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BVH Celebrates SCSU Ribbon Cutting
New Haven, CT – BVH Integrated Services and Salas O’ Brien announced that the official ribbon cutting for Southern Connecticut State University’s (SCSU) new Health and Human Services building took place on Sept. 16 to a large audience of students, faculty, alumni, community organizers, dignitaries, and members of the design and construction team. Student ambassadors, who started classes in August, led tours of the 94,750sf building following the ceremony.
“Connecticut, as does most of the country, has critical shortages in many areas in the healthcare industry, and this new building will allow us to both increase enrollment and further diversify the state’s healthcare professional workforce,” said SCSU president, Joe
Bertolino, in his opening remarks.
The building brings programs formerly dispersed through eight buildings under one roof to improve collaborative learning opportunities while expanding enrollment capacity for nursing students. Designed by Svigals+Partners in collaboration with Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, the building is designed for training the next generation of nursing students and preparing graduates to fulfill much needed positions statewide.
Last month, Governor Ned Lamont used the new building as the backdrop to announce his administration’s “Connecticut Health Horizons” program, designed to help additional nurses get to work. It’s a $35 million investment in higher education to accelerate nursing education and training and provide financial aid to students.
The SCSU Health and Human Services building marks one of many nurse-training facilities completed by the BVH and Salas O’Brien team and includes systems to support state-of-the-art spaces
Photo courtesy of SCSU, Isabel Chenoweth
At the ribbon cutting (l-r): Joe Bertolino; Melody Lehrman, communication disorders clinic advocate; Terrence Cheng, CSCU president; Dan Ybanez, nursing student; Sandra Bulmer; Michelle Gilman, commissioner, State Department of Administrative Services; and Will Ginsberg, president and CEO, Community Foundation of Greater New Haven
Photo courtesy of SCSU, Isabel Chenoweth that mimic real hospital environments, as well as those for health and movement sciences, and nutrition and public health learning spaces.
The team made a focused effort during design to manage the process, working with the College of Health and Human Services Dean Sandy Bulmer’s selected focus group representing approximately
SCSU Health and Human Services building ten programs to make sure everything they needed fit in a way that the state could afford. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent supply-chain delays that put the project almost a year behind schedule, the project finished below budget.
Cristo Rey Boston Celebrates Opening of School Gymnasium
Cristo Rey Boston ribbon cutting Dorchester, MA – Cristo Rey Boston High School, a Catholic high school in Dorchester that exclusively serves students from under-resourced communities in Boston, celebrated the opening of its newly restored gymnasium on Sept. 19, with project partners in attendance.
The partner companies who donated their professional services and materials to help make the project a success include Gilbane Building Company, Sullivan & McLaughlin Companies, New England Regional Council Carpenters, Select Demo Services LLC, K-Town Disposal, New England Finish Systems, Specialty Services of New England, and ATS Equipment Rentals. Gilbane Building Company donated its professional services to the school for the building of the gym to further support health and wellness at Cristo Rey Boston. Gilbane and Cristo Rey Boston’s longstanding relationship dates back to 2010. The company is a committed partner of Cristo Rey Boston’s Corporate Work Study Program and hosts a student worker each year.
Cristo Rey Boston offers college preparatory academics and a workstudy program, and provides full-tuition scholarships to all enrolled students. It is dedicated to closing the opportunity gap for college bound students, and identifying and removing the barriers that exist in the way of student academic and professional success.
Members of the Cristo Rey Boston sports teams celebrate the dedication of the gym.
Demolition Completed for new BFCIT Campus in Roxbury
Boston – Dellbrook One Way, a joint venture between Dellbrook|JKS and One Way Development, has completed the demolition of a long-vacant warehouse in Roxbury’s Nubian Square, to prepare for construction of the Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology’s (BFCIT) new campus.
Shortly after celebrating an April groundbreaking ceremony, Dellbrook One Way began demolishing the structure which previously resided on the 1.26-acre property at 1011 Harrison Avenue. In its place, a 3-story building designed by Studio G Architects will be constructed to house BFCIT’s technical and trade programs.
The Dellbrook One Way project team Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology / Rendering courtesy of SGA Architecture
“The removal of this warehouse was a large step in transforming the site into a place that will best serve not only future BFCIT students but also the Roxbury neighborhood. This will reinvigorate an unused property that has been a blight to the community for several years, which is something our team is proud to take part in,” said Sheryce Hearns, director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Dellbrook|JKS.
BFCIT’s new 68,000sf academic facility includes 23 state-of-the-art labs and other learning environments fit for electrical engineering, computer technology, machining, advanced manufacturing, construction management, practical electricity, and HVAC programs. Enrolled students will have access to an engineering technology robotics lab, optical shop, live automotive garage, outdoor learning lab, and more.
“The Dellbrook One Way team has a lot of energy for beginning the next phase of construction,” said Sumul Shah, project executive at One Way Development. “After months of working through preconstruction and behind-thescenes details, finishing demolition is a milestone worth celebrating; it marks the beginning of our ability to see these plans finally come to life.”
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