A recent article in New England Real Estate Journal (NEREJ) documented Tocci’s progress on Chelsea Place:
Tocci Building Companies is nearing completion of Chelsea Place, a four-story, 56-unit apartment complex that will not only be certified LEED Silver, but will go from conception to occupancy in near record time thanks to a modular development system used in the construction process…Typically, a building of this type would have a construction schedule of over a year, but…
Tocci’s Abbot Mill project in Westford, MA has been awarded Project of the Year by Construction Management Association of America (CMAA). Local news correspondent Andrew Sylvia writes:
The group [CMAA] honored Tocci Building Companies with the Building Project of the Year in a Renovation/Modernization Project Over $20 Million category at their New England Chapter awards luncheon last week. Developed in partnership with Yule Development Co., and Ganek Architects, the Mill’s metamorphisis transformed the…
Many small project teams look at large colocation room setups and think, “Colocation isn’t for us.” We beg to differ. Although small project teams may not use the same approach and setup, there is still an opportunity for colocation. Tocci recently used colocation on Chelsea Place, a 60,000 SF modular project. Jeremy Garczynski, Assistant Project Manager, and Kirsten Soderlund, VDC Modeler, boiled their success stories and lessons learned in these strategies:
DON’T force large scale,…
Although there are no absolutes in colocation management, Tocci Project Director Jennifer Heikkinen shares a general list of colocation “dos” and “don’ts.”
DO Have an IT planning session to make sure everyone can access each firm’s respective home networks, model sharing platform, file sharing platform. A lot of troubleshooting is needed based on various firms’ set-ups so it is best to have the IT guys all talk IT so the project team can focus on…
If so many industries are using colocation, there must be a benefit. Although it’s difficult to calculate the true ROI of colocation, we are starting to come across metrics as we develop our own.
RESEARCH
A Harvard Medical School study analyzed the impact that colocation has on the quality of biomedical science research. The study used the number of times a paper is externally cited as a measure of quality. Findings:
- Two heads are…
