Lincoln Little School expansion | 301 Butler Ave., Providence
The Lincoln School is constructing a 4,700-square-foot expansion of its Little School that will cost $5 million to build and is expected to be completed in July. Ground was broken in December 2019 on the state-of-the-art facility, which was designed by studioMLA Architects of Brookline, Mass., and is being constructed by Deslandes Construction of Warwick. The addition will feature two classrooms, a dedicated outdoor play area and a Reggio Emilia-inspired studio. The project will be registered with the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED certification will also be pursued, which means construction could include a highly insulated building envelope; an air-exchange ventilation system; use of sustainable and recycled materials; energy-efficient fixtures, appliances and heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment; renewable energy systems, such as photovoltaic systems; and natural landscaping. Lincoln’s Little School will not have gas or oil systems, meaning it will not be producing any on-site combustion or carbon emissions.
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Farm Fresh Rhode Island Food Hub | 498 Kinsley Ave., Providence
New construction of a 60,000-square-foot facility for a Farm Fresh Rhode Island Food Hub began in August 2019 and is expected to be completed in the fall. The 3.2-acre site is located amidst the Woonasquatucket River Valley corridor, an area of Providence that was an industrial stronghold until the latter half of the 20th century. The facility will cost $15.6 million and will be built on the site of an old mill that was destroyed by fire in 2015. The site will host the organization’s Food Hub, a mixed-use facility that will serve as a local food and produce distribution center and offer food production facilities, nutrition education, job training and retail markets. Farm Fresh will occupy half of the building, and food-related businesses will rent the rest. The project is funded through public and private philanthropic donations, as well as an R.I. Department of Environmental Management award of $480,000 aimed at converting the fire-damaged site into a food and agricultural campus to provide jobs and local food. Case Construction Co., based in East Providence, is the project’s general contractor and Providence-based DBVW Architects designed the facility.
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Amgen Inc. Next-Generation Biomanufacturing Plant | 40 Technology Way, West Greenwich
After the foundation and site work was laid, modular pieces for the $165 million plant construction project arrived at Quonset Point in North Kingstown in June 2018 and were put together on-site in West Greenwich. Ground broke on the project in early July 2018 and the facility is expected to be fully operational by the second quarter of 2020. The 120,000-square-foot plant on the Amgen campus will allow the company to use single-use materials to decrease the amount of downtime for cleaning of the plant’s stainless-steel infrastructure used during the manufacturing process. As a result, more products will be run with the new plant. Jacobs Engineering Group, which has offices in Providence and Portsmouth, is the main manager of the project. Japan-based Morimatsu Group is constructing the building modules, which are built off-site in a controlled warehouse and shipped to the construction site.
