Delivered by バカラ カジノ and its energy division, Arch Energy, the 1.4-million-gallon TES tank is an innovative campus solution that is roughly equivalent to a 15,000-kWh battery, delivers long-term energy efficiency for UNH. Reflecting a $10.3 million investment by the University, the new TES tank was designed to produce chilled water during off-peak hours to significantly lower campus energy costs and reduce environmental impact. The tank, and its interconnection to the existing plant, allows for a minimum of 10,400 ton-hours of stored chilled water to be released as thermal energy during peak hours.

Using a design-build approach with DN Tanks, Consigli and its design partners ensured successful preconstruction and construction phases by maximizing client and project team collaboration and bolstering efficiency throughout the life of the project. The project team overcame significant challenges, including confined space and high-angle work hazards inside the 47-foot-tall, 80-foot-diameter tank. Enhanced fall protection protocols were implemented, and the team partnered with the local fire department for a high-angle rescue training exercise. When traditional gear proved unsuitable, the team donated construction-grade fall protection and rigging equipment, strengthening community safety and partnerships.

The TES Tank serves as a model for higher education institutions pursuing ambitious decarbonization planning and is a key feature of UNH’s own climate action plan, WildCAP, which aims to cut the university’s greenhouse gas emissions by 80% in 2050 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2100.

In addition to this award, Consigli also received the top project award for New England in the Higher Education/Research category for The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Brigham, MIT and Harvard, as well as several other New York regional awards.

Project teams recognized by ENR’s panel of judges were evaluated on their ability to overcome challenges, contribute to industry innovation and benefit the community, as well as overall excellence in design, construction and safety execution.

Read more about the project in ENR here.

Learn more about the ENR New England Regional Best Projects Awards here.

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“Professionally, as a builder, completing a complex and complicated project that I know will have a significant impact on the community and help create more opportunities for Maine and families like mine, is what I am most proud of.”

With more than a decade of diverse industry experience, Christina has helped deliver some of Maine’s most complex projects, including those that have helped transform local academic resources for current and future students. On Colby College’s campus, Christina played a key role in the delivery of both the Johnson Pond Houses – a new, four-building student residence hall – as well as the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, which unites and strengthens the regional Waterville arts community.

Currently, Christina is leading the Consigli project team building a new, permanent home in Portland for the Roux Institute at Northeastern University through the creation of its new Alfond Center. Once complete, the campus will serve as a hub for innovation and research, as well as drive sustained economic growth in Maine.

“I’ve realized that it matters much less what you do with your life and much more about who you do it with. Construction is all about working with a team to build something great. On many of our projects, we have hundreds if not thousands of people who help the project come together, and there is nothing more fulfilling than working with other like-minded individuals to build a lasting impact on the community. Every day I’m motivated to be the best person I can be, not just for myself, but for my team.”

An active member of her personal and professional community, Christina is a committed advocate for local workforce development and efforts to build a stronger, more diverse industry. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Mitchell Institute, an organization aimed at increasing educational opportunities for Maine students, as well as on the Board of Directors for Hardy Girls, which partners with local youth to create a more equitable society.

Honorees are selected from a variety of industries to make up a class of young leaders who share a commitment to business success, personal growth and a passion for strengthening the Maine communities where they live and work.

Read Christina’s full profile in Mainebiz here.

View the full 2025 Mainebiz 40 Under 40 List here.

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Mike Wood, Project Executive at バカラ カジノ, joined Moray Newton, Principal – Education Practice Leader at CannonDesign and Dan Rodecker, Assistant Vice President of Facilities and Planning at Skidmore College, to highlight the project, its phased construction, and the ways that design-build can strengthen collaboration.

“The design-build approach provides that single point of contact, not just from a communication standpoint, but also from a team standpoint…When we’re involved in preconstruction, we understand design choices to a degree, but in a design-build environment, we are really more ingrained into that collaborative process.”

– Mike Wood, Consigli 

They shared insight into how utilizing a design-build approach can provide project partners with a more comprehensive understanding of design and construction decisions to benefit higher education clients and end users. Through their design-build partnership, Consigli and CannonDesign were able to establish early communication and streamline decision-making, laying the foundation for a smooth transition from the design phase to construction, and enhance the team’s approach to complex project features and sustainability initiatives.

