Trumbull-Nelson Construction Company recently completed work for the Montshire Museum of Science, in Norwich, Vermont. The task involved site work to enhance pedestrian safety and access, parking, paving and landscape.

The $1.9 Million Montshire Access Project (MAP) includes a number of features that improve entry to this unique Upper Valley resource. Visitors entering the Museum will no longer have to cross in front of entering and exiting traffic, thanks to the creation of a tree-lined pedestrian walkway from the parking area to the building. The new entryway includes a landscaped terrace with benches to facilitate easy drop-off for schoolchildren and other groups arriving by bus. The parking area for the Museum has nearly tripled; a result of redesign, and the striped, surface-painted designation of such space. In fact, the actual parking area for the Museum increased only slightly.

Assisting Trumbull-Nelson on the Project were landscape engineer, Saucier & Flynn, of Lebanon, NH; civil engineer, Bruno Associates, of Woodstock, VT; Morrill Construction, of North Haverill, NH; Blacktop Inc., of West Lebanon; Cole Electric of East Thetford, VT; Economy Plumbing & Heating of Keene, NH; James LaMontagne Landscape Company, of Norwich, VT; and VR Concrete, of Colbrook, NH. Trumbull-Nelson’s Millwork Shop created the various entry-area benches.