Hundreds of contractors, vendors, suppliers, designers and customer representatives were involved in helping to bring a corporate headquarters and manufacturing hub under one roof for a high-tech digital display company.
Although it began as an infrastructure solution to reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and flooding of the Alewife Brook watershed, the 3.4-acre constructed wetland project wound up going much further.
Renovations and improvements to Logan International Airport's Terminal B included 24 ticket counter positions, a relocated and modified TSA passenger checkpoint, 10 reconfigured departure lounges and boarding gates, a secure passenger connection to Pier B, concessional shell space, new club shell space and new baggage systems and bag claim devices.
Mark Erlich, executive secretary and treasurer of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters, is not an optimist. With an industry career spanning four decades, Erlich has been through many economic highs and lows, and so Boston's current private-sector building boom does not greatly impress him.
Each of the 10 winners of ENR New England's second annual Top Young Professionals competition impressed the judges with a multitude of leadership skills.
New England Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's (D) signature on the five-year, $12.7-billion transportation bond bill last month has brought a great sigh of relief, industry executives say.
Despite a firm completion deadline, tough site conditions and damage caused by vandals, the 403-bed Redstone Lofts apartment complex on the University of Vermont campus in Burlington was delivered on time and under budget in July 2012—in time for the start of the fall semester.
Meeting tolerance limits of one thousandth of an inch would pose a challenge on any construction project. But when the job is in an active shipping channel, where crews often work from barges, the task is particularly daunting.
The city of East Providence, R.I., needed to bring its 10.4-million-gallon-per-day wastewater treatment plant and 115-mile, 25 pump station and collection system into regulatory compliance.