ENR New England's 2018 Best Projects: Milestones Mark Region’s Best Work
From Western Massachusetts to Rhode Island, ENR New England’s annual Best Projects competition highlights several firsts. CRRC MA, the Best Project in the manufacturing category, for example, brought manufacturing back to Springfield, Mass., for the first time in decades by building a rail car manufacturing plant. The West Springfield 8C Sub Station included a circuit breaker monitoring system that was the first application of its kind in the U.S. The project won a Best Projects award in the energy/industrial field.
In Eastern Massachusetts, the project team for the Savin Hill Apartments (award of merit for residential/hospitality) was the first to use a wood vibration decoupling clip invented in Massachusetts to mitigate noise, while EMD Serono (award of merit for interior design) was the first project in the country to receive WELL Gold certification for new and existing buildings.