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Joanne Ray

Joanne Ray is the new editor of New England Construction magazine. She resides in Lancaster, Mass - a town of 6,000 residents just 45 miles west of Boston. Her journalism career began in the 1980’s free-lancing for a small-town, family-owned newspaper in Clinton, Mass where she covered meetings and sold advertising editorial until well into the 1990’s. Also during this time, she free-lanced for two trade magazines – Bicycle Business Journal and Outdoor Power Equipment – both based in Texas. During the 1990’s she also worked for the Boston Globe – writing community profiles and real estate stories until 1996 when her and a partner decided to start the town newspaper – The Lancaster Times. Recently she sold the newspaper company – which they built to three newspapers - to The Boston Herald.  She was working a one-year contract job helping a friend start up a general interest magazine in central Mass. when she got the word that long-time NEC editor Paul Fournier had the bug to retire.


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Jennie Lee Colosi Celebrates 20 Years as President at E.T. & L.

May 14, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Stow, Mass: Starting her career in 1977 at her dad’s heavy construction firm, E.T.& L. Construction Corp., Jennie Lee Colosi didn’t receive the warmest of welcomes when out at meetings. In fact, it might take a few encounters for the men at the table to realize she knew what she was talking about. Things are different now for the company president of 20 years. Today, E.T.& L. is a $40 million, 62-year-old company with 150 employees at the height of its busy season. The Stow, Mass.based firm specializes in public sector bridge and road construction projects and private sector landfill and site development projects.


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Save Time and Money With Vela Systems

April 28, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Burlington, Mass: Vela Systems, a developer of mobile field software for the architecture, engineering, contractor and owner (AECO) industry, recently announced that Suffolk Construction used Motion Computing® tablet PCs outfitted with Vela Systems’ software to streamline work list, punch list and other field processes to increase productivity and enhance work quality on the conversion of a historic Boston jail into the four-star Liberty Hotel. Suffolk was attracted to the Vela-configured Motion™ tablet’s proven ability to work in real-time - shaving hours, days and potentially weeks of work time off construction projects. Also, Suffolk found Vela-configured Motion tablets much easier and more convenient to carry than the field notebooks and tubes of drawings traditionally used on work sites. The tablet’s lightweight design, long battery life...Read More

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More Construction Jobs On the Horizon

April 28, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Marlboro, Mass: Evergreen Solar Inc. of Marlboro, Mass. will double the size of their manufacturing facility in Harvard, Mass and create about 350 new jobs. The move is the second phase of a growth plan that would more than triple Evergreen's workforce from its current 300 workers to about 1000. The expansion is to be funded entirely by private investment and will ad another 150,000 square feet to the 300,000 square-foot facility already under construction. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of 2009.

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Fore River Bridge-Will We Ever Get It?

April 22, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

South Shore, Mass: South Shore motorists have grown familiar with the temporary bridge that spans the Fore River on Route 3A. And after five years of traveling over the crooked steel structure, many are wondering when - or if - a permanent bridge connecting Weymouth and Quincy will ever be built. The answer: It will, but not any time soon. It will likely be 2020 before the "temporary" bridge is retired and a new, permanent one is ready for service, according to MassHighway spokesman Adam Hurtubise. Design work has begun on the new bridge, with construction to start in 2016 and estimated to take four years. The estimated cost is $150 million. The bridge will be either a vertical lift bridge (similar to the one there now), officials say, or a drawbridge-style structure known as a double-leaf bascule. The exact style will be determined during the design p...Read More



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Governor Deval Patrick to Promote Bridge Repairs

April 15, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Boston, Mass: Governor Deval Patrick will unveil a $3.8 billion bond proposal to repair 411 deteriorating bridges throughout the state over the next eight years - a project that will  improve road safety but also pumps cash into the economy. The massive repair and reconstruction of bridges in virtually every corner of the state would create 23,000 construction jobs according to a preliminary draft of the governor's plan. The job count would be significantly higher than the 5,000 employed at the height of the Big Dig.



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