Commuter Rail Station Connects Boston’s “Health and Wellness District” to Downtown

STV, Inc., of New York City has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 51st annual Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) for Boston Landing Station in Boston, Mass.

The new commuter rail station serves as a gateway to Boston’s first “health and wellness district,” a 2.15-million square foot redevelopment area anchored by the new world headquarters for shoe and athletic apparel manufacturer New Balance. The new train stop features a 785-foot, high-level, center island platform with two canopies, accessible stairs, pedestrian bridge, and glass-enclosed elevators that provide easy access to the campus and the surrounding community.

In addition to linking the campus with the city’s workforce the station represents a return of commuter rail service to a community that lost three stations in the 1960s to make way for the Massachusetts Turnpike. Approximately 2,400 passengers are expected to use the station daily.

STV provides engineering and other services for transportation, infrastructure, and building projects.

The project is among 146 engineering achievements from throughout the nation and the world being recognized by ACEC as the year’s finest examples of engineering excellence, and eligible for additional top national honors. Judging for final awards—known industry-wide as the “Academy Awards of the engineering industry”– took place in February, conducted by a national 36-member panel of built environment leaders, along with experts from government, the media and academia. Award criteria focuses on uniqueness and originality, technical innovation, social and economic value, and generating excitement for the engineering profession.

Recognition of all award winners including top commendations—20 Honor Awards, 16 Grand Awards and the prestigious “Grand Conceptor Award” for the year’s most outstanding overall engineering achievement—will take place at the annual EEA Dinner and Gala, a black-tie event to be held Tuesday, April 17, 2018, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) is the business association of America’s engineering industry, representing more than 5,000 independent engineering firms and more than 600,000 professionals throughout the United States engaged in the development of America’s transportation, water and energy infrastructure, along with environmental, industrial and other public and private facilities. Founded in 1906 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., ACEC is a national federation of 52 state and regional organizations.