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Inside this issue S/L/A/M, Tocci, and Marlborough Hospital Utilize IPD for New Cancer PavilionPartners Healthcare’s Spaulding Rehab Project: Designing with LEEDElliot at River’s Edge Grand OpeningHartford Hospital Completes ERC RenosSt. Vincent’s Medical Center ExpansionNorth Branch CM for Northeast Rehabilitation HospitalASHE Training Programs for Health Care ConstructionURI Breaks Ground on $42M Hillside Residence HallHealthcare Design Goes High Tech and ‘Lean’DAI and Winchester Hospital Breaks GroundO’Connor Nears DEP Lab CompletionFortunato Construction Group Healthcare FacilitesEnvironmentally Friendly Outlet Takes ShapeMPA Completes Design for Best DoctorsColumbia Begins Family Care ProjectSuffolk Celebrates MassArt Topping OffLGH Breaks GroundSt. Francis Hosp Unveils New TowerD-H Heater Road Medical Building

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Needham, mA - michael corbett was presented the “william Schwab Award” by the construc-tion finance management Asso-ciation (cfmA) of massachusetts at the may breakfast meeting at the Sheraton Needham.

corbett has been a cfmA member since 2003. he upgraded the stature of the massachusetts chapter while on the board and as president.

he played an instrumental role in shaping the chapter’s scholarship policy that has helped construction professionals pursue their careers.

he enhanced the level of educational material provided to the membership, had record attendance for the programs run

during his term as president, increased the chapter’s mem-bership to 189, and developed a succession plan.

At the same meeting the cfmA awarded six recipients of its annual scholarships program.

The six students will share in the $10,000 of scholar-ship money awarded to students pursuing degrees in the fields of accounting, engineering, or con-

struction management . Three of the recipi-ents were present for the presentation by Joe gates, chapter vice president, who chairs the scholarship committee.

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washington, Dc - Boston chapter NEcA had a strong presence at the NEcA 2011 legislative conference & politi-cal leadership council Summit held may 10 – 12 in washington. The chapter was represented by larry hurwitz of Broad-way Electrical; Joe Bodio of lAN-TEl communications; Sue mailman of cogh-lin Electrical contractors; Ron Koning of

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The greater Boston contingent met with massachusetts legislators to discuss key issues critical to the future of the con-struction industry.

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l to r: Former State Legislator and NECA Boston Chapter lobbyist Jim Smith, of Smith, Ruddock & Hayes; Ron Koning of State Electric Corp.; Sue Mailman of Coghlin Elec-trical Contractors; Mass. Congressman Ed Markey; NECA Boston Chapter President Larry Hurwitz of Broadway Electrical Co.; Joe Bodio of LAN-TEL Communications;

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Boston - In recognition of the vital role that public parks play in maintaining the health and economic wellbeing of cit-ies, massachusetts Energy and Environ-mental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Richard K. Sullivan Jr. marked the start of construction season by highlighting six urban park proj-ects currently under way or set to start, as part of 17 ongoing gateway cities parks projects across the state.

funded in part through EEA’s gate-way cities parks program, these projects in chicopee, fitchburg, lawrence, malden, Melrose, Pittsfield, and Taunton are the first to begin construction since the signature patrick-murray Administration program began three years ago. They represent a $7 million investment by the state, matched by $3.8 million in municipal funding for

park improvements including landscaping, parking lot expansions, and new trail and playground construction.

“These six projects provide jobs and enhanced quality of life by providing park and recreational opportunities to urban res-idents living and visiting in the common-wealth’s gateway cities,” said Secretary Sullivan.

The gateway city parks program was created in 2008 and has since invested $9.5 million on construction, as well as site assessment, surveying, engineering, and other services necessary to produce the de-sign and construction documents for future park creation or renovation. plans to build a dozen other parks are complete or in prog-ress, with the expectation that construction of those projects will begin next year.

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pittsburgh, pA - michael marvelli of High-Profile Monthly recently attended the annual American Institute of Steel construc-tion’s North American Steel construction conference (NAScc) in pittsburgh.

The four day conference and trade show offered new learning opportunities and interactive technologies for its 3,263 attendees. marvelli mingled with seasoned attendees (some having attended more than 50 annual steel conferences), first-timers, and students looking to enter the industry.

he told us that 89 students participat-ed in the new student program at NAScc to explore career opportunities in structural engineering and learn practical tips on find-ing jobs and developing as leaders.

Attendees saw a live demonstration of a Steelmax abrasive belt grinder at the com-pany’s booth in the exhibit hall. The tool quickly and efficiently grinds and polishes

metals to the required dimension on a large-surface grinding table.

Burlington Automation presented a live demonstration of the pythonX, a struc-tural steel fabrication system that uses au-tomated 3D fabrication to process beams, channels, hSS, angle, plate and bar in a single pass with the precision of new tech-nology.

Attendees stopping by the lincoln Electric booth in the exhibit hall experi-enced welding with the VRTEX 360, a vir-tual reality arc welding training tool where you slip on a modified welding helmet, pick up a welder, and experience the closest thing to being in the field.

Marvelli reported that it was a terrific learning experience and he looks forward to the 2012 conference in grapevine, Texas.

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Bedford, Nh - Joseph A. Russo of windham died on April 9, 2011 at the parkland medical center in Derry, N.h.

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A 55-year old man who underwent surgery at a western massachusetts hospi-tal to repair herniated discs contracted an infection that required two more operations and 115 days in the hospital. his infection was caused by an airborne fungus that con-taminated the surgical site.

water in the hospital’s air-handling ducts was determined to be a likely source for the fungus. The man sued the general contractor and sheet metal contractor re-sponsible for installing the operating room air-handling system, the environmental testing company that evaluated the system, the hospital itself, the chairman of the in-fection control committee, and the infec-tion control practitioner. After years of liti-gation, the case was eventually settled for $717,000.

Andrew J. Streifel, public health specialist in the Environmental health and Safety department at the University of min-nesota, served as a hospital environmental health expert for the case. he says, “mold

is everywhere. It’s as common as the air we breathe. A problem starts when those mi-crobes can affect patients.” All patients are at risk from the environment, “especially when we start to do construction,” Streifel notes.

liability related to health care con-struction can be costly, and much more than money is at stake. The risk is particu-larly high for patients whose immune sys-tems are severely compromised, including premature infants, transplant recipients, or people being treated for cancer or burns, who are susceptible to invasive aspergil-losis, an often fatal infection caused by a very common environmental fungus, or mold. According to the U.S. centers for Disease control and prevention, “studies have shown that invasive aspergillosis can occur during building renovation or con-struction.”

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MHA’s fifth annual Construction Con-ference serves is a springboard for our an-

nual focus on healthcare facilities and our monthly healthcare facilities sec-tion. look for a follow up interview with martine Dion, Director, USgBc massachusetts chapter.

I found it striking that in addition to the mountains of technical

data shared by top executives to provide more sustainability in the planning and de-sign of facilities, Amy collins and Adelai-da gibson of metro west medical center brought to light the effort of individual staff members with a desire to improve their en-vironment by correcting standard practices that were creating waste. This bottom up approach provided balance and a reminder that the greening of our facilities is of vital interest to all of us.

I want to thank John Tessicini, presi-dent for and Thomas Bettle, immediate past president of cfmA massachusetts for invit-ing to its may breakfast. The networking session and announcements were followed by a stimulating program, “leadership Jour-ney” presented by James o’Neil of Impact Skills, Inc. look for a series of articles from Jim on leadership skills in future issues.

BIM SurveyAISc recently conducted a survey of

fabricator members to determine their usage of 3-D software with nearly 45% of polled fabricators responding. The survey, while not intended to be a scientific sampling of the fabricator community, did highlight the significant penetration of 3-D modeling tools into detailing, fabrication and manu-facturing operations within the structural steel supply chain. AISc reported that near-ly 80% of responding fabricators are using 3-D tools for modeling, detailing and other tasks and passing that data to cNc driven shop floor machinery.

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Trust (hIT) announced that it will invest $58.2 million of union pension capital in

construction of the new charlesview Apart-ments in Boston. with a total development cost of $152 million, the project will build 240 units of affordable rental units, while creating approximately 860 union construc-tion jobs. In addition to charlesview, three other HIT-financed projects are currently in progress in Boston, washington Beech, old colony, and franklin park, generating an es-timated 650 union construction jobs.

The formerly used District 6 police Station in South Boston will be converted into new housing for veterans and their fam-ilies. The $9.85 million development will include 24 apartment units (10 two bedroom units, two one bedroom units, 11 studio apartments, and one live-in manager’s one-bedroom unit). There will be approximately 960sf of office space for veterans’ services to be provided to the residents and other area veterans.

The fenway area will now have more options for home ownership after the BRA board approved the $15 million renova-tions of the existing symphony garage. This 68,000sf garage will be converted into 48 loft condos on seven floors complete with 32 parking spaces, offering one of few ownership options in the fenway area. The lower six floors of the proposed project will involve the renovation of the existing sym-phony garage and the re-purposing of this existing structure from commercial parking to residential use and accessory residen-tial parking. The top floor of the proposed project will consist of a newly constructed 6,500+/-sf rooftop. This project is being developed by the catamount management corporation.

The Boston Business Journal reported that Boylston properties co. said it is mov-ing ahead with plans to build a 175-room hotel in Boston’s fenway neighborhood, with construction expected to commence in the fall.

housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan recently awarded $152.7 million to help eight cities across the country transform severely distressed public housing developments into mixed-income communities. Boston housing Authority will receive $22 million to revitalize the old colony public housing development.

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preston, cT - The preston Redevelop-ment Agency (pRA) has contracted Jones lang laSalle to provide an economic and market analysis for the redevelopment and disposition of preston Riverwalk, a 390-acre riverfront campus in preston. Jones lang laSalle has begun work with civil and environmental consulting engineering firm Fuss & O’Neill, Inc. to produce a mas-ter regulating plan for the property, which is owned by the town of preston.

The former Norwich State hospital site is a prime location across connecticut’s Thames River from mohegan Sun casino. It is situated at the epicentre of the south-

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over the past 100 years, 140 acres of the 390-acre site were developed exten-sively as part of the hospital property. The mostly flat terrain is interspersed with ex-isting infrastructure, public utilities, a 500-foot deep water pier, an active railroad, and connector to I-91. In 2009 the town of preston purchased the the site from the state of connecticut.

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providence, RI - groundbreaking ceremonies were held recently and con-struction started on the $42 million hill-side Residence hall at the University of Rhode Island (URI).

URI president David m. Dooley said hillside hall is a critical part of the stra-tegic plan for URI in building a diverse community. “we know that living in a residence hall builds social and leadership skills, enhances students’ ability to relate to those different from themselves and leads to friendships that enrich their lives,” Dooley said. “This building will also be another striking example of our ability to innovate and respond to critical environ-mental issues that could affect generations to come.”

hillside hall is designed to be the gateway of URI’s undergraduate residen-tial district. The five-story structure will house 429 students in double rooms, each with nine-foot-high ceilings, built-in clos-ets, and the newest technology. This resi-dence hall is targeted for URI’s freshman and sophomore classes. The project is lo-cated on Baird hill. The east side of the property will be preserved as woodlands, and existing student residence halls flank the remaining sides.

lerner ladds Bartels Architects of providence designed the building in col-laboration with Rhode Island engineering firms Odeh Engineers Inc. (structural), pare corporation (civil), and creative En-

vironment corp. (mechanical/electrical/plumbing), along with associate architects mackey mitchell Architects of St. louis. hillside hall will feature several architec-tural elements and use many of the tradi-tional materials of neighboring halls, yet will reflect more modern styling and in-novative building technologies that will reduce its environmental impact.

