A New Life: Transforming a Hospital for Behavioral Health through Innovative Design
The most challenging construction projects create opportunities to tell a story and share best practices. In Phoenix, Arizona, a shuttered hospital site received voter-approved bond funding for a major renovation. The goal of the client was to get the hospital...
Building Successful Teams
We’ve all been part of a team at some point, whether it be in our personal or professional lives, and the benefits of teamwork have been well documented; teams can foster creativity and interpersonal growth. However, team success is not...
Designing & Building: Scaling a Single Ecosystem for CDs and Model-Based Shop Drawings
In 2015, New England’s Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) team initiated a shop drawing requirement across every project with a scope volume number exceeding $30 million. The team instructed that all mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) trade contractors must use the...
Gilbane & CitizenM to Build Modular Luxury Hotel
I am excited to be intimately involved in our latest construction project in Washington, DC – the city’s first modular hospitality project, a new citizenM hotel. We are in the middle of evaluating manufacturers at their facilities where we observe...
Spotlight on VDC Innovation: Prospect
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) is a service that uses digital tools to create virtual models of buildings. These digital models are then evaluated before ground is even broken, allowing project teams to optimize the way a building is constructed....