As part of a $15-million flood-control effort, a former flood-prone brownfield on the 14-acre site of a razed shopping mall was remediated and turned into a park.
Despite the pressures associated with an accelerated schedule and unanticipated subsurface conditions that prompted a “workaround,” the team for the water treatment plant safely built an 8.4-million-gallon-per-day facility.
It took 17 months to complete a 3,000-sq-ft transit center with a dedicated busway that had been a city street—all the while maintaining access to an adjacent state building.
The team preserved historic elements of a 22-ft-long, 60-ft-wide Main Street bridge, built in 1921, and its surroundings, while it minimized shutting down portions of the center of Chester, Conn.
State transportation bid data track positive for next year, but wage inflation in all sector work could be an 'underappreciated' potential risk, analysts say.
Before its $21-million adaptive reuse project began three years ago, the 132-year-old Richardsonian Romanesque granite and sandstone-trimmed chapel sat vacant for nearly two decades.