Construction Design & Engineering

Managing the growing trend of change management

It seems that today every company is trying to change something: work style, organizational process, workspace, branding. The trend is so pr...

How Massachusetts' newly enacted retainage law affects you

Massachusetts enacted a new law designed to remedy retainage abuses on construction projects. This law restricts to 5% retainage withheld fr...

Call for entries: International design competition for sea-level rise in Boston

The city of Boston, The Boston Harbor Association, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and the Boston Society of Architects have made availa...

Bigelow and Fleming complete 8,000 s/f MetroWest Medical project: $1.9 million Center for Behavorial Medicine in Framingham

Bigelow and Fleming, LLC completed a 8,000 s/f renovation at the MetroWest Medical Center. This $1.9 million project involved a major overh...

Changes to repairs require changes in methods

A year has gone by and CPAs and other professionals have been able to digest the new regulations as to if repairs should be capitalized or d...

Designing with water to make Boston more resilient

A recent national survey of city dwellers found that waterfronts are their favorite open space - even more popular than parks and trail syst...

Howard Elkus and David Manfredi honored by Boston Preservation Alliance

On October 21 the Boston Preservation Alliance presented its inaugural President's Award for Excellence to Howard Elkus FAIA, RIBA, LEED AP ...

Tsomides Associates designs reconstruction of Victorian brownstone

Tsomides Associates Architects/Planners has designed 296 Beacon St. in the manner of the 19th Century Victorian Second Empire Style Brownsto...

ARC/Architectureal Resources Cambridge and Deerfield Academy complete Hess Center for the Arts: Daniel O'Connell's Sons is construction manager for $24 million project

Deerfield Academy's Hess Center for the Arts, an 80,000 s/f expansion and renovation of the school's performing and visual arts complex, off...

Boylston Properties to renovate warehouse into 160,000 s/f Watertown office building

According to Cassidy Turley, Boylston Properties is planning to renovate an existing warehouse building at 480 Arsenal St. into a new 160,00...