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.
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.
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