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Svigals to Design Memorial Garden
March 2019
Dacon Underway at Senior Metal Bellows
Two-story addition to the manufacturing facility Memorial Garden rendering
New Haven, CT – After years of advocacy and planning efforts, a partnership of concerned mothers in New Haven has teamed up with architecture and planning firm Svigals + Partners to design a memorial garden in honor of victims of gun violence. The memorial could be open to the public as soon as this summer. Svigals + Partners has been working with the group pro bono since April 2018. The firm served as architect for the new Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn. The design for the memorial garden provides a path flanked with engraved stone pavers for visitors to walk the site, as ambient sounds from a row of lamppost wind chimes mask traffic noise. The
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path leads visitors past an original work of sculpture titled the Lost Generation. The sculpture depicts abstract human figures which are revealed or concealed depending on where the viewer is standing. The efforts to build the memorial originated with New Haven school teacher Marlene Miller Pratt, whose 18-year-old son was killed in 1988. “When we were approached to assist with this particular project, we were eager to get involved,” says Julia McFadden, AIA, associate principal at Svigals + Partners. “This important work dovetails with our mission to create and support prosperous, compassionate communities.”
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Sharon, MA – Senior Metal Bellows, a 60-year-old precision components manufacturer, broke ground with Dacon last fall for a two-story, 47,000sf addition to its Sharon facility. The project consists of a flexible 25,700sf manufacturing space on the first floor with a 21,300sf open plan for corporate offices and full-service lunch room on the second floor. A new corporate anterior entrance will be added to an existing 65,000sf building; two areas are joined by a glass atrium with 32-foot clear height and shaded glass walls providing westerly views. MEP process systems include utility matrix throughout the space for
compressed gas, electric, and specific process gases. Norwood Engineering is the civil engineering firm of record. William Jackson of William Jackson Associates, Inc. of Concord is SMB’s owner’s project manager Several years in planning, this expansion will provide maximum buildout on the site. It is the sixth expansion in the last 50 years. The building envelope is a conventional steel building with membrane roof, generous ribbon and punch windows, a vertical metal sandwich panel façade, and new glass corporate entry.
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