Hardhat Tour: Public Science Common - Museum of Science

Additional fee, registration required.

Join us for this construction site tour at the Museum of Science focusing on key components of an ongoing transformation. Highlights will include the flexible, glass-enclosed, LEED Platinum-designed Public Science Common hovering over the Charles River, the revamped live animal garden, and the new inclusive "everyone restrooms." With insights from the owner, architect, structural engineer, and construction manager, the tour will showcase the complex renovations in a busy, operational museum and the innovative solutions used to manage construction without traditional land-based access. Find out how collaboration and early trade-partner participation helped make it possible to achieve design excellence.

Learning Objectives

1. Collaborative Design Strategies: Participants will be able to identify key collaborative approaches between the owner, design team, and construction manager that enhanced design excellence.
2. Participants will be able to discuss how the principles of inclusive design were implemented in the project to accommodate users with diverse needs and abilities, and how these principles can be applied to participant’s own projects.
3. Participants will gain insight into how flexible design solutions, such as retractable seating, operable partitions, and movable overhead LED screens are able to support the Public Science Common’s varied uses.
4. Participants will be able to analyze the benefits of adaptive construction techniques, including barge staging, demolition via interior gantry crane, and protective roof systems, as applied in this occupied museum renovation.

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