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SMMA has been ranked #120 on Architectural Record's list of Top 250 Firms. Firms were ranked by revenue generated from architectural services performed in 2009. Click here to read more. |
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Phil Poinelli, AIA, REFP, LEED AP has been elected Vice President of the Northeast Region of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI). The position is the start of a four year commitment which includes a year serving in each of the following roles: vice president; president elect; president; past president. Phil is also currently serving as co-chair for CEFPI's Northeast Conference to be held in Boston in April 2011..
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Principals Alex C. Pitkin, AIA and Marie E. Fitzgerald, IIDA have been appointed to the Board of Directors. Fitzgerald is a Senior Vice President and Director of SMMA’s Corporate + Technology Practice. Pitkin is a Senior Vice President and Director of Institutional Practice. Click here to read the press release.
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Cambridge MA-based design firm Symmes Maini & McKee Associates (SMMA) earned a 2010 Excellence in Design Award from Environmental Design & Construction Magazine for planning and designing the new Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island Headquarters in Providence. The 13-story downtown tower is one of only five projects in the nation to receive such recognition, and the sole commercial building honored. The project is expected to receive LEED Silver Certification, possibly LEED Gold. Click here for more information.
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SMMA has been ranked in 2010 on the Engineering News Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firms list at No. 413. The Top 500 Design Firms list, published annually in April, ranks the 500 largest U.S.-based designs firms, both publicly and privately held, based on design-specific revenue.
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Jon D. McKee AIA has been named the 2010 recipient of the BSA Award of Honor, the most prestigious BSA honor bestowed on an individual. This award recognizes extraordinary contributions to the profession and the communities we serve over an extended periodof time. McKee made his professional mark as a founding partner in 1958 of the Cambridge firm SMMA. However, his primary philanthropic endeavor has long been the Lyceum Fellowship, a competitive travel program he established in 1985 and has funded these past 25 years.
Click here for more information.
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The SMMA/CRB design team for the Shire Human Genetic Therapies Warehouse and Distribution Center reached its project goal of LEED Silver Certification. They adapted an existing warehouse and distribution facility to accommodate the more sophisticated GMP requirements for Shire HGT as a storage and distribution center to support their new drug manufacturing facility in Lexington, MA. The project involved the interior renovation of an existing 92,000sf warehouse to create cold room and ambient spaces required for cGMP storage. The primary spaces are approximately 15,000sf of cold storage and 45,000sf of ambient storage. The building includes a number of secondary uses, including office support; packaging and labeling; quality control sampling; material handling; support spaces; and circulation space. From the outset, the design team’s goal was to design the building to meet Shire’s sustainable goals. Early design phase decisions included the reuse of the existing structure to the greatest possible extent in order to minimize construction demolition. Other green initiatives include a cool roof, support of alternative transportation, construction waste management, HVAC efficiency upgrade, water use reduction, enhanced commissioning, recycled and regional materials, and a green cleaning program.
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Jean Valence has been named co-chair of the US Green Building Council's (USGBC) new Education Steering Committee, which provides strategic guidance for the organization’s education, research, and education-related programs. Jean is a course reviewer for USGBC and a member of the Green Building Certification Institute’s task force on the new LEED Fellow designation.
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Sixteen members of the architecture, interior design, planning, mechanical and electrical engineering departments attended the 7-week course through February and March -- Mariana Antelo, Mark Blundell, Elizabeth Clark, Alan DeHaan, Jocelyn Fleming, Philippe Genereux, Dan Kocur, Betty Lee, Stella Lensing, Mark Levine, Cynie Linton, Alex Masi, Kristin Norwood, Adam Redbord, Les Stucka, and Chad Sullivan.
In addition, four of them went above and beyond to sit for the exam. Congratulations to Alan, Dan, Stella, and Alex in their new professional designation as a Certified Construction Documents Technologist!
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Brian Lawlor, PE, LEED AP, Director of Engineering at SMMA, authored "Courting Life Science Campuses," in collaboration with Joseph Zink of Atlantic Management, published in the June 2009 issue of Urban Land Magazine. The article discusses strategies for advancing facilities through the permitting process, gaining public acceptance of the facilities as neighbors, and conducting
the site environmental planning needed to begin operations. SMMA's successful vision at Lexington Technology Park, highlighted by the authors, created a sustainable campus that can serve as a model for future life science developments.
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Bob Hicks, AIA, LEED AP has been appointed to the North Atlantic Regional Council of the Society of College and University Planners. One of five SCUP councils, the North Atlantic Region serves members in New England, New York, Connecticut, southeastern Canada, and Great Britain. The council is responsible for organizing two annual conferences and other programs throughout the year.
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was appointed to his second consecutive term as Chairman of the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards'(CLARB) National Multiple Choice Exam Committee, Section D - Design and Construction Documentation. Mark has been an active member of this committee since 2002. For more information about CLARB please visit www.clarb.org.
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Phil Poinelli, AIA, LEED AP, spoke at the September 2009 annual conference of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International in Washington, DC. Phil's presentation, "The Results are In: Mixing Generations Enriches Seniors/Student Learning," focuses on co-locating community programs within secondary school facilities, with SMMA-designed Swampscott High School as a case study. Phil also spoke on this topic at CEFPI's "Schools on the Edge" conference in New Brunswick, NJ on May 3-5th, 2009. Swampscott High School's multigenerational community center was featured in both Architecture Boston and CEFPI's Educational Facility Planner and was recognized with CEFPI's Planning and Design Excellence Award. To read Phil's article on the school, please click here.
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SMMA's Director of Architecture Mark Spaulding, AIA LEED AP, has been appointed to the Coastal Resource Management Council of the Providence Foundation. The CRMC regulates Rhode Island's urban waterfronts, including the development of low-impact development guidelines for redevelopment and development projects in urban coastal areas.
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