While working for former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on a high school redesign project, Sarah Cherry Rice was part of a team that listened to approximately 2,000 people across the city, including students who wanted to graduate with real work experiences and no-cost college credits.

Only two years into recovery after battling more than a decade of drug addiction, Thomas S. Gunning, executive director of the Building Trades Employers Association Northeast, learned about the skyrocketing number of opioid overdoses in the construction industry and desperately wanted to help.

A new monument to Martin Luther King, Jr. and wife Coretta Scott King was unveiled in Boston on Jan. 16. 

The project had two main goals: to preserve the historic original home of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and accentuate its architectural elements while also modernizing the hotel to meet modern luxury standards. The early 1920s R. Clipston Sturgis-designed Renaissance revival style makes up 288,000 sq ft of the hotel.

When COVID-19, supply chain issues and other factors threatened this 203,000-sq-ft R&D fit-out, the project team collaborated on alternatives to keep it on track.

The 150,000- sq-ft building that houses the college’s research and science programs has 12 classrooms, four floors of labs and a 188-seat auditorium—all for teaching and conducting research in computer science, robotics and nanotechnology.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority reopened service on the Orange Line early on Sept. 19 after an unprecedented, month-long shutdown of the entire branch for a badly needed overhaul.