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• C.E. Floyd Lectures at Northeastern!

  October 15th, 2014 by Ashley Buckley

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  C.E. Floyd was recently invited to participate in a professional lecture series run by the Northeastern University Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter!

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  Posted in: News & People

• TED Talk: The Happy Secret to Better Work

  September 9th, 2014 by Ashley Buckley

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  Our August TED Talk from Shawn Achor, Harvard lecturer and CEO of Good Think, Inc., challenges the assumption that we work to achieve happiness. He flips the equation and argues that being happy in the first place actually makes us more productive.

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• Demo at Trinity Episcopal Church

  September 2nd, 2014 by Catie McMenamin

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  Demo is complete at Concord’s Trinity Episcopal Church. Click on “Knock Down” to check out a time-lapse video of SMS Services taking down the Parish House.

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  Posted in: Case Studies & Projects

• TED Talk: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are by Amy Cuddy

  August 19th, 2014 by Catie McMenamin

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  “Fake it until you become it,” was the advice given by Amy Cuddy in her TED Talk, Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are. Cuddy and Dana Carney set out to discover if our nonverbal behaviors govern how we think and feel. The results are shocking!

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• C.E. Floyd Competes in Boston Dragon Boat Race!

  June 25th, 2014 by Ashley Buckley

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  C.E. Floyd recently competed in the 2014 Boston Dragon Boat festival- and came back with some Silver medals! Our company team was formed a few months back with employees from C.E. Floyd, some others from architecture and engineering firms like DiMella Shaffer, AVID Engineers, and Beacon Architecture, and a few other friends to fill the boat; we needed a Drummer, Steersperson, and up to 16 Paddlers!

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• TED Talk Tuesday: Flow, the secret to happiness

  June 19th, 2014 by Catie McMenamin

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  Money can’t buy happiness.

  Once you’re above the poverty level, the percentage of people who are happy remains constant no matter the income level. So how do you obtain happiness? According to Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi, the secret is being in Flow.

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• C.E. Floyd Project Receives Cambridge Preservation Award!

  May 23rd, 2014 by Ashley Buckley

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  One of our recent projects at Lesley University received a “Preservation Award” by the Cambridge Historical Commission last night! C.E. Floyd worked with Perry and Radford Architects to complete this gut interior and exterior renovation of a dormitory in Lesley’s Threshold Program.

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  Posted in: News & People, Case Studies & Projects

• A Look Back 25 Years: Q & A with Chuck Floyd

  April 24th, 2014 by Catie McMenamin

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  Q & A session with Chuck Floyd. Questions ranging from our start in the business and the successes along the way to the keys to our ongoing growth.

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• CEF Kicks off TED Talks Series!

  April 18th, 2014 by Ashley Buckley

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  Today, C.E. Floyd kicked off our Lunch & Learn TED Talk Series! The series is part of a company initiative to encourage Professional Development; we believe that the short, informational TED Talks will allow us to think differently about the services we deliver, how to be better leaders, and how to work as a team. We began the series with Simon Sinek’s talk on “How Great Leaders Inspire Action,” and discussed how we use his ideas in our own industry.

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• Kucher, Catallozzi Join C.E. Floyd

  April 15th, 2014 by Catie McMenamin

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  C.E. Floyd Company has expanded its project engineering corps by adding Justin Kucher and Michaela Catallozzi to its Bedford, MA office.

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