Happenings
Derby Street Shoppes
The emergence of lifestyle centers as community gathering places has created the opportunity to transition aging malls and plazas to lively retail centers. The Derby Street Shoppes in Hingham exemplify this trend through the replacement of a dated shopping plaza with a 435,000-sf village-style complex. BSC’s integrated team provided civil engineering, permitting and survey services…Read More
Copps Hill Cemetery Historic Fence Restoration
Located on the Boston Freedom Trail, Copp's Hill Burial Ground is visited by thousands of tourists annually and has burials dating back to 1659. The cast iron fencing around the site, originally installed in the 1850s had fallen into disrepair such that design and specification of restoration plan was warranted. Under contract with the Boston…Read More
City Hall Plaza Accessibility Improvements
Under an on-call contract with the City of Boston, BSC provided design services to the City for accessibility improvements at City Hall Plaza. The project involved working with the Mayor’s Commission for Persons with Disabilities, and designing accessibility improvements to the large open space at Government Center that makes up City Hall Plaza. The plaza…Read More
Charles H. Barrows STEM Academy
BSC provided ecological, survey, civil engineering, and landscape architecture services for design of the new Environmental and Cultural Magnet School in Windham, CT. Situated on a wooded 20-acre site, the new school embodies the concept of an environmental responsibility, low impact design while serving a student population of approximately 600 students in grades pre-K through…Read More
Bedford Business Park
BSC civil engineers and landscape architects provided several conceptual designs for the Bedford Business Park that considered options for placement of outdoor spaces, gardens, and accessible routes connecting the buildings to exterior elements. The preferred design includes a large plaza and adjacent lawn area surrounded by a wall of evergreen trees, gardens and amenities such…Read More
Atkins Road Subdivision
BSC designed and permitted a 23-lot residential cluster subdivision on 36.91 acres of undeveloped woodlands off Atkins Road in the Town of Sandwich. The project required permits from the Cape Cod Commission for a Development of Regional Impact (DRI), the Sandwich Planning Board (Definitive Subdivision and Special Permit) and the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species…Read More
Acorn Park
BSC has transformed a parking lot into a space to serve both its users and the natural ecology of the riparian corridor it occupies. Located along the Little River, Acorn Park includes a field, trails, a pond, and a conservation area. The wetland ponds and islands provide habitat and visual interest as well as a…Read More
Forest Hill Cemetery Master Plan
BSC Group provided the City of Fitchburg with master planning services for the 42-acre Forest Hill Cemetery and completed a detailed cost/benefit feasibility analysis to construct a crematory within Forest Hill Cemetery. The study involved compilation of cemetery mapping, topography and boundaries, as well as available utility information. The study evaluated the existing maintenance building,…Read More
Glenwood Cemetery Master Plan
BSC prepared a highly detailed master plan for Glenwood Cemetery in Everett, a 130-year-old, 21-acre cemetery. At the commencement of the project the cemetery had no grave space available and limited open land to expand into grave space. The master plan included the compiling of various GIS data, a complete aerial topographic mapping of the…Read MorePages: