It took a lot of coordination with local utilities, state agencies and various stakeholders for the team to build this 202,000-sq-ft, steel-framed arena and 27,000-sq-ft convention center.
Located on the Brookline/Boston town line, this project's primary objective was to separate sanitary flows from Brookline's 120-year-old combined brick sewer system by installing large diameter sewers to redirect the flows into the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's (MWRA) regional interceptors and treatment facilities.
The 644,000-sq-ft Alfond Center for Health at MaineGeneral Medical Center is an acute care hospital built to consolidate services from two MaineGeneral facilities in Augusta and Waterville.
Besides the typical challenges that a worksite located in a dense urban area can pose—little space for staging, heavy foot and vehicle traffic and a challenging schedule—the team building this 176,000-sq-ft, $76.6-million, mixed-use structure encountered a few more.
The longest of Vermont's three remaining Pennsylvania through trusses, the 350-ft, 85-year-old steel span over the Winooski River, was too narrow and in need of a significant structural upgrade.
The first of five planned buildings for the Alexandria Center at Kendall Square development, the $123-million headquarters for biotech firm Biogen Idec was designed to fit in with Cambridge, Mass.'s high-tech life sciences hub.
Hundreds of contractors, vendors, suppliers, designers and customer representatives were involved in helping to bring a corporate headquarters and manufacturing hub under one roof for a high-tech digital display company.
Although it began as an infrastructure solution to reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and flooding of the Alewife Brook watershed, the 3.4-acre constructed wetland project wound up going much further.
Renovations and improvements to Logan International Airport's Terminal B included 24 ticket counter positions, a relocated and modified TSA passenger checkpoint, 10 reconfigured departure lounges and boarding gates, a secure passenger connection to Pier B, concessional shell space, new club shell space and new baggage systems and bag claim devices.
Mark Erlich, executive secretary and treasurer of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters, is not an optimist. With an industry career spanning four decades, Erlich has been through many economic highs and lows, and so Boston's current private-sector building boom does not greatly impress him.