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High-Profile Focus: Institutional and School Facilities Development News
Hutter CM for School Project
DCAM Update
Mass Building Congress
Boston, MA – In August 2008, Governor Patrick signed two bond bills providing funding for approximately $2 billion for public higher education facilities. The Massachusetts Building Congress (MBC) recent Educational Breakfast Program Public Construction Focus presented a program entitled ” DCAM and MSCBA Update.” Commissioner David Perini and Edward Adelman provided valuable information about new work that is “in the pipeline.” Projects in design include:
UMass Amherst campus
UMass integrated science complex • University of Mass. Boston’s integrated science complex, $155 million – features biology, chemistry, psychology, physics and engineering, environmental, earth and ocean science center for developmental science and center for personalized cancer therapy. The new multi-story science building, approximately 220,000gsf, will contain both wet and dry laboratories, offices, administration space, classrooms, and storage. • University of Mass. Amherst, $95
million – includes 90,000nsf of classroom and department space. A new four- to five-story building occupying an approximate 33,000sf footprint. Mix of department office space and classrooms, specialized rooms for TV and broadcasting production studios, editing rooms, film screening classrooms, computer rooms, and speech perception and auditory phonetics labs. Classroom space will consist of 13 to 17 high technology classrooms and lecture halls with a total capacity of 2,000 seats. • University of Mass. Dartmouth Carney Library renovation, $43 million – will provide new entry space to the existing library and a renovated and updated collegiate library. Complete accessibility, including a revamped site approach to the Continued on page 26
Barker Leads Design Team
New Ipswich, NH Hutter Construction Corporation is construction manager for the Mascenic Regional School project in New Ipswich. The extensive project consists of a new two-story elementary school totaling just over 74,000sf, a new high school science and technology center totaling 18,000sf, renovations to the existing Mascenic High School and Boynton Middle School, as well as conversion of the Green- Aerial view of the Mascenic Regional School project ville Elementary School into disogy center as well as the new elementary trict offices. The design team is led by Barker school through underground piping. The Architects. Working closely with the ar- system consists of a storage silo, auger, chitect and Mascenic Building Committee, boiler, stack flue, insulated heat supply and Hutter Construction was able to bring the return pipes, and under-slab radiation. A progressive design feature is pooriginal conceptual budget of $28.9 million rous bituminous concrete paving located at down to $20.6 million through careful budthe new high school parking lot, eliminatgeting, value engineering, and astute buying the need for catch basins and extensive ing and subcontracting. drainage systems. Another relatively novel Comprised of masonry block walls construction feature is closed-cell spray and brick veneer, the structure of the new foam insulation. With an r-value a bit over school is common among educational fasix per inch, spray foam acts as an excelcilities. There are, however, aspects of this project that give it preeminence to others lent insulator, with the added benefit of bein the state. The new wood pellet boiler ing an air vapor barrier. This project has been a boost to the heating system for the campus is a first of economy within the school district, since a its kind for an educational facility in New good number of the trades have been subHampshire in regards to its size and heating contracted to local companies. Scheduled capacity of 4 million BTUs. Constructed to be completed in December of this year, adjacent to the high school building, the the elementary school will be occupied in wood pellet boiler will not only provide January 2012, when students and teachers the heating for the existing high school, return from their Christmas break. but also for the new science and technol-
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