(l-r) Les Hiscoe, Shawmut president; Tom Leahy, senior project manager Boston Property & Construction Mgmt. Dept; Tom Goemaat, Shawmut CEO; and Kevin Sullivan, Shawmut VP.
Boston – Shawmut Design and Construction, a $968 million national construction management firm, joined Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Governor Charlie Baker, and elected officials recently for the renaming of the iconic former Ferdinand Building in Dudley Square to honor the late Bruce C. Bolling, the first African-American elected president of the Boston City Council.
The Bruce C. Bolling building project required renovation and new construction of a 215,000sf, six-story municipal office facility that will house the new headquarters for the Boston School Department, as well as community spaces for events, and 18,000sf of ground-floor retail space.
Shawmut served as the CM-at-risk builder, with project management services delivered by PMA Consultants. It was designed by Mecanoo architects and Sasaki Associates.
Shawmut Design and Construction was tasked with preserving and restoring three historic structures, including the Ferdinand’s Furniture Building and the Curtis Block and Waterman & Sons buildings, to create a triangle of historic façades connected by new construction. Shawmut worked closely with the Boston Landmarks Commission and Mass. Historical Commission to ensure the new building harmonized with the original materials, which included early 20th-century brick, a limestone Baroque and Renaissance Revival structure, and an 1895 terra cotta façade.
Shawmut was able to ensure efficiency and quality throughout every step of the project by utilizing building information modeling (BIM) technology to track the progress of one of the largest projects in the city of Boston’s history.
The building is a collaboration between the city’s Property and Construction Management Department and the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
