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High-Profile: Awards
Fresh Pond Reservation Awarded The Boston Society of Landscape Architects awarded the Fresh Pond Reservation Northeast Sector an Honor Award in its annual awards program this year. Carol R. Johnson Associates, Inc.’s restoration of 25 acres of the 100-year-old reservation surrounding Cambridge’s water supply was a bold first step by the city in returning the Reservation to a vibrant, healthy ecosystem. The Reservation is a much loved space for the urban community of Cambridge, yet the public’s intensive use had taken a great toll. The project area included sites that had been severely compacted from their use as a construction laydown area and a public works yard, and from intensive off-trail recreational use by visitors. Much of the natural area had seen extensive deterioration from invasive plant species that had reduced biodiversity and eliminated wildlife habitat in the Reservation. Steep slopes leading down to the Reservoir had been trampled and the fragile topsoil layer washed into the water during heavy rains, compromising the city’s water supply. Recognizing the need to protect water quality as well as provide for public use, the design team located the more intensely used facilities outside the watershed of the Reservoir and sited the sensitive wetland, wet meadow, a four-acre upland meadow, and a two-acre butterfly meadow further
Fresh Pond Reservation Northeast Sector into the site. The understatement and simplicity of the Northeast Sector landscape belies the innovation and complexity underlying this landscape restoration. The comprehensive steps undertaken to restore the site – the inventory of over 1000 trees, the removal of invasive species, the stabilization and protection of slopes using onsite materials, the transformation of a former construction staging area into a four-acre natural stormwater treatment wetland, the amendment of 5,000 cy of existing soils, and the planting of thousands of plants – are so interwoven with the site that their impact is not apparent. As one walks through the project, it becomes necessary to be reminded that one is in the city, as the surrounding landscape’s accommodation of public use is nestled within a rich and varied landscape that protects the water quality of the Reservoir and creates abundant wildlife habitat.
SLAM Wins AIA Awards
Glastonbury, CT - The S/L/ A/M Collaborative, a 180-member architecture firm with offices in Atlanta, Boston, and Connecticut, has been recognized for two school projects by the 2009 Educational Facility Design Awards Program sponsored by the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education. At the national AIA annual meeting held recently in San Francisco, Avon Old Farms Avon Old Farms Beatson Performing Arts Center Beatson Performing Arts Center photo courtesy of the SLAM Collaborative (Tim Seay (Avon CT) and the Samuel Staples AOF photography) Elementary School (Easton CT) dents that blends modern teaching philosowere awarded Citations of Merit from a field of more than 100 entries to the phies with a contextual design appropriate in a town whose character is still inspired national design award program. Completed in 2006, the The Samuel by agrarian buildings. The Beatson Performing Arts CenStaples School replaced an overcrowdter provides an auditorium that comforted, outdated elementary school with a ably accommodates the entire Avon Old 121,000sf, pre K-5 school for 800+ stuFarms School community of 400 students, plus 85 faculty and staff, for all school gatherings. It is the performance venue for the School’s chorale and jazz bands (as well as its dramatic productions) with a retractable concert shell, and provides expanded instructional space with large rehearsal rooms, a variety of practice Samuel Staples School rooms and a technology-rich recordPhoto courtesy of The SLAM Collaborative ( ing studio and radio station. Woodruff Brown Photography)
IBEW Business Agent Marty Aikens; Gompers Good Scout Award winner Senator Michael Morrissey; Secretary/Treasurer/Business Agent Boston Building Trades James Coyle; President. Mass. AFL-CIO Robert Haynes; Secretary of Labor & Workforce Development Suzanne M. Bump; Executive Director of Building Trades Employers’ Association; Good Scout Award winner James Wool; Good Scout Award winner Kevin Gill; George Meany Award winner Ronald Hansen, Jr.
Minuteman Awards for Service to Scouting Dorchester, MA - On June 12, 2009 spirit of the Boy Scouts. at the International Brotherhood of ElecSenator Michael Morrissey received trical Workers (IBEW) headquarters in the Gompers Good Scout Award. Samuel Dorchester, union members were honored Gompers was a key figure in American lafor their service to Scouting at the annual bor history. Gompers founded the AmeriLabor Breakfast. can Federation of Labor (AFL) and served Ronald Hansen, Jr., a sheet metal as the AFL’s president. worker, was honored with the George MeaThis year’s featured speaker was Boy ny Award. Introduced in 1974, The George Scout Peter Anzalone of Troop 546, StoneMeany Award recognizes union members ham. Anzalone is a Life Scout who is befor their service to youth and underscores ginning his path to Eagle. the important role union members play in the community. The Good Scout Award was presented to two outstanding union members for exceptional community service and leadership. Kevin Gill, president of McCusker-Gill, Inc., and James Wool, business man- Scout volunteer and Co-Chair of the Labor Breakfast ager of Sheet Metal Workers Mike Berry, Good Scout Award winner James Wool, Business Agent IBEW Local 103 and Co-Chair of Local 17, received “The Ideal Scout” award statues by Robert Labor Breakfast Marty Aikens; Gompers Good Scout Award winner Senator Michael Morrissey. Tait McKenzie, symbolizing the tti uide es ra G c Sand hic Servi Grap
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