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Distinctive Tree Care, which provides high quality tree care and arboricultural services in Connecticut and Massachusetts, was founded by Jason Yerke in 2004. Yerke, who owned a landscape company — Distinctive Gardens — invested in a bucket truck, an older dump truck and a chipper and put together a small tree crew that would become

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Rhode Island’s Governor Takes Steps to Fix Washington Bridge; Disaster Relief Sought Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to show flexibility on whether the state can qualify for disaster funding in the wake of the abrupt closure of the Washington Bridge’s westbound lanes this past Dec. 11. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) closed the westbound side of the bridge after engineers found what it said was a critical failure of some of the structure’s components. The Washington Bridge is a series of three spans carrying Interstate 195, U.S. Highway 6, U.S. 44, and U.S. 1A over the Seekonk River connecting Providence to East Providence. Rhode Island Current, a statewide online news service,

noted that McKee’s office said the governor called FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell to request federal funding and that McKee tapped T. Joseph Almond, one of his senior aides, to monitor the RIDOT response to the bridge’s shutdown. Almond, who served 7½ terms as Lincoln, R.I.’s town administrator before being appointed McKee’s deputy chief of staff in 2021, will be tasked with “providing oversight and cross-agency coordination for all operations related to the Washington Bridge.” “Joe has a background in both municipal leadership and public safety that will position him well for this role,” McKee spokesperson Olivia DaRocha said in a statement. see BRIDGE page 18

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Boston Plans New Neighborhood On Harvard-Owned Land The city of Boston, Mass., has undertaken a planning process for Beacon Park Yard (BPY), a large tract of Harvard Universityowned land in Allston which is set to be the site of a large highway and transit project. The Harvard Crimson reported Jan. 30 that as local officials seek to secure federal funding for the Allston Multimodal Project — an effort to realign a portion of the Massachusetts Turnpike that runs through Allston — they, along with residents, are beginning to envision what will come after. The realignment will open up a 91-acre parcel of vacant land and highway for development, ultimately creating a new neighborhood in BPY owned by the university. The process is meant to create a basic picture for what that new neighborhood will look like at least a decade before its construction begins and bring together the interests of local players including Harvard, Boston University, the city and state governments, and Allston residents. “The BPY Plan will establish a regional, community vision for dense urban development that provides [Boston with] capacity, landowner value and community benefits to

realize a transformational infrastructure and development project,” a Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) spokesperson wrote the Crimson in an emailed statement. “Our vision is inclusive and equitable infrastructure and development projects at Beacon Park Yard.” Both the BPDA and other parties involved in the proposal said that it would serve as a guide and a measure of accountability for the city, Harvard and the developers, ensuring that future development in the area will serve the interests of residents. In an interview, Boston City Councilor Elizabeth A. “Liz” Breadon told the Crimson that city officials will play a key role in achieving that objective. “The thing is up to the city,” she said. “The city of Boston has to leverage whatever power they have to guide this process and hold Harvard accountable.” Breadon added that she would advocate for “mixed income housing, investments in green space and climate resilience” during the planning process. Harvard also is seeking air rights over the Turnpike, which Breadon said would signif-

icantly increase the value of the property. The process also serves as a mitigation benefit, negotiated by the university and the Harvard Allston Task Force, in order to receive approval for its planned Enterprise Research Campus. The city requires developers to offset the consequences of projects with benefits to the surrounding area. The BPDA has held two events so far to solicit residents’ thoughts on the BPY project, including one Jan. 24. Knitting Together New Boston Neighborhood The Massachusetts Turnpike realignment, in the works for almost a decade, has been celebrated by residents and local leaders as a reunification of the neighborhood, which is currently divided by the highway. The project also will bring increased transit through a new commuter rail station and more bicycle infrastructure. “The Allston Multimodal Project is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to knit together the Allston-Brighton neighborhood and, with the creation of West Station, to bring transformational connections across

