CTA Construction Completes Howe-Manning School in Middleton

Nov. 29, 2011 - PRLog -- Middleton, Mass. - CTA Construction Co. Inc. today joined municipal and school leaders, as well as cheering students, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Howe-Manning Elementary School.  The 84,500-foot facility, constructed immediately adjacent to its predecessor, meets the environmental and energy efficiency standards of the Massachusetts Collaborative for High Performance Schools.
   
Opened for the first day of classes in September, the $18.9 million, three-story school includes classrooms, library, administrative offices, gymnasium, cafetorium and support facilities.  In addition to building a new facility, CTA crews demolished its 40,000-square-foot predecessor, installed new drainage, parking lots, athletic fields, landscaping and exterior lighting.

“The Howe-Manning Elementary School is a tribute to the community and its public officials who worked closely with us, as their general contractor, to build a fantastic new school, on time and under budget, that will serve generations of children to come,” said Steve Malenchini, CTA’s Project Manager in Middleton.  CTA Construction Co. Inc., a Waltham-based general contractor (www.ctaconstruction.com), is a leading builder of schools in Massachusetts.

The Middleton School Building Committee noted the “amazing speed” with which the project progressed since the April 2009 groundbreaking.  In a Nov. 15, 2010 letter to CTA, the committee’s chairman, Frank FitzGerald, and the vice chairman, Anne LeBlanc-Snyder, wrote: “The Town of Middleton has been well served by CTA Construction Company in its new facility, the Howe-Manning School.”

Middleton Town Administrator Ira Singer praised CTA’s work in which he stated, “CTA constructed and delivered the Town’s beautiful new state-of-the art elementary school on time and under budget despite a very tight 18-month timetable and the complexities associated with building a new school only 20 feet behind the existing building which had to remain in use until June 30th of last summer.”

The Howe-Manning Elementary School was constructed to meet the standards of the Massachusetts - Collaborative for High Performance Schools, a certification process that addresses school design, construction and operation.  MA-CHPS strives to make schools environmentally friendly and efficient energy, water and material efficient, well-lit, thermally comfortable, acoustically sound, safe, healthy and easy to operate

Across Massachusetts, CTA has been general contractor on more than 30 school projects, including multiple MA-CHPS projects.  CTA-built schools include the addition and renovation of Beverly High School, the C.W. Morey Elementary School in Lowell, and the Memorial Elementary School in Burlington.

An award-winning general contractor, CTA has earned an average rating of 93 out of 100 by the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management, a state agency overseeing public construction contractors.   CTA recently won a Merit Award and two Green Awards from the Associated Builders and Contractors of Massachusetts for projects that presented design challenges and required a commitment to environmental stewardship.


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