Several ENR New England Best Projects teams contributed to efforts to battle COVID-19. The Siemens Healthineers’ Advanced Manufacturing and Research & Development facility in East Walpole, Mass., which won a Best Projects award in the health care category, is producing 30 million COVID-19 tests per month. Another team worked around the clock to build a 1,000-bed field hospital for virus patients in Boston, while a third retrofitted part of an existing warehouse and reconfigured a manufacturing facility to produce N95 masks. The latter two projects—Boston Hope Hospital and the Honeywell N95 Mask Production Facility in Cranston, R.I.—received awards of merit in the health care and manufacturing categories, respectively.
The judges also selected the King Open/Cambridge Street Upper Schools and Community Complex in Cambridge, Mass., as this year’s Project of the Year. The first school in Massachusetts to produce zero-net carbon emissions consumes no fossil fuels on site and features a high-efficiency design to reduce energy demand.