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By The Herald News Editorial Board – The Herald News
FALL RIVER – What is historic enough to deserve preservation? In a city like Fall River, it’s an interesting question. The city brims with 19th century structures, including old cotton mills, old churches, and, of course, the blocks and blocks of 100-plus-year-old tenement houses. In short, we’ve no shortage of historic buildings. Compared to some Midwestern suburbs where nearly everything was built after 1945, Fall River is a historical bonanza. Continue Reading…
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Construction has begun on our new Learning Commons Center at Bristol Community College’s New Bedford Campus. Work includes the renovation of the entire 5th floor of the historic Cherry Building in downtown New Bedford and the conversion of former office spaces into a new learning center. Programmatic spaces include group study rooms, tutoring spaces, computer stations, testing rooms, office spaces and IT support.
The placement of borrowed lites were carefully considered in order to make use of natural light to the greatest extent possible and minimize the need for artificial lighting. Energy efficient upgrades include the installation of new LED lighting and upgrades to existing HVAC systems.
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Construction has wrapped up and furniture delivery is nearing completion on our new Learning Commons Center at Bristol Community College’s Attleboro Campus, a former Texas Instruments site. The scope of work included the complete demolition of an existing commercial kitchen and adjacent cafeteria and the construction of a new center intended to service student needs. Programmatic spaces included group study rooms, tutoring spaces, computer stations, testing rooms, office spaces and IT support. New spaces are organized around existing skylights and windows to make use of natural light to the greatest extent possible and minimize the need for artificial lighting. Energy efficient upgrades include the installation of new LED lighting and the replacement of an existing 30+ year old rooftop unit with a new efficient unit.
BCC Attleboro Learning Commons Project Page
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By Kevin P. O’Connor Herald News Staff Reporter
FALL RIVER — It is not that he ever had doubts about packing up Civitects and moving to the city, Michael Keane said. Keane is a hometown boy. He knows Fall River’s charms. But moving gives even the most stalwart pause. So one afternoon last week Keane abandoned the moving boxes and half-built desks to walk to the Pink Bean on Purchase Street for coffee. Along the way he ran into the new mayor, Jasiel Correia II, who walked with him for a block to the coffee shop, all the way asking him what the city could do to make Civitects feel more at home. Continue Reading. . .
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Civitects has recently completed overseeing renovations to our new office space. The new office is located at 66 Troy Street in Fall River, in the Merrell Building (formerly a mill for the union belt factory). The renovated space features exposed heavy timber beams and brick walls, to compliment modern furniture and equipment.
66 Troy Street Project Page
