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Weston & Sampson received a 2001 Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) for our work at the site of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
The challenge facing the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to build a state-of-the-art convention center in an urban setting with minimal available land depended on timely acquisition and clearance of a 68-acre contaminated site located within 1/4-mile of the historic South Boston Waterfront. With only six months to prepare the site for construction, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) called upon Weston & Sampson to support site preparation of the $750-million Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC). A public-sector brownfields project of this magnitude, with such an aggressive schedule, had never before been attempted in New England. Weston & Sampson developed a remediation strategy using innovative techniques that had not typically been applied in such an urban setting on such a high-profile site as the BCEC project. Indirect thermal desorption/stabilization technology as the remedial option allowed the contaminants to be treated on site, saving the BRA over $6.5 million in hauling/treatment costs.
Weston & Sampson exceeded BRA’s expectations by meeting a schedule that had seemed nearly impossible at the project’s inception, despite encountering technical problems and significant unknowns with regard to the composition of the material.