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Spotlight on Industry Leaders Kate MacDougall Kate MacDougall, P.E. (CT, MA, NH, and VT) is an associate principal with e2 engineers, a structural engineering firm specializing in the design of buildings. As the firm’s Massachusetts’ office studio leader, she manages a team of six professionals and is bringing the branch into its third year of operation. Kate fell in love with structural engineering for its collaborative nature and technical challenge. She spent several years in the nuclear industry before transitioning to building design with the intention to build stronger connections with clients and to work on projects with an immediate impact on communities. Now with over 13 years of experience, Kate has developed expertise in structural
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design for K12, higher education, cultural, and residential projects. Some recent favorites include New Canaan Library in New Canaan, Conn. with Centerbrook Architects, and Cranbury Elementary School in Norwalk, Conn. with Antinozzi Associates. Both projects presented a variety of structural challenges and were made successful by the teams’ proactive planning and detailed coordination. It only helps that both projects also highlighted structural design by using architecturally-exposed structural steel (AESS) in common spaces. Kate hopes that visible components of the structural framing will inspire students and others to be curious about how buildings are designed and how they
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stand up. She also hopes that structural engineers will continue to educate themselves on environmental and social sustainability, and seek ways to incorporate advancing philosophies and technologies into their designs. In addition to its structural challenge, New Canaan Library is a memorable project for Kate because it is Connecticut’s first Design for Freedom project, an initiative to reduce the reliance on forced labor in the construction industry. Kate is honored to be involved in a pilot project for the initiative and believes it’s an important indicator of globalization in the AEC industry.
Awards ULI Announces 2023 Americas Awards for Excellence Washington – Ten developments from across North America have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) 2023 ULI Americas Awards for Excellence. This year, 68 projects and programs from across the Americas region were submitted for the competition. From this field, the 13-member jury composed of development, finance, planning, urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture experts selected 20 finalists.
2.4 million sq. ft. of residential space, 100,000sf of retail space, and 11 acres of open space. With a focus on sustainability, all buildings are LEED and Wired Score certified. The King Open/Cambridge Street Upper Schools & Community Complex in Cambridge, Mass. was also among the award recipients. As part of the City of Cambridge’s Innovation Agenda for Cambridge Public Schools, the King Open Complex is the second project in the city’s larger effort to transform K-8 education with 21st century learning spaces. The complex reconnects the community to the park by surrounding the building with green, open spaces and creates a central spine that links the city through the site to Donnelly Field. Other winners included:
King Open/Cambridge Street Upper Schools & Community Complex Photo by Robert Benson Photography
Among the winners was Cambridge Crossing (CX) in Cambridge, Mass. The site was formerly an abandoned railyard now transformed into a neighborhood designed for human interaction and health and wellness. The master plan vision for Cambridge Crossing includes 2.5 million sq. ft. of life science and tech space,
• Aegis Living Lake Union – Seattle, Wash. • Aurora Bridge Bioswales – Seattle, Wash. • First Americans Museum – Oklahoma City, Okla. • HomeRise at Mission Bay – San Francisco, Calif. • Ironworks – Vancouver, British Columbia • Little Island – New York, N.Y. • University of California Merced, Master Architect 2020 – Merced, Calif. • Water Street Tampa – Tampa, Fla. In addition to an open category, which recognizes all product types, the categories for this year’s awards included
Cambridge Crossing (CX) / Photo by Mark Flannery
Equitable Development, Low-Carbon Development, Resilient Development, Small-Scale Development, and Urban Open Space. The following projects received recognition in these categories:
• Low-Carbon Development — Aegis Living Lake Union • Low-Carbon Development – King Open/Cambridge Street Upper Schools & Community Complex • Low-Carbon Development – University of California Merced, Master Architect 2020 • Small-Scale Development – HomeRise at Mission Bay
• Urban Open Space – Aurora Bridge Bioswales • Urban Open Space – Little Island The Awards for Excellence program recognizes superior development efforts in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Winning projects represent the highest standards of achievement in the land use profession and encompass a wide range of land uses, sizes, investments, and geographic locations. The winners of the ULI Americas Awards for Excellence become finalists for the 2023 ULI Global Awards for Excellence, competing against projects from the Europe and Asia Pacific regions.
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