January 2014
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High-Profile: Educational
Galvin Middle Tops Off
Novartis Expansion Topped Off
BOND GC
Boston - On Wednesday, December 18, BOND celebrated the topping off ceremony for the town of Wakefield’s Galvin Middle School. The new facility will replace the nearly 60-year-old existing Galvin Middle School, providing enhanced technology and educational services for Wakefield students in grades 5 through 8. The new 187,733sf Galvin Middle School is being built directly adjacent to the existing, fully-operational middle school, creating the necessity for a strict focus on safety and quality throughout construction. BOND is collaborating with town of Wakefield representatives, owner’s project manager Joslin Lesser + Associates, and design firm Tappé Associates to complete the new facility that will feature state-of-the-art classrooms, a media center, cafeteria, gymnasium, auditorium, technology labs, and spaces for special education, art, music, science, guidance, and school administration. Galvin Middle School construction is being completed in five phases to minimize disruption to the existing school and allow continued operations through the 2013-2014 academic year. BOND is currently in the midst of the project’s third phase, focused on the interior fit-out of the school’s academic wing; steel erection for the auditorium and music wing; and roof installation for an area of the school
l-r: Ed Bond, CEO of BOND; Chris Callanan, Steve Mai, and Joseph Bertrand-of the Galvin Middle School Permanent Building Committee; Katie Philbin, Ryan Dirico, Dave Capaldo, James Wrisley and Frank Hayes, all of BOND; Patrick Glynn, chair of the Galvin Middle School Building Advisory Committee; and Linda Carlson and Gregg Hogg of BOND that will house academic classrooms, a library, cafeteria, and administrative space. The team also completed a turf field prior to the start of building construction. Future phases of work will include the abatement and demolition of the existing Galvin Middle School to make way for the new facility’s gymnasium, as well as the fit-out of the remaining incomplete interior spaces. BOND will also build a second turf field for the campus. Final project completion is scheduled for summer 2015.
Novartis project team with Mayor Henrietta Davis and other dignitaries at topping off ceremony. Cambridge, MA - Skanska USA and Novartis recently topped out the 550,000sf Novartis campus expansion project in Cambridge. To commemorate the topping out, Skanska’s project team, Local 7 Iron Workers, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research executives, and local leaders, including mayor of Cambridge Henrietta Davis and Cambridge Fire Department Captain Thomas Cahill, gathered at the construction site to lift and place the project’s ceremonial topping out beam, marking the structural completion of the cam-
pus’ two new biomedical buildings. Skanska is currently targeting LEED Gold certification for both biomedical buildings, which will be comprised of mixed-use laboratory, office, and retail space. The buildings also include collaborative work areas, administrative space, an auditorium, and dining facilities to house more than 1,000 Novartis employees. The buildings share a common underground structure that features more than 450 parking spaces, a loading dock, building support spaces, and a central utilities’ tri-generation plant.
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