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At Skanska, we build for a better society. From hospitals to stadiums, airports to corporate headquarters, and power plants to tunnels and bridges, the important buildings and infrastructure we create help heal, transport, entertain and energize communities.

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Established over 75 years ago as Beacon Construction, Skanska has been building New England’s landmarks since 1946. Based out of Boston, the team focuses on education, institutional, commercial, healthcare and life sciences projects. Together with our customers and collective expertise of teammates not only in New England, but around the U.S. and world, we create innovative and sustainable solutions that support healthy living, and use knowledge and foresight to shape the way people live, work, and connect.

Executive Vice President/ General Manager

Bryan Northrop

Joseph Devlin

Dan Lanneville

Senior Vice President, Business Development

Senior Vice President, Account Manager

Belmont Middle and High School

451,000-SF phased construction and renovation of Belmont Middle and High School in Belmont, Massachusetts. The four-floor structure features new academic and science wings, media facilities, dining commons, as well as access roads, drop-off loops, sidewalks, utilities, playing fields and landscaping. The fossil fuel-free building, uses electricity for all equipment and incorporates numerous innovative and sustainable concepts including the use of geothermal wells/heat pumps for heating and cooling, radiant heating and cooling within the floors, and photovoltaic panels. For this project, we drilled 280 geothermal wells and coordinated the proper spoils management, de-watering, run-off, and puddling. The new school has been designed to be Net-Zero ready by relying entirely on renewable energy.

Boston College Margot Connell Recreation Center

A cornerstone for Boston College’s (BC) commitment to student health and wellbeing, the new $127 million Recreation Center is a beacon for the institution and offers the school community an inspired space to play, pursue sports, gather with friends and work out. The 244,000 square-foot, four-story facility is located on the site of Edmonds Hall, which was demolished prior to start of new construction. The facility includes a 25-meter competitive swimming pool, multi-purpose courts for squash, badminton, tennis and basketball, elevated jogging track, rock climbing wall and bouldering wall, wellness room, multi-purpose rooms for spin, yoga, and fitness classes, training rooms, locker and equipment rooms, administrative offices, along with other amenities.

Brookline High School

Constructed a new 118,000-SF high school building partially spanning over the MBTA Green Line tracks by the Brookline Hills Station. This building includes general-use classrooms, physics classrooms, special education classrooms, a white box event space, dining and food services, a library, collaboration spaces, a medical clinic, and general administration. Landscaping, and a streetscape improvement project were included in the scope of work. Constructed an addition to the existing high school building that is a STEM Wing, a new 70,000-SF building consisting of biology and chemistry classrooms and laboratories, collaboration spaces, maker space, culinary arts kitchen, student restaurant and cafe seating. As part of the expansion, accessibility improvements were made at the Brookline Hill MBTA station. This included raised platforms for easy boarding, accessible crosswalks and pedestrian pathways, new canopies, seating, light, and wayfinding, and a pickup/dropoff location for the RIDE.

SNHU College of Engineering Technology and Aeronautics

Provided a new 65,000-SF Student Quad for the University, new student classrooms, flexible workspaces, Technology Enabled Active Learning labs, wood shop, staff and faculty offices. The goals for the academic program of the project were to create the primary learning center for the engineering school, improve the classroom experience; increase the number of flexible workspaces, provide a facility to house the Engineering department, and to create an outdoor space to support group learning and group activities. With the largest classrooms and learning spaces located mostly on the first and second levels, the areas will be accessible through the front building entrance and through the two-story atrium.

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Simmons Living Learning Center

This project is the final phase of ‘One Simmons’, which consolidates all the University facilities onto one campus. The approximately 400,000-SF Living and Learning Center will include a student dormitory with over 1,000 student beds, meeting, and social spaces along with office support spaces and a 500-seat dining facility. In addition, an athletics and fitness facility will include a pool, gymnasium, rowing tanks and weight room. The building will also accommodate an existing central electrical plant and emergency generator, which serve the academic buildings on the existing campus. Work began on the Living and Learning Center in May 2023 and is slated for completion in September 2026.

