Working 24/7, the team supported by the Greater Boston Building Trades designed and built the emergency 1,000-bed hospital for COVID-19 patients inside the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in four days.
Long Beach Island’s sole highway connection with the mainland has been significantly enhanced via the six-year, $319-million project that rehabilitated the existing three-mile causeway and added a parallel structure.
What was once an imposing 1.3-mile interstate-grade highway barrier isolating Bronx neighborhoods now is a pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly urban arterial boulevard that provides residents with a connection to parks and the Bronx River waterfront while also preserving access for commercial trucks.
Sarah Lawrence College has a new “front door”—the 35,000-sq-ft Barbara Walters Campus Center in Westchester County, N.Y. An adaptable social and academic gathering space, the center is named after the school’s famous journalist alumna.
Major construction work took place on a campus running full steam amid the pandemic at multiple manufacturing, warehousing, office and research buildings. Extensive planning and teamwork were required to pull off 42 individual but interrelated projects during a three-year period without interrupting work at the complex.
To create seven ethane cracking units (ECUs) for a new plastic production plant in Pennsylvania, the project team constructed a total of 50 modules configured with structural steel, piping, electrical cable and control systems over an 18-month period.
On a 16-month project to improve an existing five-story central heating plant on the Boston College campus, with only one allotted shutdown allowed, the team committed nearly two years to preconstruction and extensive planning.