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Boston - GEI Consultants, Inc. is providing various consulting engineering services for the design and construction of a green bus maintenance facility located at Logan International Airport in East Boston. The 72,000sf facility will be located in the north service area of the airport and will

-tions at the airport.

GEI performed an environmental as--

tion of the site; designed a foundation that consisted of spread footings on existing site soils improved with controlled-modulus-columns; and evaluated and approved a

contractor proposed value-engineering alter-native to support the facility on spread foot-ings over site soils improved with rammed aggregate piers. Currently, GEI is providing construction oversight for this project.

GEI also was selected to be part of the program management team engaged by Massport for review of design-build proj-ect improvements to the Runway Safety Area (RSA) at the end of Runway 33L at Boston-Logan International Airport. The proposed improvements are required to enhance the RSA, to the extent feasible, to be consistent with the Federal Aviation Administration’s current airport design cri-teria for RSA.

New Mass. Projects for GEI

Gloucester, MA - MassDevelop-ment has issued a $4 million tax-exempt bond, purchased by TD Bank, on behalf of Bomco, Inc., a manufacturing compa-ny located in Gloucester, which produces sheet metal fabrications for jet engines, industrial gas turbines, and land and ma-rine turbines.

The company will use bond pro-ceeds to build an 18,000sf manufactur-ing facility on Bomco’s current property, which contains 52,000sf of production space, and to purchase equipment for EDM drilling, vacuum furnace heat treating and

-bilities will vertically integrate the produc-tion process to improve turnaround time to customers. The company expects the proj-

ect will create 10 to 15 jobs.“Gloucester is best known for its

the commonwealth’s success in another

MassDevelopment president and CEO Marty Jones. “From predevelopment

-velopment supports Massachusetts manu-facturers. We’re pleased to provide access

Bomco began in 1958 in a small ga-rage, refurbishing wire spools. Presently, the company’s products include indus-trial gas turbine combustors, intake cen-ter bodies, and various internal jet engine components.

Bomco to Build New Facility

Boston - Pressley Associ-ates, a Cambridge-based landscape

announced the dedication of the Bernard M. Gordon Tribute to En-gineering Leadership at Northeast-ern University.

NU President Joseph E. Aoun hosted a ribbon-cutting cer-emony for this interactive high-tech monument of moving digital images on LED screens and photo tributes to engineering leaders in-cluding Bernard Marshall (“Ber-

With more than 200 inven-tions to his credit, including the high-speed analog-to-digital con-verter, the instant imaging comput-er-aided tomography scanner Digi-tal Doppler Radar, and the world’s

Gordon endowed the university’s Gordon Engineering Leadership Program with $20 million.

Situated on the pathway be-tween the university’s Snell Engi-neering Center and Egan Research Center, the Gordon Tribute’s surrounding plaza was designed by Pressley landscape architect Matt Latimer with a grayscale paving pattern evocative of electron paths around an atom or moon orbits around a planet, inlaid in a red brick pavement.

Ergonomic stainless steel benches provide viewing seats for the monument. It is down a path from Pressley’s Northeast-

ern University Veterans’ Memorial. These are the latest in a series of

Northeastern campus landscape improve-ments designed by Pressley, which replaced many of the campus’ asphalt-paved roads and parking lots with curved brick pedestri-an walks, greenspaces, granite-curbed tree/

-man Quadrangle on Huntington Avenue.

Monument Dedicated to Engineers

Bernard M. Gordon Tribute to Engineering Leadership

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