Awards and certifications

LEED Platinum (LEED for Homes/Affordable Housing)
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s (PCI) Sustainable Design Award

This large, mixed-use development project had an extremely tight construction schedule—the contractor had to place walls very quickly. As shown in Fig.1, shotcrete provided the solution: walls used one-sided formwork, shotcrete was applied, and then the free surface was finished by hand. Forms were then moved to the next wall and reused. With a trailer pump on site twice a week, between 80 and 130 yd³ (61 and 99 m³) of concrete could be shot in an average 8- to 10-hour day.

“Green Building includes a wide range of strategies yet doesn’t really go far enough to address the current energy situation; I’m working towards ‘Blue Building’”, claims Massachusetts builder Barry Oberpriller. While oil prices crept upward and the media speculated on the imminent burst of the real estate bubble; most Americans remained optimistic (or in denial) and hoped for the best. But Oberpriller sensed the direction things were heading and the stress that would result in both household economies and the broader economy.