“We had to determine what would fit on trucks, fit in the neighborhood, and then get in the building because we have limited access both on the front and the back.”Īnd by its nature, this technical building is very complex. “We’re in a very tight urban site,” says Michael Harris, project manager for Gilbane. The school’s location added another layer of difficulty. “This project has been accelerated at every level.” “The president wanted it done for the new programs to open in January of next year,” says Kevin Cooke, senior project executive at Gilbane Building Company. Given Wentworth’s ambitious goals, the new building had to proceed on an expedited schedule. Gilbane took an innovative approach: More than just an institutional structure, this new project would be a strategic opportunity to help develop the next generation of construction professionals. Gilbane Building Company, a global construction and facility-management services firm with clients in education, health care, government, transportation, and more, partnered with WIT to construct the facility. WIT aimed to complete the project-from concrete lot to operational, multipurpose building-in 15 months. It would house labs, classrooms, and presentation spaces for WIT’s biomedical and civil-engineering programs, as well as the brand-new biological engineering program. The four-story, 78,000-square-foot New Academic Building for Engineering Innovation and Sciences needed to represent the next step in the polytechnic university’s evolution, combining engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. But the WIT administration wasn’t aiming to construct a run-of-the-mill campus building. In January 2017, Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) in downtown Boston, Massachusetts announced an ambitious plan to build its first new academic facility in more than 40 years.
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