The Academic Building at Johnson & Wales University is the first facility constructed on land made available by the realignment of Interstate 195 in Providence. Designed to support interdisciplinary learning, the three-story LEED Gold-certified building brings together the School of Engineering & Design and the College of Arts & Sciences biology program.

The building features the Alan Shawn Feinstein Technology & Design Center, specialized labs for physics, chemistry, organic chemistry, and microbiology, faculty offices, and an outdoor courtyard encouraging collaboration and hands-on exploration.

The renovation of three interconnected buildings at McKinlock Hall at Harvard University brings together residential, dining, and faculty spaces within a highly congested campus with numerous adjacencies. The project encompasses McKinlock Hall, the Dining Annex, and the Master’s House, which features a ground-floor entry connected to the Dining Hall and three residential floors above.

The LEED Gold-certified facility houses approximately 180 students and eight residential advisor apartments. Work spanned complete system replacement, new infrastructure to support upgraded MEP systems, reconfiguration of shared spaces, and interior and exterior restoration. Restored window assemblies, refinished entries, and detailed finishes such as wood, tile, and stone flooring, plaster walls and ceilings, and painted wood trim preserve and enhance the historic character of the buildings.

M&T Bank Arena contains both basketball and hockey arena hockey arena. It is joined by a common lobby area for concession stands and ticket sales. The center includes offices, locker rooms, club and premium seating, conference and meeting rooms, storage, and weight-training facilities, and offers athletic rehab and varsity strength and conditioning.

The arena is home to Quinnipiac’s NCAA Division I hockey and basketball programs.

Photography: Courtesy of Centerbrook Architects & Planners

The facility consists of an indoor practice field, fitness area, locker facility, meeting rooms, training/sports medicine facility and clinic, academic resources areas, audio visual and public areas.

The indoor practice field contains artificial turf and is partially illuminated by natural light. The 18,000 sf strength and conditioning area includes a mezzanine with a five-lane indoor track, and the 4,250 sf locker facility provides space for athletes and coaches. The exteriors consist of brick, metal siding, standing seam metal roofing, and curtain wall. Extensive utility and site improvement relocations had to be performed before work on the building could commence.

Photography: © Robert Benson