Residents will enjoy large windows for natural ventilation and lighting. There will be common lounges, recreation rooms, a classroom and multi-purpose room, and quiet study rooms throughout the build-ing. A strong architectural feature will be the four-story, glass-faced bridge linking

the two wings of the building. This structure will offer a con-necting central staircase and two-story lounges with out-standing views of the exterior landscaped courtyards.

hillside hall will have up to 30% of its domestic hot water needs supplied by roof-top solar collectors. The build-ing is designed to meet lEED Silver standards established by the US green Building council. many of the building materials will have recycled content, and the building will

also feature naturally ventilated spaces, a vegetated roof, heat-recovery equipment, indoor bicycle storage, and building en-ergy monitors in the main lobby.

The ground floor of the building will house new offices for URI’s Department of housing and Residential life. The depart-ment will move from its current home in the Roger williams commons building, which is being transformed this year into a new student wellness and fitness center.

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Nashua, Nh – with the frame-work being completed and the exte-rior finishes under way, New Hamp-shire’s new, environmentally friendly liquor and wine outlet store is begin-ning to take shape in Nashua.

pro con Inc of manchester is the architect and general contractor for the $3.3 million project, that has been designed and is being built to achieve lEED gold. The new outlet is being built behind an existing state liquor store at 27 coliseum Avenue, which will be demolished when the new store is completed.

“The store’s green exterior sid-ing and the granite façade are current-ly being installed,” stated the project manager for pro con Inc. “The geo-thermal wells are complete and the installation of the mechanicals and drywall is on-going. we remain on-schedule for a late June completion date.”

The 20,000sf interior features a contemporary open concept design with the heavy timber framing of a classic New England barn. An expanded retail floor space, New Hampshire gran-ite counter tops, and a greater selection of products will create a more engaging expe-rience for shoppers.

The store’s design and construc-tion incorporates numerous ecologically friendly features, including solar panels,

energy efficient LED lighting, and geo-thermal heating and cooling systems. local building materials and low volatile organic compound products are being used for con-struction. The liquor and wine outlet’s land-scaping will be comprised of local plants and grasses that require no irrigation.

pro con Inc has registered the proj-ect with the US green Building council

and intends to pursue certification under USgBc’s lEED program.

The goal is to recycle 95% of con-struction waste from the new building and 95% of demolition material from the old building. Recycled materials will also be used to build new store features, including a wine tasting display counter that will be made from recycled glass.

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Salem, Nh - Integrated Builders has been awarded a fit-out contract to-taling 100,000sf of commercial space in Salem.

Equity Industrial partners, a Needham, mass.-based developer and operator of industrial real estate across the United States, hired Integrated Builders for the fit-out project at 9 Northeastern Blvd., a 660,000sf ware-house/light manufacturing facility.

Integrated Builders will pro-vide warehouse and office fit-outs for 74,000sf of warehouse and 26,000sf of office space for nora systems, Inc., a manufacturer of nora rubber floor-ing. The work includes interior mill-work, doors, frames, hardware, office, cubicles, restrooms, ceiling, paint, specialties and mechanical systems. The architect for the project is The mcKenna group ltd.

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Boston - Boylston properties com-pany, Inc. of Boston is moving forward with development of a marriott Residence Inn at 121 Brookline Ave. near fenway park.

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The architect on the project is group one partners, Inc. of Boston. John mori-arty & Associates of winchester, which recently completed the Art of the Ameri-cas wing of the museum of fine Arts, will be the contractor.

The eight-story hotel will feature a fitness center with modern equipment and televisions, and parking for 50 vehicles below ground level. An enclosed rooftop pool area opens to outdoor seating and is topped by a stunning 100-foot-long pergo-la, bringing a distinctive view to the new building from the street.

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Newton, MA - Diversified Project management, Inc. (Dpm) announced that it has been hired by Jones & Bar-tlett learning (JBl), a subsidiary of Ascend learning, for the construction of its new headquarters and relocation into the new facility.

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hartford, cT - consigli construction Co., Inc. has completed the first phase of renovations at the wadsworth Atheneum museum of Art in hartford.

The oldest public art museum in the United States, wadsworth Atheneum is listed on the National Register of historic places.

The completion of this first phase of construction enabled the museum to reopen its morgan great hall, which was reinstalled for the first time with large-scale works from the museum’s contemporary collection.

Included within this first phase of work was the reconstruction of the east el-evation (prospect Street) Tennessee marble parapet walls, extensive plaster repair and re-introduction of the original skylights that serve the second floor Morgan galler-ies. These skylights will bring natural light into the upper galleries and eastern stair-

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The comprehensive renovation is taking place across all five of the museum’s buildings and will recapture 10,000sf of re-furbished gallery space to be completed at the end of 2011.

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marlborough, mA - marlborough hospital, a member of the Um-ass memorial health care sys-

tem, will be constructing a new 14,740 sf, $11.7 million cancer treatment wing to be built at the rear of the Union Street hospital. marlborough hospital currently offers out-patient medical oncology. The new center will contain a healing garden as well as ar-eas for relocation of its outpatient medical oncology service and the addition of radia-tion oncology services, not currently avail-able in marlborough.

marlborough hospital opted to uti-lize integrated project delivery (IpD) to de-liver the project that will result in a speedier and more cost efficient project. The Cancer Pavilion will be the first finished health care construction project in New England to use

the IpD contract. currently in the design phase, the hospital has partnered with the ar-chitectural firm The S/L/A/M Collaborative of glastonbury, cT/Boston, and the Tocci Building corp. of woburn. fitzemeyer & Tocci of Stoneham is providing mEp engineering.

IpD is a trademarked method pio-neered in florida in which key players such as the architect, technical consultants, gen-eral contractor, and subcontractors work as one group from the beginning in order to optimize project results, increase value to the owner, reduce waste, and maximize ef-ficiency through all phases of design, fabri-cation, and construction of the project.

A key component in the set-up for an IpD project is the joint development of a project manual, which defines how the team will achieve the project goals. The project manual includes the communication plan, project execution plan, and BIm (Building Information model) execution plan.

The IpD team for marlborough hos-pital’s new cancer pavilion is currently in the process of refining the BIM execution plan (BEp) to determine how to use BIm on the project, and the protocols and standards required to meet those goals. The overarch-ing goal is to leverage the BIm toward a more efficient design and delivery process.

At the project outset, Tocci coordi-nated a laser scan of the existing hospital; that data will be integrated into the BIm to support coordination of the addition and future BIm uses that require tie-in to gIS. The team plans on using Robotic Total Sta-tion for concrete, wall partition, and Rcp hanger layout to expedite the construction schedule and increase accuracy.

The team will make use of the BIm during the design process as well; The S/l/A/m collaborative using it to analyze and communicate design intent while Tocci extracts data to provide iterative price vali-dation and constructability analysis.

As more content is developed in the BIm, the team will use it for basic coordi-nation (i.e. clash detection) as well as more advanced analysis (i.e. code and clearance analysis).

As subcontractors are brought on the team, they will contribute to the modeling process: developing fabrication models that will be fully coordinated and then used to fabricate and execute work.

According to chuck Thomsen, fAIA, fcmAA, who recently led the team that prepared the white paper on IpD for the houston chapter of the cmAA, integrated project delivery is an approach to agree-ments and processes for design and con-

struction, conceived to accommodate the intense intellectual collaboration that 21st century complex buildings require. In to-day’s healthcare market, using an IpD ap-proach will allow marlborough hospital to

conserve precious capital dollars by setting aggressive cost targets and developing a design as a team, owner, architect, and con-tractor that meets mutually agreed goals.

Integrated design and integrated practice can reduce much of this waste. IpD, as a project realization approach, can optimize delivery of buildings. This is en-abled by new project business models such as “project alliance” type agreements. The IpD approach requires a common contrac-tual arrangement between the owner, con-structor, and designer focused on common goals. The specialized IpD agreement was surprisingly easy to put together, requir-ing an open discussion that allowed team members to identify and respect each en-tity’s goals and to establish the project as a common, shared outcome or a win-win-win situation.

candra Szymanski, mS, RN, chief operating officer of Marlborough Hospi-tal noted that the hospital’s goal is to pro-vide local patient-centered comprehensive cancer care. During the initial phase of discussion it was clear that Tocci, SlAm, and the hospital all shared similar missions and visions, which facilitated a great part-nership from the outset. “As a team, there will be times when we are challenged; we have discussed our approach to meeting those challenges up front based on the IpD process. we make decisions as a team at various organizational levels so that our goals remain aligned,” she said. Szymanski pointed out that “each company has been at the table since the first day, all working toward the common goal of building great patient-centered services where not all pa-tients will necessarily come for a cure but all will come with hope of living with the best quality of life possible.”

She continued, “The hospital has been using pDcA (a plan-Do-check-Act lean process) for many years to continue to make patient care safer. Applying these principles to drive value and eliminate waste as part of IpD is a natural progression. Us-

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The Beacon and Garden create a warm and welcoming entry to the new cancer pavilion and provide a setting that feels inviting with the use of warm woods, indirect lighting,

and comfortable seating.

The Radiation Oncology area provides a setting where patients will feel more comfortable and secure in the care of close caregivers.


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ing BIm also helps the process by allowing healthcare experts look at a building in 2D or 3D prior to the start of construction. for example, members of the staff are able to see doors open, the walk to supplies, loca-tion of patient bathrooms, and the distance patients must walk to the treatment areas. wasted steps are eliminated upfront and having patients on our planning team has been helpful to appreciate the challenges they face getting to treatment on a daily or weekly basis.”

The team established a meeting sched-ule and set up a dedicated team workshop on-site, referred to as the Big Room, to promote full team co-location and collaboration right from the start. In addition, all members were linked by a project website that also hosted the BIm model with real-time coordination of all trades. David Neal, AIA, SlAm’s proj-ect manager described a recent design meet-ing that had the design team identify areas in the BIm of the exterior skin to receive differ-ent materials and then a menu of proposed and alternate material selections which were brought to the workshop for the owner’s hands-on review. At the same time, Tocci ex-tracted the material quantities from the model and factored in installation costs with a cost matrix in the model so that the team could review material selections against the proj-ect budget and inform the decision process from that side at the same time. “This meet-ing provided the decision-makers with real-time information so that a decision could be achieved quickly and also conveyed to the entire team at the same time,” he said. Tradi-tionally this form of decision could be a back and forth that might extend through design and construction phases with a loss of time and resources for all.

This is just another benefit of the IPD process and why it looks to be the future of project delivery.

Above Oasis/below Grotto: Patients can spend time connecting with nature, converse and support each other and have a wonderful view to a healing garden.

In the evening and winter hours, the pavilion’s beacon entry glows to create a sense of hope for those who enter.


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High-Profile Focus: Healthcare Facilities Development News

waltham, mA - The massachusetts hopsital Associa-tion (mhA) recently held its fifth Annual healthcare construc-tion conference, “hospitals going green: part II” at the conference center at waltham woods.

martine Dion, AIA, lEED Ap BD+c, director, USgBc massachusetts chapter, presented a talk entitled “lEED for healthcare: how can it Benefit Hospitals & Their Patients.”

David Burson, AIA, NcARB, Senior project manager, partners healthcare, and Deborah Rivers, AIA, lEED Ap BD+c, se-nior associate, perkins + willA, and mark S Junghans, pE principal VhB, presented a case study on the current partners health-care Spaulding Rehabilitation hosptital project entitled “Designing with lEED & Regenerative Architecture to promote

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“climate Ac-tion planning: policy changes That will Impact hospitals,” was presented by Kim lundgren, climate & energy practice leader, VhB/Vanasse hangen Brustlin.

