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Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: June 16, 2011
AGC honors Walsh Brothers' DFCI project with AON Build America Award
The Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America recently honored Walsh Brothers, Inc. with the prestigious 2011 AON Build America Award. This national award was given in recognition of Walsh Brothers' completion of Yawkey Center for Cancer Care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Walsh Brothers was selected by DFCI to manage the Yawkey Center for Cancer Care project. The key objectives of the DFCI Yawkey Center for Cancer Care project were to bring to life the vision of the Architect and Family Patient Advisory Council (FPAC) who worked for years in designing a patient-focused, sustainable, and healing environment.
The Aon Build America Award winners were announced as part of AGC's 91st annual convention. For over two decades this award has been given in recognition of a project's complexity, innovation, success, and significance within the construction industry.
"These projects require tremendous skill, extraordinary craftsmanship and dogged determination from their contractors," said Ted Aadland, the association's president and the CEO.
The Yawkey Center for Cancer Care, which won for "Best Construction Management of a New Project", is a 275,000 s/f, 14-floor facility with a seven story underground garage that includes 100 exam rooms, 15 consultation rooms, clinical research areas, a dining facility, and a healing garden. Walsh Brothers' experience and familiarity with building in the Longwood Medical Area (LMA) allowed them for construction of this medical tower without disrupting neighboring institutions.
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