December 2021
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Corporate
SLAM CS Celebrates 25 Years
Evoqua Water Tech HQ Complete
Evoqua Water Technologies’ new Tewksbury headquarters
Tewksbury, MA – Dacon Corporation has completed construction on the headquarters for Evoqua Water Technologies. A specialist in identifying water concerns, Evoqua’s technological solutions aim at giving power and purpose to nature’s most important resource by keeping water safe, reliable and available. This project served to reconfigure existing office and lab space to facilitate productivity, increase research and welcome employees back to office life. This necessitated a complete interior renovation of ceilings, MEP systems and finishes. The firm’s purpose – Transforming Water, Enriching Life – is carried throughout via the branding elements of color and new advertising murals positioned in high traffic and collaborative areas. With flow being centralized to the layout, the hoteling concept is designed to enable 100 employees to have greater flexibility, socialization and creativity within their lives. Additionally, technologists and researchers were relocated into new lab spaces.
States Kevin Quinn, Dacon’s CEO, “Evoqua’s new design reflects a focus on water as a critical element to the quality of life. We cannot take this for granted. Evoqua’s mission is a compelling one.”
University of Hartford Art School addition and renovation project / Photo by Woodruff Brown
Glastonbury, CT – The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its construction division, launched in September 1996. Early on, SLAM had a vision to approach construction from a master builder’s perspective: taking the responsibility of an owner’s project from design through construction, guaranteeing quality projects and better control of the cost. Representatives of the firm say this unique bundling of design and construction services resulted in more than two decades of successful project delivery for multiple clients representing a variety of market sectors. In the early ’90s, SLAM was successful with designing to budget several public school projects and as design builder on several other projects for private organizations. As a result, SLAM became highly competitive amongst design firms and developed many trusted partnerships. This in turn led to an in-house estimating group and eventually the construction management
division. The architect led master builder concept of SLAM Construction Services was born. Unique to the original vision is SLAM’s pre-construction cost control integration. SLAM representatives say professional estimators continue to be part of the team early on in design, producing cleaner and tighter budgets than CMs can produce, and that reputable firms with multiple estimators might have relationships and connections, but SLAM’s design estimators have the details and can help reduce the numbers in an owner’s favor to a valued and conservative result. SLAM’s Construction Services division is focused on the next 25 years, building on its past successes. The firm’s representatives say the creation of the Construction Services division differentiates SLAM from other architecture firms: The owner gets what they want with responsible cost control managed throughout, and SLAM designs to a budget and delivers value by taking responsibility for the financial success of the project.
DiPrete Engineering Joins Forces with Andrews Survey & Engineering Cranston, RI – DiPrete Engineering, a civil engineering, land planning, and land surveying firm, announced it has joined forces with Andrews Survey & Engineering, Inc., creating one of the largest land surveying operations in southern New England. Andrews, a third-generation firm, was founded in 1978 as a surveying and planning resource for Blackstone Valley and has since expanded its database to
include the Greater Boston, Worcester, and Providence regions. Over the last decade, Andrews has completed a wide variety of projects ranging from 500acre surveys, construction layout of large building and site projects, and extensive residential surveys in the New England area. The team’s portfolio consists mainly of commercial, institutional, and residential projects. “Andrews has a long tradition
of providing quality service to our customers in eastern Massachusetts and the rest of southern New England,” said Byron Andrews, vice president of the firm. “We’re excited to join with DiPrete Engineering because together we can provide even better and broader services to our existing clients and to new clients in the future. My father taught me that our relationship with the customer is most important, and I’m excited about what
we will be able to achieve for our clients together.” “Having Byron’s family business join our family business will allow the legacy of their work to continue as well as add their resources to more of New England,” said Dennis DiPrete, president of DiPrete Engineering. “We are excited about the experience and expertise Andrews will bring to our team and look forward to what the future holds as a unified force.”
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