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waltham, mA - This year’s mhA healthcare construction conference in-cluded a case study entitled “partners healthcare/Spaulding project: Designing with lEED & Regenerative Architecture to promote healing & well-Being for pa-tients.”

It was presented by David Burson, AIA, NcARB, senior project manager of partners healthcare, and Deborah Rivers, AIA, lEED Ap BD+c, senior associate at perkins + will, and mark Junghans, p.I. principal at VhB / Vannasse hangen Brus-tlin.

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on a former brownfield site will feature an eight-story building; 261,300sf above ground, 117,000sf underground; five in-patient floors; a three-floor base of outpa-tient, support services, and public spaces; 132 private inpatient beds; 120 adult beds, and 12 pediatric beds. Seventy-six percent of the ground floor is dedicated to program space that will be shared with the public – a café, conference rooms, gift shop, chapel and pool.

Designed as a model hospital for accessibility and barrier free design both inside and out, the latest sustainable and

energy efficient technologies are incorpo-rated, and LEED Silver certification level is currently being tracked.

Among the topics discussed were some of the major studies conducted and conclusions reached to green the facility including:

Regenerative Design: Studies to facilitate decision making include: solar shading, thermal envelope performance; insulation; percentage glazing; daylight-ing; natural ventilation; displacement ven-tilation and geo-exchange.

They discussed ways of going green in their choice and handling of building materials: material life cycle and material health to use durable materials, divert 75% of construction waste from landfills, maxi-mize use of regional materials and materi-als with recycled content and use materials that reduce harm to people and the envi-ronment.

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partners healthcare’s Spaulding Rehab project: Designing with lEED

Design considerations of Architect perkins + will included enhanced interior environment: daylighting with sensors and controls, extensive use of interior glass in administrative and clinical areas as appro-priate, open office planning to optimize daylight and views and natural ventila-tion in outpatient gym, daylighting in the therapy gym through extensive windows and skylights, views to the harbor from the therapy gym, natural ventilation in therapy gym, therapy garden adjacent to therapy gym that allows direct patient access to the outside.

partners healthcare, perkins + will, and construction manager walsh Brothers, Inc. along with subcontractors and Spauld-ing Rehab hospital staff members recently celebrated the topping out of the project in charlestown.

The hospital is pursuing a lEED sil-ver level certification in accordance with USgBc guidelines. If successful, this will be the first newly constructed hospi-tal in New England to achieve silver level lEED.

Ranked fourth among rehabilitation hospitals by U.S. News and World Report, Spaulding Rehabilitation hospital has steadily built a reputation as a premier fa-cility for rehabilitative patient care and re-lated research.

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Environmental Plaza

Project Team for Spaulding Rehabilitation HospitalArchitect - Perkins + Will

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historic consultant - Epsilon Associatesgeotechnical Engineer - Haley & Aldrich

Structural Engineers - McNamara/Salvia Inc.

AKf provided lighting design services for both the interior and exterior spaces.

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worcester, mA - Designing for healthcare facilities requires a process that extends past architecture and design. margulies perruzzi Architects’ (mpA) de-sign philosophy involves the collaborative effort of the client and design team, the use of technology to optimize design deci-sions, and an understanding of operational efficiencies to create a healthcare environ-ment that facilitates and supports the health and well-being of both patients and staff. for mpA and fallon clinic, the largest multi-specialty group healthcare practice in central massachusetts, the collaborative effort has produced three health facilities that achieve these goals.

for fallon’s New England Scope center in worcester, mpA provided the creative vision to transform a steel-frame, former warehouse and office space into a welcoming and comfortable outpatient ser-vices facility. The project team, including construction manager consigli construc-tion co., Inc., created a new building from the existing structure, reusing only the slab and steel frame to produce the new exterior and interior design. The facility was de-signed interactively with direct input from fallon’s medical staff.

The new 10,000sf outpatient en-doscopic center includes four procedure rooms with recovery areas, patient prep areas, waiting areas, and exam and consult rooms. MPA retrofitted the largely win-dowless and open structure into an intimate and circular floor plan, allowing patients to move discretely from reception, prep and

procedure areas, and recovery rooms with a measure of privacy. The firm also rede-signed the entrance and provided a new reception area more fitting to a medical environment. To complete the transition, ribbon windows positioned high in the walls of the recovery area add natural light and airiness without compromising patient privacy.

mpA’s team of talented architects and interior designers use an interactive design approach and cutting-edge technol-ogy, such as BIm (building information

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for both projects, mpA and fallon used the lean process to analyze and sim-plify daily functions, and used BIm to allow project team members, as well as various community stakeholders, to see the designed space in 3D. fallon clinic completed studies of their processes be-fore and after redesign, and determined that as a result of mpA’s design using the lean method, the total wait time at the leominster family practice was cut from 33 minutes to just nine minutes. This will enable the clinic to increase throughput of

patients by 31%. Because the increase in patients was facilitated through an increase in efficiency, rather than new employees or any other fixed cost, the clinic will see a 31% increase in profits. The improved layout at the ReadymED clinic promises an increased efficiency of 29% by reduc-ing wasteful waiting time, lost effort, and uncertainty.

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hartford, cT - The new 318,300sf John T. o’connell Tower at St. francis hospital and medical center is the second of two major additions to the campus, to-taling over 675,000sf, and culminates a 20 year relationship between St. francis and TRo Jung|Brannen.

The project expands major acute-care services and provides an additional four levels of inpatient beds. components include support services, an emergency department, surgical suite, orthopedic cen-ter, and an expanded patient care unit that includes 102 private inpatient rooms, with a unit of an additional 36 private inpatient rooms to be completed in the near future.

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mA – lowell general hospital (lgh) recently held a ceremonial ground-breaking for a new facility that will expand the hospital’s suburban campus.

The addition of 14 Research place to the hospital’s suburban campus will bring a state-of-the-art 30,000sf medical office building and a 347 car parking deck to ac-commodate medical and physician practice space.

The building, to be placed between two existing facilities in use by the hospi-tal at 10 and 20 Research place, has ten-ants preparing to take occupancy in spring of 2012 when the facility is complete, in-cluding merrimack Valley cardiology and orthopedic Surgical Associates of lowell, two practices that currently use the diag-nostic and surgical services at the current lowell general chelmsford campus.

lgh’s president and chief executive officer, Normand E. Deschene, said, “This $10 million dollar expansion will bring an extensive array of new quality, leading edge outpatient services to the chelmsford community and beyond.”

chelmsford Town manager paul co-hen expressed appreciation for the invest-ment of the hospital in the town – expand-ing business and improving healthcare for residents.

construction will begin for the new facility and parking deck under the direc-tion of pro con, Inc. which has also been the architect for the expansion, following the conceptual design by Doonan Archi-tects. The campus is being designed with many landscape and aesthetic consider-ations using the services of Kim Ahern with engineering services of watermark Environmental. funding has been provided by Enterprise Bank and lowell five.

once complete, chelmsford will be home to the merrimack Valley’s premiere outpatient facility, lowell general chelms-ford, offering state-of-the-art services that will transform the healthcare experience for the patients of the local community.

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Members of the Chelmsford town leader-ship joined members of Lowell General Hospital at the recent groundbreaking.

farmington, cT - hKS, Inc./Stef-fian Bradley Architects, a joint venture, is providing design services for a $332 million project at the University of con-necticut health center’s John Dempsey hospital, that will create a new bed tower and include renovations to existing space.

located in farmington and founded in 1961, the University of connecticut health center (Uchc) is the university’s academic medical center.

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Renovations include the emergency department, dental clinics, cardiology, psychiatry, and other ancillary programs such as radiology and pharmacy services.

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framingham, mA - on may 9, the project team of Erland construction and Steffian Bradley Architects joined the owner and local representatives – including lieutenant governor Timothy murray – to officially mark the start of renovations to the future location of the Edward m. Ken-nedy community health center at 354 wa-verly St. in framingham.

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lebanon, Nh - The new 103,000sf Dartmouth-hitchcock heater Road building in leba-non is one of the first implemen-tation projects to result from a 2010 master plan completed by lavallee Bren-singer Architects. The new facility relocates select outpatient services to this new building, which is designed for maximum efficiency and flexibility.

Dartmouth-hitchcock heater Road, which is scheduled to open in the fall 2012, will house primary care, outpatient rehabil-itation, functional restoration, dermatology, phlebotomy, and a sleep disorders center.

following the nationally recognized “medical home” model, the facility will provide comprehensive patient support ser-vices in a single location including shared appointments, patient education, behav-ioral health, care management, a dietician, and a health coach.

while patient focus, convenience, and confidentiality are baseline require-ments of all Dartmouth-hitchcock facili-ties, this new medical office building aims to achieve additional benefits through even more detailed planning and design. A com-prehensive simulation study was performed by lavallee Brensinger Architects, which tested staff workflows and patient move-ment in proposed building floor plans. This unique and highly sophisticated model allowed the design team and Dartmouth-Hitchcock to test for maximum staff effi-

ciency, as well as the optimal patient expe-rience. factors such as patient wait times, staff travel distances, and exam room usage were analyzed, and provided measurable datapoints from which informed design decisions could be made.

In the new building layout, clinical pods with decentralized team rooms facili-tate improved staff communications while minimizing travel distances. Support spaces are conveniently located nearby, and work alcoves for providers have been included in centralized team rooms to further promote teamwork and efficiency.

The building’s exterior design char-acter reflects the Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical center brand with a similar pal-ette of materials and style. Vertical brick elements and windows define entry loca-tions and make wayfinding more intuitive for patients and visitors. with attention to sustainable design and healthy interior environments, significant amounts of en-ergy efficient glazing is integrated at key locations to allow natural light to penetrate deep into the building yet maintain patient privacy.

D-h heater Road medical BuildingDesigned by lavallee Brensinger

Dartmouth, Nh - construction is underway for Dartmouth-hitchcock Nash-ua’s (D-h Nashua) new 152,000sf multi- specialty medical office building/ambula-tory care building. The facility is designed by healthcare architects morrisSwitzer En-vironments for health.

The state-of-the-art facility will ac-commodate space to relocate the existing clinical and support programs currently operating in the Dartmouth-hitchcock Nashua facilities at the East center, the west center, and The Squires center as well as expanded clinical programs, such as an oncology program and space for visit-ing specialists.

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High-Profile Cover Story: D’Youville Center for Advanced Therapy

lowell, mA - levi + wong Design Associates, Inc. is serving as archi-tects, landscape architects, interior

designers, and facility planners for the new D’Youville center for Advanced Therapy building located on the D’Youville life and wellness community campus.

D’Youville life and wellness com-munity in lowell serves the area’s elders with dignity and respect. The campus pro-vides adult day health, transitional rehabil-itative care, special care dementia services, hospice, long term skilled nursing, and in-dependent living apartments.

To keep D’Youville at the fore-front of rehabilitative services, the cen-ter houses both the D’Youville center for Advanced Therapy, providing a new home for its short-term transitional rehabilitation and hospice care services, and the New England Rehabilitation hospital at low-ell, which will provide acute rehabilitation services. This combination ensures the center’s unique place on the continuum of healthcare.

Unlike most rehabilitation facilities that are retro-fitted into existing structures,

levi + wong Design’s unique, state of the art, rehabilitative therapy environment’s primary design philosophy was based on patient centered care and evidenced based design. Using these models, and creat-ing one of the first Leed Silver certifiable buildings in massachusetts, the center is organized to facilitate patient recovery, caregiver assistance, and family involve-ment. The design is highlighted by con-temporary, residential, hospitality design aesthetics and amenities.

levi + wong Design planned the

building’s hillside entrance as a village-style with a residential scale, a chapel’s anchoring stonewall, a colonnade entrance façade, and a bridge terrace overlook. The outdoor rehabilitation courtyards are stra-tegically placed for therapeutic use. The hospice suites each have access to a private courtyard, while the other programs share two outdoor therapy areas.

