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Connecticut ASLA Presents Landscape Architecture Awards
New Haven, CT – The Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (CTASLA) has announced the winners of its annual Connecticut Professional Awards competition, recognizing excellence in landscape architectural design, planning and analysis, communication, and research. To be eligible, applicants must be a landscape architect or designer in the state of Connecticut, and […]
How to Implement Social Distancing Practices in Your Workplace
National – Creative Safety Supply, an Oregon-based retailer of industrial safety and Lean manufacturing products, has created a new guide to social distancing in the workplace. This quick guide showcases essential distancing supplies and illustrates steps to take to incorporate the concept of social distancing in your facility. Also known as “physical distancing,” social distancing is […]
Bowdoin College Reno Awarded
Washington, DC – CHA Consulting, Inc., of Albany, N.Y., has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 53rd annual Engineering Excellence Awards for designing the renovation of the Whittier Field Athletic Complex at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The two-phase project revitalized this piece of […]
Svigals + Partners Elevates Six
New Haven, CT – Svigals + Partners has announced the elevation of six staff members to the position of associate. According to the firm’s partners, the decision represents the latest step in an evolution in the Svigals + Partners’ structure. Promoted in December 2019, new associates include architects Katelyn Chapin, AIA; Jeremy Jamilkowski, AIA; Brian […]
Unitex and Dacon to Transform Lawrence Facility
Lawrence, MA – Unitex and Dacon Corporation are transforming a 188,000sf manufacturing plant into an automated medical and biotech uniform service facility that is anticipated to bring 160 jobs to Lawrence. The facility will consist of both processing and delivery operations to service the state’s life science and healthcare industries. Situated at the former location […]
Amenta Emma Completes Renovation
Small Projects Can Result in Big Changes Southington, CT – Amenta Emma has completed the renovation of Southington Care Center’s second floor reception area and nurses’ station. Southington Care is a 130-bed skilled rehabilitation and long-term nursing facility. The 1,620sf space was previously anchored by a bulky, institutional desk where nurses and staff monitored patients and […]
The Federal Reserve’s Powers to Pave the Way for Continued Development and Construction Through COVID-19
by Virginia Trunkes and Endicott Peabody IV As the Coronavirus has encapsulated the world, government go-aheads to construction firms are welcome relief to the industry. Lenders’ collective reaction to the current economic concerns is another matter. Future financing is always imperative to ensure ongoing construction as well as new projects. Government responses are changing by […]
Part 2: Bioregional Urbanist Design Principles
Toward Resource Self-sufficiency – One Region at a Time As president of Earthos Institute, I have helped to create Bioregional Urbanism, a process to encourage changes back to “One Planet Living.” This is the second of ten installments describing Bioregional Design principles. NOTE: The current pandemic changes the sequence of these articles to focus today […]
Maugel Designs Housing in Lakeville
Lakeville, MA – Maugel Architects announced construction has begun on the new 66-unit Long Point senior housing development in Lakeville. Developed by Jon Delli Priscoli of First Colony Development, the Big House style development is sited on a high bluff overlooking cranberry bogs and Pocksha Pond on Betty’s Neck peninsula. Team members include Stantec for […]
Precast Concrete is a Great Solution for Affordable Housing
by Rita L. Seraderian Can Precast Concrete Systems Reduce Inefficient Construction in Affordable Housing? The nation is struggling with a housing affordability crisis where income growth can’t keep pace with skyrocketing housing prices, forcing the construction industry to grapple with cost cutting measures. Housing affordability varies across the country, but the two main factors that […]
