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.
With a nationwide shortage of protective respirator masks at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, every second counted in expanding manufacturing capacity.
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 materials abated with no effects on adjacent residences.
Spanning five passenger rail tracks, the 500-ft-long steel box girder bridge connects both halves of the university campus and their surrounding neighborhoods.
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 to commuter rail service as well.
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 30-month construction phase.
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 four days.