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Developers See Mass Timber as Likely Viable, Less Expensive Solution in Building In a remodeled furniture factory-turned-apartment building in New Haven, Conn., the walls and ceiling are all yellow pine, harvested from Alabama.

“So here we are, let’s come into the bedroom,” said developer Jeff Spiritos as he led a Connecticut Public Radio reporter on a recent site visit of the future ACME Timber Lofts structure.

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“The gaps in between wood, [is] something that’s natural and we’re not trying to hide the fact that it’s natural wood,” he added.

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N.H. Receives Federal Funding to Repair Storm Damage Beside the shores of New away from beginning any construcHampshire’s Rye Harbor, pummeled tion, an effort that could take in January by coastal storms, officials upwards of two years. from local, state and federal agencies “Our coastal seawalls play a pivgathered April 22 to discuss the otal role in safeguarding critical state future resiliency of the N.H. and local infrastructure, necessitating Highway 1A corridor with help from substantial post-storm cleanup and a $20.2 million federal grant. repair efforts after each coastal storm Earlier in the day, Gov. Chris or flooding event,” added Rye Town Sununu announced that President Administrator Matthew Scruton.

Biden had approved more than $3 “The vulnerability of Route 1A, a million in Federal Emergency vital artery for both local and regionManagement Agency (FEMA) funds al transportation, looms large with to help repair some of the damage each storm or flooding occurrence. from the January storms that pumThis project will reconstruct the seameled Rockingham and Grafton walls and coastal erosion protections, counties. substantially improving our coastal resilience.”

The Federal Highway NHDOT photo Administration (FWHA) PROTECT Getting Ready for Future grant is allocated directly to the New NHDOT joined federal and local officials to announce the first-of-its-kind grant dedicated to Storms, Sea Rise Hampshire Department of transportation infrastructure resilience under the Federal Highway Administration’s Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) The coastal resiliency grant award Transportation (NHDOT). It is Discretionary Grant Program. comes as local officials throughout designed to shore up seawalls along a Rockingham County are set to 3-mi. stretch between North receive a separate batch of money Hampton and Rye, two local communities State. “The system that was designed after New Hampshire’s disaster decbattered by the back-to-back winter coastal in the 20th century isn’t able to handle the precipitation rates and the laration for the January storms and storms and flooding events that resulted in storm rates that we’re seeing on an flooding was recently approved. widespread damage to public and private increasing basis.”

Though distinct from each other, property. the PROTECT grant and the FEMA The Portsmouth Herald reported that by Reconstruction Effort to funding will complement each other, securing public infrastructure, the state’s goal Stretch Over Five Contracts Rye Public Works Director Jason is to reduce the impact of future storms and NHDOT Commissioner Bill Cass Rucker told the Portsmouth news floods that strike the New Hampshire told the crowd the N.H. Highway 1A source. He estimated roughly Seacoast and minimize travel disturbances. resilience project dates back to sever$500,000 worth of damage was FHWA Administrator Shailen Bhatt was al storms in early 2018 that weakincurred across the two weather joined at the announcement by the state’s ened local public infrastructure, simevents.

Democratic U.S. senators, Maggie Hassan ilar to the storms that roared through “They’re trying to shore that up and Jeanne Shaheen, in addition to U.S. Rep. at the start of 2024. and [temporarily install] something Chris Pappas Chris Pappas, D-1st District, and area municHe added that the Seacoast project more robust to try and get us through U.S. Representative ipal officials for an Earth Day event hailing will likely be conducted in three the summer season,” added Rye the award. phases.

Police Department Chief Kevin The grant for reconstruction efforts in “We want to rebuild these revetWalsh. the Seacoast is part of the FHWA’s ments and stone walls back, so they’ll be able between the North Hampton and Rye town Members of New Hampshire’s congres$829.6 million that is earmarked for 80 to withstand those storms and hopefully lines near Fox Hill Point and Rye Ledge, a sional delegation spoke to the importance of projects throughout 37 states, the District recover quicker,” Cass said. roughly 0.6-mi. span, the Herald reported. rebuilding for the future rather than only of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

An NHDOT narrative from last August addressing current needs and damage.

Work on the project will be completed “What is very clear is after more and more over five construction contracts, according to notes that $20 million in aid would cover “We can’t just be satisfied with the fact of these storms [is the] protection that was the state agency. Fourteen revetment stone about 80 percent of the estimated construc- that we might repair the damage as the infragreat for decades is not standing up to the barriers and sea walls are planned to be tend- tion costs for the project. structure used to exist and feel like we’re pre21st-century climate, which I think is ed to over a multi-year period.

