The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named Pare Corporation as a winner of their 2020 Bronze Engineering Excellence Award for their work on the Moderna Clinical Development Manufacturing Facility in Norwood, MA. The 2020 Engineering Excellence Awards were recently announced and will be celebrated at the 2021 ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence and Awards Gala. The awards celebrate innovation, ingenuity, and excellence in engineering achievement.

Pare provided structural assessment and design of the $130 million Moderna Clinical Development Manufacturing Facility. The project involved a gut renovation of a 200,000-SF former Polaroid manufacturing plant. Pare performed extensive field inspections/assessments to determine the existing building’s structural capacity and to develop a 3D REVIT model. This model guided the design team in fitting the existing building to the programming requirements of Moderna. Pare then design an independent structural system that extends through the existing building to new foundations. This system supports six Pare-designed rooftop platforms totaling 33,000 SF and supporting 26 air handling units weighing 270 tons. Pare is a multidisciplinary firm comprised of engineers, planners, environmental and wetland scientists, GIS professionals, and regulatory permitting specialists. In addition to traditional engineering and planning projects, Pare is known for its expertise in sustainable and low-impact development, resiliency and smart growth planning, and LEED and Envision documentation for sustainability certifications.

“The Engineering Excellence Awards program recognizes engineering firms for projects that demonstrate a high degree of achievement, value and ingenuity,” said Jenn Howe, President of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts and Principal and Vice President at SMMA, Symmes Maini & McKee Associates. “Entrants are rated by an independent panel of judges from the architectural community, the construction industry, academia, the media, and the public sector on the basis of uniqueness and originality; future value to the profession and perception by the public; social, economic and sustainable development considerations; complexity; and successful fulfillment of the client/owner’s need, including schedule and budget. We congratulate them and thank them for their contributions to improving the quality of our everyday lives.”