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ASuccess Story…
From Foxwoods to Harvard, D. Koury Has Foundation as Solid as Its Steel By Jay Adams
Harvard University in Cambridge to Battery Wharf in Boston to Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut.
Only in America can a former ironworker figure out a better way to estimate steel costs for his company and then end up at Harvard to build a new part of the university.
Better Estimates, New World “He [my uncle] was one of the largest steel erectors in Rhode Island, but times were changing and it was tough for him to adjust. I worked as an ironworker for a couple of years, was accepted to Local No. 37’s apprenticeship program in 1983,” said Koury. “From 1984 until 1985 I worked in Boston with our lawyers and legal consultants helping prepare a multi-million dollar lawsuit for a large project that KSE had completed in 1983.
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Dan Koury has operated his own company — D. Koury Construction — in Warwick, R.I., since Feb. 22, 1993. He began in his uncle’s company — Koury Steel Erection Inc. where he was employed from 1982 to 1992 — tried to rectify old world thinking in the modern age and ended up working on many large-scale projects around New England, from
see KOURY page 4