Bhatt said that design work for the project pared for the future,” said Pappas. “That’s emblematic of our infrastructure system,” As part of the effort, one of the first prior- is roughly 30 percent complete and the state not a recipe for success. We have to be buildBhatt said in his appearance at Rye Harbor ities is reconstructing the revetment sections transportation agency is about two years ing for the future.” 

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Skanska Lands $24M MBTA Red Line Improvements Contract Skanska, a global construction and development firm, announced that it has been awarded a $24 million contract by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to provide supplemental track improvements to the MBTA Red Line during six 24/7 track outages scheduled in 2024.

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Yale Professor Calls Mass Timber ‘Triple Win’ in New England TIMBER from page 1

But he sees a few reasons it is not being used more often for housing ways to increase affordable housing in the Northeast, including that inventory, and some are trying to do mass timber often has a higher so by using mass timber to inflict less upfront cost because, currently, the environmental damage. wood is shipped from the Southern Spiritos’s building will eventually states, Canada and Europe. hold 18 apartments, with the top two “That’s very difficult to convince floors constructed entirely of mass a private developer who is maybe timber. trying to do an affordable housing He also is in the midst of constructproject and costs are extremely ing another mass timber apartment important,” McLain said. building in New Haven that will be Costs would go down if there home to many residents with low were suppliers of mass timber in incomes — those earning 25 percent New England, but that requires of the area’s median income. more existing mass timber conMass timber, short for massive timstructions. ber, is a construction model that uses “The potential suppliers that are pre-manufactured solid wood panels looking at coming, they want to see in place of concrete and steel, which that the demand is already here,” are major emitters of carbon dioxide.

McLain told Connecticut Public Using a renewable source and with most of the pieces made elsewhere ACME Timber Lofts is a preservation, restoration and vertical expansion of an existing 3.5- Radio. “They don’t want to hear and pieced together on site, labor story, 150-year-old, unreinforced masonry structure, via a new mass timber stair and elevator there’s interest, they want to see costs and environmental impacts are core and two story cross laminated timber (CLT) extension, with exposed CLT interior and that there are real projects. So, it’s a chicken and egg problem.” less. exterior walls and ceilings.

Where mass timber can be “The environment is really causing cheaper is in its labor costs due to us to [do this],” Spiritos told the pubber construction in New England been the fact that such projects typically need Mass Timber in lic radio network. “The affordability crisis is seen, though not to the degree proponents between six and 10 workers, a fraction of Climate-Friendly Housing a mandate, and when you put them together, would like.

While it has been used for decades in the number used in steel and concrete conyou’re really getting to mass timber being Regardless, some say it could be key to structions.

Europe and the Pacific Northwest, only in worth a real second look.” recent years has an increase in mass tim- creating sustainable new housing in the “The fact that you’re needing that much region. fewer laborers on site is beneficial where Amanda Smith, a researcher specializ- there’s not that much availability of ing in buildings with the Minnesota-based labor,” he added. nonprofit Project Drawdown, said to create more climate-friendly buildings, offiSupporting RegionÊs cials need to look at reducing the amount Timber Industry of energy that buildings use in their everyOf course, what New England has is day operation, and reducing the amount of plenty of trees, and foresters looking to emissions created in the construction of sell their wood. the buildings.

A viable mass timber industry in the That is where mass timber has the most region would create a new market for potential, Smith said. Using wood to cre- wood, leading to more forest maintenance ate strong walls and beams requires much as trees are harvested, according to Chad less use of fossil fuels.

Oliver, a professor emeritus at the Yale “It’s important to look into the forestry School of the Environment. practices of where you’re sourcing that He calls it a “triple win.” mass timber from,” she noted. “But it’s “We have better biodiversity,” Oliver maybe our best hope for reducing our use noted, “we have less fire and CO2 polluof concrete and steel.” tion from fires, and we have less CO2 pollution from building things out of steel and concrete.”

Expanding Mass Timber in The biggest challenge facing a mass New England It may be hard to replace carbon and timber industry in New England is that it steel in our tallest skyscrapers, but mass is still new to the area, and it would be timber buildings are getting taller, accord- more utilized in housing developments if ing to Ricky McLain with the Wood more people understood the benefits, he Works Products Council. A 2021 building said.

