From dredging and capping to structural carpentry and finish masonry, reconstructing the oldest active marine railway in the country required a diverse skillset.
CRRC MA Corp. committed in 2015 to build the 204,000-sq-ft assembly facility for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s next-gen rail cars, although the China-owned firm had yet to land contracts with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.
Building this $5.8-million project above a restaurant in a congested area of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, the project team was the first to use an innovative noise mitigation technology invented in Massachusetts.
The project team for this $30.5-million effort balanced restoration work and construction to adapt a historic church into condominiums on time and on budget.
The team for this $10.3-million nonprofit project developed unique design and construction strategies for creating an institutional residence that the team says feels like a home away from home.
Managing the volume and complexity of this construction management at-risk project safely in 14 months involved several challenging components, including renovating a 106-year-old, 93,950-sq-ft neo-Georgian residence hall and constructing the five-story cast-in-place Beren Hall addition.
To avoid massive fish kills in the event of an outage of the nuclear power plant’s two pressurized water reactor units, the project team replaced two deteriorated steel fish barriers that keep marine life out of the facility’s water discharge canal.
Located in the city’s heavily populated theater district, this project was considered the largest and most complex demolition and abatement in downtown Boston’s history, according to the team.