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City Scoop: Manchester

Dodge data on projected 2020 construction starts in Manchester

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Regions' Top Specialty Firms Stay Busy Despite COVID-19 Impacts

Top firms in New York, New Jersey and New England have some 2019 revenue cushion to meet the challenges created by COVID-19.

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New York and New England People: November 2020

Updates about construction professionals in the New York and New England regions

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Award of Merit K-12 Education: Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High...

Located adjacent to an existing high school, the facility offers more than 600 students a variety of career and vocational technical programs.

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Best Energy/Industrial: Boston College, Central Heating Plant Upgrade &...

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...

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Award of Merit Energy/Industrial and Excellence in Safety Award: ECU Module...

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...

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Best Health Care: Siemens Healthineers' Advanced Manufacturing and Research &...

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...

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Award of Merit Health Care: Boston Hope

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...

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Award of Merit Higher Education/Research: Yale Science Building

Appropriately for a building dedicated to science education, the project utilized several leading-edge design and building approaches to manage the work of more than 50 trade contractors during the...

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Best Highway/Bridge: Metro North Railroad/Atlantic Street Bridge Replacement...

It took intensive planning and tremendous teamwork to install the new Metro North Railroad/Atlantic Street Bridge in busy and congested downtown Stamford, Conn., and to prevent any serious disruption...

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Award of Merit Highway/Bridge: Beehive Bridge

Inspired by a honeybee’s flight pattern, the 265-ft-long pedestrian overpass reunites neighborhoods long separated by an urban roadway.

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Award of Merit Highway/Bridge and Safety Award of Merit: Northeastern...

Spanning five passenger rail tracks, the 500-ft-long steel box girder bridge connects both halves of the university campus and their surrounding neighborhoods.

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Excellence in Safety Award of Merit: Sunrise of Fairfield

The good neighbor policy for the three-story, 67,000-sq-ft assisted living and memory community began with the safe demolition of an existing synagogue and multifamily house, with all hazardous...

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Award of Merit Manufacturing: Honeywell N95 Mask Production Facility

With a nationwide shortage of protective respirator masks at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, every second counted in expanding manufacturing capacity.

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Best Office/Retail/Mixed-Use: Akamai Global Headquarters

Akamai’s headquarters rises 19 stories, making it the tallest building in Cambridge’s Kendall Square. It is also the largest WELL certified building in the Northeast.

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Best Renovation/Restoration: General Electric, North Point

The project featured the rehabilitation and transformation of a pair of historic brick-and-beam buildings for GE’s headquarters.

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Award of Merit Residential/Hospitality: Moxy Hotel

Located in Boston’s Theater District, the 24-story boutique hotel has more than 300 micro rooms.

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Best Sports/Entertainment: TD Garden Expansion and Renovation

The expansion and renovation of TD Garden in Boston featured nine different projects—each with their own set of subcontractors and own deadlines to meet—during a 10-month period.

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Best Landscape/Urban Development and Project of the Year Finalist: Boylston...

The three who died in the Boston Marathon bombing are now forever remembered in a memorial at the iconic Boylston Street finish line, where the tragedy occurred.

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Best Higher Education/Research and Project of the Year Finalist: The...

At the heart of the University of Vermont’s 19th-century campus, crews led by PC Construction delivered an $80.7-million STEM Complex—the largest facility investment since the Burlington school’s...

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Project of the Year and Best K-12 Education: King Open/Cambridge Street Upper...

K-12 school in Cambridge, Mass., is the first school in the state to produce net zero carbon emissions and its largest net zero emissions municipal building.

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New England’s Top Projects Meet the Moment

Annual Best Projects competition honors 18 projects in several categories

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Suffolk Appoints Many: New York and New England People

Updates about construction professionals in the New York and New England regions

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Former South Boston Rivet Factory Gets Heavy Timber Upgrade

Use of cross-laminated timber construction methods married a two-floor addition with an out-of-plumb, 120-year-old building

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New York and New England Snapshot

Shooting at Parcel H at the Boston-area Cambridge Crossing project for Consigli, Umenhofer noticed this welder “joining two remarkably thick steel columns,” the photographer says.

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Value of Region’s Top 20 Doesn’t Fall Despite COVID-19

New England’s largest projects to break ground last year remained on par with construction starts prior to the virus pandemic’s impacts

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Sole Woman in Room Now Leads by Example

Mary Jane O’Meara, HNTB vice president in Boston and national tolling group member, is an insightful leader and generous mentor

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People March 2021: Industry Appointments in New York, New Jersey, New England

The Worcester-Fitchburg Building Trades Council in Massachusetts has elected Jorge Rivera president.

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ENR New England Top Young Professionals

Emerging leaders innovate for their organizations and communities despite a world turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic

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