“Even before we put pen to paper, we got the user groups involved. That worked well for us, because it supported our commitment to being creative and approaching the project with sustainability top of mind…Overall, the collaborative and forward-thinking approach allowed Skidmore to stay true to our goals and values and helped shape a space that is functional, inspiring, and aligned with our educational mission.”

– Dan Rodecker, Skidmore College

Read more about the project and its successful design-build delivery here.

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The Board of the Maine Community College System consists of 13 appointed voting members, one ex-officio voting member and one ex-officio non-voting member.

“I am very pleased Stacey Harris has joined the MCCS board of trustees, particularly now, when training students to work in construction is so critical for the state. Her experience, perspective, and guidance on how to grow and strengthen our trade programs will help us tremendously,” said Maine Community College System President David Daigler. “The trades, and electrical programs in particular, are hugely popular with today’s students and we’re seeing incredible demand. Working closely with employers will ensure those students are ready to step into good jobs right away.”

Harris has nearly two decades of wide-ranging construction experience and has helped Consigli successfully manage and deliver complex and challenging projects throughout the region and across market sectors. Most recently, she has helped lead high-profile projects for leading higher education institutions in Maine, such as the Ferland Engineering and Design Center at the University of Maine, the Gordon Center for Performing Arts at Colby College, and the John & Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies and Barry Mills Hall at Bowdoin College.

A Maine native and proud graduate of its public university system, Harris previously served on the Board of Directors for the University of Maine Alumni Association. She is a passionate advocate and mentor for young women considering a career in STEM industries and the trades, she is a frequent collaborator with local high schools and workforce development organizations, including her local ACE Mentor Program Chapter. She is a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC).

Stacey earned her bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Maine and received her MBA in global enterprise management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Read the Maine Community College System’s full announcement here.

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The largest academic project in Colby College history, and the campus’ new home for music, cinema studies and performance, theater and dance departments, the 74,000 sq. ft. Gordon Center serves as one of the most advanced and innovative performing arts facilities in New England. To achieve the Gordon Center’s innovative design, complete with highly specialized acoustical treatments able to adapt to multiple disciplines and performance types, Consigli collaborated closely with the design team and performed meticulous quality assurance work to ensure that the Center’s performance spaces met design specifications and standards.

Completed on a busy, occupied campus and sited on bedrock that required blasting in a heavily-trafficked area to install foundations and utilities, Consigli exceeded jobsite safety standards and prioritized the protection of the Colby College community through extensive safety planning and constant communication with students and faculty.

Leveraging its in-house resources and expertise, Consigli enlisted both its proven prefabrication approach to streamline delivery and minimize on-site work during inclement weather, as well as its self-perform division to perform the installation of the building’s custom limestone façade and parts of the acoustic panel installation.

To read more in ENR’s November issue, click here.

To learn more about the project, click here.

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With Consigli’s prefabrication and self-perform experts, the project team identified a viable, cost-neutral solution for the building’s exterior wall panels to save on schedule. Upon presentation to and approval from the University, Consigli planned and executed the pre-fabricated exterior wall panels to condense a traditionally six-week building enclosure timeframe into just two weeks with its own self-perform craftspeople.

Design

Engaging the right design partners confirms accurate design details of pre-fabricated building elements and mitigates the risk of rework once materials leave the warehouse.

Consigli engaged a third-party delegated design team to review and confirm details for connections on the exterior wall panels. Excel Engineering, a specialty engineering firm with expertise in cold form steel, was hired to detail the panels and confirm all structural details. Excel converted the façade into panels that could be transported from Consigli’s prefabrication facility to the jobsite as they were ready to be installed.

Prefabrication

In addition to improved quality control and productivity, implementing prefabrication strategies on higher education projects takes work off campus and minimizes on-site construction activity.

Self-perform at Prefabrication Warehouse

At Consigli’s regionally based prefabrication shop, self-perform crews assembled 130 panels totaling 15,000 sq. ft. to enclose the residence hall addition. For eight weeks, five self-perform craftspeople precisely fabricated all exterior wall panels in sequence of how they would be placed on the building. This process brought approximately 1,800 hours of labor hours off of the University’s campus and into the warehouse, reducing on-site construction traffic and supporting a quieter job site in the process.

