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GENERAL CONTRACTORS RANKED BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
47 BERKSHIRE CRANE & LOGISTICS, LLC
130 Old Cheshire Road, Lanesborough, MA 01237 (413) 418-0074; www.berkshirecrane.com
47 HOLCOMB FARM
113 Simsbury Road, West Granby, CT 06026 (860) 844-8616
Todd Walton Christopher Wooliver Matthew Wooliver
Randy Wilson
Lucille Murphy
Crane operations; rigging
Commercial and residential excavation; site development; septic, sewer, water; paving/concrete
General contractor; construction management; design/build; historical renovation;
modular construction
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Hartford-Springfield CoOp Auction, East Granby, Conn.; Courtside subdivision, Springfield; Lexington Circle, Deer Run, Patriots Way subdivisions, Southwick
DuBois Library, George N. Parks Minuteman Marching Band building, UMass Amherst; Westover ARB, Chicopee; National Guard, Bradley Naval Air Guard, Windsor Locks, Conn.
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EASTERN GENERAL CONTRACTORS INC.
49 52-60 Berkshire Ave., Springfield, MA 01109 (413) 733-6544; www.egci.com
Wright
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things are really important aspects of what we do,” Lawrence-Slavas said. “And, looking from a microeco- nomic scale, we really look in this radius to our sup- pliers, to our subcontractors, to everything.”
But if materials have to be bought in from a farther distance, he said Wright Builders wants it to come
by rail or other means of efficient transportation and not through “a bunch of small trucks that move stuff around.”
Indeed, because efficiency matters to the company, it focuses on transportation and embodied carbon — the greenhouse-gas emissions arising from the manu- facturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal of building materials.
The innovation at Wright Builders is currently
stepping “way beyond the operational efficiency of buildings,” Lawrence-Slavas said, and thinking harder about conception. That’s innovative in the industry, he added, because the field is typically driven by money, and the way to enforce change in construction is through code mandates — and that’s what sets Wright Builders apart.
He told BusinessWest that he is trying to take what the company already knows about sustainability and carbon goals and bring it into the next generation. “I want this company to start off what Jonathan has cre- ated and to push it well beyond where he ever thought it could go. And one of the areas that we’ve always struggled in is affordable housing for people.”
Which is why that’s a key part of where the com-
pany is going. In the past year and a half, Lawrence- Slavas has worked with entities that can provide the backing for affordable home ownership and under- stand the pathways to the funding sources.
“I came from a background where I did not grow up in a million-dollar house with these extravagant things,” he said. “And when I look at some of the hous- es we build, as much as I feel good about what we’re doing, the people that need them the most are still the people that have the hardest time acquiring them.”
It’s just the latest societal concern that’s making its way into the operating philosophy of Wright Builders under its new generation of leadership. BW
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