Dr. Hilary Gallin and Kaitlin McCarthy, the CEO of Boston-based Ionic Development, have launched a line of protective vests for women in construction and plan additional work gear for an expanding array of industries.
Laura Lakin’s career in the Massachusetts Army National Guard is lending extra significance to her current role helping oversee the interior fitout of a new comprehensive brain health and trauma program for military veterans in Charlestown.
As Massachusetts officials compete for billions of federal infrastructure dollars that will unlock major job opportunities in the construction sector, labor union leaders are imploring state agencies comply with workforce participation laws designed to support women and people of color.
Francis Colantonio built a two-man carpentry business into a general contracting firm that completes more than $100 million in annual project work. Now, he’s trying to open opportunities for younger workers and increase diversity in the industry.
Two-thirds of construction contracts administered by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance don’t employ women and nearly one-third don’t employ minorities, Auditor Suzanne Bump’s office said.
Construction is a way of life for Jane Kaplan Peck, who oversees the operations of Brookline-based Kaplan Construction Co., focusing on multifamily and hospitality projects, plus houses of worship.
Rules in Boston that set minimums for the participation of city residents, women and people of color as workers on construction projects are not being met by the vast majority of top projects.
Multiple recent public opinion polls found that housing is a top issue for voters heading into Boston’s upcoming mayoral election, but without addressing the commonwealth’s shortage of skilled trades workers, the winner’s ability to make progress on housing production goals will be limited, at best.
Non-union contractors are continuing their push to strike a requirement that the new $400 million Holyoke Soldiers’ Home be built using a project labor agreement, cautioning lawmakers that the directive is unnecessary, costly and discriminatory toward minority- and women-owned contractors.
The development team behind one of the first big life sciences projects in eastern Somerville says it has secured support from a key neighborhood group as it pursues entitlement for its project.
The Baker administration has filed legislation to raise the threshold at which public entities are required to bid out contracts, in the hope that it will help more minority- and women-owned construction firms get a slice of the stat’s construction spending pie.
A $24 million renovation YWCA-Central Massachusetts in Worcester will be led by an all-female team from Consigli Construction under terms of the city’s first community benefits agreement.
Sellers who can’t decide whether to move into their next homes while their current ones remain unsold should consider this: According to a new analysis, empty houses remain on the market longer, and sell for less, than those that are still occupied.
Natalie Adelman Taub, one of the first women to helm a Boston construction firm, died on March 23, according to an obituary posted this weekend by Levine Chapels of Brookline.
In Massachusetts, the share of women in construction union apprenticeships is almost triple the national average of women in construction.
