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High-Profile Feature: The New England Regional Council of Carpenters
New England Carpenter’s Center
Training Opportunities and Technology Propel Construction
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orchester, MA - Suffolk Construction is in the final stages of constructing the new headquarters and training center for The New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NERCC) and the Boston Carpenters Apprenticeship Program. On this highly visible site on Dorchester Avenue stood an abandoned, two-story industrial building that the NERCC purchased in 2007. The building once served as the laundry facility for the Archdiocese of Boston and prior to that was the home of the Dirigo Spice Corporation. Suffolk is converting the building into a three-story 75,000sf facility. The project consists of demolishing the roof and second-story walls of the existing structure and building a new second and third floor. Upon completion in January, NERCC’s new headquarters will include union offices, a bank, an eye care center for union members, and a state-of-the-art apprentice training/trade school that will provide training for 2,000 students per year. Students will not have to wait until classes start for training opportunities. Apprenticeship training has already started at the facility. Throughout the project, the Suffolk team has been working with apprentices from the Boston Carpenters Apprenticeship and Training Center. The apprentices are performing on-the-job training tasks at the site, including wood blocking, partition and ceiling work and miscellaneous finish carpentry trade work all while earning class credit. This has been
chitectural model, and covered in the field, which would have remodels created by the sulted in expensive change orders. Although the Carpenter’s Center structural steel, HVAC and electrical subcon- will not be submitted for LEED® certifitractors. The resulting cation, the project will be certifiable up to complete, or federated, the Silver level. The team has incorporated model allowed the many sustainable design principles into the project team to virtually project, including the use of low-emitting walk through the build- carpets, paints and composite wood proding and detect any clash- ucts; high-efficiency HVAC systems; and es between structure and water efficiency systems, including a storm systems. Suffolk held water collection system and low water use weekly “walk-through” toilets throughout the building. The roof of meetings during con- the new building will be highly reflective, struction so that the team helping to save on heating and cooling could detect and resolve costs. The NERCC has been looking for any clashes. This was Carpenter’s Center in progress extremely beneficial in a site to accommodate a new headquarters determining where pen- facility for the past decade. The completed an excellent opportunity for The Boston etrations could be made into the existing Carpenters Center will allow the union to Carpenters Apprenticeship and Training waffle slab for girder placement, and de- consolidate operations and replace offices Fund to use what will be its training center tecting conflicts from the mechanical and it now leases in South Boston and its curas a hands-on learning opportunity for its electrical trades before clashes were dis- rent training facility in Brighton. apprentices. Suffolk’s team is using the latest Project Team for Carpenter’s Union Hall in building information modeling (BIM) Architect - ADD Inc. technology to keep the project on budget and on schedule. The Carpenter’s CenGeneral Contractor - Suffolk Construction Company, Inc. ter was one of the largest projects in New Structural Engineer - Goldstein-Milano LLC England in which Suffolk used BIM extenHVAC Engineer - E.M. Duggan Inc. sively. Suffolk first had a surveyor scan the MEP Engineer - RDK Engineers existing warehouse, creating a point cloud Civil Engineer - Nitsch Engineering, Inc. model of the existing structure using laser points. Steel Erection - Sunrise Erectors, Inc. Using NavisWorks, Suffolk’s team Concrete - S&F Concrete incorporated the point cloud model, ar-
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