Lansdowne Commuter Rail Station
Located adjacent to historic Fenway Park and the busy I-90 corridor, the Lansdowne Commuter Rail Station (formerly Yawkey Station) in Boston services nearly 1,000+ passengers a day.
Lead Contact
Project Details
Project Partners
DHK Architects & Walsh Construction Company
Owner
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Completion Date
Area
4,440 ft²
Overview
Located adjacent to historic Fenway Park and the busy I-90 corridor, the Lansdowne Commuter Rail Station (formerly Yawkey Station) in Boston services nearly 1,000+ passengers a day. The station consists of a two-story head-house structure, storage areas, stairs to outbound and inbound platforms, and 640 feet of new platform for the inbound and outbound tracks.
Collaborating with DHK Architects, we provided structural design and geotechnical engineering for this design-build commuter rail station, which was completed in 2013.
Highlights
- As the lead designer for the contractor, our project management team coordinated all disciplines, including architectural, MEP and civil, among others and served as the main point of contact between the owner and the contractor.
- The platform is constructed of precast-concrete double tees founded on cast-in-place concrete pier caps over pressure-injected footings and minipiles. The station head house at the platform level is a cast-in-place concrete slab, with shear walls around the elevator cores. The formwork for the exposed concrete elevator and stair walls was cast with an architectural textured finish.
- Steel framing supports the crossover level between the outbound and inbound tracks, as well as the head-house roof structure. Cantilevered steel-framed canopies along the inbound and outbound platforms provide shelter for the passengers.
- The concrete piers along the platform currently support the platform lighting, and their foundations were coordinated and designed to support a future multi-level air rights parking garage.