the region and beyond,” Amy Kamosa, a Harvard spokesperson, wrote in a statement to the Crimson. Boston University (BU), a direct neighbor to the project area, also stands to benefit by becoming better connected to the Allston neighborhood. “Someday in the future it could be an easy walk from Barry’s Corner to Commonwealth Avenue,” a BU spokesperson said in an email. BU’s main campus is located on Commonwealth, and Barry’s Corner houses Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex. The turnpike realignment is years away from beginning construction and is still awaiting federal funding. The state has applied for a federal grant available under the Inflation Reduction Act, although its previous application was rejected in 2023. Earlier in January, members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation wrote a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a 2004 Harvard graduate, seeking support of the state’s second application for funding. 

Lowell High School’s $381M Rebuild Job Reaches Midpoint The $381 million rebuilding and renovation of Lowell High School in Massachusetts is now midway to being finished and on track to be completed by the summer of 2026, according to representatives with the owner, design and building firms behind the construction. Boston-based Suffolk Construction Co., along with Skanska, the project manager, and the architecture firm Perkins Eastman in New York City teamed up to present updates to the Lowell School Building Committee during a recent fall meeting. “We’re approaching almost halfway through the job in billings and construction,” Skanska Project Manager Jim Dowd told the committee. “There is good alignment.” Planning for the rebuild began in 2016, the Lowell Sun reported Dec. 13, before the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) approved $210 million in 2019. Demolition and site preparation first got underway late in 2020. By August 2022, the new Riddick Athletic Center opened, built on the former site of the medical building along Arcand Drive in Lowell, which the city acquired through eminent domain. That signaled the end of Phase 1 of the four-phased project. Phase 2 commenced with the demolition of the old Riddick Field House, and the construction of the school’s new Freshman

Academy as well as the main entrance and cafeteria, known as Building D. That portion of the work is well under way and slated to be completed in 2024, said Pannha SanChung, the senior project manager of Suffolk Construction. She added that the construction team will begin building the third phase of the project next summer after school lets out. It will encompass renovating the wing of the so-called “1980s building” that faces Father Morissette Boulevard and runs parallel to the Merrimack Canal. The structure was built in the 1980s to handle the everincreasing student population at Lowell High. The second half of Phase 3 will involve renovating the Cyrus Irish Auditorium across the canal on Kirk Street. Ongoing work in the Freshman Academy building includes drywall, taping and sanding in preparation for painting and final finishes, tiling in the bathrooms, and completing the façade work. Dowd added that the priority was to enclose the buildings in its brick façade before winter. Everything Pointing Toward Project Finish in July 2026 Thirteen Lowell School Building Committee members attended the fall meeting, including the school system’s new

Interim Superintendent Liam Skinner, who asked the project team about progress on the high school’s elevators and air conditioning. Just after the start of the new fall semester, area temperatures hit 94 degrees on Sept. 7, followed by 90 degrees the next day, prompting Lowell Public Schools to cancel classes both days. “Regardless of any potential decline in temperature by Friday, our buildings continue to get hotter,” Skinner said at the time, adding that actual readings in many classrooms recorded temperature levels over 90 degrees, with some areas exceeding 100 degrees. Joe Drown, a Perkins Eastman architect, told Skinner that the high school gymnasium’s HVAC is already working, and the Phase 2 buildings of the Freshman Academy and D Building are on track toward completion. Another school board member questioned whether parts to complete work on the eight elevators and electrical systems have arrived on site, given ongoing supply-chain shortages due to COVID-related delays and labor issues. Both San-Chung and Dowd said all the parts were ordered and stored at the beginning of the construction project. Dowd cautioned that the first two segments of the work were straightforward rebuild projects, while Phases 3 and 4 were

more complicated replacements of the existing older buildings. “The next few phases are more renovations-geared,” he explained. Several positive financial metrics also were noted at the meeting, the Sun reported, including the construction contingency, or money set aside to pay for change orders from new requests or unforeseen construction requirements. That money is built into the overall budget figures. “To date we’ve had 14 change orders, or $3.4 million out of the original $21.2 million contingency,” Dowd said. “And [the] MSBA reimbursement to [the city so far] has cracked $100 million.” Conor Baldwin, the city of Lowell’s chief financial officer, told the school board committee that his office coordinated the sale of a bond to finance about $30 million in cash with an interest rate of just over 4 percent for the local share of the project. “We were borrowing at almost next to nothing in the beginning, but we’re getting close to where we thought we would be [with] a projected interest rate of 5 percent,” he said. San-Chung noted that the construction schedule for the new Lowell High School is slated to be completed in July 2026, adding there were no potential problems on the horizon, according to the Sun. 

