Boston, MA – Construction is well underway for Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) Building for the Third Century (B3C) development on its main campus in Boston. Throughout the life of this important project, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB), has been an integral part of the team, providing land survey, site/civil, and transportation engineering services in support of the project’s early planning, permitting, and design efforts.
The new 10-story, 400,000 square foot building is located in the heart of MGH’s campus. Working with its client, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., architect NBBJ, contractor Turner Construction Company, and other team members, VHB is providing technical permitting services, including Boston Public Improvement Commission, Boston Transportation Department, Boston Water and Sewer Commission permitting, and Boston redevelopment Authority Article 80 support.
The project involved the demolition of three existing buildings (Clinics, Vincent-Burnham, and Tilton), creating a site fronting on Fruit Street adjacent to the hospital’s main entrance. The B3C will include a major new loading facility, a new Emergency Department with a covered vehicle parking area, and 10 above-grade levels of patient care space. Connections with the adjacent Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care are planned through a pedestrian bridge above Fruit Street.
Constructing this project has been likened to performing open-heart surgery on the campus. Full hospital services are continuing to be provided around the clock as the project moves toward its summer 2011 completion.