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DBVW Celebrates the Groundbreaking of The Woodman Family Community and Performance Center

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The Moses Brown School groundbreaking

Providence, RI – The Moses Brown School broke ground recently on the Woodman Family Community and Performance Center.

This new 25,295sf facility is designed to be the hub of academic, artistic, social, and spiritual life on campus. It’s a place where students will gather, perform, exhibit, present, rehearse, act, dance, study, announce, graduate, and meet for worship.

“The Woodman Center will be like no other building in this region,” said Michael Viveiros, principal in charge of design. “The unique telescoping seating and hydraulic flooring allow an audience of 475 in raked theater-style seating for performances, and can quickly transform to a flat-floored exhibition hall for community gatherings.”

The Woodman Center

The Woodman Center

The Woodman Center will replace the 150-year-old Alumni Hall as the school’s primary performance and assembly space.

With an 18-month construction timeline, the new facility is expected to open late in 2016.

Project Team

Client: Moses Brown School
Architect: Durkee, Brown, Viveiros & Werenfels Architects
Owner’s Representative: DEC Consulting Company, LLC
Construction Manager: Shawmut Design & Construction
Theatre Consultant: Theatre Project Consultants
Structural Engineer: Odeh Engineers, Inc.
Mechanical/Plumbing/Fire Protection Engineer: Wilkinson & Associates, Inc.
Electrical & Central Boiler Plant Mechanical, Plumbing Engineer: Garcia, Galuska & DeSousa
Civil Engineer: Caputo and Wick Ltd.
Acoustical & Audio Visual Engineer: Acentech Inc.
Geotechnical Engineer: Paul B. Aldinger & Associates
Commissioning Agent : Stephen Turner Inc.
Photography Credit: Heidi Gumula – DBVW Architects