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Jasper Diers (L), Tyler Equipment sales representative, and Jason Yerke, Distinctive Tree Care owner.

in school pointed him toward an alternative direction with the skills that he was learning and suggested that he consider landscaping. Having made that decision while continuing his education, Yerke started a lawn mowing business in his spare time. He was able to borrow $400 and buy a lawn mower and leaf blower. He was living in an area that was heavily forested and had a lot of subdivisions, so at the age of 15 he quickly found himself making decent money and growing a business. In 1985, Hurricane Gloria

blew through, taking trees down along its path. With the help of his mother, he purchased a chainsaw and quickly shifted from blowing leaves to cutting and splitting firewood. “We were too young to cut trees down, but we weren’t too young to cut them up and sell firewood,” said Yerke. By 16, he was old enough to get his driver’s license and start expanding his lawn care service; by 18 he had a business with more than 300 customers. Yerke graduated from high school and, even though he had a nice business started, he was advised to continue his education. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he majored in arboriculture and urban forestry. When Yerke completed college, he wanted to apply what he had learned about trees, which really didn’t have any application to his landscape business. He had a fascination with equipment that went back to his days on his grandfather’s farm operating all kinds of tractors and harvesting equipment, so he decided to take a position with Asplundh, one of the largest tree companies in the country. He became a certified arborist

in Massachusetts and Connecticut and a certified arborist in the International Society of Arbor Culture. He stayed with Asplundh for the next five or six years, quicky moving up through the chain of command. Asplundh was focused on doing strictly commercial work, but, at age 25, Yerke convinced them to allow him to start a residential division of the company, which quickly prospered. Meanwhile, he was still running his landscape business on the side. In 1997, Yerke decided that he was trying to manage too many things at once and tendered his resignation with Asplundh. He rebranded his landscape company as Distinctive Gardens and timed the market perfectly, as high-end residential construction was booming as well as the demand for extensive landscape and hardscape. It wasn’t long before he had a dozen employees working for him and they were tackling $200,000 landscape projects. In 2004, with some excess cash flow, Yerke invested in a bucket truck, an older dump truck and a chipper. He put together a small tree crew and started Distinctive Tree Care.

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SENNEBOGEN model 718E working to remove a tree from the overpass of the interstate.

evident that we would easily be able to remove trees along the highway using the SENNEBOGEN and its tremendous reach and the high-speed chipper faster and easier than anything the DOT had ever seen before with barely disrupting traffic flow at all. “There was a little bit of a learning curve for my people to learn how to operate these machines, but the company gave us great support and training and in under 100 hours, our operators were running them like experts. The state liked what they saw, but they had to put the application out for a special bid. I was the only one who could bid on it because I’m the only one who had that type of equipment. The rest is history.” The demand was so high with the DOT work Distinctive Tree Care went from running one SENNEBOGEN to a fleet of nine. The company also gave input during that period that helped develop a larger machine for the same application, the SENNEBOGEN model 728, which expanded the reach

capacity to 67 ft. of reach and has become a mainstay for DOT roadwork. “We now have crews set up in every one of the four districts of Connecticut DOT because exactly what we predicted would happen is happening as a result of the gypsy moth and ash borer. Trees along roadsides are dying at an astounding rate and it has to be cleaned up. When trees start to lean or fall, they are a danger to power lines, or they impact the see TREES page 14

