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Downtown Pedestrian Connectivity Improvement Design
BSC Group was selected by the Town of Wallingford to serve as the lead engineer to design a Pedestrian Connectivity project to develop their downtown “core” section of town to the new train station along the New Haven-Springfield Rail Lines. The project builds upon the Town's Transit Oriented Development Plan (TOD) to connect all available…Read More
Great Brook Valley Phase I Renovation
BSC supported the Worcester Housing Authority's Phase I Renovations for the Great Brook Valley Housing Complex from initial surveys through to project close out. BSC performed detailed surveys and created base mapping for approximately 4,000 L.F. of roads and parking areas within this public housing complex for the design and reconstruction of improvements throughout this…Read More
Southern New England Trunkline Trail
BSC was selected to provide permitting, design, and survey services for the construction of a concrete culvert rail-trail tunnel. The culvert provides a connection for the Southern New England Trunkline Trail, a 10-mile trail system facility that includes a 10-foot wide, shared-use path along an abandoned railroad right-of-way. BSC prepared conceptual design scenarios and selected…Read More
Tyler Street Intersection
The City of Pittsfield selected BSC Group to provide landscape architecture, urban and transportation design services for improvements to the intersection of Tyler Street, Woodlawn Avenue, and Dalton Avenue in downtown Pittsfield. BSC performed a field and base plan survey, collected traffic data and collaborated with city staff to prepare three conceptual design alternatives that…Read More
Coastal Waterfront Resiliency Plan
BSC Group worked in coordination with the City of Beverly Planning Department to develop a Waterfront Resiliency Plan for the City of Beverly. BSC prepared the grant application for the project, funded by the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Coastal Resilient Grant Program, and coordinated the efforts of a diverse set of local, regional, and statewide…Read More
National Inventory of Dams
Geonetics has completed the design, development, and deployment of a system to manage the information submitted by all states and many federal agencies to maintain a comprehensive inventory of dams nation-wide. Because each state and agency manage their own inventory independently, a system that would map and reconcile data fields and codes consistent with the…Read More
Hope Cemetery Master Plan
For the City of Worcester’s Hope Cemetery, BSC prepared a 250-year master plan, which incorporated both cremation interment or entombment and full casket interment. This project also included options for creation of a Muslim section (that involved green burial techniques according to the Muslim faith), an orthodox section, a significant indigent burial area, an extensive…Read More
On Call Services with Boston Water & Sewer Commission
BSC Group provided land surveying services to the Boston Water and Sewer Commission (BWSC) on an as-needed basis in support of its Capital Improvement Program. Existing conditions surveys act as a base for BWSC’s water and wastewater design efforts; verify and supplement as-built data for completed projects; and facilitate the updating of the Commission’s GIS…Read More
City Parks Improvement Projects
Peace Park BSC Group’s landscape architects worked with the City of Worcester and a community group—Women Together Now (WTN), who were responding to a recent, senseless death in the area—to redevelop a derelict one-half acre parcel struggling with issues of crime and poverty. The park now serves as an aesthetic relieving greenspace in the center…Read MorePages: