To save energy and costs, Barre Supervisory Union chose to investigate wood chip boiler systems. DuBois & King provided engineering services, project management, and cost control for an award-winning biofuel project. Our team developed design and specifications for the installation of a Messersmith Wood Chip Boiler that provided heat for the 220,000-SF high school.
CCV sought to expand its academic facilities by adding a 12,000-SF, two-story space. D&K provided mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for the new space, including nine classrooms and laboratory and office spaces. Mechanical design included high-efficiency boilers with variable-speed pumps, variable refrigerant flow (VRF) heat pumps, general and specialty exhaust system requirements, and Direct Digital…
Otter View Park is an ADA-accessible public park that consists of a series of trails located on 17 acres next to the Otter Creek. The park provides pedestrian access through a variety of natural settings, such as upland meadow, cattail marsh, wetland shrubs, and floodplain forest. D&K designed the park and pathways; performed topographic and…
For a wide-ranging park expansion and redevelopment effort, Manchester’s Parks, Recreation, and Cemetery Division selected D&K as a partner to perform detailed site analyses of multiple schools, recreational areas, and other properties, including rehabilitation of the Piscataquog River Park. D&K provided planning, design, and construction administration services for the realignment of the entry roadway, a…
The City of Laconia’s Parks and Recreation Department sought to create a new infill park on Lucerne Avenue. The park included a restroom building, an amphitheater, a playground, and a pavilion. D&K worked with subconsultants to accomplish Low Impact Development practices and provided part-time construction observation services, concrete foundation testing observation, and contract administration services.
The City of St. Albans sought to create a plan for the south end of Taylor Park to improve cohesion and connectivity with the historic north end. Taylor Park needed improved circulation, infrastructure for events, increased accessibility, improved lighting and wayfinding, improved stormwater infrastructure, and a more extensive tree canopy. As part of a consultant…
D&K provides civil, structural, mechanical, water resource, dam, environmental, and geotechnical engineering and permitting assistance to support maintenance and upgrades to a Northeast-focused hydroelectric utility. Project types include penstock inspections, power generation and project redevelopment studies, new fish passage systems, fish passage system maintenance, FERC licensing support services, permitting assistance, survey, substation and lattice structure…
To address conditions posed by environmental changes, infrastructure service life and suitability, shifting power production, and consumer use trends, Vermont Electric Coop regularly improves its substation yards and transmission infrastructure. Under an on-call arrangement, D&K provided survey, civil, and structural engineering to more than ten locations throughout VEC’s service area.
Green Mountain Power (GMP) is a private electrical utility provider that maintains much of Vermont’s electrical distribution and hydroelectric power-generating infrastructure, solar farms, and natural gas cogeneration facilities. As GMP has grown through expansions and small utility provider acquisitions over the past 20 years, D&K has supported approximately 200 projects, and we continue to provide…