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2016
BRONZE AWARD
Floor-to-ceiling glass floods the interior spaces
with daylight and provides scenic views of
the wooded areas that surround the property.
WARREN PATTERSON PHOTOGRAPHY
offi ce complex
BUILT DURING HISTORICALLY BRUTAL WINTER
Massachusetts was ravaged by
storms throughout the winter
of 2014-15. Boston, for
example, received a record
110.6 inches of snow.
The Building Team for 275 Wyman
Street, the new home offi ce for Cimpress in
suburban Waltham, remembers the season
all too well. The team needed to build the
315,000-sf offi ce building in just 14 months,
and that meant working in brutally cold temperatures
and during multiple snowstorms.
The team used lean construction
techniques and staggered the 10-12 daily
deliveries based on scheduled construction
activity. Most of the plumbing and electrical
infrastructure was prefabricated off site,
eliminating the need for storage.
Commodore Builders took precautions
and got as much work done before the
winter as possible. The two-phase building
was made watertight before the weather
turned bad, and subs performed interior
construction during the cold and wet days.
The fi ve-story LEED Gold-registered
building consists of two stacked sets
of 30,000-sf plates centered around a
bathroom core and shared lobby. Features
include an amphitheater, green roof
courtyard, below-grade 1,025-car parking
garage, and a cafeteria with a living wall.
MPA worked with Cimpress to customize
275 Wyman. The fi rm designed a central
monumental staircase in the lobby to ease
movement between fl oors. The bathrooms
were enlarged, and a fi tness center and
game room were added.
Cimpress chose an open, fl exible, nonhierarchical
layout for the facility. The lobby
contains casual seating areas with views of
the outdoors. Employees can congregate
in tech-enabled training spaces and conference
rooms, or they can get work done as
a group in daylit corner meeting rooms or
individually at workstations in the library.
—Michael Chamernik
PROJECT SUMMARY
BRONZE AWARD
275 Wyman Street
Waltham, Mass.
BUILDING TEAM
Submitting firm: Margulies Perruzzi Architects
(architect, interior architect)
Owners: Hobbs Brook Management; Cimpress/
Vistaprint (tenant build-out)
Owner’s rep.: Cushman & Wakefield
Structural: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
MEP: AHA Consulting Engineers
Acoustical: Acentech
Lighting: Horton Lees Brogden, Sladen Feinstein
Landscape: James Royce
Civil: H.W. Moore
GC: Commodore Builders
GENERAL INFORMATION
Project size: 315,000 sf
Construction cost: confidential at client’s request
Construction period: June 2014 to August 2015
Delivery method: GMP
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