Despite design changes and a worldwide pandemic, work on Sound Transit’s operations and maintenance facility remained on track.

The first new terminal in 40 years for the Washington State Dept. of Transportation-operated Washington State Ferries, the country’s largest ferry system, came with tricky site conditions and cultural significance that impacted both design and construction for a $187-million project split into multiple contracts to ensure on-time delivery. 

The COVID-19 outbreak clearly challenged the construction industry worldwide. Nevertheless, many project teams working across New England managed to more than endure during a difficult 2020.

Completed on budget and on schedule, the $165-million recreation center was the college’s largest capital project and one of the nation’s first complexes to integrate five major athletic venues in a single construction project.

This $21-million, 65,000-sq-ft building celebrates Gloucester’s maritime history. The steel and light-gauge metal frame construction includes solar panels, electric car chargers, cogeneration power systems and polished concrete floorings that eliminate floor coverings and adhesives.

When Sacred Heart University became the tenant, what began as a “white box” renovation to save the deteriorating building was transformed into a total custom fit-out midway through construction to renovate and expand this 20,000-sq-ft, century-old community theater. 

Hurricane Irene devastated Vermont’s oldest fish hatchery, the Roxbury Fish Culture Station, when it tore through the state a decade ago in August 2011.

This $18-million multifamily boutique project, completed at budget and on schedule, was named after the Inuit goddess of the sea.

The YWCA has operated out of its downtown Worcester, Mass., location for the past 60 years with little or no capital improvement.

Once a fortress-like bunker, the former Powder House Community School was transformed into an inclusive, intergenerational urban village through the extensive collaborative efforts of the CALA project team.