The well-lit, heated, ground-level space at the warehouse provided an ergonomic working environment—one that a construction site cannot always guarantee among the noises of intrusive trades on site, especially amid February weather in New England. When preparing the panels for load and delivery to site, the project team employed a project-specific quality assurance checklist developed and implemented by Consigli’s Quality department to safeguard the quality of every panel. All dimensions and details were reviewed on multiple occasions, and once each panel passed inspection, the panel was loaded on the flatbed to leave for the site. Panels were loaded onto four flatbed trucks for just-in-time deliveries so the panels could be picked and flown directly onto the building upon arrival to the job site.

Delivery & Installation

Parallel processing of material fabrication and installation supports faster, higher-quality construction by simultaneously managing multiple trades.

Pre-fabricated Exterior Wall Panel Install

While the crew in the prefabrication shop fabricated panels and loaded the trucks, six Consigli craftspeople at the jobsite received and unloaded the panels to be flown and placed on the building. Consigli’s simultaneous workflow—also known as parallel processing—maximized time both on site and in the warehouse. The Consigli field team had pre-checked the concrete foundation wall perimeter at the jobsite to ensure it was flat and level to quickly and accurately receive the first-floor panels set to rest on top of it.

The fast-tracked, two-week installation in February allowed the project team to enclose the exterior and start heating for interior tradework throughout the winter. And, because the building was enclosed and work was moved indoors, the construction site quickly quieted for the campus community, especially for the students in the adjacent dormitory.

The benefits of Consigli’s hands-on ownership of the pre-fabricated exterior wall panels went beyond the accelerated project schedule. Exterior wall system prefabrication ensured a quality product was fabricated and installed efficiently and with the campus’s best interest in mind—from decreased on-campus activity to the maintenance of a clean, safer and substantially quieter construction site.

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Comeau has nearly two decades of experience supporting learning and organizational development initiatives for employees and organizations. In her role, Comeau leads the development and delivery of educational programming aimed at supporting the growth of the firm’s teams and management.

“The Board of Trustees plays an important role in providing oversight and guidance to the leadership team at Framingham State,” said FSU President Nancy S. Niemi. “I’m thrilled to welcome our new members who bring a broad range of experience and expertise to the Board.”

Comeau also serves as a longtime member of the Corridor 9/495 Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors. Prior to joining Consigli in 2018, she served in various workforce training and development roles with several higher education institutions in Massachusetts such as Worcester State University, Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) and Middlesex Community College, including as an adjunct professor and faculty member in the business and psychology departments at QCC.

Comeau joins four other new appointees to the 11-member board.

Learn more here.

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PORTLAND, ME – The John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies and Barry Mills Hall on the Bowdoin College’s campus has been honored by Engineering News Record (ENR) as a 2023 New England Best Project of the Year. It received top honors in the Higher Education/Research category.

The first pure mass timber structure in Maine, the $28.5 million, 46,000 sq. ft. project utilized glue laminated beams, columns and trusses, as well as other materials. To mitigate potential supply chain and skilled workforce challenges, Consigli proactively secured pricing for the mass timber ahead of significant lumber price increases.

To further support cost savings, Consigli utilized a 4D model using cost analysis to compare mass timber with a more traditional steel, concrete and masonry superstructure and demonstrated that mass timber prefabrication strategies was the best choice for the project. Funding for the cost comparison was supported by the U.S. Forest Service, making Bowdoin College one of just 10 institutions to receive agency funding to bring sustainable change to the nation’s working forests and forest-reliant communities.

In addition to receiving this New England regional honor, Consigli also received ENR New York’s top award in the K-12 Education category for its work on the Bronx High School of Science – Stanley Manne ’52 Institute of Science.

Project teams recognized by ENR’s panel of judges as regional Best Project winners were evaluated on how they were able to overcome challenges, contribute to industry innovation and benefit the community, as well as overall excellence in design, construction and safety execution.

Read more about the project in ENR’s November issue here.

View the full list of ENR New England’s 2023 honorees here.

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How does Consigli—which has planned and built more than 25 projects incorporating timber solutions—coordinate and collaborate with our project partners to plan and deliver high-quality timber structures? With extensive experience analyzing, procuring and installing mass timber, Consigli’s interdisciplinary approach supports our clients—like Bowdoin—in making cost-effective, schedule-driven decisions when planning a mass timber project.

