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High-Profile Focus: Institutional and School Facilities Development News
Advanced Building Concepts CM for New Dorm Designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge
Portsmouth, RI - The Portsmouth Abbey School is a coeducational, Catholic Benedictine boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. Founded in 1926 by the English Benedictine community, the School is located on a 500-acre campus along the picturesque shores of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. Advanced Building Concepts was selected as the construction manager in 2006 to build the girls dorm, St. Brigid’s House. St. Brigid’s is a 22,500sf three-story woodframe building with stone and cedar shingle cladding. It has 14 double rooms, eight single rooms, and four faculty residences. Some of the green features incorporated into St. Brigid’s are solar panels to provide domestic hot water, Icynene insulation system, energy recovery ventilators, low flow plumbing fixtures, and a networked high-efficiency building heating and domestic hot water management control system. At the building dedication ceremony Dr. DeVecchi recognized the project’s architects, Architectural Resources of Cambridge, “for designing a beautiful, functional building”; Advanced Building Concepts, of Middletown “for their superb engineering and attention to detail throughout the project”; and the school’s director of operations, Paul Jestings, for having the project completed on time and within budget. Now in 2011 Advanced Building Concepts has been selected as the designbuild construction manager for the Portsmouth Abbey School’s newest dormitory project, the boys’ dormitory. The team that
will successfully complete this project on time and on budget will be Portsmouth Abbey School, Architectural Resources Cambridge, and Advanced Building Concepts. This 28,500sf, state-of-the art dorm will house 30 male students and three faculty residences and will overlook Narragansett Bay. Construction of the dorm begins in March 2011, and move-in is slated for April 2012. This building is positioned across the green from St Brigid’s and will resemble the building considerably. Of special significance is that the dorm will be built with a wide range of green systems and features, including lowVOC construction materials, solar panels
The Portsmouth Abbey School’s St. Brigid’s House
to provide hot water, flooring made from recycled materials, special low-VOC foam insulation, low E-glass windows, highefficiency/low-emission Viessman boilers, a networked energy management system, and a host of Energy Star-rated appliances. Every system used in this building adheres to strict standards for energy consumption and conservation, resource preservation and healthful environments. Advanced Building Concepts has awarded the electrical and mechanical trades to design-build subcontractors: the electrical contract to Wayne Griffin Electric, providing in-house electrical engineering; the mechanical to Sasa Brothers, with EDS as their mechanical engineer; and fire sprinkler to Tristate Fire Protection, also providing in-house engineering.
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