The building’s shell consists of sim-ple forms like bay windows, warm wood-faced resin panels, grey metal roofing, and retaining walls of regional stonework. The floor-to-ceiling windows serve a dual pur-pose: to allow natural light to assist in the reduction environmental impacts during the day use, and make the western campus approachable at night.

Significant attention was paid to planning the center and its interior design. circulation to the two programs, located on separate floors, is centralized through an entrance atrium with a connecting stair. programming and planning required a functional crucifix floor plan, which was only coincidental to the campus’s religious connections. The interior was further de-veloped around the light-filled entrance atrium from which the healthcare program anchored patient wings rotate.

The center’s open plan allows for easy circulation throughout, while main-taining patient privacy and dignity. The generous 9’-6’’ corridors with resting areas and even lighting lead to bountiful multi-purpose day, dining, occupational therapy

and family areas. The open, multi-purpose rehabilitation gyms accommodate state-of-the-art therapy equipment.

The spacious patient rooms are also permeated with natural light via the large windows. The non clinical appearance is enhanced by the built-in storage, a color palette, the large bathrooms with open showers, built-in vanities, and storage. As dictated by their purpose, the bariatric suites have patient lifts for direct access to toilets and bathing, and the four-room hospice suite ensures situational respect-fulness.

currently registered with the US-gBc, the facility has been designed to be lEED 2009 New construction Silver certi-fiable. Levi + Wong Design strived to opti-mize energy performance in the building’s envelope, electrical, plumbing, and me-chanical systems. A water source variable flow refrigerant (VFR) heat pump system was selected based on first cost and life-cycle cost comparisons to other mechani-cal systems. Electrical rebates through the utility company’s lighting program were also obtained.

working closely with the both the client and construction manager, cutler Associates, was easier though the use of pre constructing estimating Build-ing Information modeling. This process provided visualizations for quick and easy D’Youville and NERh approvals, while giving information to cutler Associates for budgeting purposes. The client, construc-tion manager, and our consultants found this process strengthened the design and al-lowed for better decision-making, a better understanding of each space, and a more streamlined process.

The center for Advanced Therapy design team contributed to the successful design and ease of construction.

The center for Advanced Therapy is currently under construction, the topping off ceremony was held on may 20, 2011, and will be completed in fall 2011.

D’Youville Project Team:construction manager - Cutler Associates, Inc.

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manchester, Nh - The Elliot at River’s Edge in manchester recently celebrated its grand opening, a modern eco-friendly med-ical facility where a meat processing plant formerly stood. The six-level Ambulatory care center was built by the construction management joint venture Suffolk/Eck-man, comprised of Eckman construction co, Inc. of Bedford and Suffolk construc-tion, headquartered in Boston.

The 258,000sf Ambulatory care center and its 976-space parking structure are the first phase of the largest private development in manchester in decades. A planned second phase—a medical office building and a second parking garage—will follow. future plans on the site in-clude additional commercial and residen-tial buildings.

Anyone who drove past the build-ing while it was under construction would have seen a large clock next to Queen city Ave. counting down the days, hours, and minutes until the Ambulatory care center would be complete. A small countdown clock, installed in the project office by the joint venture as a reminder to their team of the importance of meeting the project schedule, caught the attention of the proj-ect owner and prompted the large public version. Suffolk/Eckman succeeded in achieving substantial completion before the clock reached the zero hour.

The Elliot at Rivers Edge is one of the first facilities in the country to seek

certification under LEED for Healthcare, a new rating system instituted by the US green Building council on April 8 of this year.

This new rating system is specifi-cally designed for medical facilities, either new construction or major renovations. It can be applied to many types of medical facilities, including outpatient, long-term care facilities, medical offices, assisted liv-ing facilities, and medical education and research centers.

The top floor of the new Ambulatory care center is home to the Elliot one-day Surgery Center, currently with five operat-ing suites and accompanying support areas, surrounded by hallways with spectacular views of the Queen city.

A sixth operating room will be added in the future. The building also has an Ur-gent care center and a diagnostic imaging unit, including cT scan and mRI suites. Other offices located in the new build-ing include pain management, pulmonary medicine, endoscopy, physical rehabilita-tion, cardiac rehabilitation, and a center for sleep evaluation.

The project is located on the eastern bank of the merrimack River in southern manchester, on the site of the former Jac-pac/Tyson foods meat processing plant.

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low-emitting materials, including adhesives, paint, and carpet, were utilized to ensure continued high air quality in the completed building. materials with re-cycled content and/or regionally sourced materials were utilized by 22 of 26 par-

ticipating subcontractors, and facilities were included for the owner to maintain an onsite-recycling program. A waste-man-agement plan diverted more than 75% of construction waste from landfills.

“Eckman takes great pride in the beautiful Elliot at Rivers Edge building. our staff stays at the forefront of green building technologies, and we are pleased to work with a team and an owner who also value sustainability,” said mark walsh, cEo of Eckman construction.

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winchester, mA - winchester hos-pital broke ground on its new ambulatory surgery center, as well as celebrating the 100th anniversary of the hospital and its newly launched second century campaign.

Digiorgio Associates Inc. (DAI), based out of Boston, was selected as the architect and engineer for the design of this new ambulatory surgery center. The 31,200sf state-of-the art facility will be patient focused, providing comprehensive services to meet the increased demand for outpatient surgical services. Services to be provided include orthopedic, hand, po-diatry, urology, gynecology and otolaryngology surgery.

The new building will be located approximately one mile from the hospital’s main campus and will consist of two floors. The first floor of the building will house four class “c” operat-ing rooms, a radiographic room, a preadmission testing suite with two blood draw stations and four exam rooms, clinical support services, a lobby, and a coffee shop. Building sup-port services are located on the second floor. There is a covered walkway in the rear for staff and service connection between the ASc and the cancer center.

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panels, indirect light and even a fireplace. Seating is arranged in small clus-ters to promote privacy. The interior design intent is to create a hotel-like en-vironment to reduce stress and enhance relaxation for patients and families. Ex-terior colors were selected to reinforce the off-site identity of this project.

The hospital regis-tered this project with the

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ergy recovery devices to reduce operating costs and a high level of control points to increase thermal comfort control, water ef-ficient plumbing fixtures, and a light color roof to reduce heat island effect. Exterior light fixtures were selected to limit light pollution, and nonpotable water is used for irrigation. Interior finishes and materi-als have high recyclable contents, made of certified wood and rapid renewable materi-als. paints and adhesives with low volatile compound are also used.

DAI has been working with win-chester hospital for over a decade to help them meet the needs associated with the constantly changing healthcare industry and is proud to continue their affiliation on this exciting new project.

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SVhc is comprised of South-western Vermont medical center, a 99-bed community hospital; The centers for living & Rehabilitation, a 150-bed nursing facility that includes special units for short-term rehabilitation, long-term care and for residents with Alzheimer’s disease; Visiting Nurse As-sociation & hospice, providing home nursing and rehabilitation services, as well as Bennington’s only medicare-certified hospice program; Southwest-ern Vermont Regional cancer center, a full-service cancer center offering che-motherapy, the latest in radiation thera-py, and access to clinical trials approved by the National cancer Institute; SVmc Northshire campus, providing primary care in the manchester, Vt., area and SVMC Deerfield Valley Campus, pro-viding primary care in the Deerfield Valley of Vermont.

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Boston - Rfwalsh collaborative partners announced the completion of two projects for Steward health care System, undertaken as part of a five-site initiative involving concurrent new construction and renovation projects at five Steward hospi-tals. Steward health care System acquired caritas christi health care System in No-vember 2010.

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of cancer and is located on the second floor of the william f. connell pavilion, com-pleted in 2009, for which Rfwalsh col-laborative partners was the owner’s project manager. S/l/A/m Architects, Inc. was the architect for the project.

St. Elizabeth’s and Steward health care System invested $10.3 million in building the new 10,500sf Radiation on-cology center. The project improves and

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portsmouth, Nh - North Branch construction, Inc. of concord has completed construction of the new

Northeast Rehabilitation hospital at the pease Tradeport campus in portsmouth. This 46,000sf, 33 bed, two-story facility designed by JSA, Inc. of portsmouth is the third inpatient hospital for the Northeast Rehabilitation health Network, with two other facilities located in Salem and Nash-ua. The official ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Northeast Rehabilitation hos-pital is scheduled for June 9.

The new inpatient acute rehabilita-tion hospital is ready for occupancy and will serve the needs of the seacoast of New hampshire, maine and massachusetts.

The new facility features an interior park complete with a full sized car, trolley replica, mini-market, and movie theater

seating to aid in retraining patients to in-teract with these items as well as an exte-rior park featuring a footbridge, an incline

ramp with rails, and a variety of surface materials (concrete, stone dust, brick pavers, and crushed stone) for patients learning to walk on these different types of materials. Two patient rooms include a bariatric lift to aid in lifting the patient out of bed to allow patient access to the bathroom facilities.

The Northeast Rehabilitation health Network also has several out-patient locations throughout the mer-rimack Valley in massachusetts and southern New hampshire.

North Branch construction has completed several medical facility proj-

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High-Profile Feature: Hartford Hospital

by Robert Amatuli

hartford, cT - later this month, hartford hospital will celebrate the completion of the final phase

of construction at the Educational Re-source center (ERc) on hartford hospi-tal’s downtown campus. The renovations

to heublein hall’s lobby and support conference rooms, a combined 4,000sf lobby/breakout area to the main presenta-tion hall, completes the phased 35,000sf upgrades of this cir-ca 1960s precast and brick facility.

Tecton Archi-tects, Inc. and its design team engineers at van Zelm Engineers (mEp) and Szewc-zak Associates (structural) worked closely to complete the multi-phased renovations with fIp construction, the project con-struction manager.

formerly the Nursing School for hartford hospital, the ERc is now home to the world-renowned center for Educa-tion, Simulation and Innovation (cESI), a state-of-the-art “simulation center” de-signed to give students, clinicians, and physicians cutting-edge opportunities in advanced medical education to train and perfect their simulated skills prior to ap-plying acquired theory on actual patients without practice.

It is also a platform for continued certification and education on the continu-ally evolving procedures and discoveries in the medical field using life-sized, fully responsive computerized mannequins that replicate all responses of the human body.

Tecton’s leadership in evidenced based design engaged the team during the planning state of the project. The team did exhaustive research into the current

and future development of training tech-niques and equipment, as the team visited two sites in houston, and cambridge to test knowledge gained against lessons learned.

work at the Educational Resource center began modestly enough with the renovations to a lecture hall and north lounge where finish upgrades would be-come standard throughout the building. cherrywood columns and modern light-

ing replaced the once austere and outdated fixtures, while parquet wood flooring was restored to its original glory.

In the next phases, Tecton began in earnest to design what would become one of the most advanced robotic surgery cen-ters in New England. located on the sec-ond floor of the three-story building (the third floor is home to the center’s library), Tecton completely redesigned the former school while it remained occupied. main-taining school and lecture schedules with-out interruption required multiple phased design and construction techniques. An abatement plan was carefully crafted for phased removal during construction to maintain an undisturbed school curricu-lum. Interim life safety and infection con-trol were always of paramount concern to the hospital as well as the architectural, engineering, and construction staff.

