Oxford, Maine (April 18, 2011) – Building Solutions, a plan/design/build firm of commercial and industrial facilities, recently had a high-profile project featured at the national 2011 Brownfields Conference in Philadelphia. Bedard Medical Campus, currently under construction on Minot Avenue in Auburn, Maine, is being built on an EPA / Brownfields Program site. The City of Auburn used the Brownfields grant to determine the level of mitigation required. The 3-story, state-of-the-art building was constructed with energy efficient and sustainable features throughout, including the building shell and mechanical and electrical systems, that meet or exceed energy standards. When complete in early summer it will be the only facility of its kind in Maine.
Building Solutions’ Bedard Medical Campus project was featured in The Poster Gallery, a popular conference venue for sharing news and educational information on community Brownfields redevelopment projects across the United States. Projects on display in the poster gallery were judged and several awards were presented.
“Many of our clients are interested in helping to create more sustainable communities,” stated Joseph Casalinova, President of Building Solutions. “It is our responsibility to be experts in the field of reclaiming and redeveloping abandoned and potentially contaminated properties, not only for our clients, but for good of the communities we serve.”
Building Solutions utilizes an exclusive, total approach method that guides clients from site selection through to occupancy, including planning for environmental clean-up, economic redevelopment and green spaces.
The 2011 National Brownfields Conference was held in Philadelphia on April 3-5, 2011. It is the nation’s largest, most comprehensive conference focused on cleaning up and redeveloping underutilized and potentially contaminated properties. Attendees were offered more than 100 educational opportunities, plenary sessions, networking and business development events, training sessions, film screenings, book signings and more. The conference was cosponsored by the U.S. EPA and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and attracted more than 6,000 registrants and hundreds of exhibitors.
