Category: Spotlight Content

2021 Women in Construction: Katie Sullivan, Vice President/Human Resources, CM&B

2021 Women in Construction: Katie Sullivan, Vice President/Human Resources, CM&B

March 26, 2021
What was your greatest achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? Without a doubt, my most notable achievement has been acting as CM&B’s COVID guru. With offices in Massachusetts and New York, and project sites throughout New England and the Tri-State area
2021 Women in Construction: Christina Nicholson, VP of Preconstruction Services, The Congress Companies

2021 Women in Construction: Christina Nicholson, VP of Preconstruction Services, The Congress Compan...

March 26, 2021
What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? Getting to where I am today; I started out in the company as a young girl and was able to work in all facets of the company
2021 Women in Construction: Carolyn Sicard, Chief Estimator, NEI General Contracting

2021 Women in Construction: Carolyn Sicard, Chief Estimator, NEI General Contracting

March 26, 2021
Starting out in the construction business, who or what empowered you? My dad was an associate professor at Wentworth and on weekends he would bring me to the campus when he was teaching a class, where I would wander around the property. My dad was my rock and he pushed
2021 Women in Construction: Alison Buckley, WELL AP, Associate IIDA Interior Designer, Margulies Perruzzi

2021 Women in Construction: Alison Buckley, WELL AP, Associate IIDA Interior Designer, Margulies Per...

March 26, 2021
Starting out in the construction business, who or what empowered you? My mother worked in real estate on the Cape and I helped her out during the summer. I have a degree in arts education but hadn’t realized you could leverage art and real estate as a career. I started at the Boston Architectural College (BAC) before transferring to NESAD
2021 Women in Construction: Kara McGuane, Senior Interior Designer, Margulies Perruzzi

2021 Women in Construction: Kara McGuane, Senior Interior Designer, Margulies Perruzzi

March 26, 2021
Why should women consider a career in construction? What is most empowering about being a woman in the construction sector is to see your design come to life. Women should consider a career in construction/interior design because you have the power to influence how people work
2021 Women in Construction: Andrea Seward, Senior Project Manager, CM LEAN, G. Greene Construction Co., Inc.

2021 Women in Construction: Andrea Seward, Senior Project Manager, CM LEAN, G. Greene Construction C...

March 26, 2021
How have you adapted and changed in the last 12 months? I enjoyed taking advantage of spending more time with my husband and daughter while being able to work from home full time. This created a different type of juggling act of schedules and priorities including the line between work life and home life.
2021 Women in Construction: Rhona Dias, General Manager, B.C. Tent & Awning

2021 Women in Construction: Rhona Dias, General Manager, B.C. Tent & Awning

March 26, 2021
What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? We provide temporary tent and awning structures across a wide range of industries, sometimes as a complement to ongoing construction. Last year was totally different than most
2021 Women in Construction: Meaghan Lewis, Project Superintendent, Shawmut Design and Construction

2021 Women in Construction: Meaghan Lewis, Project Superintendent, Shawmut Design and Construction

March 26, 2021
How have you adapted and changed in the last 12 months? The past year has certainly had its challenges in the field amid Covid-19. Personally, being pregnant during the pandemic in the field brought its own set of challenges.
2021 Women in Construction: Amy Oreto, Estimator, Windover Construction

2021 Women in Construction: Amy Oreto, Estimator, Windover Construction

March 26, 2021
What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? Windover recently completed a life science lab fitout project, and as the Estimator it was both challenging and rewarding for me. The project was complex in part because the end users were multiple user groups
2021 Women in Construction: Elizabeth Murphy, Project Manager, Shawmut Design and Construction

2021 Women in Construction: Elizabeth Murphy, Project Manager, Shawmut Design and Construction

March 26, 2021
What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? I was fortunate to be a part of a recent Shawmut build for Future Chefs in Boston. A non-profit started by Toni Elka in 2008, Future Chefs provides youth with mentorship as well as life
2021 Women in Construction: Dawn Proulx, Senior Project Manager, Columbia

2021 Women in Construction: Dawn Proulx, Senior Project Manager, Columbia

March 26, 2021
Why should women consider a career in construction? Women should consider a career in construction because there’s no better feeling than being able to see the result of a project that you managed and developed with your team from start to completion.
2021 Women in Construction: Lisa French Kelley, Principal, W.L. French Excavating Corp.

2021 Women in Construction: Lisa French Kelley, Principal, W.L. French Excavating Corp.

March 26, 2021
Why should woman consider a career in construction? Woman should consider a career in construction for the strong team building aspects that can be new, unique and specific to each job. Work in construction yields tangible, visible results and there is tremendous pride in seeing the contributions of your work