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Portland, CT – The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has issued four new Presorted First-Class Mail stamps featuring photographs of bridges throughout the U.S. The Bridges stamps are intended for business mail users and are sold in self-adhesive coils [...]


Washington – The ACEC Research Institute recently released its Engineering Business Sentiment report findings for the third quarter of 2023. New data show engineering executives share a more positive outlook on the U.S. economy now and into the future. At the same time, firm leaders list concerns [...]

Special Report
An Interview with Diana Fernandez Bibeau and Seth Riseman of the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA)

Anastasia Barnes recently interviewed Diana Fernandez Bibeau, PLA, ASLA, deputy chief of urban design, and Seth Riseman, deputy director of design review at the Boston Planning & Development Agency about the city’s [...]

Education
by Jacqueline A. Falla

The worn marble treads of the stairs in the Campus Academic building, situated on the quad, central to every freshman’s initiation into higher learning. The red door and Corinthian columns that can be spied through the wrought iron gates and the [...]

by Bill Idarola

Many schools maintain their own wastewater treatment systems that exclusively serve their own populations. One unique aspect of these systems is the significant flow variations that they experience throughout the year. Along with the school [...]

Advertorial

The Universal Physical Education Program, launched through the New York City mayor’s office, is aimed at current Pre-K – 5 schools that lack an indoor gymnasium. The program utilizes a section of the school’s play yard to [...]


Needham, MA – M. O’Connor Contracting, Inc is underway with the renovation and modernization of the Emery Grover School Administration Building, an 1897 National Register Historic Building that was original constructed as a high school. The [...]


Boston – Bald Hill Builders (BHB) announced it recently wrapped up a series of projects at Boston University (BU) and Northeastern University. BHB recently completed two projects at BU. The first is the addition of new [...]


Bristol, CT – QA+M Architecture served as project architect on the Bristol Arts and Innovation Magnet School (Bristol AIMS), a community-selected, grades 6-12 school for visual and performing arts aimed at preparing [...]

Real Estate

Chelmsford, MA – Manzo Freeman Development (MFD), a privately-owned commercial real estate firm, announced it has acquired The Landing at Chelmsford Mills for $14.85 million from Chelmsford Holdings. Located [...]

Corporate

Winter Garden, FL – NEI General Contracting announced it has completed construction on its new, 2-story, 25,000sf office building and warehouse in Winter Garden. The office will support the Southeast operations including [...]

Northern New England

Montpelier, VT – The Associated General Contractors Of Vermont (AGC/VT) headquarters was ground zero for the July flooding that turned Montpelier and its surrounding neighborhoods into an extension of the North Branch and Winooski rivers. “It looked like a war zone. Silt and sludge covered [...]

Retail/Hospitality

Boston – Architecture and interior design firm PCA, working in partnership with chef and TV personality Tiffani Faison and her Boston-based restaurant group, Big Heart Hospitality, completed design for the 70s-and-80s-inspired [...]

Build Better Podcast
by Emily Langner

On season 3, episode 3 of the Build Better podcast, Anastasia welcomed Patty Alper, president of marketing and consulting company Alper Portfolio Group. She is working to address the workforce shortage in the architecture, engineering, and [...]



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Awards

Montpelier, VT – The Associated General Contractors Of Vermont (AGC/VT) announced it has won its third national award in as many years. Recently, the association won a Power of Associations Gold Award from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) for its successful “Run to Win” election [...]

People

Dorchester, MA – The Boston Preservation Alliance (BPA) announced it presented its 2023 Susan Park President’s Award for Excellence to Jean Abouhamad, president and founder of Sea-Dar Construction. A structural engineer and real estate developer, [...]