Rather, each contributor has a role in informing and co-creating the larger project, integrating with other disciplines, and helping others to understand and integrate what they know, while also understanding the limits of their own knowledge and respecting the knowledge arenas of other team members and bioregional collaborators.

Bioregional Urbanist projects are

systems based, which means that they are often multi-pronged in approach. As we design and implement, we need to immerse ourselves in the systems that we are a part of to improve their functioning, and to address overconsumption and degraded socio-ecological systems while improving biodiversity. We are simultaneously connecting to living systems as members, and scientifically assessing our impact on the whole bioregional system.

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Northern New England City of Portland Unveils Pop-up Park tial phase in the city of Portland’s broader plan for the eastern waterfront, which involves developing an underused threeacre parcel into a dynamic public space.

The proposed park, Portland Landing, was envisioned by the city in Stantec’s 2017 concept plan as a comprehensive,

The Park at Amethyst

Portland, ME – Stantec recently joined the city of Portland to celebrate the opening of the Park at Amethyst, a 1.5acre public park along the downtown waterfront. Inspired by the 2017 concept plan prepared by Stantec, the pop-up park and outdoor waterfront retreat is a welcome addition to downtown. The new park, the 67th park in the city and the first to be added to the city-wide network in many years, maximizes the use of salvaged materials. In doing so, the city and Stantec greatly reduced the cost of construction while creating a new downtown destination.

The park features include a granite ramble formed by reclaimed material for informal seating, custom swinging benches, walking paths, an open plaza with food concession area, a waterfront promenade, and lush landscaped berms

that have replaced an expansive area of asphaltic impervious pavement. The popup park is designed to reduce storm water run-off and to withstand coastal flooding.

“Our waterfronts hold immense potential for community enrichment and are the front-line defense for improved coastal resilience, especially in Portland where there is such a rich history and connection to the coast,” said Gary Sorge, discipline leader for landscape architecture at Stantec.

As part of its role on the project, Stantec provided conceptual design, design documentation, and permitting and construction phase support. Park construction was completed by Seabreeze Property Services, with full-time oversight of the construction provided by the City of Portland.

The Park at Amethyst serves as an ini-

long-term strategy to reimagining this portion of the waterfront to its maximum benefit. In the meantime, the Park at Amethyst serves as an initial step to repurposing the eastern waterfront into a space for both residents and visitors to enjoy.

Construction Underway at Mittersill Franconia, NH – Bonnette, Page & Stone Corp. of Laconia began construction in September of a new Mittersill Performance Center in Franconia. The building was designed by Port One Architects from Portsmouth, and site work is being performed by Presby Construction of Franconia.

The newly constructed performance center will be a lodge located at the base of the The Mittersill Ski Slopes at Cannon Mountain. It will be open to resort visitors and be a facility for the alpine ski and training teams to utilize during races and/ or training efforts.

Plans call for 9,200sf of indoor space and it is expected to be completed before the conclusion of the 2020-2021 ski season.

The project is a partnership of the Franconia Ski Club, the state of New Hampshire, the Holderness School and the

Construction is underway on the new Mittersill Performance Center in Franconia, N.H.

U.S. Ski Team. Funding is being provided by private donors.

The new center will include indoor restrooms, dining facilities and warming spaces, allowing the resort to draw in, and better accommodate, more visitors and more prestigious alpine races to the area and resort.

Mixed-Use Connolly Brothers Retained for Middleton Development Middleton, MA – Connolly Brothers, Inc., a construction management firm serving private commercial, industrial, and institutional clients, announced it has been retained by Richardson Green to design and build a new 56,000sf multitenant building at 25 Rundlett St. in Middleton.

Dubbed Stone Ridge, the single-story building is designed to meet the needs of flex industrial tenants with office, manufacturing, and warehouse space and features high bays.

The biggest challenge facing Connolly upon starting the project was clearing the site. Connolly started site work, including blasting, in January before pouring the foundations in July. The company is currently erecting steel, and the building is expected to be complete in April of 2021.

