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SLAM CS Gets DBIA-NE Gold Award

(l-r) Keith Poulin, DBIA – NE president; Eugene Torone, president, SLAM CS; David Neal, AIA, ACHE, principal, SLAM; Matt Ciaglo, AIA, senior project manager; Melissa Anthony, AIA, project architect, SLAM; and Andrew White, DBIA – NE, events chairperson / Photo courtesy of DBIA New England

New Britain, CT – S/L/A/M Construction Services (SLAM CS) has received a Design-Build Institute of America New England (DBIA – NE) Gold Award for the Out-Patient Suite Renovation at the Hospital of Central Connecticut, located in New Britain.

SLAM CS accepted the award at the 2019 DBIA New England Region Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner held at the Sheraton Framingham, Mass.

New spine center suite on the first floor of The Hospital of Central Connecticut / Photo by SLAM/Christa Maull

The award is given to a design-build project that best demonstrates team collaboration and innovation, efficiency and value. SLAM’s design-build team exemplified these attributes by creating value for the client through a single point of contact for design and construction.

New cardiac rehab space on the first floor of the hospital / Photo by SLAM/Christa Maull

The integrated design and construction team at SLAM worked with project and facility managers to design, budget and build several outpatient suites on the first floor of the main hospital. The project included a complete gut and renovation of outdated spaces, all done within an occupied floor.  The new clinical spaces include a maternal fetal suite, spine center and cardiac rehabilitation suite.