Initial Design

Rigorous preconstruction planning is a must when it comes to mitigating potential cost, schedule and quality impacts associated with a mass timber structure.

• Early Detections of Issues: The smallest details matter when it comes to achieving the desired look and function for such a specialized finish product. Incorporating design intent into early models helps guide crucial design considerations to be incorporated into fabrication documents and allow for timely timber release.
• Structural Reviews: Structural drawing reviews help analyze column spacing, spans of timber elements, choices of direction of primary girders and varying strategies for mechanical ductwork and plumbing routing. The review process can potentially result in cost saving through elements including reducing beam sizes and floor plate thickness.
• Cost Competitiveness: In today’s ever changing and challenging materials market, mass timber has remained relatively steady in pricing. This certainty allows mass timber to be priced early with greater assurance of costs as the project progress. Depending on the application, mass timber pricing can be very cost competitive when compared to steel and concrete and has additional cost benefits in terms of fit-out costs. Mass timber can also remain exposed, reducing the costs of expensive interior finishes on a project.

Selection & Sourcing

Timber species selection can affect the mass timber manufacturer. The right decision-making can support early internal estimates and analyze specific species for the best fit.

• Wood Species & Material Finish: Material selection has a significant impact on the choice of timber manufacturers. From aesthetic to strength of structural design to lengths of members, Consigli can help evaluate timber species and offer options that satisfy aesthetic and structural need.
• Deep Knowledge of Supplier/Manufacturer Market: A strong list of suppliers, both domestic and foreign, ensures competitive pricing for initial bidding during earlier phases of design. As the mass timber is fully designed and released for fabrication, a well-established market knowledge is crucial in bidding installation.

Coordination & Release

Coordination model completion ahead of Construction Documents is critical to final fabrication shop drawings for mass timber. With timber lead times ranging from 16 to 24 weeks from final drawing approvals, time is of the essence.

M/E/P coordination for a mass timber structure.

• M/E/P/FP Coordination: Mass timber penetrations for M/E/P/FP systems must be carefully planned and integrated into fabrication documents. Coordination models for these penetrations allow all pathways to be designed and manufactured in shop in lieu of in field; this is crucial as field cutting is prohibited for this level of finished product.
• Design-Assist Engagement: Engaging design-assist partners for M/E/P/FP systems and mass timber allows the project team to coordinate within the working design model. Creation of CD-level documents through design-assist, even as the rest of the design is in early stages, supports completion of building systems and architectural features for a release of timber well ahead of CDs, mitigating the challenge of timber long lead times.

Delivery & Installation

Careful attention must be paid to the handling, installation and protection of mass timber to maintain the material’s integrity. Hands-on installer experience is imperative when planning a successful mass timber project.

Mass timber logistics & installation considerations.

• Logistical Planning Handling & Installation: Development of the right logistics plans for efficient installation—accounting for any potential double handling and required special care—is paramount to creating schedule certainty through installation. The right project partners develop proper delivery, loading and sequencing unique to each site.
• Protecting your Investment through Insurance & Temporary Protections: Consigli’s in-house Job Site Insights platform allows our clients to protect their investment through floor-by-floor detection of potentially damaging elements to the timber structure, including water, fire or any other elements that may stain or mar the finished product. Additionally, temporary protection is often required and includes the use of hard walls held off the timber columns for UV and moisture protection, floor plate protection from UV, moisture and foot traffic, maintenance of humidity and temperature post close-in. The most effective timber structure protection is speedy building enclosure to reduce environmental impact on the timber itself. Once enclosed and final systems are brought online, maintaining proper humidity levels is critical to keeping the timber looking and functioning at its best.
• Self-perform Capabilities: Consigli self-performs mass timber installation and protection, giving us added control over schedule, quality and continuity of installation because we are that much closer to the product. Our 700 in-house craftspeople share our standards for quality and are a strong additional resource to call upon to get work done on time.

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Design

When planning an aggressive project schedule, utilize repetitive design details to ensure quality and efficiency as multiple elements are built simultaneously off-site.