The project team for Stone Ridge includes Richardson Green, owner/ developer; Connolly Brothers, architect and construction manager; BLW Engineering, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineer; Morin

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Cameron Group Inc., civil engineer; JSN, structural engineer; and Manter, site work.

Richardson Green is a family-run business specializing in all types of real estate with commercial office buildings

located across the North Shore.

“We have worked with Connolly Brothers before and they were our first choice for this project,” said Peter and Chris Richardson, co-owners of Richardson Green. “Connolly does a

great job with design-build projects and are very detail-oriented when it comes to producing drawings and budgets. They are very transparent about all bids and we have complete confidence in them as our construction manager.”

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Build Better Podcast A Long-term Approach to Addiction Recovery

by Emily Langner On season 2, episode 5 of the Build Better podcast, Anastasia welcomed Lisa Ulbrich, vice president for Commodore Builders, a construction management firm based in Boston.

In addition to her career in construction, Ulbrich is passionate about addressing alcohol and substance use disorder. She is a certified interventionist and executive recovery coach, and has personal experience with overcoming addiction.

She joined Anastasia to talk about Commodore’s partnership with the Herren Project, and shares how they are helping provide those struggling with substance use disorder a long-term path to recovery.

Ten years ago, Ulbrich began her own journey into recovery, after battling alcohol addiction. According to Ulbrich, being in recovery “not only brought me back to who I was, it’s given me much more.” This journey inspired her to look into the science behind addiction, and she developed a passion for learning more about substance use disorder.

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industry has seen organizations and companies acknowledging and responding to the opioid epidemic, including efforts to educate people and provide Narcan on job sites, Ulbrich feels there is a lot more that can be done to develop long-term treatments for recovering addicts and their families.

She says, “It’s terrific to save lives and we have to do that, but I wanted to take it a step further and to address it with the care and compassion that it really deserves and bring it out of the closet and say, how can we really support this individual so they can be a better participating member of society, a better employee, and a better family member…so that started

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As a result, she worked with the Herren Project to develop a program at Commodore Builders to address the issue with care and compassion, and to provide a “no judgement” approach to help those in recovery be successful in the long term.

She says, “One size doesn’t fit all,” so it’s important to provide a plan that fits a particular person and family.

The program aims to educate employees and their families, and to make sure they are supported in the after care environment. Commodore is now offering the services to every construction worker on their jobsites.

Ulbrich’s hope is to soon see people going through the addiction recovery process treated the same way as someone with diabetes, or a broken leg, for example.

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for a comprehensive plan for treatment, she believes more of those in recovery will have success. She also emphasizes the importance of prevention by talking to kids as young as grade school about healthy ways to handle stress and develop healthy decision making skills.

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Federal Court Decision Reminds Construction Project Participants to Secure Additional Insurance Coverage at Project’s Start

by Kenneth A. Sherman The scenario is this: A construction worker experiences an injury on an on-going construction project of yours.

As the owner, you assume you are protected because prior to starting the construction project, you required your general contractor to obtain general liability, professional liability, or builders’ risk insurance for their work on the construction project and to add you as an

additional insured under their insurance policies. Your general contractor provided you with a Certificate of Insurance listing you as additional insured, which you filed away for just such a circumstance.

Unfortunately, when you presented the Certificate of Insurance to your general contractor’s broker, they responded that, despite you being named on the Certificate of Insurance, in fact, no insurance coverage would be afforded to you because the insurance policy itself did not extend insurance coverage to additional insureds. Now you are stuck; you do not have the insurance coverage you negotiated at the start of the project.

This scenario, unfortunately, is all too real, as a recent Federal Court decision from Boston reminds us – insurance coverage is afforded only by language

GCI Rises to Challenge of Remote Learning

by Charlie Chippeo Amid a pandemic, it’s not easy to provide the training young people need to access lucrative construction careers, but the Gould Construction Institute, the training affiliate of Associated Builders and Contractors’ Massachusetts Chapter, is rising to the occasion in unprecedented times.

