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Before its $21-million adaptive reuse project began three years ago, the 132-year-old Richardsonian Romanesque granite and sandstone-trimmed chapel sat vacant for nearly two decades.

The main challenge for the team was to deliver two linked buildings concurrently on an occupied campus during one of the harshest winters on record.

The successful razing of the more than 424,000-sq-ft brick library in the center of the Williams College campus depended on the protection of several occupied buildings, each less than 25 ft away.

Halfway through design of the 190,000-sq-ft middle and high school, the Federal Emergency Management Agency released maps that placed the site in the 100-year floodplain.

The rain garden along the undulating wood rain screen at the LEED Gold-certified elementary school—a replacement for the Sandy Hook school where 20 children and six adults were killed nearly five years ago—is a natural filter for roof runoff as well as a tool to teach students about plant and animal ecology. 

The interior improvement of Arup’s Boston office is the first project in New England to achieve a WELL Building Standard and the 14th project globally to receive WELL Gold status.

The main challenge of the 25,000-sq-ft office fit-out was raising the dropped ceiling on one level by 1.5 ft, to 10 ft from 8.5 ft. 

Workers replaced the 80-year-old swing bridge with a single-leaf bascule bridge, breaking the job into two phases.

Design-build delivery is credited with helping the team deliver the Route 79/I-195 interchange improvements more than seven months ahead of schedule and under budget.

The first building on the Harvard Business School campus to be named for a woman honors the late matriarch of the Chinese-American Chao family.