Case Studies Green Building

A growing number of commercial clients in the Boston region are coming to rely upon the services of O’Mahony & Sons Electrical Inc. (OME) for their electrical contracting needs. The full-service electrical contractor is run by the husband-and-wife team of John and Stephanie O’Mahony, and is headquartered in Middleton, Mass. The company continues to grow […]

When the high-tech firms that occupy Silicon Valley need a new facility, they can’t just turn to any mechanical contractor to construct their buildings. They need a host of specialized facilities, such as cleanrooms – areas where outside pollutants are strictly regulated. When in the need of such specialized, highly technical and extremely sensitive environments, […]

Donnelly Energy is a division of Donnelly Industries Inc. (DII), a group of green builders and property developers based in Wayne, N.J. Rod Donnelly, current president and CEO of DII, founded the parent company in 1977. Rod’s son, R.J., operates Donnelly Energy, which provides sustainability planning and implementation for businesses and buildings alike. Donnelly Energy […]

Pacatte Construction Co. Inc. (PCI) continues to thrive by remaining flexible, yet focused. Jim and Rosemarie Pacatte founded the company in 1980 as a commercial general contracting firm specializing in tilt-up concrete construction. As market forces changed the company adjusted, adding additional capabilities in design-build construction, metal building system installation and establishing relationships with a […]

DeStefano & Chamberlain Inc. (D&C) is a structural and architectural engineering firm in Fairfield, Conn. Jim DeStefano, president of D&C, has never been interested in growing the company into the largest or the most accessible firm in the state. Instead, his company has always focused on providing its clients with superior design solutions for complex […]

Cynthia Jonasson runs her full-service general contracting company Denco Inc. (Denco) with honesty and integrity. In these difficult economic times some unscrupulous contractors are resorting to tricks to bring in new projects. A common method is underbidding a project to where they can’t realistically cover the project costs, let alone a margin of any sort, […]

Derek Pelletier founded Delta Design & Construction Inc. (Delta Design), an ambitious construction management/general contracting business based in Medford, Mass., in 2002. Ten years later Pelletier, a Massachusetts native, remains the president and sole owner, and in under a decade he has grown Delta Design into a double-digit multimillion-dollar business and firmly rooted his company […]

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is the fifth largest owner and operator of partnership detention and correctional facilities in the country behind the federal government, California, Texas and Florida. CCA manages over 60 prison, jail and detention facilities across 20 states and the District of Columbia; 44 of these facilities are owned by the company. Since its […]

Classic Industrial Services Inc. (CIS) is a specialty subcontractor firm that works exclusively in the industrial market. The company’s main lines of service include thermal insulation, scaffolding, refractory fireproofing and architectural siding. CIS predominately serves the power generation industry and industrial markets such as paper mills, chemicals and refineries. The company has been in business […]

Chesterfield Associates Inc. provides an array of services in marine contracting throughout the Mid-Atlantic states, counties and municipalities. Headquartered in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., with a second office in Westport Island, Maine, the company employs over 40 individuals, making it one of the largest non-union marine contractors on Long Island. The company was founded in 1968 […]