WOBURN, Mass. — Tocci Building Companies recently completed a 10,000-square-foot lab fitout for Greentown Labs, an incubation space for energy technology start-up companies located in Somerville, Massachusetts. Tocci worked with architects Robert Luchetti Associates and engineers Zade Associates to create additional incubator lab space for four subtenants: Zed/Transocean, Open Water Power, Quantum Diamond and Dynamo Micropower. The primary goal of the project was to provide a timely renovation of Greentown Labs” space. Since the tenants are mainly entrepreneurs that move at a fast pace, Tocci worked with the project team to fast track this task and deliver the space within … Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Design Build Institute of America has announced the 2014 Project of the Year and National Award of Excellence winners. The Denver Union Station Transit Improvement Project has been bestowed with DBIA’s highest honor, Project of the Year, with Agua Nueva, Golisano Institute for Sustainability, Henry M. Jackson Federal Building Modernization and the San Diego International Airport Terminal 2 and Airside Expansion projects being specially recognized for excellence in the critical areas of design, process and teaming. “This year’s award competition was the most rigorous to date with a greater emphasis on best practices and teamwork, as … Read more

PIERMONT, N.Y. — One of the world's largest floating cranes, a blue and red behemoth bearing two American flags, recently arrived at New York's Tappan Zee Bridge construction site. The Left Coast Lifter, which has a boom that extends to about 328 feet, can hoist big chunks of bridge that will be built at a factory and floated to the site, greatly reducing the time and cost of construction, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who marked the arrival with U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey and other dignitaries. The floating crane can lift 1,900 tons, or 12 times the weight of the Statue … Read more