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Soracco joins Tighe & Bond as project manager in Worcester office

Worcester, MA Tighe & Bond hired project manager Louis Soracco, P.E. to support the engineering needs of water and wastewater clients throughout the Northeast. He joins the firm’s growing water and wastewater team in Worcester, with the goal of more completely serving that region.

Soracco, who has 14 years of experience serving Central Mass. clients, will provide project management, engineering design, and construction observation services. His areas of expertise include water system and treatment facility improvements, stormwater modeling, water main design and distribution systems, pump stations, water storage tanks, and wastewater management.

He also provides coordination with equipment suppliers/vendors in the development of specifications for construction, performs construction oversight, and provides planning board reviews. An Ayer resident, he has worked previously with many municipalities throughout the region implementing a variety of town and city projects.

Licensed in Massachusetts, Soracco earned his bachelor of science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is an active member of the New England Water Works Association (NEWWA), and as co-chair of its filtration committee, he participates in the Annual Water Quality Symposium each May. Last September, NEWWA honored him with its Younger Member of the Year Award for outstanding service to NEWWA.

Soracco is also a member of the New England Water Environment Association.

Founded in 1911, Tighe & Bond is one of the most experienced engineering and environmental consulting firms in New England. It has offices in Pocasset, Westfield, Westwood, and Worcester, Massachusetts; Middletown and Shelton, Connecticut; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Tighe & Bond also recently opened an office in Red Hook, New York.

With a team of more than 270 employees, Tighe & Bond provides engineering and environmental services for clients in government, industry, healthcare, education, real estate, energy, and water/wastewater markets.

Engineering News Record annually ranks Tighe & Bond among the top design and environmental engineering firms nationally.  ZweigWhite also has recognized Tighe & Bond several times as one of the best engineering firms to work for in the nation.

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