Dacon completes $25 million Tyco Valves & Controls advanced manufacturing testing & development facility

Dacon Corp., Tyco Flow Control, Diversified Project Management, Inc., town of Mansfield officials, and ISO Tyco associates and retirees recently celebrated the ribbon cutting of Tyco Valves & Controls' state-of-the-art $25 million advanced nuclear testing & development facility. Tyco Flow Control, a unit of Tyco International Ltd. manufactures and tests valves and controls for water and environmental systems. This facility is located in the Mansfield Industrial Park at I-495 and I-95. According to officials at Tyco Flow Control, the new facility is intended to "help meet the world's growing nuclear power generation needs." One of the largest testing facilities of its type in the world, the facility encompasses 118,000 s/f, in which nuclear design and engineering firms can develop and test critical safety-related valves and controls used by large-scale reactors. With more than 300 locations worldwide, Tyco Flow Control has more than 15,000 employees. Among its customers in the nuclear power field are some of the industry's largest nuclear reactor manufacturers, including AREVA and Westinghouse, according to officials. Tyco Flow's parent, Tyco International, is based in Switzerland. Dacon Corp., the Natick-based design/build construction management company, completed the project on time and under budget. Dacon worked with the Tyco team for nine years as the pre-construction project manager on a number of potential relocation options before Tyco moved to Mansfield, vacating an early 1900s facility in Wrentham, Mass. The full building renovation included a new membrane roof, reworked site package, new mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems throughout the facility, mechanical process pits, process separation walls and mezzanines, new lighting, floor finishing, and 24,000 s/f of corporate office. DPM served as Tyco's owner's representative and move consultant. Vanderweil Engineers provided engineering and installation of the high-pressure steam process systems. Broker Steve Clancy of CB Richard Ellis, Inc. represented Lincoln Property Co. in the sale of the building.