Pre-cast Concrete Foundations

The concrete foundations at Johnson Pond Houses were designed to eliminate on-site formwork and ease transportation to site. Consigli’s Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) team developed 35 concrete panel shop drawings to be repeated for each building. Each panel included every penetration, lifting device, reinforcing detail and finishing requirement, with concealing joints between panels. Foundations Engineer of Record Trillium Engineering reinforced details and accelerated drawing approvals.

To confirm there were no conflicts between the concrete, volumetric modular structural unit models, embeds and site work, each panel type was digitally modeled and clash-detected with the structural unit models. Drain lines, HVAC system louver openings, boiler vents, sprinkler drains and electrical conduits were modeled and sleeved in the panels based on the 3D model of Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection (M/E/P/FP) systems.

Volumetric Modular Structural Units

KBS Builders Inc. (KBS) pre-fabricated structural units that allowed in-factory framing, electrical, plumbing and fire protection installation. Consigli and the Kaplan Thompson Architects design team engaged M/E/P/FP design-build subcontractors for weekly coordination meetings to advance the design with KBS. With 18 structural units per building repeated across four houses, coordination and review of KBS shop drawings were required twelve weeks prior to on-site delivery.

The design-build delivery of the four repetitive buildings allowed the team to rapidly adjust design details and apply adjusted concepts from the first building to the last in real time for schedule and quality improvements. The structural units were designed to deliver nearly complete interiors for all spaces except the corridors and pre-cast basements.

Prefabrication

Traditional on-site construction limits simultaneous trades on site, due to its inherent sequential nature (first comes site work, then foundation, framing and so on). Prefabrication supports faster, higher-quality construction by simultaneously managing multiple trades and delivering materials to site only when installation-ready.

Pre-cast Concrete Foundations

Consigli Self-perform in Pre-casting Yard

With zero flexibility on structural unit delivery, the team had only four working days to set the foundation walls for each building. Consigli turned the parking lot adjacent to the project into a near-site pre-casting yard to construct foundations during sitework, allowing the team to pre-cast and pre-kit the panels on truck beds for just-in-time (JIT) delivery once the site was ready.

From the VDC group’s detailed drawings, Consigli’s self-perform team formed and pre-casted each of the 140 panels. A heated form structure supported rapid pre-cast at ground level, reducing jobsite hazards such as weather-caused slips and potential soil/excavation collapse in the foundation holes. The Consigli carpenters’ pre-casting system formed, reinforced, casted, cured and stripped panels on a five-day cycle.

Volumetric Modular Structural Units

Structural unit prefabrication occurred simultaneously with site preparation, foundation and steel fabrication, all of which converged on the date units were delivered to site. Each 18-unit building took 20 working days to pre-fabricate, including the installation of M/E/P systems, insulation, operable windows, an exterior air vapor barrier and a highly insulated exterior wall system to provide a Net Zero Ready structure. The interiors of the bedroom units, bathrooms and common area rooms included the installation of drywall, light fixtures, electrical outlets, flooring and finish paint.

Delivery & Installation

Prefabrication reduces on-site labor density, ensures manpower consistency and decreases safety incidents. To reap the benefits of off-site prefabrication against an aggressive project schedule, extensive coordination of trades is essential. 

Pre-cast Concrete Foundations

Concrete panels were delivered just-in-time and placed with a crane with structural steel support beams. Consigli’s self-perform installers set the entire foundation wall system in less than three days—from the first panel being set to the start of wood sill plate installation.

Threaded inserts allowed clean picks off the panels’ sides. Embedded cam rotational picks rotated the panels from their flat to vertical positions for installation. Temporary bracing held the panels in place while awaiting structural unit installation, and top embeds were set to lock in the units come time for installation.

Volumetric Modular Structural Units

Structural Unit Installation

Structural units were delivered in two stages per building (left and right side, two-floors high). In typical pre-fabricated structural unit assembly, units fit with no openings to the exterior. Unique to the Johnson Pound Houses, the structural units had openings for corridor connections when set in place. Keeping each building weathertight between setting units and getting the roof tilted required careful, multi-trade coordination.

Consigli reviewed punch list items throughout construction, catching deficiencies when work was first put in place. Every item delivered was immediately quality reviewed, further accelerating the completion of each building by taking early corrective action.

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