The building itself posed a number of challenges as it revealed pre-existing conditions. The building envelope had been breached in several places and ex-isting single-paned windows were expe-riencing thermal breaks. The team’s so-lution secured the exterior envelope from water intrusion and replaced the fenestra-tion with double-paned, thermal windows. As you can imagine, the aging infrastruc-ture posed challenges for the design team as Tecton upgraded and replaced current mechanical, electrical and plumbing sys-tems in order to bring the building up to

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modern codes and use requirements.Ultimately, the design provided

Hartford Hospital with five simulation procedures rooms with fixed and movable equipment simulator areas. cESI is divid-ed into three areas of study – procedure labs, task training labs, and classrooms. from individual control rooms at each of the five labs – Operating, ED/Trauma, In-tensive care Unit, labor & Delivery, and Resuscitation – students, clinicians, and physicians are put through the paces, in-troducing smoke (vapor), noise (helicop-ters and rescue vehicles sirens), complete darkness, and patients arresting with heart stoppages or major bleeding. You name it, they simulate it. The task training labs provide endoscopic, orthotic, intubation, suturing, robotic training using a dual console da Vinci Surgical robot and more.

Labs and classrooms with flat-panel touch screens and smart boards are part of the instructor’s tools in educating where they are able to review and critique live stream-ing and video-taped procedures.

As partners with hartford hospital, our team worked in concert to develop an expandable program with an organic flow of projected space. As funding became available earlier than expected through a very handsome donation, we were able to move forward without redesigning or re-thinking the project. Tecton Architects, Inc. and our engineering partners at van Zelm Engineers and Szewczak Associates are proud to support hartford hospital in their innovative mission to create a cESI focused on providing a higher standard of care for patients now and in the future.

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projects ranged from complete facelifts to the main entry lobbies in Jefferson, high and conklin Buildings, an expansion to the emergency department, extensive updates to their cancer center patient waiting areas. other projects included acute care changes to the intensive care floors, and a complete modernization of a 30 bed, 20,000sf medical floor on the Conklin’s building second level.

Renovations included a refurbishment of the heublein hall’s conferencing complex and complete renovation of an 18,000sf medical training and robotic simula-tion center.

All of the 100,000 plus man hours of construction work had to take place with-out complete shutdown of any main entrances or egress paths. with nearly 10,000 staff and patients using hartford hospital on a daily basis, intensive logistic planning with the hospital staff was required to implement the construction activities. Tempo-rary construction phasing, wayfinding, and three-crew shifting times were essential to the successful outcome.

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High-Profile: Multi-Residential Facilities Development News

South weymouth, mA – New England’s newest community and a national model of smart growth and transit-oriented development is grow-ing again. John m. corcoran & co. announced that it will develop 226 units of apartment housing and 8,700sf of first-floor retail space at SouthField Highlands, the community’s first resi-dential neighborhood located only a short walk to the on-site South wey-mouth commuter rail station.

The project will have a total de-velopment cost of $44.6 million, pro-duce 200 construction jobs, and gen-erate $1.39 million in so-called host community payments from the developer lNR to weymouth, Rockland, and Abing-ton. corcoran plans to begin construction in May, and the first residents are expected to move in during the spring of 2012.

The architect is Russell, Scott Stee-dle and capone of cambridge.

Sixty single-family, townhouse, and garden court homes are currently under construction at Southfield by two South Shore custom homebuilders, whitman homes and Interactive Building group, and Rogerson communities is scheduled to begin construction on the william B. Rice Eventide senior independent living and skilled nursing facility. Southfield’s first residents are expected to move in this summer.

The corcoran project will feature 226 studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartment homes, featuring fine interior de

tails such as Berber carpets, washer-dryers, ceramic tile, and crown molding. on-site amenities will include a full fitness facility, swimming pool, community room, indoor parking, and access to the award-winning Southfield development. In keeping with the green vision of Southfield, corcoran intends to certify the apartment homes with the US green Building council under its Leadership in Energy Efficient Design re-quirements.

formerly the site of the South wey-mouth Naval Air Station, Southfield will feature, at full build-out, 2,855 units of housing and 2 million sf of commercial and retail space, more than 1,000 acres of neighborhood parks and dedicated open space, a links style golf course, and a $30 million indoor/outdoor sports and recre-ation complex to be developed by former Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette and soccer star Kristine lilly.

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Allston, mA - The com-munity Builders, Inc. (TcB), on behalf of its development partner, charlesview, Inc, has negotiated a land swap along with financial resources to ef-fectuate the relocation and re-construction of charlesview Apartments in Allston. This is a 213 unit low- and moderate-in-come housing development cre-ated through Urban Renewal in 1970, supported by a 200-unit Section 8 project Based Assis-tance contract. The property is physically obsolete and in need of redevelopment.

co-owners of the property are The community Builders, Inc. (TcB) and charlesview, Inc.

The community Builders, Inc. is the developer:

charlesview Apartments is owned by charlesview, Inc., an interdenominational faith-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organiza-tion having charlesview Apartments as a single asset.

The relocation portion of the replace-ment strategy includes increasing the exist-ing housing program to 240 family rental units, including a range of unit types from one-bedroom flats to four-bedroom town-houses, accommodating a variety of family types and sizes. The redevelopment site is less than a half mile from its current loca-tion, on an eight-acre portion of the site of the Brighton mills Shopping center.

The design incorporates the tradi-tional neighborhood street grid and build-ing types to seamlessly blend into the surrounding community. The overall re-development program includes significant infrastructure and open space. The program includes approximately 25,000gsf of space for commercial and community uses, new streets and parks, and underground parking for 243 cars. one hundred units of hom-eownership housing will be built on adja-cent parcels as part of the future mixed-tenure community.

The financial packaging includes Tax Exempt Bond/4% LIHTC financing that will generate $27 million in lIhTc equity, a replacement cost contribution from har-vard University, approximately $45 mil-lion in debt leveraged from the portion of the Section 8 contract to the new site and $2 million in soft gap financing from the state.

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High-Profile: PCINE News

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The use of precast concrete in parking structures allows architects and designers

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What happens when your expansion takes away your existing parking lot leaving you nowhere to park?

You add a seven level, 179,962 square foot parking structure that adds 614 spaces. However, building time is short and the parking structure not only had to fit into the neighborhood aesthetically, but had to harmonize with the existing medical center buildings. Bringing the project’s precast concrete supplier, Blakeslee Prestress, onto the team early allowed them to elaborate on the aesthetic options while tack-ling scheduling issues early on. This team effort was invaluable to getting this parking structure built in just four months as strain on the existing parking spaces was at a dire level. “Precast concrete was critical to schedule performance for the St. Vincent’s Medical Center, located in Bridgeport, CT,” according to John Hawley, Project Executive with Gilbane Building Company. Precast was also the top choice for aesthetic reasons too. According to David Vander Wal, PE and Vice President with Walker Parking, the project’s consultants, the “main driver (for using precast concrete) was the need to provide a nice-looking transition from the residential housing across the street to the hospital, and using precast concrete with a brick clad façade was also a cost-effective solution.”

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Bridgeport, cT - St. Vincent’s medi-cal center in Bridgeport has hum-ble beginnings that go back to 1905

when the first building opened its doors. The original building was replaced in the mid 70s.

Now, again, St. Vincent’s needs to expand and is adding 125,000sf of new construction and renovating another 125,000sf. Just the expanded and refur-bished emergency department alone adds 60 beds with the capacity to treat 80,000 patients a year.

This expansion is welcome and sorely needed, but now space is limited. The only viable space to expand into is the existing parking lot and that creates a new problem: where to park?

The solution is a seven level, 179,962sf parking structure that adds 614 spaces, but time is short and the parking structure not only has to fit into the neigh-borhood aesthetically but has to harmonize with the existing medical center buildings. The parking structure includes a separate area for doctors to park in, giving them closer access to the medical center.

John hawley, project executive with gilbane Building company elaborates on the reasons for choosing precast concrete to meet schedule demands.

“precast concrete was critical to schedule performance for the St. Vincent’s project. The project was able to be bid out to precast suppliers at ‘design development’ level drawings from the design team. The precast supplier was then hired to provide

‘design assist’ services to make sure that the final garage design and precast shop drawings could proceed simultaneously.”

Bringing the project’s precast con-crete supplier, Blakeslee prestress, onto the team early allowed them to elaborate on the aesthetic options while tackling scheduling issues early on. This team ef-fort was invaluable to getting this parking structure built in just four months, as strain on the existing parking spaces was already critical.

precast was the top choice for aes-thetic reasons too. David Vander wal, pE

and vice president with walker parking, the project’s consultants, said that the “main driver (for using precast concrete) was

the need to provide a nice-looking transi-tion from the residential housing across the street to the hospital.” According to Vander wal, precast concrete with a brick clad façade was also a cost-effective solution. This type of façade is achieved by placing ¾” brick tile into a form. The concrete is then poured on top, locking the brick tile into place and giving the look of a beautiful brick wall with the added strength and low maintenance of a precast concrete panel. The white thin brick façade and overall parking structure design blends with the cohesive look of the entire medical center campus.

The attributes of precast concrete parking structures include its durability, corrosion-resistance, fire resistance, and

its need for minimal maintenance. Concrete uses recycled fly ash, which would otherwise end up in a landfill, and can be recycled at the end of its exceedingly long life. A precast parking structure can be built using little more than the building’s footprint, making it a perfect solution for cramped urban areas. Timing is everything and speed is at the top of the list for precast concrete. from con-cept to over 600 parking spaces in four months, now that is getting the job done!

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Boston - Suffolk construction re-cently celebrated the topping off of the massachusetts college of Art and Design residence hall project on huntington Av-enue in Boston. The project team joined university officials to recognize the plac-ing of the final steel beam on the $61 million, 21-story massArt facility, which will add 493 beds and 145,000sf of dor-mitory space to the school campus. The project is on schedule to be completed in may 2012.

The new residence hall will feature a sustainable design strategy to achieve LEED certification, demonstrating Suf-folk and massArt’s continuing commit-ment to leadership in green building and development. The dormitory will also in-clude a new health center that will serve students of massArt, the massachusetts college of pharmacy and health Sci-ences, and wentworth Institute of Tech-nology.

The massachusetts State college Building Authority (mScBA) is the project developer for the new massArt residence hall, and ADD Inc is the ar-chitect. This MassArt project is the first high-rise residence hall project for the mScBA.

The residence hall will be a critical element to the multi-stage development of the massArt campus. once completed, the building will allow the college to guar-antee housing to all first- and second-year students and will provide housing to 38%

of the entire student body on campus, a marked increase from the current 22%. The new residence hall is one of four capi-tal projects scheduled at massArt over the next several years, which include a new media center, campus center, and renovat-ed galleries.

Suffolk celebrates massArt Topping offwolfeboro, Nh - North Branch

construction of concord has com-pleted the first building turnover in phase 2 of the Kingswood Regional School campus’s multi-school ad-ditions and renovations project. The new Automotive and Agricultural Building will serve students enrolled in the Agri-Science and Automotive Service Technology programs of-fered by the vocational school.

This is the first of 25 areas to be finished for Phase 2 of the exten-sive high school, middle school, and

vocational school construction project by the fall 2012 completion deadline. A con-siderable amount of work is expected to take place this summer when students are off campus including asbestos abatement, replacing electric service, and installing geothermal cooling and heating on-site to all three schools.

North Branch also looks forward to presenting a brand new administration building addition along with a renovated kitchen for the middle school and renovated gymnasiums for both the middle and high school for the start of the school year. Upon the students’ return this fall, North Branch and town officials, along with CMK Archi-tects of manchester, will continue to work together to creatively schedule building oc-cupancy while maintaining student safety as their first priority.

Detailed coordination between the governor wentworth Regional School Dis-trict, three school principals, and the con-struction manager and architect each week has been vital in relocating students and furnishings to accommodate both a busy construction schedule and occupied school campus.

