Already a national leader in neonatology, Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital was able to further advance its services with this four-floor, 120,000-sq-ft renovation that features special rooms for couplet care, allowing mothers and newborns to stay together throughout their hospitalization, and new facilities for the hospital maternity program.
Embodying the “can-do” spirit of the nation’s armed forces, the project team kept the $8.2-million, 65,000-sq-ft design-build military museum on track during 15 months while facing a host of challenges, beginning with moving and shaping more than 50,000 cu yd of earth to create a 4,000-ft long access road.
Rehabilitating the complex and historic “Salt and Pepper” bridge included restoration of its four cracked and leaning granite towers, which resemble salt and pepper shakers.
Building this $5.8-million project above a restaurant in a congested area of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, the project team was the first to use an innovative noise mitigation technology invented in Massachusetts.
The project team for this $30.5-million effort balanced restoration work and construction to adapt a historic church into condominiums on time and on budget.
The team for this $10.3-million nonprofit project developed unique design and construction strategies for creating an institutional residence that the team says feels like a home away from home.
Managing the volume and complexity of this construction management at-risk project safely in 14 months involved several challenging components, including renovating a 106-year-old, 93,950-sq-ft neo-Georgian residence hall and constructing the five-story cast-in-place Beren Hall addition.
To avoid massive fish kills in the event of an outage of the nuclear power plant’s two pressurized water reactor units, the project team replaced two deteriorated steel fish barriers that keep marine life out of the facility’s water discharge canal.