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.

The 87,000-sq-ft mass-timber building framed using cross-laminated timber embodies 2,300 metric tons less carbon than an equivalent steel- or concrete-framed building.

When Harvard University realized that several of the life science start-up companies associated with its innovation program needed specialized wet-laboratory space, the school decided to accommodate the start-ups by providing a facility.

Design-assist contracts for a curved exterior wall helped prevent change orders and keep the $79-million facility on schedule.

The 16.5-MW-capacity solar photovoltaic array sited on a former 130-acre hog ranch is more than twice the size of most of New England’s solar energy installations. 

The first project to interconnect the nation’s first commercial offshore wind farm to the mainland power grid made Rhode Island the first state in the nation to benefit from this type of renewable power source.