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wallingford, cT - Shawmut Design and construction, located in New haven, has been selected to build the Kohler Environmental cen-ter at choate Rosemary hall in wall-ingford. The Kohler Environmental Center, designed by architectural firm Robert A.m. Stern Architects, llp, is a 32,000sf timber and fieldstone aca-demic center that will provide an in-terdisciplinary focus on sustainability and the environment.

“The Kohler Environmental center represents a true commitment to sustainable living,” said James S. Ansara, chairman of Shawmut Design and construction, and a class of ‘76 choate stu-dent. “Shawmut is honored to play a lead-ing role in the construction of this revolu-tionary academic center.”

The Kohler Environmental center will be constructed on 266 acres of undevel-oped land north and east of choate’s main campus in wallingford and will function as a working laboratory. The building will also include classrooms and seminar rooms, as well as a residential facility with a kitchen that will house two faculty apartments, up to 20 students, visiting researchers, graduate students, and scholars-in-residence.

The Kohler Environmental center is

designed to achieve lEED platinum certi-fication from the US Green Building Coun-cil – a first for the Choate community – and a net-zero energy usage rating through an on-site, 290 kilowatt, solar photovoltaic (pV) array. Design elements also include geothermal, solar hot water, as well as su-per-insulated walls and roof.

construction of the Kohler Environ-mental center will be primarily funded through a generous donation by herbert V. Kohler, Jr., chairman of choate Rosemary hall’s board of trustees and chairman and cEo of Kohler co.

construction is scheduled to be com-pleted in summer 2012, with classes begin-ning during the 2012-2013 school year.

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manchester, Nh – The wood framing is under way for The Derryfield School’s new gateway Building, locat-ed at 2108 North River Road. lavallee Brensinger Architects is the architect, and pro con Inc. is the construction manager for the $1.2 million project, funded in part through a grant from New hampshire community Develop-ment finance Authority. The gateway Building is replacing the Art house, which was formerly located on the site and was razed in early January.

“The foundations and the first floor decking are in place,” stated the proj-ect manager for pro con Inc. “The wood framing, which is expected to be completed in early may, is progressing quickly and then we will begin the mechanicals and drywall installation.”

The new 8,132sf gateway Building, which is considered to be the “front door” to The Derryfield School, was designed and is being constructed using energy efficiency specifications to re-duce energy consumption. The two-level building will have two classroom/seminar spac-es, offices for Breakthrough Manchester at The Derryfield School, administrative support space for the school’s commu-nity service and global educa-tion programs, and improved

admission, business office, and advance-ment spaces.

pro con, Inc. has scheduled a July 2011 completion date for the gateway Building. New paved pathways will con-nect the gateway Building to the other campus facilities and new rock retaining walls have been constructed.

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struction, because when things go wrong it can be fatal,” says Tim Adams, chfm, chc, fAShE, director of professional growth for the American Society for healthcare Engineering (AShE).

with proper training, however, construction professionals can learn techniques for upholding a hospital’s in-fection control program during a build-ing project, as well as dealing with other issues exclusive to health care construc-tion.

To assure the safety, privacy, and comfort of patients, visitors, and hos-pital staff and facilitate good planning, design, and construction of health fa-cility projects, AShE has developed an array of educational resources for those involved in the field at every level—tradespeople, subcontractors and spe-cialty contractors, and general contrac-tors and project leaders.

TradesAlthough some construction

workers may spend only a short time on the job site, it is still essential they un-derstand how everyone in the healthcare environment affects patient care. “To-day You Are healthcare” is a 30-minute video that outlines general precautions for protecting patients, visitors, and staff in an occupied hospital where construc-tion or renovation is taking place. “It’s designed for the folks in the field doing the hands-on work,” says Adams.

facility managers, contractors, and hospital administrators can use this video to illustrate how workers can help prevent infections; lessen physical risks like fires or patient falls; reduce noise and vibration so patients can rest; and avoid making mistakes that could cause harm, such as unexpectedly taking im-portant equipment out of service.

“Today You Are healthcare” is the second in AShE’s healthcare construc-tion Television (hcTV) series.Subcontractors and specialty contractors

This year AShE will offer a new e-learning program for contractors who work in health care. “The idea is to really make people aware of what is different about doing construction in health-care, as opposed to other types of commercial construction,” Adams says.

The self-paced online course fea-tures multimedia presentations, a written study guide, and quizzes. Upon comple-tion of the program, users can review a summary and check their understanding with a self-test.

lessons cover healthcare codes and standards; patient and owner expec-tations; construction risk assessment; infection prevention principles and risk assessment; noninfectious environmen-tal risks; construction practices; life safety and fire safety practices; and proj-ect closeout and management.

“for companies that haven’t done healthcare, its a whole new ballgame. projects generally take longer and cost more,” Adams says. Understanding why and how health care construction is unique can help contractors bid, es-timate, and complete a project success-fully.General contractors and project leaders

Adams estimates that since 2003 nearly 10,000 healthcare and construc-tion professionals have attended AShE’s Healthcare Construction Certificate pro-gram, an intensive, two-day course with a short online prerequisite. following the training, participants can identify the needs and expectations of facility own-ers, staff, and patients and describe how these relate to the construction process; work more collaboratively with own-ers; and understand the critical factors involved in healthcare planning, design, and construction. “we cover a lot of ter-ritory,” Adams says.

The hcc program is distinct from AhA’s more recently developed certi-fied Healthcare Constructor (CHC) cre-dential, which combines education and experience, a certification examination, and periodic renewal requirements. (for information on AHA certification, see http://www.aha.org/aha/certification-center.)

AShE also offers two-day pro-grams related to healthcare construc-tion. healthcare construction project management examines healthcare con-struction from a scheduling and budget standpoint. Infection control: managing Risk During construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities uses case studies and real-life examples to con-sider infection prevention in the health care environment from an operations and construction perspective.

Mark of approvalBrian cotten, pE, chfm, fAShE,

executive director of design and con-struction, University of Arkansas for medical Sciences, says his organiza-tion likes to issue a request for qualifi-cations on hospital projects to assure contractors and designers are qualified and understand how to work in a health-care setting. “Especially if they’re going to be working on a project in a patient care area, we want to make sure they are trained and qualified,” he says.

for cotten, the AShE education offerings provide the necessary back-ground for all aspects of health care con-struction. “They’re excellent training programs. I highly recommend people attend them and get their certification,” he says.

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fall River, mA - columbia construc-tion has begun construction of a 78,000sf community health center for healthfirst, in fall River. The scope includes the gut reno-vation of an existing single-story building, with a mezzanine. The health center’s fu-ture home – located at 387 Quarry Street – was formerly owned by Quaker manufac-turing, which is located less than a quarter of a mile away from its current location.

Skanska USA will serve as project manager. Steffian Bradley Architects is the designer.

“This once-in-a-lifetime renovation opportunity will provide healthfirst fam-ily care center’s patients and staff with a state-of-the-art healthcare facility, ” stated healthfirst’s cEo, Julie Almond.

healthfirst family care center is being designed and built as an environmen-tally friendly and energy-efficient facility, and will provide improved patient flow and ample parking.

This project has been made possible

by an $11.5m grant from the facility In-vestment program under the American Re-covery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The estimated construction cost of healthfirst’s expansion project is $8 million. The new location allows healthfirst to consolidate and expand their services in a contempo-rary setting that meets current healthcare standards.

The health center currently serves ap-proximately 6,000 plus patients per year in its cramped 10,000sf facility located at 102 county Street. In its new space, the number of medical exam rooms will increase from 13 to 27 and the number of dental operato-ries will grow from five to nine.

The health center is scheduled for completion in December 2011. Additional team members include Thompson con-sultants, Inc., as the mEp engineer; and goldstein-milano llc, as the structural engineer.

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HealthFirst lobby view towards its entrance


photography by John gillooly/pEI Attending the open house celebration at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Ctr. were l -r: Patrick Murphy, project manager, RFWalsh; David DeSantis, Ph.D. chief physicist, radiation

oncology, St. Elizabeth’s; Janette Chaparro, St. Elizabeth’s emergency department greeter; Jack Hobbs, president & CEO and Joe Reilly, principal, both of RFWalsh.

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enhances the quality of care to patients and their families and provides an improved and efficient working environment for the staff.

The carney hospital project consoli-dated and replaced existing undersized and antiquated operating Rooms and pAcU space with new modern, appropriately sized spaces and additional support areas. The project added three state-of-the-art

oRs with infrastructure for a future fourth. The pAcU incorporates eight private pa-tient bays including one for isolation. In addition, hospital employee support spaces, such as locker rooms, lounge, and dictation are provided with new space with direct ac-cess to the operating and pAcU Suite. The work was done in three phases to maintain daily hospital operations.


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High-Profile: Awards

Boston – The US Department of housing and Urban Development is rec-ognizing the commonwealth of massa-chusetts, and the cities of Springfield and Somerville, with its coveted “Doorknocker Award” for their outstanding work in pro-ducing affordable housing.

from creating a stable living environ-ment for those with disabilities to provid-ing rental assistance to homeless veterans, each community represents a model for developing innovative housing solutions to meet their specific needs.

completed in february of 2011, the Gordon H. Mansfield Community Vil-lage is a limited equity cooperative de-signed to serve formerly homeless veterans who have completed transitional programs and are ready to move into permanent sup-portive housing. The residents will not only own a cooperative share, but will also par-ticipate in the policy development, man-agement, and maintenance of the Village.

Veteran residents will have Individual De-velopment Accounts to accumulate assets over time.

Worthington Commons is an ac-quisition and rehabilitation project of 12 masonry buildings constructed at the turn of the 20th century. The project involved moderate rehabilitation of nine buildings containing 111 units that had been fore-closed, and the production of 38 new units through the gut rehabilitation of three city-owned buildings that had been scheduled for demolition. The project focused both public and private resources to renew these buildings in the Summit hill neighborhood, an area that had been plagued by crime and disinvestment.

The St. Polycarp Village Apart-ments are located in the winter hill section of the city of Somerville in a neighborhood that has a mix of rental and owner-occupied houses, and public housing to the west and south of the site.

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Boston - The Associated general contractors (Agc) of America recently hon-ored walsh Brothers, Incorporated with the prestigious 2011 AoN Build America Award.

This national award was given in recognition of walsh Brothers’ successful completion of Yawkey center for cancer care at the world renowned Dana-farber cancer In-stitute (DfcI).

The key objectives of the DfcI Yawkey center for cancer care project were to bring to life the vision of the Archi-

tect and family patient Advisory council (fpAc) who worked for years in designing a patient-focused, sustainable, and healing environment.

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In a nationwide survey of leading architectural firms Ann Beha Architects (ABA) took the “five spot.”

founder and principal Ann Beha, fAIA, has a background in historic preservation, as do long-time principals pamela hawkes, fAIA, and Thomas hotaling, AIA. “Our job is finding a con-temporary voice within a historic center,” Beha says.

The architects achieve this goal through intensive study of the site and the structure. Take the design for the Univer-sity of pennsylvania’s music Building led by the newest ABA principal, philip chen, AIA. constructed in 1892, the building is on philadelphia’s Register of historic plac-es, but it was poorly suited for a contem-porary music program. chen and his team carefully restored the original building

while doubling the space avail-able to programming through a contemporary addition that bol-sters the original structure.

It became Penn’s first lEED gold project. But it is the program, according to chen, that makes it particularly sustainable. “one of our approaches when dealing with an existing structure is to infuse it with a vital program that makes it well used. That pro-

longs the life of any building,” he says.The firm has earned AIA Honor

Awards from the New York and New Jer-sey chapters as well as recognition for their significant contributions to historic preser-vation from the Boston Society of Archi-tects and the Andover Architectural Soci-ety. (They also earned a nod in Architect’s Annual Design Review for their transfor-mation of the cambridge public library.)

