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A team from our Kingston, New York office recently participated in the Dutchess County Real Estate Charity Golf Outing. All proceeds from the event go to charities benefiting people in the Hudson Valley including the Dutchess County Special Olympics, Poughkeepsie Children’s Home, Fishkill Food Pantry, Vet2Vet, and more. The event was held on a beautiful day at the Powelton Club located in Newburgh, NY. The DOC team members in the photo, left to right, are Jeremy Smith, Jeff Weinman, Andrew Sheldon, and John Andrews.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute hosted an open house at one of our recently completed renovation projects for Stratton Hall located in the center of campus in Worcester, MA. The DOC core project team gathered for this momentous milestone. Originally built in 1894, this four-story 32,000-square-foot building houses the Department of Mathematical Sciences. This full gut renovation includes new classrooms, study areas, faculty offices, and an area for graduate student teaching assistants. The project includes a major elevator addition that connects the building to the Laurie A. Leshin Global Project Center next door and brings accessibility up to modern standards. Upgrades to the building include lighting, heating and air conditioning, and new energy-efficient insulation in the attic and walls. The project was completed on time and budget for the start of the new school year. DOC staff included in the team photo (left to right) are Christine Jablonski, Mike Dame, Liz Anthes, Peter L'Hommedieu, Jeremy Reardon, Kristen Blackbird, and Mike Kornbluth. More info can be found on our website https://lnkd.in/gZnqUTnG

DOC Team members from our Miami office got together this summer for an event at Topgolf in Miami Gardens. The group had the chance to test their golf skills while having a good time at this unique driving range experience. It was also a chance for everyone to meet the summer intern who is working with our construction team at one of our projects in Miami.

Recently spotted at one of our construction sites on the campus of Amherst College is the statue of Henry Ward Beecher wearing a hard hat, safety vest, and holding a shovel. Beecher, Amherst class of 1834, was a well-known clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and popular public speaker during the mid to late 1800s. Our construction team is currently working on the Climate Action Plan, a campus energy system decarbonization project, throughout many of the buildings during this summer. We would like to think that Beecher would have approved of the work now being done on campus in response to climate change.

Amherst College produced this excellent video about the campus decarbonization project that we are working on with them. This video captures the scope of this effort currently going on their campus. Our construction crews are working very hard this summer to help move this project closer to completion.

Participants and mentors of the DOC Good Foundations Training Program held their summer event at Topgolf in Canton, MA. Good Foundations is our construction management training program for those just starting their careers and includes rotations in project management, site supervision, and estimating. Participants are partnered with mentors throughout the program and graduate having established a strong foundation of skills and experience while learning where they want to focus their construction management career! #ProfessionalDevelopment #TrainingandDevelopment #ConstructionManagement

A group from our construction team for the Springfield Parking Garage attended the T-Birds Partner Appreciation Event held at The Starting Gate at Greathorse. The parking garage construction project is next-door neighbor to the MassMutual Center—home of the Springfield Thunderbirds Hockey Club. The DOC team has been coordinating closely with the MassMutual Center as they are working in and around events for the arena and convention center. The Greathorse is a private golf club located in Hampden, MA. Pictured left to right are Jeremy Tudryn, Rich Fairbanks, Boomer (T-Birds mascot), Drew Wurszt, and Evan Paglia.

DOC recently received a National Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) Safety Award for Zero Incidence Rate in Building – 110K to 275K Work Hours. This award is the outcome of our steadfast commitment to safety on all construction projects we work on. Scott Sattler, Northeast Regional Safety Director, accepted the award on behalf of the entire DOC team. The Annual AGC MA Safety Awards event was held at the W Boston Hotel on Friday, June 7. #BeCarefulToday

We are honored to be mentioned in this video produced by a client Rakks Architectural Shelving and Hardware, who recently won a CoreNet Global Award of Excellence for a small workplace in New England. In the video, the team at Rakks talks about how their new workspace and manufacturing facility improved overall employee morale and allowed for better collaboration. We worked closely with Rakks, AW–ARCH, and Outline Consulting to bring help their vision to life. CoreNet Global is a professional real estate group that works to advance industry knowledge and promote personal excellence. The award was presented on Thursday night, May 23, at the annual Awards of Excellence event held in Boston at the Westin Seaport District. https://lnkd.in/eWQMfuC7

DOC recently participated in a panel at the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) North Atlantic Regional Conference held in Boston. Kevin Burns, DOC Project Executive, served on the panel called “From Aspiration to Action: Implementing Sustainable Campus Transitions.” The presenting team also included Tom Davies, Executive Director of Planning, Design, and Construction, Amherst College, Karla Youngblood, Associate Vice President for Facilities Management, Mount Holyoke College, and Lindsey Olsen, Associate Vice President, of Salas O’Brien Engineers. Kevin is currently collaborating with these campus planning leaders on utility projects to help them achieve the goal of carbon neutrality in the next 25 years. The panel discussed how they have utilized integrated lean planning techniques to implement energy transitions from a fossil-fuel-based heating-cooling network to a sustainable, low-carbon power source. #sustainability #leanconstruction