Since 1955, SMMA has forged extraordinary relationships with clients, established an enviable record of success, and designed award-winning environments. They are a diverse, integrated team of experts bound by mutual trust, aligned by shared values, and united in focus on a single goal—the client’s goal.
Over the past 30 years, SMMA’s K-12 practice has conducted over 60 K-12 master plans and feasibility studies, and managed, programmed, designed, and implemented over 60 schools. Their skilled staff adapts their vast expertise to the unique needs of each school project, gaining consensus from multiple constituencies such as school administration, faculty, parent groups, surrounding neighbors, and the greater communities. SMMA specializes in synthesizing the latest thinking in collaborative student-centered and project-based learning spaces. Their interdisciplinary design firm structure brings together planners, architects, and engineers under a single roof and a common purpose – to achieve the maximum return on a municipality’s most important collective investment: Next Generation schools and the children, staff, and teachers who use them every day.
With a local office in downtown Manchester, Consigli is the largest self-performing general contractor/construction manager in New England and is one of the major builders of K-12 school within the region. Over the past three decades, the 100% employee –owned company has built or renovated more than 70 schools covering every type of program area, from elementary and middle schools to both comprehensive and technical high schools. Nine of these projects have been in collaboration with SMMA.
More than 80% of Consigli’s work is in occupied buildings or environments and the vast majority of the company’s K-12 work has been executed in or adjacent to operational schools. Safety is always the top priority – for students, faculty, staff and visitors as well as for its construction personnel.
As the largest self-performing general contractor/construction manager in New England, with more than 600 skilled trade workers on staff, Consigli has an extra measure of control over schedule, quality and cost as it brings the ability to supplement available market resources. Consigli is also recognized as an industry leader in sustainability, energy management, and historic restoration.
New Vista Design is a Boston-based consulting firm that works with schools, districts, charter management organizations, architectural firms, and foundations across the U.S. and abroad to facilitate the design of 21st century, inquiry-based, and technology-rich school programs and the facilities that house them. Founded in 2006 by licensed architect and experienced educator David Stephen, New Vista’s work straddles the worlds of education reform and architectural design. As an educator, David has over 30 years of experience partnering with innovative school networks that include High Tech High, Da Vinci Schools, and the Big Picture Company. As an architect, David as provided educational programming and planning services for over 100 K-12 school design projects, assisting his clients in crafting their clear and forward-thinking educational vision, and connecting that vision to best practices and possibilities in school facility design.
With a local office in Bedford, NH, VHB’s team of 1,900 strong is eager to deliver value by embracing our clients’ goals, anticipating challenges, building lasting partnerships, and always providing a smooth ride. Our passionate professionals include engineers, scientists, planners, and designers who partner with clients in the transportation, real est ate, institutional, and energy industries, as well as federal, state, and local governments. Together, we improve mobility, enhance communities, and balance development and infrastructure needs with environmental stewardship.
Founded in 2001, Universal Environmental Consultants (UEC) is a full-service consulting firm that provides a wide range of environmental services to projects throughout New England. Their comprehensive asbestos services include inspection, design, preparation of bid and specification documents, management planning construction monitoring during abatement and analytical laboratory services. Other services include: conducting Indoor Air Quality studies and providing cost-efficient evaluations, recommendations, and solutions, lead-based paint inspection and abatement services, radon testing and remediation, and full scope of mold and PCB’s inspection, testing, and remediation services. Their vast range of projects include colleges, universities, residential, commercial, industrial, military, municipal, federal, and public and private schools.