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Beacon, NY - The challenge put before green-scape, Inc. and a talented team of professionals was to renovate a hudson River park that has been an indus-trial wasteland for years.

what effect on a 15 acre waterfront site does a rail yard, commercial ferry landing, salvage/scrap yard, oil storage facility, and a pes-ticide and herbicide manu-facturing plant have on a relatively fragile ecosystem? Simply put, it will destroy the soil, plant, and animal life.

The challenge put in front of green-scape, Inc. and a team of professionals was to renovate this waterfront site, making the land a model for eco renovation.

The project is long Dock park in Beacon. After years of abuse to the land, the team will restore the future park and create wetland areas and meadows com-plete with walking trails, a boat landing for nonpowered boats, and a restored “Red Barn” to be used as a cultural center.

Before any new additions of trails and plants to the park could be started, en-vironmental rehabilitation work had to be completed, including the removal of more than 350 tons of contaminated soils; the identification and removal of nonnative and invasive plants that are competing with what is left of the native species; excavat-

ing soils in wetland areas to appropriate depths to remove depleted soils and replace them with appropriate soils and plantings; remove and replace deteriorating timber bulkheads with 3/8” thick steel bulkhead-ing, and the removal of concrete slabs and metal debris left behind from years of industrial use.

To complete the soil renovation, ap-proximately two to three feet of specially blended soil will be reincorporated into much of the site, which then will be ready for the planting and construction.

By summer the park will be fully restored and visitors, both human and ani-mal, will return to long Dock park to ad-mire its newly re-created beauty and enjoy the magnificent views of the Hudson River. greenscape, Inc. is proud to be a part of this rewarding landscape renovation.

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lawrence, mA - o’connor constructors is close to completing the $22 million renova-tion/expansion that will transform the william X. wall Experiment Station into a state-of-the-art green facility.

The new 13,000sf addition has expanded the complex to 35,000sf, housing cutting edge organic and inorganic chemistry and microbi-ology labs and analyti-cal equipment.

founded in 1887 by the mass. State Board of health as a facility to conduct re-search leading to the development of practi-cal methods for treat-ing sewage, industrial wastes, and public drinking water supplies, wXw has a long history of leading the way in the protection of the public health and the environment.

o’connor constructors was hired as construction managers by the Division of capital Asset management based on experience with similar projects, project management procedures, and abilities. o’connor was involved early in the design process providing real cost budgets, sched-

ules, and material research.The renovated building will be

LEED certified and will include: photo voltaic cells, rainwater recycling, storm water management systems, green roof de-sign, efficient new heating and ventilation systems, “day lighting” efforts, and a close proximity to public transportation.

completion of phase 2 of the project is scheduled for August 2011.

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manchester, cT -- The Simon Kon-over company held a formal ribbon cutting ceremony at the Dye house Apartments in manchester to celebrate the transformation of the landmark building.

Built in 1914, the Dye house is lo-cated within the cheney Brothers National historic landmark District, once home to the first commercially successful silk mill in the U. S., and is one of the last of the major buildings in the complex to be restored.

The reconstruction project trans-formed the former mill into 57 unique apart-ment homes with high ceilings, exposed brick walls, and large architecturally de-tailed windows, preserving the classic tim-ber and brick elements of the early 1900 mill construction style.

meehan & goodin of manchester was the engineer for the project.

The adaptive reuse project created modern one, two and three-bedroom afford-able apartment homes while retaining the historic charm of the building’s structure. one hundred percent of the units have been

set aside for income qualified residents.The project was financed by Low In-

come housing Tax credit proceeds provid-ed under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the US Department of hous-ing and Urban Development’s homE pro-gram, and a first mortgage being provided by chfA.

The financing structure also included the sale of federal historic preservation tax credits by the National Equity fund to TD Bank and the sale of state historic tax credits to John hancock.

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Boston - EMD Serono, Inc., an affili-ate of merck KgaA, Darmstadt, germany, announced that the company’s research center in Billerica is LEED Gold certified under the US green Building council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute. The Billerica research facility is one of only five laboratories in Massachu-setts to achieve this high rating.

In february 2011, EmD Serono an-nounced the completion of its Billerica re-search facility - a three-year construction project that included a $65 million expan-sion plan. Approximately 200 scientists work at the facility, focused on expertise in cancer biology, cancer immunotherapy, oncogene signaling, medicinal chemistry, molecular modeling, protein engineering, therapeutic antibodies and manufacturing cell lines across the core therapeutic areas of neurodegenerative diseases, cancer and fertility.

The 140,000sf facility incorporates environmentally responsible design fea-tures throughout the offices and laboratory. The building’s green features include high efficiency variable speed chillers; energy efficient cooling towers; high efficiency

boilers; low flow fume hoods; low veloc-ity/pressure drop, energy efficient air dis-tribution systems; energy recovery systems on exhaust; low flow water system; and energy-efficient lighting and controls.

Natural light is maximized through-out the building with solar panels utilized to generate electrical power for the lobby area, along with a daylight monitoring sys-tem incorporated throughout the building to reduce electrical usage. In addition, more than 20% of the building contains recycled content, 95% of the building construction waste was recycled including brick and steel materials, and more than 50% of the wood is forest Stewardship council certi-fied. It is estimated that the EMD Serono research facility utilizes 19% less energy and approximately 72% less water than a comparable conventional building.

The architect on the research facility was Ellenzweig. The construction manag-er was Jones lang laSalle, a global real es-tate services and construction management corporation. The mechanical engineers of the facility were BR+A and the civil engi-neers were BSc group.


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Boston - margulies perruzzi Archi-tects (mpA) has completed the design of new office space for Best Doctors, Inc., the global leader in clinical advocacy solutions ensuring that individuals have the right di-agnosis and the right treatment. founded in 1989 by two harvard medical School professors, Best Doctors serves more than 260 insurers, employers and health plans, touching 25 million lives in 40 countries.

mpA provided interior design ser-vices for the 54,000sf project located on two floors at 100 Federal Street in Boston. mpA maintained much of the existing de-sign while creating a new executive office suite with finishes that harmonize with the

rest of the interiors. The offices in the ex-ecutive suite feature light maple wood fur-niture and conference tables, with a variety of traditional boardroom seating and mod-ern casual chairs. To further personalize the space for Best Doctors, local artist Sarah Egan painted a wall in the firm’s reception area, creating a piece with tonal color and plaster paint.

commodore Builders was the gen-eral contractor for the project, and RDK Engineers provided mechanical, electri-cal and plumbing engineering. cushman & Wakefield was the tenant broker and project manager for the project

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New london, Nh - North Branch construction of concord has completed renovations of the New london Inn. This historic building, built in 1792, has received several upgrades throughout a three-month job that include repairs to the heating con-trol system, interior renovations, and new insulation and siding. These upgrades have improved the inn’s energy efficiency while maintaining its historic charm and iconic presence in New london.

These improvements were performed by North Branch, with architectural de-sign provided by Banwell Architects of lebanon, while the Inn remained in full operation.

North Branch construction has been preserving New hampshire’s history for decades. Recent restoration projects in-clude the 1832 Newbury center meeting house in Newbury as well as the 1812 wolfeboro Inn in wolfeboro.

North Branch completes RenovationsBanwell Architects

The historic New London Inn has been upgraded to improve energy efficiency and comfort.

gardner, mA - Envirocare, the healthcare division of Environments at work, New England’s premier haworth office furniture dealer, recently completed the installation of furnishings at the wat-kins center for Emergency & Acute care at heywood hospital in gardner. The Envirocare team was responsible for pro-viding furnishings for the newly expanded inpatient facility, including the Emergency Department, patient care rooms, and staff support areas.

The new 72,000sf facility includes 50 private inpatient rooms which reflect the principles of evidence based design. Daybeds are provided for family members while staying with their loved ones in the new private areas. The lower level of the watkins center includes the new 20-bed ED, a cT Suite with two cT machines and

emergency x-ray, and ultrasound rooms. On the first floor is Watkins I and the ICU with 19 telemetry beds and a six-bed In-tensive Care Unit. The top floor of the new building is watkins II which contains 25 medical surgical beds.

Envirocare’s team of healthcare design specialists worked with architect TRO|Jung Brannen to fulfill the client’s vision for furnishings in the patient care areas. Specialty healthcare furnishings were provided by haworth, KI healthcare, Nemschoff, and David Edward. The use of these products was geared toward support-ing heywood’s objective for the watkins center of providing unmatched quality of life for anyone under its care.

The general contractor was william A. Berry & Son, a division of Suffolk con-struction.

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Boston, mA - walsh Brothers, In-corporated, a Boston-based construction management company, has successfully completed the final phase of a capital im-provement plan at the Boston Red Sox’s

fenway park.For the final installment of the $240

million, 10-year cycle of major annual im-provements, the Boston Red Sox selected walsh Brothers as their construction man-ager. Some of the projects included in the final phase of the capital improvement plan were the construction of a new concourse and concession stands, demolition and re-

placement of the existing right field score-boards, renovation of the scoreboard control room, executive offices, media dining area, and a historic brick façade restoration, just to name a few! The project was completed in advance of opening day and within the five month off season winter months. The 10-year plan of improvements was done in part to ready the historic playing field for the Red Sox’s 2012 centennial celebration.

The project required demolition of the existing concourse slab, excavation, and extensive under-slab utility upgrades, including sanitary, storm drain, and power upgrades. These upgrades provide five new tie-ins at street level that will accommodate the future utility needs of America’s “most beloved ballpark.” Despite unforeseen con-ditions with utility relocations there was no delay to the schedule.

The walsh Brothers team took care to replace the historic executive office windows along Yawkey way, working closely with the historic commission which ultimately ensured the original window aesthetic was preserved while simultaneously increasing the efficiency of the windows.

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Exeter, Nh - Jewett construction co., Inc. of Raymond has completed renovations to administrative offices at SIg SAUER corporate headquarters in Exeter.

other projects completed for the company include a new quality control room and exterior renovation to SIg

SAUER Academy, office and ware-house renovations, mezzanine rooms and walkway renovation, a warehouse addition, and firing range expansion.

As this is an active facility, coor-dination was critical in order not to dis-rupt the client’s daily operations.

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Bow, Nh - Jewett Automotive Design and construction, a division of Raymond-based Jewett construction company, Inc., has completed work on a 3,000sf renovation to the grap-pone Automotive group’s hyundai auto dealership in Bow.

The project consisted of an exte-rior facelift as well as numerous inte-rior renovations, including an updated showroom, expanded customer lounge with wi-fi, and improved customer parking. This involved demolition of the existing auto showroom, including ceilings, lights, ductwork, and walls prior to the construction of a new open concept showroom including new light fixtures, floor tile, and store front doors.

Exterior construction included a new

service canopy and a new 12x12 tower for signage. All work was done while the deal-erhsip dealership was fully-operational, and great care was taken to ensure that the company’s day-to-day business was not in-terrupted.

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portsmouth, Nh – pro con Inc of manchester has completed an interior ren-ovation project at the homewood Suites by hilton, located just off woodbury Av-enue near the commerce center corporate park. The hotel is owned by S & S hotels of manchester and is managed by colwen management Inc. of Nashua. pro con Inc was the architect and construction manager for the $.5 million project.

The interior renovation transformed 16 former two-bedroom suites into 16 one-bedroom suites and eight executive king studio suites. The four-story hotel now has 116 spacious studio and one-bedroom suites with fully equipped kitchens, daily complimentary breakfast buffet, and an

evening reception. The suites offer guests all the comforts and convenience of home for the price of a traditional hotel room.

“The renovation allows the hotel to offer more of the type of suites that our guests are requesting,” said mark Schle-icher of S & S hotels.

