Woburn, MA – Fitzemeyer & Tocci Associates, Inc. (F&T) has been honored with the 2025 Silver Engineering Excellence Award from American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA).
The ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence Awards recognize projects that demonstrate exceptional innovation, complexity, and value. This recognition celebrates F&T’s outstanding MEP/FP engineering contributions to the Rochester Regional Health Regional Care Pavilion at Canton-Potsdam Hospital. F&T was also awarded the ACEC National Recognition Award for the project.
Completed in October 2024, the Regional Care Pavilion at Canton-Potsdam Hospital is a 100,000sf expansion and modernization initiative aimed at transforming healthcare delivery across New York’s North Country. MEP/FP engineering was provided by F&T, alongside architect LaBella Associates and construction by Pike Construction. The facility includes 60 private patient rooms, an expanded emergency department, and a new main entrance and lobby, all designed to improve patient care and operational efficiency.
F&T’s engineering solutions addressed complex challenges to ensure the facility’s resilience and adaptability. Key innovations include a rooftop penthouse mechanical room housing air handlers and chillers, a dual-fuel boiler plant capable of supporting the entire hospital, and a dual-fed electric service to enhance reliability. Patient rooms are equipped with individual temperature controls and can be converted into negatively pressurized spaces for infection control.
“F&T was a key contributor and factor in the success of the project,” said Richard Carey, vice president of real estate, facilities, planning, and construction at Rochester Regional Health. “With creative and collaborative engineering expertise, F&T worked closely with our facilities team and the project team to implement the infrastructure solutions that were the best fit for the project.”
