Category: Spotlight Content

2021 Women in Construction: Elizabeth Krol, National Client Director, EBI Consulting

2021 Women in Construction: Elizabeth Krol, National Client Director, EBI Consulting

March 26, 2021
What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? My greatest professional achievement during the last 12 months has been supporting two key clients as they pursued new transactions that were outside their traditional acquisitions criteria.
2021 Women in Construction: Alicia Gould, Fire Protection Designer/Coordinator, E.M. Duggan, Inc.

2021 Women in Construction: Alicia Gould, Fire Protection Designer/Coordinator, E.M. Duggan, Inc.

March 26, 2021
What are you most looking forward to post-pandemic? Once we get through the pandemic, I am looking forward to working more freely with the men and women on job sites. I am also looking forward to being able to celebrate company events with my co-workers.
2021 Women in Construction: Jhenifer Mendes, Project Manager, E.M. Duggan, Inc.

2021 Women in Construction: Jhenifer Mendes, Project Manager, E.M. Duggan, Inc.

March 26, 2021
Starting out in the construction business, who or what empowered you? The Fire Protection team I have working with me at E.M Duggan has empowered me to take on new challenges and expand my knowledge. But I have always been empowered by being able to see a project go from drawings to reality
2021 Women in Construction: Molly Gates Project Executive, J. Calnan & Associates

2021 Women in Construction: Molly Gates Project Executive, J. Calnan & Associates

March 26, 2021
What are you most looking forward to post-pandemic? In addition to seeing my elderly parents, who live on the West coast, I am most looking forward to the camaraderie of my fellow Bostonians that can’t be replicated while social distancing;
2021 Women in Construction: Rachel George, Assistant Project Manager & Estimating Services, South Coast Improvement Company

2021 Women in Construction: Rachel George, Assistant Project Manager & Estimating Services, South Co...

March 26, 2021
Starting out in the construction business, who or what empowered you? My time at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy prepared me well to step into a new field- being involved in the regiment you learn structure, and how to put your head down to reach new goals.
2021 Women in Construction: Susan Hackett, Assistant Project Manager, South Coast Improvement Company

2021 Women in Construction: Susan Hackett, Assistant Project Manager, South Coast Improvement Compan...

March 26, 2021
Starting out in the construction business, who or what empowered you? After working for a management consulting firm for 20 years, the principal retired and closed the business. So, I had to reinvent myself and thankfully, there are quite a few construction companies in my area
2021 Women in Construction: Rosemary Duffy, Vice President | Interiors, Columbia

2021 Women in Construction: Rosemary Duffy, Vice President | Interiors, Columbia

March 26, 2021
How have you adapted and changed in the last 12 months? I have been challenged this past year by managing the Interiors Group during the pandemic. We have all adapted to virtual meetings, social distancing, and unfortunate times due to the pandemic.
2021 Women in Construction: Maureen Rystrom, Vice President of Marketing | Partner, J. Calnan & Associates

2021 Women in Construction: Maureen Rystrom, Vice President of Marketing | Partner, J. Calnan & Asso...

March 26, 2021
Starting out in the construction business, who or what empowered you? I really have to highlight our CEO Jay Calnan. Following a big industry event one day, I jokingly mentioned the experience was akin to “wading through a sea of blue suits and silver hair.” Jay responded in a supportive way
2021 Women in Construction: Miika Ebbrell, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Ebbrell Architecture + Design

2021 Women in Construction: Miika Ebbrell, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Ebbrell Architecture + Design

March 26, 2021
What was your greatest achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? Construction of the interior fit-out for Via Separations, which involved the conversion of a former flag manufacturing building in Watertown, MA into a state-of-the-art wet lab and prototyping space for the company’s revolutionary membrane filtration
2021 Women in Construction: Toni Cavallini, Scheduler, DPS Group Global

2021 Women in Construction: Toni Cavallini, Scheduler, DPS Group Global

March 26, 2021
Starting out in the construction business, who or what empowered you? My parents have always encouraged me to pursue whatever path I wanted to take. I grew up with two brothers, and we all worked equally at my father’s land surveying business and my mother’s real estate firm.
2021 Women in Construction: Caitlyn Berube, Project Coordinator, Cranshaw Construction

2021 Women in Construction: Caitlyn Berube, Project Coordinator, Cranshaw Construction

March 26, 2021
What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? As a project coordinator at Cranshaw Construction, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a lot of exciting projects. Currently I’m working on two projects at Assembly Row in Somerville
What is hot hot hot?  The need for parking and the lack of it - by David Skinner

What is hot hot hot? The need for parking and the lack of it - by David Skinner

February 26, 2021
The industrial real estate news in the last few years has been somewhat of a broken record. Everybody everywhere has been talking about the same things: Amazon and the rack and stack revolution, cannabis and the cultivation craze