January 2014
High-Profile: Connecticut
LCB Senior Living Selects GC The Residence at Brookside
Brookside rendering will have kitchenettes and private baths, Avon, CT - Congress Building and residents will enjoy 24-hour security, Corp. of Peabody, Mass. has been selectthree gourmet meals a day prepared and ed by repeat client LCB Senior Living, served restaurant style, available laundry LLC to provide construction management and cleaning services, a full activities proservices and serve as the general contracgram, and a variety of optional services. tor for The Residence at Brookside, a seResidents in the assisted living area will nior housing community being developed enjoy all of the above-mentioned ameniin Avon, Conn. ties and services as well as assistance with Situated on a three-acre site, the activities of daily living including bathing new 62,500sf building located at 117 and dressing, medication reminders, and Simsbury Road, will include 74 assisted other services as needed. living, independent living, and ReflecThe Residence at Brookside is tions Memory Care apartments. The site scheduled for completion in early 2015. will be fully landscaped and will include a Congress Building Corp. is currently park for public use along Simsbury Road. providing construction management serDesigned in a traditional New Envices for The Residence at Riverbend, a gland style with Connecticut brownstone 75-apartment, senior living communielements, the community will feature comfortable lounges, libraries, a walkty being constructed in Ipswich, Mass., ing courtyard, full-service restaurant, and scheduled for completion in the fall of other signature high standard amenities 2014, and The Residence at South Windsor Farms, an 80-apartment senior living designed to keep residents active and community in South Windsor, Conn., engaged. scheduled for completion in early 2015. Independent Living apartments
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ENR NY Selects Two KBE Projects Farmington, CT - Two university building projects completed this year by KBE Building Corporation have been selected by Engineering News-Record New York as among the top construction projects of the year in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area. According to ENR, the award program focused not only on the value and scope of the structures, but on those projects which “stood out among their peers for overall qualities such as craftsmanship, innovation, and/or safety.” The two KBE projects selected include the renovation of the University of Connecticut McMahon Dining Hall as “Best Small Project” and the New London Hall Science Building at Connecticut College for an “Award of Merit: Higher Education.”
McMahon dining hall renovation
BL Companies Donates to Food Banks Meriden, CT - BL Companies, an employee-owned, multi-disciplinary architecture, engineering, environmental and land surveying firm is donating $10,000 to food assistance programs in honor of their clients and business partners. “The food assistance programs are
facing ever increasing demands for their services throughout the communities where BL Companies works and our employee owners live,” said Carolyn Stanworth, President and CEO. BL has contributed to food bank agencies in Conn., Penn., Mass., N.Y., Ohio and Texas.
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