Commissioned to honor Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, this $60-million temple and meditation center is the largest Buddhist temple built outside of Thailand.
The relocation of this information management firm's headquarters from a 128,000-sq-ft, nine-floor office to a two-floor, 112,000-sq-ft space required advanced planning and ongoing communication.
It took a lot of coordination with local utilities, state agencies and various stakeholders for the team to build this 202,000-sq-ft, steel-framed arena and 27,000-sq-ft convention center.
Located on the Brookline/Boston town line, this project's primary objective was to separate sanitary flows from Brookline's 120-year-old combined brick sewer system by installing large diameter sewers to redirect the flows into the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's (MWRA) regional interceptors and treatment facilities.
The 644,000-sq-ft Alfond Center for Health at MaineGeneral Medical Center is an acute care hospital built to consolidate services from two MaineGeneral facilities in Augusta and Waterville.
Besides the typical challenges that a worksite located in a dense urban area can pose—little space for staging, heavy foot and vehicle traffic and a challenging schedule—the team building this 176,000-sq-ft, $76.6-million, mixed-use structure encountered a few more.
The longest of Vermont's three remaining Pennsylvania through trusses, the 350-ft, 85-year-old steel span over the Winooski River, was too narrow and in need of a significant structural upgrade.
The first of five planned buildings for the Alexandria Center at Kendall Square development, the $123-million headquarters for biotech firm Biogen Idec was designed to fit in with Cambridge, Mass.'s high-tech life sciences hub.