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People Bowdoin Construction Welcomes Three Landry/French Promotes Gaddar Needham Heights, MA – Bowdoin Construction announced the recent hiring of Project Manager Brett Knowlton, Superintendent Thomas DePalma, and Project Accountant Knowlton Donna Flynn. Knowlton brings a background of targeted expertise managing mechanically intensive projects for laboratories and medical environments on active campuses, most recently UMass Chan Medical School. DePalma has 24 years of construction experience running projects in the retail, academic, healthcare and public sector markets. He is a retired U.S. naval officer and served in the RI National Guard.
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Flynn’s accounting experience spans more than 20 years, with a background in credit analysis, payroll, AR/AP, and project accounting. She is detail-oriented and customer-focused. “We are fortunate to add these professionals to our talent pool, as we continue to grow our firm, now in our 50th year of operations,” stated Bowdoin president, Andrew Buckman.
Fuss & O’Neill Welcomes Kelly Quincy, MA – Neal Kelly, LSP Massachusetts Contingency Plan. has joined Fuss & O’Neill as an Kelly has more than 24 associate. years of experience working As a Massachusetts Board of in environmental assessment Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup and remediation, including soil, Licensed Site Professional groundwater, and air impacted (LSP), Kelly will be overseeing waste sites. He has provided the assessment and remediation technical knowledge to projects of project sites in the Comthroughout New England Kelly monwealth of Massachusetts in while ensuring that they meet accordance with the Massachusetts Deapplicable federal and state environmental regulations. partment of Environmental Protection’s
Colantonio Hires Three Holliston, MA – Colantonio Inc. announced it hired Jeremiah Folkard as project superintendent, Christopher Davis as scheduling manager, and Matthew Gesualdi as assistant project manager. Folkard brings 30 years of construction experience to the firm. His background includes work as a project superintendent, lead carpenter, estimator, and selfemployed residential contractor. He has specialized in large multi-unit residential projects with former employers Callahan, Delphi, and Campanelli Construction. Davis joins the firm with 10 years of experience providing CPM scheduling services for complex ground up and renovation projects including transportation, higher education, municipal, affordable housing, and skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. He also spent seven years as a laborer/ foreman on residential and commercial construction projects. Davis’ former employers include Shawmut, Dynamic Scheduling Solutions, and W.J. Hulbig
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Construction. Gesualdi brings five years of experience as a project manager, estimator, and on-site superintendent, specializing in ground up construction throughout Gesualdi New England. His background also includes positions in operations, management, and customer service for data management firms. Former employers include Nittany Construction, Connance Inc. and EMC Corporation.
Scarborough, ME – Landry/ skills and leadership capabilities, French Construction recently and has successfully overseen the announced the promotion of execution of some of the firm’s Nick Gaddar to senior project most complex projects. manager. Currently, Gaddar is serving Gaddar has 11 years of as project manager on Hobson’s experience in commercial conLanding, a 160,000sf, 7-story struction, encompassing diverse condominium located in downprojects in housing, hospitality, town Portland, and the new Gaddar and public safety. Representa27,000sf police station for the tives of Landry/French say that, during City of Augusta. Other notable projects his six years at the company, he has include new public safety buildings for demonstrated strong project management Scarborough, Wells, and Yarmouth.
Arden Engineering Promotes Spatcher Pawtucket, RI – Arden tors, hired Spatcher in 2004. The Engineering Constructors firm’s representatives say that, announced the promotion of since then, Spatcher has helped Katie Spatcher to vice president grow Arden’s service division, of service sales for Arden providing customized, engiEngineering Constructors, neered building solutions and where she will lead Arden unparalleled customer service. Engineering’s growing sales “Katie Spatcher has been team. She started her new pinnacle to the success of Arden Spatcher position on July 1. Engineering’s service division over the years. We are delighted to Previously, Spatcher served as a senior announce her well-deserved promotion,” account manager for Arden Engineering’s said John Puniello, president of Arden service division. Robert M. Bolton, the Engineering Constructors. owner of Arden Engineering Construc-
Dietz & Company Announcements Springfield, MA – Dietz & Company Architects, Inc. announced that Kyle Young, AIA has been promoted to the position of senior architect. Young joined the firm in 2014 as an architectural associate. As a senior architect, he manages medium to largesize construction projects specializing in renovations and new construction for multi-family housing. He also serves as the firm’s AXP mentor/supervisor where he supports other employees on their paths to architectural licensure. As he takes on the additional responsibilities of his new role, he will continue to lead the teams on his current projects. Dietz & Company Architects also announced it welcomed two new architectural associates to the firm. Laura Mukazhanova recently received her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University where she completed her thesis on the effects of architecture on one’s mental and emotional state. She illustrated this with a focus on addressing the issue of burnout in the healthcare industry through the use of visual and sensory perceptions in the workplace. As such, Mukazhanova says she has a particular interest and curiosity
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in architecture that has the potential for emotional and aesthetic influence on its occupants. Chen Yu recently graduated with her Master of Architecture Chen Yu degree from the University of Virginia. While completing her studies, she interned at architecture firms in Virginia and China. She also had the opportunity to conduct research on-site in Utqiagvik, Alaska regarding the reuse of waste heat. With an interest in public building design, she says she looks forward to expanding her knowledge on the subject through her project work at Dietz.