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ENR New England's 2018 Best Projects

Award of Merit Renovation/Restoration and Excellence in Safety Best Project: Harvard University Gore Hall Complex

December 5, 2018

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.

ENR New England's 2018 Best Projects

Award of Merit Specialty Construction: Millstone Outfall Fish Barriers Restoration

December 5, 2018

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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.

ENR New England's 2018 Best Projects

Award of Merit Specialty Construction: Emerson College Little Building, Boston, Mass.

December 5, 2018

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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.

ENR New England's 2018 Best Projects

Best Renovation/Restoration: South Street Landing

December 5, 2018

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To create a shared higher education and health research facility for three different Rhode Island schools, the former Narragansett Electric Power Station was renovated to house the new Rhode Island Nursing Education Center.

ENR New England's 2018 Best Projects

Award of Merit Office/Retail Mixed-Use Developments: The Exchange at 100 Federal Street

December 5, 2018

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Constructing this geometric structure in a constrained urban area posed multiple challenges for the project team.

ENR New England's 2018 Best Projects

Award of Merit Manufacturing: Ben & Jerry's Project Extra Chunk (BP01)

December 5, 2018

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This $80-million fast-track expansion of a 20-year-old building was completed in 11 months, allowing the ice cream facility to increase production by up to 44%.

ENR New England's 2018 Best Projects

Best Manufacturing: CRRC MA

December 5, 2018

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This project, which involved the construction of a rail car assembly facility, was delivered one month early and 8% under budget despite schedule constraints and the discovery of unsuitable soil.

ENR New England's 2018 Best Projects

Award of Merit K-12 Education: Enfield High School Additions and Renovations

December 4, 2018

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Due to decreasing enrollment, this construction manager at-risk project consolidated two public high schools into one building.

ENR New England's 2018 Best Projects

Best K-12 Education: Orville H. Platt High School Additions and Renovations

December 4, 2018

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This $110-million, four-year project built and renovated some 265,000 sq ft of a high school without disrupting school operations.

Floating Solar Farms Gain Traction in U.S.

Peter Maloney

December 4, 2018

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Mixing electricity and water is often not a good idea, but floating solar panels on water is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors in the solar-power market.