The hotel’s lodge features the guest reception; administrative offices, snack shop, kitchen and guest buffet and great room with and oversized fireplace. It also has a fitness room, an indoor pool, outdoor sports court, a barbecue grill and patio area, and guest laundry facilities.

pro con Inc. began renovation work in february 2011 and completed the project in April 2011.

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The hotel now has suites with fully equipped kitchens.

cambridge, mA - Acentech’s Studio A, a specialized acoustics, audiovisual sys-tems design, and vibration consulting group for the performing arts, recently completed three projects.

for Spruce peak performing Arts center in Stowe, Vt, Studio A’s thoughtful acoustical design and sophisticated audio-visual systems ensure that the 420-seat hall provides an intimate and inviting venue for a variety of music, dance, and theatre performances, as well as lecture and video presentations and cinematic screenings. The hall is particularly well suited to un-amplified and lightly amplified music per-

formance, and its sound system is carefully tuned to work with the natural acoustics of the space to provide a rich and clear sound. Studio A’s acoustical designs included noise control for mechanical systems, re-sulting in a very quiet room with a warm, supportive sound that is spacious and en-veloping without excessive reverberation.

Studio A worked with Kallmann mcKinnell and wood Architects of Boston to create this performing arts center.

projects also were completed for Al-fred University in Alfred, N.Y. and lynn University in Boca Raton, fla.

Studio A completes Arts projects

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wallingford, cT - The New England office of Burns & mcDonnell announced that Shawn Briggs will be joining their energy division as a project manager. he has over 19 years of experience in development, permitting, engineering, pro-curement, and construction in the power generation arena.

Briggs will have a leader-ship role at Burns & mcDon-nell, working on the development of

its energy global practice. his focus will be on new generation of energy which includes thermal generation, transmission and distribu-tion, as well as nuclear gen-eration projects.

most recently Briggs was a project manager with The AES corporation of Arlington, Va where he was responsible for the develop-

ment of wind energy projects.

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Briggs

Briggs Joins Burns & mcDonnell

Everett, mA - Everett-based con-struction firm BOND (Bond Brothers) wel-comes charlie connor and Jay pezzuto, Jr. to the firm’s civil and utility division, and David Barrus to the estimating department of the building divi-sion.

connor re-joins BoND as director of operations for the civil and utility division. he is an established project manager and estimator with two decades of heavy con-struction experience.

connor had managed numerous civil and underground utility projects for BoND, including much of the utility relo-cation work for the construction of the cen-tral artery tunnel. connor returns to BoND after several years at william A. Berry & Sons, Inc as project director.

pezzuto also joins the operations department of the civ-il and utility division. he will serve as the new field operations superintendent. he comes to BoND from payton construction, where most recently managed its whitman Tool Division.

Recently appointed project estimator, David Barrus, lEED Ap, brings 20 years of estimating and project management ex-perience to BoND’s building division. his estimating experience includes conceptu-al-level, design-build, gmp development, and hard bid and his project management experience includes delivering several hos-pital projects in Rhode Island. he previ-ously held successful estimating positions at walsh Brothers and most recently lin-beck as senior estimator/cost analyst.

BoND New hires

Barrus Connor

farmington, cT - KBE Building corporation has named Barrie Deschaine busi-ness development manager for retail construction services. She will be responsible for the northeast region and will work out of the firm’s head-quarter offices in Farmington.

“Barrie has been an out-

standing member of the KBE team for almost 25 years so we know what she is capable of accomplishing,” said KBE president and cEo mike Ko-lakowski.

Deschaine was previous-ly assistant to the president and cEo of KBE and also helped with public relations activities.

KBE Names Deschaine

Deschaine

Acton, mA - geocomp corporation welcomed cynthia cogan, p.E., as a group manager of consulting services oversee-ing massachusetts and california operations. She will have profit and loss responsibility for these groups and, as a senior technical leader, will oversee a growing professional practice.

cogan brings to the posi-tion over 17 years of industry experience and will focus her efforts on developing expanded project reach and strengthening client relationships on behalf

of the company.prior to joining geocomp,

she served as a project director at ENSR/AEcom where she over-saw the management of a large-scale residential remedial inves-tigation and interim remedial measures program.

She is actively involved in a number of professional groups, including the Society for women Environmental professionals

(SwEp), where she was a founding mem-ber of the massachusetts chapter.

cogan Joins geocomp

Cogan

Rocky hill, cT - Solidus, Inc., a progressive design-build-furnish firm with a collabora-tive approach to construction, welcomes Jeff gutsfeld as its new vice president of business development.

gutsfeld, with more than two decades of marketing and business development experi-ence, including more than 15 years in the design and con-

struction industry, will be leading the business development efforts of Solidus’ construction services group.

gutsfeld will work closely with clients to develop effective and creative solutions customized to meet their needs with design in-tegration, construction, floor cov-ering, furniture, and merchandis-ing services.

Solidus welcomes gutsfeld

Gutsfeld

Boston - The Davis companies announced the appoint-ment of Daniel f. wheeler as senior associate, asset manage-ment.

wheeler will perform leasing, investment analysis, and various asset management functions to maximize the perfor-mance and value of the Davis companies Boston-area portfo-lio and Davis Investment Ventures Value opportunity fund I.

prior to joining The Davis companies, wheeler was asset manager at colony Realty partners. he has also held positions as development associate at Archstone-Smith and as investment sales analyst as Cushman & Wakefield and Insignia ESg.

Davis Names wheeler

Wheeler

Bedford, Nh - Eckman construction co., Inc. recently named preston hunter as its di-rector of business development. his expanded role will include finding and pursuing new op-portunities for the firm, as well as maintaining Eckman’s excel-lent relationships with past and present clients.

hunter has been with Eck-man since 2005, and has on-site construction supervision, estimating,

and project management ex-perience.

As a lEED-Ap, hunt-er has a special interest in emerging green building techniques and materials. he is currently communica-tions chair for the Nh chap-ter of the US green Build-ing council, the group that administers the lEED certi-fication standards.

Eckman Staff Announcement

Hunter

Boston - Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES), a provider of integrated performance analysis software and con-sulting services for sustainable building design, announced that project manager liam Buckley earned the Building Energy Modeling Professional certification from the American Society of heating, Refrig-erating and Air-conditioning Engineers (AShRAE).

This ASHRAE certification program attests to an individual’s ability to evalu-ate, choose, use, calibrate, and interpret the results of energy modeling software when applied to building and systems energy per-formance and economics. It also confirms an individual’s competence to model new and existing buildings and systems with their full range of physics.

Buckley Earns ASHRAE Certification

canton, mA – o’connor constructors announced that Andre chaires has joined the firm as a project manager in the Canton office.

chaires has over 15 years of experience in the construction industry. for most of his career, he has specialized in academic projects and higher education with clients such as mIT, North-

eastern University and others. he has a large amount of lab

experience and has successfully managed several lab fit-outs. He will expand o’connor construc-tors efforts in the academic mar-ket sectors with projects related to new construction, renovation, and expansion.

chaires Joins o’connor

Chaires


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wood palace Names luciannomiddleboro, mA - wood palace Kitchens, a premier

cabinetry distributor, announced the appointment of Kevin lucianno of Somerset as kitchen designer and sales repre-sentative.

In this dual role, lucianno custom designs kitchens in addition to developing new business.

prior to joining wood palace Kitchens, lucianno was with walpole woodworkers in E. falmouth; previously he was a sales and account manager with TwD Surfaces in Bridgewater. Lucianno

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manchester, Nh - foley Buhl Roberts & Associates, Inc. (fBRA) has added Derek J. gilbert, p.E. to the staff at its Manchester office. his past experience includes 10 years as a structural engineer en-gaged in the design of buildings.

In addition, he joins fBRA following a four year stint as a tech-nology solutions specialist exclu-sively focused on Autodesk Revit structure education and training.

At fBRA gilbert is an in-house Revit consultant as the director for ongoing BIm implementation and standard-ization efforts, and as the lead structural engineer and/or project manager for upcoming projects.

FBRA has offices in Newton, mass. and Atlanta, ga.

fBRA Adds gilbert

Gilbert

milford, mA - consigli construc-tion co., Inc. an-nounced the addition of two highly skilled professionals to its construction opera-tions team.

Joining con-sigli as BIm manager, Andrew Deschenes, associate AIA, brings nearly a decade of experience managing building information modeling (BIm) sup-port in the construction industry, as well as senior project management experience that spans two decades. he has provided BIm management and coordination on a wide variety of institutional and commercial projects across the United States, including work for cornell University, harvard law School, mohegan Sun casino, goldman Sachs, and Emc corporation.

christopher ferro, scheduling manager, joins con-sigli with more than 15 years of experi-ence in project con-trols and scheduling across multiple facets of the construction in-dustry including, pro-cess manufacturing, pharmaceutical, gov-

ernment, education, residential, cultural, and transportation. his diverse experience in preconstruction, planning and manag-ing highly complex, multi-phased projects with aggressive schedules includes his role as chief scheduler for projects such as the Shire hgT manufacturing facility in lex-ington, genzyme corporation’s Science Building and central Utility Building in framingham, and Intercontinental hotel and Residences in Boston.

Deschenes and ferro Join consigli

Deschenes Ferro

Boston, mA – Dyer Brown & Associates, Inc. an-nounced the addition of Brent D. Zeigler, AIA, NcIDQ as di-rector of design and Brian K. potter as a senior project man-ager to its Boston office.

Zeigler has over 15 years of experience in corporate interiors, restaurant, retail, mixed-use, and multi and single family residential design. prior to joining Dyer Brown, he was a founding partner and president of fourply

Studio, Inc., an award winning corporate in-teriors and residential design firm.

potter has over 17 years of experience in corporate interiors, retail design, and resi-dential architecture. his background is in both architecture and interior design. prior

to joining Dyer Brown, he was a founding partner and principal of potter hoffert, a specialized corporate interiors and residen-tial design firm in Boston.

Dyer Brown Adds Two

Zeigler Potter

Boston - Nitsch Engineering announced that transportation depart-ment manager fayssal J. husseini, pE, lEED green Associate, has been certified as a Professional Traffic Op-erations Engineer (pToE), one of only 56 pToEs in massachusetts.

husseini has 26 years of expe-rience in providing transportation and traffic engineering services. He is an active ITE member, as well as an ad-junct professor and member of the Advisory Board for the civil Engineering

Department at the University of massachusetts lowell.

The pToE is a national certification overseen by the Transportation professional Certification Board, in af-filiation with the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), that requires a high level of knowledge, skill, and ability in the specialized application of traffic opera-

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Boston - metric construction corporation, a Boston-based general contractor, has added the following em-ployees: paul mullaley, senior project manager; Jason Richards, senior project manager; clark Davidson, project super-intendent; and David Drugge, project su-perintendent.

mullaley joins the company with over 20 years experience. he formerly was with callahan Inc. where as vice president he managed development and construc-tion projects across New England.

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ager at Suffolk construction prior to join-ing metric. he has worked on projects up and down the east coast, including new development as well as historical reno-vations.

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Auburn, mA - R.h. white compa-nies, Inc. announced that several employ-ees have received pro-motions at the firm:

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Cloud Computing Agc of massachusetts IT committee presents “what is the cloud computing Revolution? And how can your compa-ny capitalize on it?”June 23 - 8:30-10 a.m.fee: $50Agc conference center, wellesleyThe move to cloud computing is chang-ing the landscape of IT in significant and far-reaching ways.Attend a cloud computing seminar dedi-cated to separating the facts from the hype. The seminar will provide IT man-agers and business executives the oppor-tunity to hear from a technology leader on the topic of the business advantages of cloud computing.Register online today www.agcmass.org.

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