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UMass Amherst P3 Student Housing

Amherst, MA

Project Overview

Suffolk was selected to perform preconstruction and construction services for the UMass Amherst P3 Student Housing design-build project along with DiMella Shaffer.

The project involves a $200 million housing complex with 825 undergraduate and graduate beds. The building consists of a one-story steel podium with four stories of panelized wood framing systems above.

Panelized wood-framing is mostly prefabricated and is efficient and quicker to put together than stick-built construction, which allowed the team to stay on schedule and deliver the 623 undergraduate beds ahead of the start of the Fall 2023 semester.

The new graduate student housing replaced the existing Lincoln Apartments. The development was built along Massachusetts Avenue, the main entrance to campus.
Suffolk Design, Suffolk’s in-house design-management team, performed timely constructability reviews on this large, fast-paced design effort, thus identifying potential gaps in design decisions so they could be solved and overcome as documentation evolved. Involvement at key drawing package milestones took in view the development of a complete and constructible set.

© Robert Benson Photography

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    Sectors Higher Education
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    Owner UMass Building Authority (UMBA)
    Balfour Beatty
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    Architect DiMella Shaffer
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    Square Feet 440,000