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line of sight. Trees in the wrong spot along the road can create shade where ice won’t melt when it should. So, in those cases we’re not clearing out necessarily dead trees, but we are doing tree management for the state. “When we send out a crew to do state work, we have to send two or more SENNEBOGEN machines at a time. The primary reason being that one SENNEBOGEN cannot possibly cut fast enough to optimize the tremendous volume that our chipper can handle. Otherwise, the chipper is sitting their idling and it not productive for the customer.” In 2021, Yerke built a purpose-built shop specifically designed to house and maintain its SENNEBOGEN fleet. “We have purchased all of these SENNEBOGEN machines from our local dealer, Tyler Equipment. When we first started, out Tyler was doing all of the service work on our machines. Now, with nine machines, we have brought mechanics on board to handle daily maintenance, but we still rely heavily on Tyler Equipment for support. Their knowledge of the machines and their parts inventory has been invaluable to us. “The SENNEBOGEN machines are German engineered. Their performance is astounding. They rarely give us any failures and when they do, it typically turns out to be

something very simple. Like anything else you would associate with German manufacturing, they are extremely well built. “Tyler Equipment being local to us made the SENNEBOGEN decision easy. Tyler gives us that local service that we’re looking for, and when we first started purchasing from Tyler, their local representative was Bill O’Keefe. He did such a wonderful job representing the SENNEBOGEN product with Tyler Equipment. He is now working for SENNEBOGEN. He is very passionate about the brand and gave us a great education on properly using the product. Tyler Equipment and SENNEBOGEN work well together to make the customer experience special. I’ve been over to Germany several times for training and on one trip we actually met Erich Sennebogen.” There is another application that Yerke has developed a market for, particularly with the DOT projects: he can put a mower attachment on the SENNEBOGEN and mow extreme banks along the roadside. It also will mow heavy brush. Yerke also appreciates the extreme visibility of the cab design. With a SENNEBOGEN, as is the case with most material handlers, the cab will actually elevate, giving the operator a much better view.  CEG (All photographs in this article are Copyright 2024 Construction Equipment Guide. All Rights Reserved.)

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Mauldin Paving Products Names Chadwick BaRoss New Dealer

Chadwick BaRoss is a new dealer of Mauldin Paving Products.

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Mauldin Paving Products announced Chadwick BaRoss as its newest authorized dealer for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. With a proven track record of excellence in the construction equipment industry, Chadwick BaRoss will now offer Mauldin’s full line of commercial paving products to customers in the region. “We look forward to a successful partnership that enhances accessibility and support for Mauldin products in the Northeast,” the company said. For more information, visit www.4amauldin.com and www.chadwick-baross.com. 

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NEW ENGLAND SUPPLEMENT ADVERTISER INDEX ABLE TOOL & EQUIPMENT ............................................9 ALTA EQUIPMENT COMPANY/NITCO LLC ..............1,11 BARRY EQUIPMENT CO. INC.......................................20 CEG HOUSE AD ............................................................16 CHAPPELL TRACTOR ..................................................10 EQUIPMENT EAST........................................................1,5 FOLEY INC - WORCESTER ............................................1 GORILLA HAMMERS........................................................1 HYUNDAI CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT....................17 J R VINAGRO CORPORATION........................................1 M G EQUIPMENT ............................................................1 MILTON CAT ..................................................................15 POWERSCREEN NEW ENGLAND................................13 ROGERS BROTHERS CORPORATION........................19 SHAWMUT EQUIPMENT CO INC..................................15 T-QUIP SALES & RENTAL INC........................................9 THE W. I. CLARK COMPANY ..........................................2 TIBBITS EQUIPMENT SERVICES INC............................1 TYLER EQUIPMENT CORPORATION ............................3 WOODS CRW CORP........................................................7 The Advertisers Index is printed as a free editorial service to our advertisers and readership. Construction Equipment Guide is not responsible for errors or omissions.

