Articles Tagged with ''ENR New England Best Projects''

With the aim of attracting talent and hosting its customers in a more convenient location, Red Hat developed its new office in a former candy manufacturing plant in downtown Boston.

Among the few accelerated bridge construction projects in Connecticut, the team says this $5-million project was completed under budget and ahead of schedule with minimal traffic disruption.

Dubbed “A Bridge to Nature” by the Vermont Agency of Transportation, this project delivered not only a critical piece of infrastructure, but also a gateway into the state.

Despite having only limited details for this $29.5-million dormitory project when the notice to proceed was issued, the team worked diligently through a New Hampshire winter and beyond to finish on time and below budget in 19 months.

For this $85-million, 140,000- sq-ft project—the first new construction project for the New England Conservatory of Music in 60 years—the team constructed several performance spaces, including a black box opera theater, orchestra practice hall and large group ensemble practice hall.

Originally housed in a four-decade-old, 16,000-sq-ft, two-story building, the four-story addition expands the school’s facility to more than 70,000 sq ft.

Building a large artistic and functional building on an urban campus in approximately 33 months required collaboration with artisans, forgers and stone and wood carvers from around the world.

Renovating four floors of a former abandoned mill to create a much needed medical facility in downtown Lowell involved extensive remediation and challenging logistics, the team says.

To meet regional growth and corresponding increased load requirements, crews on this $40-million project turned to technology to help solve significant space restrictions.

Construction of the Silver Line Busway along a confined corridor required close coordination with multiple stakeholders to avoid disrupting a nearby Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail line or adjacent buildings.