“There’s a lot of misinformation that code change allowed mass timber buildleads people to think it’s not environmenings to go up to 18 stories, he said.

“In those taller buildings, they’re nearly tally sound, when, in fact, it’s extremely sound,” Oliver all multifamily for mass timber,” McLain environmentally continued. “I think what that did was open explained. “New England would come people’s eyes [and have them] say, ‘Okay, around to that. There are certain incentives mass timber can be used in multifamily that could be put in [place] that would really help it move faster.”  [and works] well.’”

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UMaine Athletics to Make $320M Expansion to Complex University of Maine Athletics recently announced a $320 million renovation project from the Harold Alfond Foundation which includes a $170 million investment to fund the school’s Athletics Facilities Master Plan.

The money represents one of the largest contributions ever to a college sports program, The Maine Campus, UMaine’s student newspaper, reported April 22.

Plans call for adding 4,900 sq. ft. to the Alfond Arena entrance and making a 5,000sq.-ft. renovation to the existing Alfond Arena.

As a result, the men’s and women’s hockey teams will receive new locker rooms equipped with modern lighting and the latest technology to create one of the premier facilities for college hockey in the United States. The squads also will benefit from a new film room that seats 42 individuals, and an upgrade to a tunnel leading to the arena.

The two hockey facilities will be connected by a new concourse entrance featuring a new building design to complement the recognizable Alfond Arena profile. The spacious concourse will include renovated points of sale for tickets, concessions and the brand-new area for the Bear Necessities team store. To preserve and celebrate the sport’s history in Maine, a new Hockey Hall of Fame also is planned.

When entering the facility, fans can expect to be welcomed to an area celebrating Maine’s only Division 1 program, with displays of the athletic department’s history and accomplishments.

New and renovated offices for the men’s and women’s head coaches, assistant coaches and support staff also have been designed for the hockey programs and are to be equipped with modern technology to train and care for student-athletes.

Additionally, the Shawn Walsh Hockey Center will be upgraded with modern sports medicine and strength and conditioning spaces.

Hydrotherapy cold and hot tubs as well as larger and more efficient areas for treatment and injury prevention will be constructed, along with room for upgraded training equipment and nutrition areas, to bring the total amount of renovated space to about 13,000 sq. ft., The Maine Campus reported.

Funding from the Alfond Foundation also is earmarked to pay for: • Upgrades to the Dexter Lounge, one of the signature components of the hockey

The two hockey facilities will be connected by a new concourse entrance featuring a new building design to complement the recognizable Alfond Arena profile.

arena. Those improvements will allow student-athletes, staff, donors, and fans to enjoy events, meetings and gatherings to celebrate UMaine’s athletics program.

• Improved branding in the arena geared toward celebrating the history of Maine Hockey as well as recognition opportunities for donors and an improved entrance for premium seat holders.

• A new arena lighting system.

• A beer garden at both the hockey arena and at Alfond Stadium.

UMaine’s student newspaper noted that the athletics department also will continue to consider options for the in-venue fan experience, as well as parking and traffic flow procedures.

The university’s upgrades to the Alfond Arena and Shawn Walsh Hockey Center will further the school’s commitment to excellence in the athletics program, noted Jude Killy, UMaine’s director of athletics, while strengthening gender equity and provide a preferred destination for high school sport championships and community events.

“The enhancements will provide championship-caliber resources for the men’s and women’s ice hockey programs as they prepare to compete in front of the best fans in Hockey East,” Killy explained. “These improvements will continue our efforts towards being the premier destination for college hockey.”

Bangor-based WBRC and Crawford Architects in Kansas City, Mo., are the architects for the Alfond Sports Complex project.

The building effort itself is managed by PC Construction, located in Portland.

The project is expected to be completed later this fall after having been under way for three years when new turf was installed on the football field.

In 2023, the Alfond Arena completed work on installing a new video board, ribbon boards, a new sound system and an LED lighting system as well as the new softball complex, field hockey complex and baseball scoreboard and fencing.

Future upgrades for the athletic program include a new soccer and track and field complex, new turf for Mahaney Dome, and an indoor connector to Memorial Gym. Work is also slated to begin in 2025 on building Morse Arena construction, the new home of UMaine’s men’s and women’s basketball teams.

Two Maine Marinas Get $3M From Feds to Make Upgrades A pair of marinas in Maine are in line to receive a total of $3 million in federal funds to make infrastructure improvements, Mainebiz noted April 16.

