New England Construction articles from October 2008

New England Construction archives from October 2008

Hobbs Breaks Ground in Waltham, MA.
October 13, 2008... Staff Hobbs Brook Management LLC announced recently that the company broke ground for two buildings totaling over 330,000 square feet. The properties are located at 175 and 185 Wyman Street, at the foot of the Hobbs Brook Office Park in...

Cubellis Completes Structural and Electrical Engineering Services.
October 13, 2008... Staff Cubellis, a national architecture, interior design and engineering services firm from Boston, MA, has completed work for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and Borrego Solar Systems, Inc. on the design and...

Governor Patrick Signs Three Bills.
October 13, 2008... Staff This past summer, Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick (D) signed three bills allocating over $5 billion for construction. One bill would earmark $3 billion for accelerated bridge repair and the replacement targeting of 250 to 300...

Fisher Hosts "Fisher Feature FliX" Video Competition.
October 13, 2008... Staff As part of its 60th year celebration, Fisher Engineering of Rockland, ME, announced the "Fisher Feature FliX" competition. The competition challenges snowplowers to submit a creative video touting their loyalty to Fisher for a chance...

State Advances Two Building Projects as Districts Cut Costs.
October 13, 2008... Staff The Massachusetts School Building Authority recently advanced two big school construction projects after successfully encouraging local officials to choose designs meant to keep costs down. The authority's board approved Norwood High...

Sharon Jozokos Promoted to Project Executive.
October 13, 2008... Staff William A. Berry & Son, Inc. has promoted Sharon Jozokos to the position of project executive. Jozokos is the first woman named to the position at Berry. Jozokos started with the company as a full-time co-op employeein 1992 and moved...

John H. Nogueira Wins Truck.
October 13, 2008... Staff John H. Nogueira from Boston, MA, was recently awarded a 2008 Ford-150 truck at the annual ValleyCrest Landscaping Company safety day celebration. Nogueira was one of seven in the country who received the award. According to...

Stormwater Rule Spurs Porous Pavement Research.
October 13, 2008... Staff Contractor/producer Pike Industries develops asphalt products to meet requirements of strict new stormwater regulations in New Hampshire Private research and development of new asphalt pavement products is being driven by...

Water Lines Replaced in Rockland and Owl's Head, Maine.
October 13, 2008... By Joanne Ray Ted Berry Heads Up Two Water Main Replacement Projects The Livermore, ME-based Ted Berry Company had their work cut out for them recently when they were in charge of two projects in Maine -- one in Rockland and the other...

Porous Asphalt -- An Alternative Tool for Managing Stormwater.
October 13, 2008... By Joanne Ray Recent Changes in Stormwater Regulations Prompt Use of Porous Asphalt Porous asphalt pavements offer developers and planners an alternative tool for managing stormwater. These pavements, used mostly for parking lots,...

O'Connor Capital Partners Unveils Lobby Upgrade Plans for 100 Westminster Tower.
October 27, 2008... Staff O'Connor Capital Partners has begun a major revitalization of the lobby in its downtown Providence "100 Westminster" office building. The 20-story, rose-colored granite and emerald-green, reflective-glass tower provides more than...

State Funding for Improvements to Colleges.
October 27, 2008... Staff Local community college officials and administrators at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell are hoping their schools will be among the first to cash in on the state's promise to pay for capital improvements to the...

Cianbro Opens New Facility.
October 27, 2008... Staff The Cianbro Companies of Maine recently celebrated the grand opening of its new Eastern Manufacturing facility. Revitalizing a former paper mill site, Eastern Manufacturing is a state-of-the-art facility that fabricates and assembles...

Bufftree Building Company Constructs New Facility.
October 27, 2008... Staff The lights will soon be turned on at a new 58,000-square-foot, $3-million-plus facility located in Commerce Park in Fall River, MA. The new office will house Atlantic Lighting, Inc., a Fall River, MA, manufacturer of industrial,...

Suffolk Construction Receives Highest Ranking in Real Estate Reader's Poll.
October 27, 2008... Staff Boston-based Suffolk Construction Company, Inc., received the highest Gold ranking in the "Commercial Real Estate: General Contractor" category in the first annual Banker & Tradesman online Readers' Poll. Suffolk received additional...

Kelleher Construction Company Appoints New VP of Business Development.
October 27, 2008... Staff Kelleher Construction Company Inc., of Beverly, MA, is pleased to announce that John C. Kelleher IV has joined the firm as the vice president of Business Development. This represents the fourth consecutive generation of family...

AGC Maine Honors Bill Purington.
October 27, 2008... Staff William Purington, president and CEO of Maine Drilling and Blasting, has been awarded the 2008 Major Achievements in Construction Award. The award is presented annually to a person in the construction industry who has unselfishly...

Kneeland Named President and CEO of United Rentals.
October 27, 2008... Staff In a recent meeting, Michael Kneeland was unanimously elected as president and CEO of United Rentals, Greenwich, CT, by the company's board of directors. He was also named as a director of the company, effective immediately. Kneeland...

Carroll Bassett attended the New Hampshire Good Roads show in July. Here he talks about his business: Ezebreak, LLC.
October 27, 2008... By Joanne Ray Who are you as a business? How many employees do you have? We are a small design and manufacturing company in southeastern West Virginia, Greenbrier County, currently producing the Micro-Blaster line of rock and concrete...

Hingham, MA, Gets New Elementary School.
October 27, 2008... By Joanne Ray TCCI weathers well in the down economy In spite of the down economy, it's been a very good year for Thomas Contracting Company, Inc. (TCCI). And rightly so, because only a year and a half ago, when John Thomas decided to...

Lowell Gets New Elementary School and Lexington Gets New DPW Building.
October 27, 2008... By Joanne Ray New TCCI Company Heads Up Second and Third Project In addition to the Hingham Elementary School, two other TCCI projects include site work of the $16-million C.W. Morey Elementary School in Lowell, MA, and the...

Walgreens Well Under Way in Clinton, MA.
October 27, 2008... By Joanne Ray PM Construction Builds Another Walgreens Tear down the old. Put up the new. That's what PM Construction Co. is doing these days in many areas of New England. Among other structures, the company is currently building...