Consigli Construction

Evolving work habits play out on the property market, sparking a growing number of conversions of unused or underused offices into other kinds of properties, from light industrial to residential and educational.

Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE: SLF) inaugurated its $24 million Portland office hub for 525 employees with space for hundreds more. "This office is designed as the future of work," the company's U.S. president said.

A roundup of construction news from around Maine includes work by Consigli, SMRT, Nickerson & O'Day and DeStefano & Associates.

From Orono to Skowhegan to Yarmouth, commercial construction firms around Maine have been busy with projects of all kinds.

But despite the continued challenges, construction firms in Maine are busy, in some cases with some major commercial projects.

Awards are bestowed in five categories in a competitive process, when a panel of judges name the year’s best construction projects. 

Cianbro, N.S. Giles Foundations, Landry/French Construction, Consigli and Soderberg Construction were all cited for work in the past year.

The new location, at 300 Fore St. in Portland, puts Maine's only law school in the heart of the city's Old Port and just blocks from state and federal courts.

A roundup of construction news from around Maine includes the groundbreaking for the Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences, a $93 million complex that will be the focal point of the University of New England's medical campus in Portland.

Bowdoin's new Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies will showcase mass timber and CLT construction when they open in spring 2023.