DiMillo’s Marina, on Commercial Street in Portland, and Peaks Island Marina are the recipients of the money, which comes from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Boating Infrastructure Grant Program.

U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, along with U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st District, announced the awards in a joint statement.

“Marinas are an important part of supporting Maine’s recreation and tourism economies, connecting Maine people and visitors alike with the scenic coastlines and working waterfronts our great state has to offer,” the lawmakers said.

The federal grants are designed to help improve local waterways.

DiMillo’s Marina received $1,422,731 in federal funds and has a non-federal match of $582,016, for a total of $2,004,747.

The facility plans to partner with the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) to add two 75-ft. transient berths as well as 70 ft. of side-tie dockage to extend the current dockage to 200 ft. in length.

The marina also will replace aging pilings, install three-phase power, add a more accessible gangway, build a boater’s lounge and replace an aging fuel dock.

Peaks Island Marina was granted $1.5 million in federal funds and has a non-federal match of $2,199,094 for a total of $3,699,094.

Along with MaineDOT, the dockyard plans to add 30 dedicated transient slips and 1,438 ft. of transient side-tie dockage, in addition to a wave attenuation system, an added fueling system and utilities.

Mainebiz reported that the grants for Maine were among more than $21 million announced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service earlier in April to support construction, renovation and maintenance of marinas and other boating facilities for outdoor recreation and waterway access nationwide. 

“The enhancements will provide championship-caliber resources for the men’s and women’s ice hockey programs as they prepare to compete in front of the best fans in Hockey East.”

Jude Killy University of Maine

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Funds Set to Make Maine Roads More Climate Change Resilient The signs of climate change have been getting worse lately in Maine, with recent storms cutting off access to local roads along the state’s southern coast.

“It gets pretty bad,” said Kittery Town Manager Kendra Amaral in speaking with Portland’s WCSH-TV in late February. “We have anywhere between three and six roads that end up getting cut off that are important thruways for community members and for just general traffic in town when we have storms with high wind and high tide.”

Amaral added that the situation has gotten so bad that she believes something needs to be done before the next coastal flood emergency happens.

Luckily, “The shipyard employees and contractors can get off the island and safely away from the danger area, and our community members can get away from the coast in a safe manner without being blocked by flooded roads,” she said.

Help is on the way.

Abbie Sherwin has been leading the team working on a newly funded project focused on producing designs to increase the resilience of vulnerable roadways in Kittery.

A senior planner and coastal resilience coordinator for the Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission (SMPDC), Sherwin said the effort includes areas like U.S. Highway 1 over Spruce Creek, and Whipple Road over Gate 2 of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) entrance.

“These two roadway segments are really important for local and regional travel.

They’re also emergency and evacuation routes,” she explained. “They provide critical access to and from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, but they are also really important from a local commuting perspective. So, they’re important regionally as well as locally.”

To help develop solutions to the problem, the Maine project received a grant totaling $545,700 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Kittery Roads Susceptible to Sea-Level Rise A community of 10,000 residents located at the southernmost tip of Maine across a series of islands, Kittery also is home to significant coastal habitat and wildlife, and extremely vulnerable to coastal hazards.

The oldest town in the state, it also has a robust year-round population and the PNSY, a keystone of Kittery’s waterfront, is a critical U.S. military installation — one of only four remaining U.S. Navy repair shipyards in the country.

Two roads in Kittery that are crucial for community travel and access to PNSY are especially vulnerable to sea level rise, SMPDC noted.

“Spruce Creek, a tidal waterbody bordered by saltmarsh intersects those roadways and is threatened by nonpoint source pollution and possible future development,” the Saco, Maine-based SMPDC wrote in a project description. “The project team from SMPDC plans to engage technical experts and local partners to complete a preliminary design of nature-based solutions to address vulnerabilities of Spruce Creek, the two roads, and associated storm and sewer infrastructure and to enhance the resilience of Kittery and the PNSY military operations.”

The commission added that the effort’s activities will include a site assessment of the creek and the roadways to identify conditions, vulnerabilities and opportunities for solutions; a development and evaluation of three conceptual designs, before choosing one to advance; and robust community and stakeholder engagement throughout the process.

Following that, SMPDC will present a plan to include a 60 percent design for the site and a decision, based on collaboration between Kittery and PNSY which, according to Sherwin will help “the community move from the planning stage to get to some designs that will eventually or possibly lead to construction projects to enhance the resilience of the road.”

