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Construction, Design & Engineering - May 17th 2013

Michael Norman, Abbot Building Restoration
Coming full circle - A recurring theme - part 1 of 2Coming full circle is defined as returning to the origin of a project or ...

Margulies Perruzzi Architectsand Cutler Associates hold ribbon-cutting for 36,000 s/f
Margulies Perruzzi Architects (MPA) hase completed a new three-story, 36,000 s/f medical office building for Oriol Health Care and its primary tenant Reliant Medical Group. ...

Abbey Group plans $5 million Lafayette City Center lobby renovation; Project team includes Suffolk, Jones Lang LaSalle and ADD Inc
The Abbey Group plans to begin a complete $5 million renovation of the lobby of Lafayette City Center, located at 2 Avenue de Lafayette. Construction ...

Vidaris relocates office to Boston
Vidaris, Inc., a leading consulting and monitoring firm specializing in high-performance buildings has relocated to 51 Sleeper St. The new and larger office is designed ...

Verrier and Binette of The Architectural Team honored with Paul Tsongas Award from Preservation Mass.
The Architectural Team partners Robert Verrier, FAIA, cofounding/managing principal, and Michael Binette, AIA, principal, received the 2013 Paul E. Tsongas Award from the nonprofit advocacy ...

Countdown begins on Brownfields tax credit expiration: scheduled for Jan. 1, 2014
Developers hoping to take advantage of the Mass. tax credits for cleaning up property with environmental issues, known as "Brownfields", need to act expeditiously if ...

How contractors can avoid landmines during a construction market recovery
Construction companies fail three times more frequently during a recovery than during a downturn. Schleifer, Beware the Recovery: What History Teaches Contractors and Sureties, Engineering ...

Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection proposes changes to environmental cleanup regulations
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) is proposing changes to the state's environmental cleanup regulations. These regulations, known as the Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP), ...

Davidson joins Timberline
Andrew Davidson, CPA, CCIFP, CCP joined Timberline Construction Corp. earlier this year to take over for Daniel Baril as the new chief financial officer, upon ...

State Electric launches new brand identity and redesigned website
State Electric Corp. has introduced its new logo and tagline, as well as the related launch of its completely redesigned website, www.stateelectriccorp.com. "This is a very ...

North Branch Construction completes Sig Sauer test facility - plant upgrades ongoing
North Branch Construction has completed construction of a testing facility for Sig Sauer. This two-level, 12,000 s/f facility was constructed within its existing manufacturing building ...

Jones Lang LaSalle Const. completes Peabody Office showroom/display area
Jones Lang LaSalle Construction has completed work as the general contractor for the new showroom and display areas of Peabody Office at 234 Congress St. ...

Mayor Menino and HBI dedicate redevelopment of Hayden Building
Mayor Thomas Menino joined Historic Boston Inc. (HBI) executive director Kathy Kottaridis, donors, and friends in a dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony at Chinatown's historic ...

Meade of Boston Redevelopment Authority welcomes it firm CareCloud to Innovation District
CareCloud, a Miami-based healthcare IT company, celebrated the opening of its first Boston office in the Innovation District. BRA director Peter Meade, on behalf of ...

PayPal and StubHub occupy 65,000 s/f at One International Place
Executives at PayPal and its sister company, StubHub, joined mayor Thomas Menino to celebrate their new, collaborative office space in the Financial District. PayPal relocated ...

#bostonwaterfront, Downtown Waterfront Planning Initiative
Over 250 residents, business owners, and community stakeholders attended the launch of #boswaterfront, the two-year Downtown Waterfront Planning Initiative, held at the New England Aquarium's ...

Wausau Window and Wall Systems hires Cherney as architectural sales representative for Maine, New Hampshire, eastern Mass. and Rhode Island
Wausau Window and Wall Systems named Dan Cherney as the architectural sales representative serving customers in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts. Cherney draws ...

Wagner named director of operations for DeStefano Architects
Adam Wagner, AIA, was hired as director of operations of DeStefano Architects, PLLC. Wagner comes to the firm highly qualified in all areas of management ...

DiCicco, Gulman & Co. to host 5th Annual Summit for Architecture and Engineering Professionals
DiCicco, Gulman & Company LLP (DGC), a CPA and business consulting firm with a special focus on the architecture and engineering (A&E) industry, will host ...

President's message: NSAs view on our local industry
Recently I attended the annual conference of the National Subcontractors Alliance, NSA, an umbrella organization of large, influential subcontractor associations from around the country. The ...

ASM golf tournament scheduled for July 15 at International Golf Club & Resort
ASM will host the 18th annual golf tournament on July 15 at The International Golf Club & Resort for members, guests and colleagues. Enjoy an ...

DiGiusto, Magill and Rivard named scholarship winners; to be honored at July 15 golf tournament
ASM has chosen this year's scholarship award winners. The three deserving recipients will be recognized at the golf tournament on July 15. Congratulations to our winners: ...

ASM Calendar of Events
ASM Breakfast Seminar Public Bidding 201: Beyond the Basics Featuring speakers from Corwin & Corwin LLP Thursday, June 6 7:30 - 9:30 AM Westin Hotel, Waltham ASM Safety Roundtable Wednesday, June ...

26 new members: More members, more clout!
Thanks to great work by eight teams of ABC members and our staff membership team of Ken Ledwak and Dave Murphy, I'm proud to say ...

Methuen Construction and Interstate Electrical Services recognized by ABC-Mass. for Westborough wastewater treatment facility
Methuen Construction and Interstate Electric Services Corp. have earned two Excellence in Construction Awards from the Mass. Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). The joint ...

ASM launches newly designed website
ASM launched its the newly designed ASM website which went live in April. The new website offers many new features not previously available through our ...

Coming full circle-A recurring theme-part 2 of 2
85 Devonshire St. 85 Devonshire St. is a high rise brick and limestone office building located in downtown Boston. Over the years, Abbot had done several ...

Project of the Month: J. Calnan & Assoc. and Leggat McCall celebrate topping-off of 77,000 s/f at 800 Federal St.
J. Calnan & Associates, Inc., Leggat McCall and community leaders gathered to celebrate the milestone topping-off ceremony for Schneider Electric located at 800 Federal St. ...

BOND breaks ground on $24 million Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Needham broke ground on the new Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center & Surgical Pavilion, a three-story, 30,000 s/f building, constructed by BOND. ...

Woodcraft Supply opens store in Walpole Park South
America's oldest and largest woodworking retailer, Woodcraft Supply, opened a second store in the greater Boston area. The location is at 3 Walpole Park South, ...

Sasaki honored for 3 projects by BSLA and 3 others by SCUP
Sasaki Associates has been honored with three Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) awards and three Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Excellence awards. The ...