When you look at responses from a recent survey of Gould students, it’s easy to see why a growing number of young men and women are looking to construction.

One wrote, “Knowledge is power, and with the right focus and hard work, there will always be jobs for the trades.”

“I wanted more than working 60 hours a week for low wages at the pizza shop I was at,” another added. Construction offers a pathway to a real career – without the massive college debt that is crippling so many graduates.

Last spring, Gould began a remarkably smooth transition from classroom to online learning. “Remote learning saves people a 20-mile trip from work to the classroom on a cold December night after a long day of work,” said Tim Hathaway, president of Larkin Hathaway Inc., a Bridgewater sheet metal contractor, and also a member of Gould’s board of directors. “A lot of our employees have young families, and remote learning allows them to avoid the commute and spend more time at home.”

Rick Enwright, New England/midAtlantic field manager for New England Air Tech, agrees, “I have one employee who struggled to make it home from work, shower, eat, and then make it to class on time. He loves the remote classroom.”

Most of Gould’s students are young,

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of that insurance policy itself and not by contract, agreement, custom, practice, or factual circumstances.

In Factory Mut. Ins. Co. v. Skanska United States Bldg., No. 18-cv-11700DLC, 2020. U.S. Dist. LEXIS 95403, the Federal Court in Massachusetts held that a construction project’s general contractor and sub-contractor were not additional insureds under the construction project’s owner’s Builders Risk insurance policy (Policy). They contended they were, based on Massachusetts’ anti-subrogation doctrine, which prevents insurers from subrogating against their own insureds for the very type of risk the insurer provided. In dismissing the contractors’ motion for summary judgment, the court determined they did not qualify as additional insureds because: (1) additional insureds under the Policy are those whose liability would be purely vicarious “to the extent of the insured’s legal liability for insured physical loss or damage,” which the District Court determined was not applicable to the undisputed facts, and (2) the language of the policy itself seemed to indicate that it applied to only one insured, which, in the District Court’s opinion, was the construction project’s owner.

The facts, circumstances, and result of Factory Mutual are unique to this matter, but its lesson is universal to any party to a construction project. As we see from Factory Mutual, failing to confirm insurance coverage in advance of an otherwise insurable event might leave a party exposed to having its additional insured coverage determined by a non-party to the underlying construction project, such as an insurance coverage analyst or a judge, should the question of insurance coverage end up in litigation. Construction business owners and executives would be well served to avoid the hypothetical scenario discussed above by insisting on, at the very least, a copy of the applicable insurance policy and, at best, an opinion from an insurance professional as to whether additional insured coverage has actually been obtained on the construction business owner’s behalf.

Kenneth A. Sherman is a construction attorney in Robinson+Cole’s Construction Law Group, assisting project owners, real estate developers, general contractors, construction managers, design professionals, sub-contractors, and suppliers with construction disputes, contract procurement, and project delivery.

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storage, permanent and changing art gallery space, and a new public entrance lobby, cafe, and lecture hall for museum and community use.

Remote learning has also brought benefits for employers. Enwright said another of his employees “may be going to Virginia to help us on a project. He was looking forward to classes and wouldn’t have been willing to travel if it meant missing them.”

Hathaway also observed that “since employees don’t have to commute and get home from class late at night, they’re less burnt out and more able to absorb what they’re being taught.”

Remote learning has also been an adjustment for instructors. Both McCauley and Rick Broderick, a 31-year Gould electrical instructor, say that doing it well requires more preparation.

Gould is providing instructors with the training they need. Broderick said, “Gould’s been doing a very good job of supporting its teachers.” McCauley concurred, adding, “I like the transition.

Considering how quickly they’ve had to put it together, they’ve done a great job.”

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Suffolk Personnel Announcements Boston – Suffolk, a national real estate enterprise, announced it has hired Ralph Esposito as president of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region; Mark Fulco as vice president of business development for Northeast healthcare; and Houssam “Sam” Sleiman as executive vice president, national transportation. Jeff Gouveia has also been promoted to general manager.