Solutions to Be Applied to Other Maine Communities Key roads flooding and becoming impassable during heavy rain events like the region has seen in recent months are among the issues worsening with climate change.

But these problems are not just happening in southern York County.

“We know that vulnerable transportation infrastructure is not unique to Kittery,” Sherwin told WCSH-TV. “It’s a common issue up and down the coastline as was highlighted with the recent storms that we experienced.

“So, part of this project would focus on transferring the information that we glean from this effort but also some of the design aspects on how we could possibly incorporate nature-based solutions into these infrastructure projects and share them with other communities.”

According to Amaral, the town of Kittery is on board.

“This grant was just the appropriate and obvious next step for working on solutions for an area that we’ve identified as being very vulnerable,” she explained. 

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Equipment East Opens Spacious 15,500-Sq.-Ft. Facility

The EE RENTS facility is located at 250 Washington St., Auburn, Mass.

EE RENTS has the attachments in inventory to meet all its customers’ needs.

FACILITY from page 1

Dracut, Mass., in 2009 and later added facilities in Brockton, Mass., and Bow, N.H. The newly expanded footprint of four locations allows Equipment East and EE RENTS to provide equipment parts, service and rental support to its growing customer base in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and beyond.

“EE RENTS is pleased to be a part of the Auburn business community and we are eager to serve the needs of the bustling central Massachusetts market,” said Albanese.  CEG (All photographs in this article are Copyright 2024 Construction Equipment Guide. All Rights Reserved.)

spacious showroom, parts counter, hydraulic hose shop, employee offices, large parts warehouse and a 10-bay service center.

“Equipment East has a diverse customer base that includes excavating contractors, heavy highway contractors, site developers, landscapers and municipalities, as well as commercial and residential contractors,” said Albanese. “We have a full line of products from small hand tools to a large selection of attachments and machines of all sizes to meet our customers’ needs” Equipment East has experienced considerable growth in a short period of time. The company opened its first facility in

Blaine Senecal greets customers at the new parts and service center of EE RENTS.

EE RENTS not only represents manufacturers of earthmoving equipment, but it also works with manufacturers such as Wacker Neuson and Sullivan/Palatek to provide for customers’ smaller equipment needs.

see FACILITY page 18

The Auburn, Mass., facility has a massive parts storage warehouse, which allows EE RENTS to keep a large inventory on hand for all the manufacturers it represents.

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NEW ENGLAND SUPPLEMENT ADVERTISER INDEX ABLE TOOL & EQUIPMENT ..........................................10

New Equipment East Facility Feature 10-Bay Service Center FACILITY from page 16

ALTA EQUIPMENT COMPANY/NITCO LLC ..............1,11 BARRY EQUIPMENT CO. INC.......................................20 CHADWICK-BAROSS INC................................................7 CHAPPELL TRACTOR ..................................................13 EQUIPMENT EAST........................................................1,5

The 15,500-sq.-ft. facility, which includes five service bays, gives EE RENTS plenty of space for future growth.

FOLEY INC - WORCESTER ............................................1 GORILLA HAMMERS........................................................1 HYUNDAI CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT....................17 J R VINAGRO CORPORATION........................................1 M G EQUIPMENT ............................................................1 MILTON CAT ..................................................................14 MTE EQUIPMENT SOLUTIONS INC ..............................9 POWERSCREEN NEW ENGLAND................................15

Wacker Neuson machines are one of the core products available for rent at EE RENTS.

The new hydraulic hose shop allows EE RENTS to satisfy most of its customers’ hose and coupler needs while they wait.

Equipment East is proud to represent Yanmar, which provides a wide range of loaders and excavators that are wellknown for their reliability.

Every contractor has a need for smaller hand tools, including wood and power saws, pumps and leaf blowers.

ROGERS BROTHERS CORPORATION........................19 SHAWMUT EQUIPMENT CO INC....................................8 T-QUIP SALES & RENTAL INC......................................10 THE W. I. CLARK COMPANY ..........................................2 TIBBITS EQUIPMENT SERVICES INC............................1 TYLER EQUIPMENT CORPORATION ............................3 WOODS CRW CORP........................................................6 The Advertisers Index is printed as a free editorial service to our advertisers and readership. Construction Equipment Guide is not responsible for errors or omissions.

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