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Shining Example Sean Callahan and James Jaron didn’t expect the level of competition — make that outright opposition — they faced when they decided to enter the field of lighting […]
Surveying the Landscape The National Assoc. of Landscape Professionals (NALP) recently released its annual list of the top 2019 landscape trends. Drawing upon the expertise of the industry’s 1 million […]
Designs on Growth As one local architect noted, we’re far enough away from the last recession to start worrying about the next one — and recessions tend to hit this […]
From Bedside to Job Site Dorothy Ostrowski has never settled for having just one ball in the air. Like the time, a few years ago, when she was building a […]
Total Transformations With the economy chugging along, home-improvement businesses report solid activity over the past few years, with the prospect of more to come. Locally, perhaps partly because of a […]
Foundation to Roof The Western Massachusetts Home & Garden Show may last only four days each March, but Lori Loughlin says vendors reap the benefits all year long. “The exposure […]
Home Free Construct Associates has built a reputation for home renovation and restoration in Western Mass. over the past few decades, which is fortunate these days, since business is surging […]
National Outlook According to the 2019 Dodge Construction Outlook released by Dodge Data & Analytics, a leader in construction-industry forecasting and business planning, total U.S. construction starts for 2019 will […]
Screen Test Online learning isn’t a recent innovation, but in the world of continuing education for construction professionals, there aren’t many programs doing it — and few are doing it […]
Serving Up Style Professional designers can often walk into a house and tell what decade it was built in by the styles of certain rooms, and the kitchen is definitely […]
Sparking Success Jay Peloquin remembers the heady days for pellet stoves, back in 2008, when oil surged to more than $100 a barrel. “When oil prices were skyrocketing, we […]
Decade of Design When Kevin Shea launched his own architecture firm after almost two decades working for someone else, it wasn’t exactly a great time to start a business — […]
Creating a Solid Foundation While earning his master’s degree in finance at the University of Rhode Island, Scott Keiter wasn’t thinking about using it to manage his own construction company. […]
New Life for an Old Building Begun almost two years ago, a massive, $50 million project to convert the structure at Springfield Technical Community College, formerly part of the Springfield […]
Framing the Issue Construction has long been a male-dominated industry, but the playing field doesn’t have to be so uneven, several carpenters with Local 336 told BusinessWest. They all took […]
