2024 Women in Construction:
Margarita Casto, LBC Boston

What is your favorite / most beneficial part of Women in Construction week? My favorite part of Women in Construction week is celebrating and promoting the invaluable contributions of women in the industry. It provides a crucial platform to highlight their skills,

2024 Women in Construction: Anna Campbell,
Sanborn, Head & Associates

What has been the driving force behind your success in the AEC industry? I have been fortunate in my career to follow behind several women pioneering our place in the AEC industry. At each stage, there has been a woman (or more!) exemplifying technical capability, and leadership, which effectively banished my imposter syndrome – if she can do it

2024 Women in Construction: Kimberly Alley, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C.

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? My greatest recent professional achievement was successfully resolving a complex multi-party construction dispute as lead trial counsel. Initially, I was the only female attorney of over 20 lawyers in the case.

2024 Women in Construction: Stasha Greenalch, BW Kennedy & Co.

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? For the last year, I have been working on a campus with four buildings, one building with active tenants. I was the project manager on two of the buildings which consisted of a complete gut, including abatement.

2024 Women in Construction: Rachana Kheraj, Bridgeline Exteriors

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? My greatest achievement in the last 12 months was the creation and full scale launch and operation of two more divisions of our company, wood framing and our capital projects divisions nationally.

2024 Women in Construction: Risa Taylor, Metro Walls

What has been the driving force behind your success in the AEC industry? For me, there is only one answer to this and that is my passion for people. Without our people, there would be no industry. We are fortunate that we don’t work in an industry that is going to lose jobs to AI, BI, or most automation.

Maugel DeStefano Architects completes operating and
central sterilization suites at Sturdy Memorial Hospital

Attleboro, MA Maugel DeStefano Architects has completed a five-phased renovation project at Sturdy Memorial Hospital. The multi-year renovations transformed the hospital’s facilities and enhanced patient care and staff efficiency. This last phase of the project concluded

Using IRC Section 121 the “Principal Residence Exclusion” and IRC Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange in the same transaction - by Brendan Greene

Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 1031 allows a property owner, who holds property for “the productive use in a trade or business or for investment”, to defer paying capital gains taxes if a property owner sells such property, identifies like-kind property within forty-five days of the

Making sense of uncertain markets - by Bill Pastuszek

This New England winter has been less than satisfactory. It’s New England, right? What about the noble winters of yesteryear: snowstorms, freezing rain, skiing, epic shoveling, staking out parking spaces in the city, and dead batteries? Instead, the weather never made up its mind. Thus, the

Spring forward with caution - by David O'Sullivan

I always enjoy the onset of spring. It is a time of warmer weather, plants and trees starting to show signs of life and an overall anticipation by everyone of enjoying the outside. I wish the real estate and development industry was so easy to predict as the coming of spring. We have a Fed meeting