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.
To meet an aggressive schedule, the design and construction team on the 254,000-sq-ft Rhode Island Veterans Home project adopted a prefabrication strategy to build six wood-framed resident buildings that house a total of 208 beds.
Medford, Mass.-based BOND promoted Anthony Bond to serve as president of the firm’s civil and utility division, while Kane Cuddy was named chief operating officer for the division, which operates in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey and from a recently opened office in the Bronx, N.Y.
As Amazon’s decision to split its second headquarters between New York City and metropolitan Washington, D.C., draws plaudits and criticism regarding incentives used to lure the e-commerce giant, contractors are weighing the impacts of major new construction programs in what are already the nation’s top two construction markets.