SMRT Architects & Engineers

The GEM building will be home to the university’s "Factory of the Future." It will incorporate innovative digital manufacturing technologies and immersive learning spaces for students across the University of Maine System.

SMRT Architects & Engineers has promoted to principal, three professionals working in a range of disciplines in the firm's Bangor and Portland offices. 

The gift accelerates a campaign to raise $15 million for a campus expansion to include a 13,000-square-foot clubhouse addition to serve teens and young adults. The goal is to start construction in late 2026.

Recipients of this year's Annual Business Awards include Matcha Mood and Redfern Properties. They will be honored at an event in November.

Mölnlycke Health Care, a Swedish manufacturer of wound-care products, will add a 78,000-square-foot addition to its plant at Brunswick Landing.

Mölnlycke Health Care, which makes bandages and wound dressings used in hospitals and acute care facilities, expects to complete the 78,000-square-foot factory expansion at the Brunswick Landing industrial park in 2027.

The facility is named for Town & Country Federal Credit Union, which provided $750,000 in funding.

The donations will help fund improvements to the hospital’s main campus in Bar Harbor, including an expanded emergency department, main entrance and ambulance bay.

At the front end of the workforce pipeline, Maine’s only medical school will operate out of its new $93 million Portland home built to meet the highest standards in medical education but without trying to replicate larger, more established schools.

The project will provide flexible new work stations, including collaboration areas, and is targeted for completion in early 2027.