News & Updates - Announcements from HP Cummings

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May 4, 2023 Groundbreaking
Groundbreaking at Colby-Sawyer College
H.P. Cummings Construction Company is working with Colby-Sawyer College and HGA to bring to life the future home of Colby-Sawyer’s School of Nursing and Health Sciences. The construction of this building is to begin this spring and be completed by the Fall of 2024. This building will represent the college’s commitment to increasing enrollment in its health science programs.
We are excited to be part of this project and can’t wait to show everyone the finished product! Check back for future updates on our Facebook page and our webpage.
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March 7, 2023 Awards
The Laurentide Apartments Achieves Two Energy Awards
In 2018, H.P. Cummings started construction on The Laurentide Apartments alongside Champlain Housing Trust, Evernorth, Duncan Wisnieski Architecture, and our Subcontractors. The Laurentide Apartments was completed in 14 months and was fully occupied by the end of 2019. The U.S. Department of Energy announced in March 2023 that the building had achieved The Novel 40 Award and the Energy Equity Award. Our diligence in creating an air-tight building envelope earned us both of these awards, and we are proud that we have a great team that helped meet those goals.
The Novel 40 Award recognizes new buildings that demonstrate building envelope performance improvement of 40% over code due to the incorporation of emerging high-performance envelope technologies. In aggregate, the improvement in building envelope performance for the Laurentide Apartments project was over 50%, earning the team a Novel 40 award.
The Energy Equity Award recognizes the community served, including providing housing opportunities for lower-income earners and those coming out of homelessness.
To read more about these awards, please visit High Profile’s article “Salas O’Brian Recognized with DOE Awards.”
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February 10, 2023 Company News
Móire has been Promoted!
We want to congratulate Moire on her recent promotion to Project Manager!
Moire has been with HP Cummings for 3.5 years as an Assistant Project Manager. During that time, she has been building on her skillset with the HULA projects and the various Finney Crossing projects. Recently, she has taken on PM responsibilities on the Gary Residence jobsite.
We look forward to seeing Moire further expand her knowledge and skillset in this new position.
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July 11, 2022 Company News
Zach Denekas has been Promoted!
Zach has been working at H.P. Cummings Construction Company for two years. He has assisted us with several significant projects over the last couple of years. We look forward to watching him continue to grow and develop new skills in this new position!
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June 10, 2022 Completed Projects
L.L. Bean Opening
On Friday, June 10, 2022, the L.L. Bean store at Finney Crossing in Williston, Vermont, Celebrated its grand opening. This project was completed ten months after we broke ground on August 4, 2021. This was a huge announcement for the company and Finney Crossing, as the company had initially opened in Burlington, Vermont, at City Place but chose to move locations due to space issues. We are proud to be part of this project and excited to see what this opportunity will lead to!
To read more about this project, please visit the L.L. Bean Project on our webpage.
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May 9, 2022 Company News
Amanda Campbell Has Been Promoted
We are pleased to announce the promotion of Amanda Campbell to Project Coordinator. She has been working at H.P. Cummings for five years, and her dedication to our projects has been outstanding. Amanda has taken on the responsibility of preparing our RFPs, Contract Documents, Social Media Presence, and other various roles. In recognition of all her hard work, we have promoted Amanda from an Assistant Project Manager. Congratulations, Amanda, on your new position!
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May 9, 2022 Company News
Meagan Pennock Has Been Promoted
H.P. Cummings is pleased to announce the promotion of Meagan Pennock to Project Manager. Meagan has been working at H.P. Cummings for six years, and her dedication to our projects has been nothing short of incredible! In recognition of her hard work, we have promoted Meagan from an Assistant Project Manager. Congratulations Meagan on your new position!
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December 9, 2021 Awards
AGC/VT Best Builders Award – HULA
H.P. Cummings won the Best Builders Award for Building Renovation and Outstanding Innovation & Design for our HULA Project.
This was a complete renovation of the old Blodgett Oven manufacturing plant in Burlington, Vermont. The scope was expansive and focused on sustainability which included a 33,000 SF rooftop PV system, 3 Geo-Thermal wells, 2 new ERVs, 88 heat pumps, energy effect lighting fixtures, and a tight building envelope that achieved 62% lower/better than the specified maximum air-leakage!
To see more photos of this project, go to the project page here: HULA Lakeside: Events and Office Space Campus
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July 26, 2021 Energy Efficiency
Red Clover Commons II – Blower Door Test
Our Red Clover project rocked the blower door test. The project goal number was 1300 cfm50 to achieve 0.05 cfm50 per square foot. The goal number for the Efficiency Vermont program was 2500 cfm50. Final number was 1000 cfm50.
(For some additional context, 1000 CFM puts the building at about 0.038 CFM50/SF compared to the target of 0.05. US Passive House is 0.06 CFM50/SF so this building is about 40% tighter than Passive House standards.)
Congrats to Matt Nutting and his team for the great job on this building shell!
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July 12, 2021 Company News
Travis Hulbert Has Been Promoted
H.P. Cummings Construction Company is pleased to announce the promotion of Travis Hulbert to Vice president, a move that will bolster our company’s leadership team with a more seasoned professional who brings a wealth of experience and expertise from all facets of our business operations.
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