Fed Authorities Open Inquiry Into Bridge Condition, Closure BRIDGE from page 1

Both announcements came three days after federal authorities opened an inquiry to review the condition of the Washington Bridge and its abrupt closure. Investigators seek documents and records dating back to 2015 — the same year Peter Alviti Jr. was appointed as head of RIDOT. The investigation concerns allegations that “false claims” were submitted to the federal government for the construction, inspection and/or repair of the Washington Bridge, according to Rhode Island Current. RIDOT received the inquiry from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the federal Office of the Inspector General on the morning of Jan. 26, more than seven hours before the governor’s office publicly disclosed the letter. “After RIDOT received the notice, due diligence had to be done, including a briefing for the governor and our team as well as a legal review of DOJ’s request by both RIDOT and my office,” DaRocha said in an email to Rhode Island Current. It was the same message from Alviti when reporters followed him to his car after a press event in North Kingstown Jan. 29. “There was a certain amount of diligence that had to be done,” he explained. “It went though, and we got it out the same day.” Alviti also reaffirmed his department’s intention to cooperate with the federal investigation. Is Federal Disaster Funding On the Way? Since the Washington Bridge’s westbound lanes were shut down Dec. 11, state officials have called on McKee to declare a state of emergency and get federal assistance for any repairs. Among them was East Providence City Council President Bob Rodericks, who sent a letter to McKee Jan. 25 urging the state to bring relief to his city, which he said is “bearing the brunt of this problem.” “More than a ‘commuter crisis,’ East Providence businesses and residents are struggling every day within our borders,” Rodericks said via email. “Motorists from throughout the region are cutting through our neighborhoods looking for a bypass solution.” In addition to an emergency declaration, he wants McKee to ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expedite bridge repairs, activate the Rhode Island National Guard to help East Providence police direct traffic, and pause all non-emergency RIDOT projects to focus on repairing the I-195 bridge. McKee’s office responded by saying FEMA indicated that even if the governor made a declaration, Rhode Island would not qualify for funding or reimbursement under the Stafford Act. The federal law states that governors can either request support for dis-

asters caused by severe weather or if “the situation is beyond the capability of the state.” FEMA spokesperson Lauren McLane told Rhode Island Current that her agency has not received an application from Rhode Island for either type of disaster. “There have been some talks between us and Rhode Island, and we would provide any technical assistance and process any request received,” she said. “But there are certainly some criteria that may not be applicable.” McLane declined to specify what criteria Rhode Island would not meet other than natural events under a major disaster declaration. With Washington Bridge Offline, Traffic Issues Persist McKee met with East Providence Mayor Bob DaSilva and other city officials on the morning of Jan. 29 to discuss the bridge closure’s effect on the city, Rodericks said, adding that despite the helpfulness of the meeting, the governor still did not want to issue a declaration. “The administration will continue to explore all available options in collaboration with our congressional delegation,” DaRocha explained via email. Traffic jams as a result of the bridge’s closure have yet to cause any issues for emergency services, but East Providence EMS Director John Potvin told Rhode Island Current that he worries about the effects it will have on commuters’ mental health the longer the westbound bridge remains closed. “On certain days, you can hear a lot of horns,” he said. “Is that going to lead to an increase in road rage or fist fights?” Barrington Fire Chief Gerald Bessette said he has not seen any service disruptions in his East Bay community but acknowledged that ambulance trips to Rhode Island Hospital have gotten slightly longer. Before the lane closures, a round trip would take roughly an hour; EMS now must travel an extra half hour. Any longer, though, could become a problem, Bessette explained. “Rescue trucks aren’t available in town,” he added. “And if there’s one fender bender on the highway, that just messes everything up.” Such a scenario makes Bessette wish that the state had kept the dedicated emergency vehicle lane that was open in the first 10 days after the westbound portion of the highway was closed. The lane allowed emergency vehicles to bypass commuter detours through East Providence and was closed on Dec. 21 “to begin reconstruction work on that part of the road.” “RIDOT coordinated closely with local emergency managers prior to closing the emergency lane,” RIDOT spokesperson Charles St. Martin said in an email Jan. 29. 

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