Client: Tufts University School of Medicine
Location: 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston MA
Architect: SLAM Collaborative
Project Description:
Renovation of the second floor of the M & V Wing of the Biomedical Research and Public Health Building. Scope included transforming the current space into a Medical Clinical Skills and Simulation Center.
Photo Credits: Merrill Shea Photography
Client: Harvard Medical School
Location: Boston, MA
Architect: Goody Clancy & Associates
Project Description:
Renovation included painting, flooring updates, lighting, restroom updates, new carpets & tiling, security upgrades and extensive MEP improvements.
Photo Credits: Merrill Shea Photography
Client: Brandeis University
Location: Waltham, MA
Architect: Feingold Alexander Architects
Project Description:
Scope included a partial interior and exterior building renewal: new window units/office fronts, doors, masonry, replacement of roofing system, connection of an elevator shaft, HVAC unit replacement, DDC Energy system, fire protection, ceilings, lighting, and flooring.
Photo Credits: Raj Das Photography
Client: MIT
Location: 84 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA
Architect: Gensler
Project Description:
Originally constructed by Wexler Construction Company in 1963, the brutalist student center had only undergone one significant renovation in the 1980’s to reconfigure the internal stair and allow light to shine into the building via the atrium. More than forty years later the center was due to be reimagined as a nexus of student activity and connection, a center for well-being, performance, healthy eating, and community building.
The scope of work included the renovation to all four floors including the reconfiguration and construction of a monumental new staircase. The fourth floor features a Well-Being Lab with formal and informal meeting spaces, classrooms that serve as active learning program space, peer-to-peer instruction space, social engagement and lounge. The fourth floor caters to dance and movement with two large-scale dance studios.
Photo Credits: Merrill Shea Photography
Client: Wellesley College
Location: Severance Hall, Wellesley, MA
Architect: Finegold Alexander Architects, Inc.
Project Description:
Severance Hall was the first phase of Wellesley College’s 10-year plan to address deferred maintenance. The renovation included mechanical upgrades, bathroom & kitchenette renovations and upgrades, envelope work, ADA upgrades, interior finish upgrades, and FA upgrades. The project was completed in 2 phases over two summers. Phase I was completed in the summer 2022 and Phase II in the summer of 2023.
Photo Credits: Raj Das Photography
Client: Suffolk University
Location: Ridgeway Building, Cambridge Street, Boston
Architect: Cube3
Project Description:
5,800SF state-of-the-art fitness space including treadmills, circuit training equipment, and elliptical trainers. New space includes a Fitness on Demand kiosk where students, faculty and staff can follow along on the wide-screen TV.
Construction was completed in 10 weeks in a fully occupied building.
Client: Boston College
Location: Maloney Hall
Architect: Miller Dyer Spears
Project Description:
Broken into two distinct projects and four phases, the renovation of Maloney Hall’s 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floors relocated and expanded the Connell School of Nursing to the 2nd and 3rd floors, renovated the President’s office and executive office suite on the 5th floor and renovated office and administrative support spaces for the Math Department and the Department of Student Services.
Scope included private offices, workstations, new carpet and ceilings, student lounge space, a nursing lab, two simulation labs with associated control booths, three viewing rooms, two exam rooms and state of the art presentation technology in all meeting rooms.
Client: Wyss Institute
Location: 58 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Architect: Doug Okun & Associates
Project Description:
Renovation to common area bathrooms, stairways, & laboratories of fully occupied building. Gut demolition & construction of new laboratory space for Wyss Institute. New HVAC exhaust systems, all new fire alarm system, & complete new sprinkler system. Building remained in operation at all times.
Client: Harvard University
Location: Harvard Yard
Architect: Payette
Project Description:
One of the most prominent buildings on the Harvard University campus, Memorial Church is used primarily for worship services including weekly Sunday Services, held in the main sanctuary, and daily Morning Prayers, held in Appleton Chapel.
Elaine Construction was hired to replace the HVAC system, adding much needed Air Conditioning in the sanctuary, mezzanine, and lower level. In addition to the HVAC work, a number of upgrades and repairs were also performed:
– Life Safety upgrades to meet current code (fire alarm and fire protection/sprinkler);
– Accessibility upgrades (MAAB compliance);
– Deferred Maintenance;
– Regulated Material abatement (asbestos felt below the wood floor);
– Integration of sustainable goals into the project;
– Accessible Entrance(s); and
– Reconfiguration of lower level spaces.
Client: Boston University
Location: Boston, MA
Architect: Beacon Architects
Project Description:
Renovation of the servery within Warren Towers, a Freshman Dormitory housing 1800 students was carried out on a fast-track summer schedule. Six distinct areas, comprised of roughly 5,700SF, were constructed to service; Late Night, Gluten Free, Asian, Grill, Deli, and Dessert. Challenges included procurement of food service equipment and hoods, which were long lead items, and required tracking and recovery schedules as the precise power, and plumbing requirements for the equipment would not support any last minute substitutions. All equipment was live loaded into the building, early mornings and weekends when traffic on Commonwealth Avenue was lightest. Work was turned over on time for incoming Freshman.