Esposito will be responsible for leading Suffolk operations, driving regional business planning and development and recruiting talent in New England and New York as well as expanding the company’s presence in new markets.

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Northeast general manager, Jeff Gouveia, a 25-year veteran of Suffolk, was promoted to executive vice president.

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Natick, MA – Surety Bond “We are very excited to have Bette as the newest member of Professionals (SBP), a Northeast our business family,” says Mark surety agency, announced that Leskanic, president.

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Holliston, MA – Colantonio Inc. announced that Director of BIM and MEP Services Robert Healey and Assistant Project Manager Jonathan Bracci have achieved certification as Passive House Builders by the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS).

Certified Passive House Builders are prepared to address challenges unique to passive building and specific to a region’s particular climate variations, market conditions, and building components.

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Bukesova Joins Ci Design Boston – Ci Design welcomed facilities. She has participated in the design process at all stages, Daria Bukesova, NCARB, LEED from master planning to conAP BD+C as the latest addition struction administration. to the architecture firm’s growing Before joining Ci, Bukesova science and technology practice served as a project architect and group. She joins as project archian architectural designer at R.E. tect and will be contributing her Dinneen Architects and Planners laboratory design experience to in Boston. She previously worked numerous projects.

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Jason Aube Joins TFMoran Portsmouth, NH – TFMoran in the Pittsfield school district, announced that Jason “Jay” Aube where he developed and implehas joined its team in Portsmouth mented a new science curriculum as an environmental permitting for the 7th and 8th grades in specialist. He has 20 years of exaccordance with state guidelines. perience that includes 12 years in Aube serves as a member of the public sector as an employee the City of Dover Conservation of the New Hampshire DepartCommission, is the vice chair of ment of Environmental Services, the Cocheco River local advisory Aube where he was responsible for committee, and is a member of the Shoreland Program outreach, wetlands New Hampshire Association of Natural and shoreland permitting, and compliance.

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Calendar AIA CT December 16 at 4:00 PM Emerging Professionals Community Are you recently licensed? Are you pursuing licensure? Are you an architecture student? AIA hosts these monthly meetings to discuss issues related to the community, coordinate volunteer opportunities, and to plan networking events.

December 18 at 8:00 AM Women in Architecture Committee Meeting The Women in Architecture Committee provides an environment for women architects and allied professionals to enhance their professional development, networking, and leadership skills.

The committee will maintain a focus of supporting professional growth, championing advancement to leadership positions, offering career guidance, strengthening community outreach, and providing support.

IIDA NE December 16 at 12:00 PM What’s Next? Career Tools for 2020 and Beyond This interactive event will gain you access to four experts with insight into how to find that next opportunity. Join fellow membersnto learn ways to make your resumes and portfolio stand out, how to make your LinkedIn profile work for you, and how to interview and network.

AGC MA December 15 at 3:00 PM Diversity Dialogues Join AGC MA’s Committee for Diversity and Inclusion (CFDI) for another open discussion. Discussion topic to be announced soon.

December 16 at 9:00 AM Constructing in a Post COVID-19 World Participants in the virtual program will learn the inherent cultural traits of high performing firms, the strategies firms need to embrace and implement in order to adapt to the new reality, and more.

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CORENET GLOBAL NE CHAPTER December 15 at 12:00 PM CRAVE: The Future of ‘Food at Work’ Food has been a source of camaraderie and connection for many years and, prior to the pandemic, food at work was accelerating at a lively pace. Many organizations have adopted a robust food service program with coffee bars, curated artisan food halls, and dynamic delivery models.

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SMPS Boston December 15 at 12:30 PM Peer 2 Peer Coaching Network Join SMPS for the December gathering of SMPS Boston’s Peer 2 Peer Coaching Network as they discuss the challenges of navigating our professional lives through the challenges posed by COVID-19.

ULI December 16 at 4:00 PM ULI’s Building Healthy Places Book Club: Right of Way The book club is designed to spark thought and conversation around health, social equity, and real estate. The next title is “Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America.”

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