Ocean Steel Tops Off New Practice Facility for the Boston Celtics
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connections the biannual newsmagazine of the OSCO Construction Group Ocean Steel Tops Off New Practice Facility for the Boston Celtics fall & winter 2017 North Shore Medical Center • Georges River Energy • Queen’s Marque Moosehead Brewery • Precast Concrete Stairs • West Broadway Condos the biannual newsmagazine of fall & winter 2017 connections the OSCO Construction Group what’s inside projects 4 .....The Auerbach Center 17....Village View Suites 28 ...Courthouse Hill Farms 6 .....North Shore Medical 20 ...Irving Oil Refinery 29 ...Fundy Funeral Home 8 .....NB Bridge Replacements 21 ...Meridian Health 30 ...West Broadway Condos 9 .....Red Rose Building 22 ...Misc. Metals 32 ...Holiday Inn Express 10 ...Saint John Water 22 ...Mercantile Park Garage 32 ...Dartmouth General Hospital 12 ...Queen’s Marque 23 ...Mount Allison 33 ...Stonehill College 13 ...Georges River Energy 24 ...Bath Viaduct 34 ...Halifax Shopping Center 14 ...Moosehead Brewery 27 ... 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Construction Group, published every Spring and Fall to share news and information with our valued customers & employees The Auerbach Center, Boston MA Comments and submissions are greatly appreciated and may be sent to the See story on page 4 editor/designer: Tammy Legacy, c/o OSCO Construction Group 400 Chesley Drive, Saint John, NB • Canada • E2K 5L6 email: [email protected] www.oscoconstructiongroup.com Message from the President currently provide many differ- most part, not improved productivity decades. Other new technologies We ent construction products & in the construction industry. adaptable to construction applica- services from 24 facilities located in tions are also emerging……some the eastern part of Canada and the In our view, this is about to radically examples are robotics, artificial United States. One of our key goals change…….the construction industry intelligence, mixed or augmented has been to diversify into product, is the next major industry about to reality, sensors & telematics, scan- customer and geographic markets be reshaped. It has now reached the ning, nanotechnology and additive which can offer highly-valued “pack- “tipping” point because several para- manufacturing. ages” of construction products or digm shifts will disrupt the industry as services for our clients. For structural never before…. In the past, manufacturing processes steel combined with architectural have been mostly subtractive or Advances in the development and precast wall panels, precast con- formative….. Structural steel fabrica- availability of Building Information nections are designed and attached tion is “subtractive” where waste is to the steel in our fabrication shop rather than the more expensive “In the case of the OSCO Group, we’re ideally suited to participate option of field-installed. Ready mix and rebar are packaged for cast-in- as the industry moves from outside stick-built methods to off-site place structures to assure formwork factory pre-fabrication. We’re already experimenting with more contractors that material deliveries value-added functions and/or components to combine with our for both products will be properly scheduled. existing factory-built elements.” Given our multi-product strategy to-date, are we headed in the right Modeling (BIM) standards will allow generated when materials are cut direction when compared with the the industry to finally achieve true from standard-sized pieces into construction industry as a whole?? data interoperability and integration. desired shapes. Alternatively, precast Over the last 25 years, InfoTech ad- The industry now has or soon will concrete is “formative” where mate- vances have led to the transformation have the means to deploy a digital, rial is deposited into a mould to cre- of entire industries: car manufactur- 3D model of every component and ate a desired shape. Today, “additive” ing, shipbuilding and aerospace are system in a project…….something manufacturing, such as 3D print- some examples. Unfortunately, the the automotive, aerospace and ing, has become practical wherein technology revolution has, for the shipbuilding industries have had for continued on page 46... www.oscoconstructiongroup.com connections | fall & winter 2017 3 projects 4 connections | fall & winter 2017 www.oscoconstructiongroup.com projects The basketball practice facil- ity will be located on the top Teamwork two floors of The Auerbach Center, and will feature two state-of-the-art parquet-floor basketball courts, and seating for approximately 195 fans. On-site amenities will include: locker Slam Dunk rooms, a players’ lounge; expanded media work and studio production space; state-of-the-art audio-visual technology; expanded strength and @ The Auerbach Center conditioning facilities; physical therapy areas with hydrotherapy pools; and sports science and nutrition facili- OSCO Steel Plants Team Up ties. A flexible hospitality area will host community relations activities, partner On Complex 2530 Ton Project gatherings, and other guest events. Boston Landing is a 15-acre mixed- contributed by: Jeff Keith ity; 85,000 square feet of office and use development owned by New laboratory space; 5,700 square feet of Balance Development Group that in- he Auerbach Center located retail space; and a total of 190 parking cludes the new world headquarters of at 40 Guest Street at Bos- spaces, built across one level at grade New Balance Athletics, Inc. and Tton Landing, is a mixed-used and two levels above grade. the Boston Bruins practice development in the Allston-Brighton facility. neighborhood of Boston. It will be The Boston Celtics practice facility will the future official world-class practice be the latest component at Boston John Moriarty & Associ- and training facility of the 17-time Landing — at 55 feet in the air, cantile- ates, Inc, Construction NBA Champion Boston Celtics bas- vered out to the edge of the Mass Pike. Manager for The Auerbach ketball team. The facility will contain a The Celtics’ new practice home will be Center project, awarded total of approximately 160,000 square highly visible from the Massachusetts Ocean Steel and Construction Ltd the feet of space, including: the 71,000 Turnpike, with a forty foot glass wall contract to supply and install: 2530 square foot basketball practice facil- enclosing the practice courts. tons of structural steel; 265,300 sf of metal & acoustic decking; 14 long span joists 6’ x 120’; and 44 composite joists for the project. The structural steel included a complex cantilevered truss system, featuring three field-built trusses that spanned a maximum of 220 feet x 36 feet deep and was stick- built on OSCO-Engineered temporary shoring. A shop-welded truss 120’ long by 6’-4” deep, was shipped to the site in 3 sections for field assembly and install. OSCO fabricated the project at it’s three fabrication facilities in Saint John, Fredericton & Conklin in order to achieve the tight installation schedule requirements. OSCO subcontracted the installation of the project to Prime Steel Erecting, Inc. Steel Installation started in April 2017 and was substan- tially complete in October 2017. www.oscoconstructiongroup.com connections | fall & winter 2017 5 projects North Shore Medical Center contributed by: scheduled for completion in 2019 as: involved in this significant project, with Dan Scally & Alex Linero Ocean Steel and Strescon providing • A new 113,000 square foot, four- structural steel and precast concrete. orth Shore Medical Center story building to include a new As with all “OSCO Team” efforts, the (NSMC) is a multi-site health emergency department, mechanical NSMC project was able to benefit from Nsystem, headquartered in Salem, space, one floor for 24 medical – the close coordination between the Massachusetts. The North Shore’s surgical inpatient beds, one floor to sister companies, to ensure a perfect largest healthcare provider, NSMC op- be shelled for a future 24 bed medi- fit between structural steel and erates multiple hospitals, ambulatory cal – surgical unit with vertical and precast panels in the field. care sites and physician offices. They horizontal connecting corridors to are a member of Partners HealthCare, the existing Davenport Building. Structural Steel founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General • Converting the current Spaulding Ocean Steel’s project Hospitals. North Shore to a Center of Excel- scope encompasses three lence in Behavioral Health that will buildings, including the main NSMC broke ground last fall on a $207 be directly aligned with Massachu- hospital building and upgrades to the million project which will consoli- setts General Hospital and add 26 Central Utility Plant infrastructure. date medical, surgical and behavioral