VOLPE Transportation Center

CLIENT: MITIMCO / US Department of Transportation 

LOCATION: Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA  

PROJECT PARTNERS: Turner Construction Company 

PROJECT SIZE: $15.0M

PROJECT MANAGER: Tyrone Sandefur

ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER: Scott McCluskey 

PROJECT ENGINEER: Michael O’Neill Jr., RCDD

COMPLETED: 2024

 

The project included complete CommScope Structured Cabling System, including Cat6a 4 pair horizontal copper, Single-mode & Multi-mode fiber-optic backbone cabling, LMR coax DAS cabling with antennas and headend equipment, cctv security system cabling for the tower building and its 2-level below-grade parking facility. The NECA firm also provided temporary cell service DAS to the site in the project’s earliest phase.

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:

  • One building with 13 stories
  • Achieved LEED Platinum Certification
  • Approximately 305,000 usable square feet (USF)
  • Approximately 26,000 USF of laboratories
  • Approximately 38,000 USF of conference and meeting space
  • Brand new childcare center
  • 300 underground parking spaces and surface visitor parking
  • More than 15,000 Cat6a data terminations
  • Approximately 1 million feet of Cat6a Plenum Cable
  • Over 20,000 feet of fiber optic cable (96-strand, 72-strand, 24-strand, 12-strand and 2-strand)
  • Fully Functional Distributed Antenna System (DAS)
  • Fully Functional data Center Buildout