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Gilbane Ink

Month: October 2019

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....