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Rollins joins BOND as project executive

BOND, a leading Boston-based construction manager, has hired Paul Rollins, PE, LEED AP as project executive. Rollins is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, with a degree in Civil Engineering. His 30-year career includes construction work for clients spanning the academic, healthcare, and biotech industries. Rollins has completed projects under a wide variety of delivery models. His portfolio includes Lawrence & Memorial Hospital's $30 million, 50,000 s/f Oncology Center and Medical Office Building, delivered under an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach, incorporating lean construction methodologies and virtual design and building information technologies. He also delivered the 217,000 s/f, ground-up construction of Millenium Pharmaceuticals Building completed under two separate GMP contracts, and honored as R&D Magazine's "Lab of the Year." Rollins's healthcare clients also include Baystate Medical Center, where he completed the 641,000 s/f "Hospital of the Future," composed of a heart and vascular center, new emergency department, and intensive care unit; Heywood Hospital, for which he built a $27 million emergency department addition; and North Shore Medical Center, where he delivered a $30 million phased renovation of patient beds, intensive care unit, and imaging unit. Major academic work includes the construction of Smith College's LEED Gold-certified Ford Hall Engineering and Science Building and Harvard University's Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering, as well as in-depth preconstruction planning for the 1 million s/f Harvard University Allston Science Complex. "Paul's extensive experience in the academic and healthcare markets is strongly aligned with BOND's strategic growth plan, and we are excited to have him on board," said Robert Murray, BOND president.
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