Dartmouth College

Skanska is the program manager for the Energy Infrastructure Program at Dartmouth College, a 10-15 year decarbonization initiative involving 2 million square feet of facilities and an evaluation of utility-scale clean energy sources. The focus of this program is to transition the campus' existing steam/ No. 6 oil burning heating plant, steam distribution system, and building steam heating systems to:

UNH Spaulding Hall

$89 million, 130,000-square-foot renovation and addition project for University of New Hampshire’s Biological Sciences Building, Spaulding Hall. Designed to be LEED Silver certified, the project included 82,500 square feet of renovations and 47,500 square feet of additions to the space, providing new teaching and learning facilities for Biochemistry, Cell Culture, Medical Laboratory Science, Anatomy and Physiology, Ecology, Organismal Biology, and Neuroscience, as well as research and core lab facilities, and support spaces. In addition, the project involved installing new steam, chilled and hot water services, and a Konvekta system was installed into the new air handling units. This system not only reduced the amount of preheat steam for the outside air but was also used as part of a chilled water recovery loop which eliminated the need for satellite chillers in the building and resulted in greater energy recovery for not only waste heat but displaced cooling.

Leading the Way

To reduce the amount of carbon we’re putting into the atmosphere and to help combat climate change on a global level, we have made sustainable building a priority. Our longtime leadership in sustainable construction and development provides us with the expertise to help our customers deliver on their leading edge environmental and healthy building ambitions. Our projects integrate sustainability into each stage of the process, from construction, demolition, to redevelopment, we are increasingly focused on optimizing building design to minimize both embodied and operational carbon. Sustainable, healthy building is good business and critical to protecting our planet and the health and wellbeing of end users.

70%

In Boston, 70% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from the building sector.

Massachusetts is ranked number three in 2023 for most SF per capita LEED certified: https://www.usgbc.org/top-10-leed

355%

In just two years, there has been a 355% SF increase of net zero and net zero ready buildings in Massachusetts. (May 25th, 2023)

80%

Decarbonizing Boston’s building sector depends on shifting to zero net carbon (ZNC) new construction by 2030, and retrofitting and electrifying at least 80% of our existing buildings over the next 30 years.

45+

Skanska has completed 45+ LEED certified projects in New England, with 31 of those in Massachusetts.

We currently have ten ongoing projects seeking LEED certification in Massachusetts.

Senior Vice President, Account Manager

Abu Bhargava

Deerfield Academy

$56 million, 136,000-SF expansion and renovation of the existing Deerfield Academy athletic complex, creating a field house; locker rooms; offices; tennis court; elevated jogging track; group exercise rooms; golf simulator room, rowing tank for crew team, and a hockey rink with a 200’ x 85’ sheet of ice, seating for 400 and a Zamboni room. The project also encompassed demolition of an existing hockey rink; relocation of underground utilities; substantial sitework, including deep excavations, shoring, underpinning, and landscape; and the addition of a boiler room, chiller plant and emergency generator. The project is LEED Gold.

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New low carbon energy generation plants, including geothermal heat pump heating and cooling plants, and ground mounted solar thermal systems coupled with seasonal hot water thermal storage. Installation of approximately 5 miles of new underground hot water and chilled water distribution pipes throughout campus. Replacing steam heating systems in over 100 buildings with low temperature hot water heating systems.

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Town of Belmont Skating Rink and Athletic Facility

This project includes the construction of a new 40,000-square-foot steel-framed, pre-engineered metal building, which will house the new rink complex with a conventional 200-foot by 85-foot ice sheet. The facility will also feature four team locker rooms, four dressing rooms, public toilets, bleacher seating, and a concession stand. To meet the Town of Belmont’s sustainability goals, Skanska will implement PV solar panels that will cover the roof of the main building. The facility will utilize a heat pump refrigeration system to ensure the ice surface remains sufficiently cool, and during the non-ice season it will help temper the spaces within the facility.