http://www.bscgroup.com/ Transforming the Human Environment BSC Group is pleased to announce that Aarthy Sabesan has joined the firm’s Worcester office as a GIS Analyst. Aarthy has extensive experience in GIS, including performing spatial modeling and analysis, data acquisition and management, GIS-based environmental assessments and impact investigations, and field surveys. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=73 Chuck Heiser, PE has joined BSC’s Raleigh office as a chief engineer and project director. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=68 After two years of planning, fundraising, property purchase, and land transfers, Winslow Park in Worcester, MA, is finally under construction. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=59 On November 27th, the Downtown Crossing consultant team presented their final recommendations for improvements to the district. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=55 The Hingham Shipyard redevelopment project was featured during a workshop at the 23rd annual Build Boston conference at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=54 On October 4th, BSC presented at a workshop sponsored by Coastal Carolina Tomorrow. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=50 BSC has been selected to provide site design, survey, and environmental permitting services for Fisher's Island Golf Course. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=51 BSC will develop a conceptual restoration plan for Phase 2 of the Chelsea Creek Restoration project. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=52 BSC Group is working as subconsultant to the Portland, OR-based office of CH2M Hill on the design of a $150 million, 500,000-sf manufacturing facility in Devens, MA. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=9 BSC has received a new on-call contract with the Massachusetts Highway Department to provide construction assistance to ensure compliance with environmental permits for construction of state and interstate roadways and highways http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=24 DCAM has selected BSC for an on-call building security and demolition contract. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=53 The Massachusetts Department of Housing & Community Development approved the Quincy Center District Urban Revitalization and Development Plan (URDP). http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=49 BSC Group provided site selection and planning services to support Massachusetts' successful bid to site a new testing facility for the next generation of wind turbine blades in Boston. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=8 The Elma Lewis Partners LLC team, which includes BSC Group, has been tentatively selected by the City of Boston as the redeveloper of Parcel P-3 in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=12 The BSC Principals and Board of Directors are pleased to announce that it has elected several new individuals to Associate or Principal status in BSC Companies. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=43 Commercial development firm Hamilton Merritt has selected BSC to provide boundary and topographic surveys and site design for a 3.5-acre downtown redevelopment project in Raleigh, NC, that will include a grocery store, multi-screen theatre, restaurants, retail shops, multi-level parking decks, an office tower, hotel, and condo tower. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=22 BSC has teamed with EarthTech on two exciting projects in Acton/Maynard and Lowell. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=47 BSC has been awarded a $1 million on-call contract to help the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency in providing professional planning services to Massachusetts communities. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=45 The Criterion at Bedford, a 17-acre mixed-use (residential, retail, office and parking) development, has been accepted as a pilot project under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) program. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=11 BSC Group has been selected by The HB Nitkin Group to provide comprehensive engineering services for the 7-acre mixed-use Front Street Retail District development in downtown Hartford. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=23 A major modification to the mixed-use commercial portion of the Hingham Shipyard redevelopment recently received approvals from the Town of Hingham Planning Board, Zoning Board, and Conservation Commission. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=13 Yesterday, several prominent individuals as well as neighbors and community activists attended the dedication of the new K Street HarborWalk, a 1,000-foot-long public access path located along the Reserved Channel in South Boston. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=10 Building on past project experience with National Grid, BSC will be providing feasibility and permitting services for the construction of a new high-kV transmission line. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=46 John Vieira, Jr. joins BSC's Worcester office as a Senior Project Manager and Scientist. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=44 BSC Group Landscape architect Thomas R. Tavella, LLA, LEED AP has been elected Vice President, Communication, of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), a national professional association. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=21 The Oyster Shell Park Master Plan, developed by BSC landscape architects for the revitalization of Oyster Shell Park in Norwalk, CT, won a Merit Award in the Landscape Analysis and Planning category of the 2007 Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) Awards Program. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=15 In recent months, BSC has secured several new project wins. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=42 BSC has expanded its Glastonbury, CT practice with the addition of Kurt Prochorena, PE, LEP, who will serve as the Director of Land Development for Connecticut. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=20 BSC is working with Manitou Engineering of Escondido, CA, to deploy a monitoring system following slope reconstruction for a new ozone treatment facility at the Robert B. Diemer Treatment Plant in California. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=25 On March 7, BSC subsidiary Geonetics received the Silver Award at the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts Engineering Excellence Awards Gala Program. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=14 As part of the consultant team for the City of Boston's Downtown Crossing Economic Improvement Initiative, BSC participated in the presentation of design and marketing concepts for the area to project stakeholders and City officials. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=16 BSC has provided civil/site engineering services to client JDL Castle for the relocation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Northeast Regional Office from 1 Blackburn Drive to 55 Great Republic Drive in the recently expanded Blackburn Industrial Park in Gloucester, MA. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=27 The Leachmore Point mixed-use development project in South Boston has received Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) Board approval through the Large Project Review process with the BRA. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=26 Construction has started on the redevelopment of a 3.3-acre parcel into new graduate residence housing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=40 BSC Group has worked with various departments, commissions and elected officials in the Town of Winthrop to stabilize an eroding landfill adjacent to the Belle Isle Marsh. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=48 BSC is part of the GEI Consultants team that is working for client Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation to provide reconstruction of the approximately 130-year-old, 1,500-foot long dam that forms Ashmere Lake in Hinsdale, MA. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=39 The BSC/Cullinan Associates joint venture has received a new contract with the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) to provide displacement monitoring of the ceiling panels in the Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=32 BSC has been awarded a contract to provide laser scanning services to J.F. White Contracting Company for their rehabilitation of the Neponset River Bridge between Boston and Quincy. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=31 Simpson Housing Limited Partnership has retained BSC Group to provide integrated planning and design services for the development of a 40B residential project on Route One in Sharon, MA. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=30 BSC has teamed with Parsons Corporation on two winning proposals for the Massachusetts Highway Department. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=37 BSC's Glastonbury office has won a contract to develop a park and recreational facility master plan for the City of Waterbury, which has 600 acres of parklands and recreational resources. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=34 BSC has been selected by the Town of Mashpee to provide professional services to obtain dredging permits for the maintenance dredging of Waquoit Bay and Popponesset Bay. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=28 BSC's civil engineering group recently won a contract to provide underground utilities improvements at the Boston Housing Authority's Mary Ellen McCormack and Old Colony Family Developments. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=29 BSC has assembled an international project team, led by Toronto-based Urban Marketing Collaborative, that was recently selected by the City of Boston Redevelopment Authority to provide an identity and branding strategy for Boston's Downtown Crossing area. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=36 BSC has been selected to provide civil/site design and surveying services for the redevelopment of the Waverly Place Shopping Center in Cary, NC. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=33 The Connecticut office of BSC Group has been selected to design streetscape improvements on Main Street in Bridgeport, CT. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=35 For the first time, students moved into the new Sophia Gordon Hall on the Tufts University campus in September. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=19 On September 1, BSC attended the official opening of Wayside Commons, New England's first "lifestyle retail" center, in Burlington, MA. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=18 On August 18, the Town of Orange hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the first building phase of the new Riverfront Park. http://www.bscgroup.com/Engineering-Planning-News.php?articleID=17