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  • Shared Values, Measurable Impact: Our B Corp Journey

    November 28th, 2023


    Shared Values, Measurable Impact: Our B Corp Journey

    Join us in celebrating our B Corp certification, scoring an impressive 100.4—well above the 80-point threshold. Our commitment to "Make Every Number Count" shapes a future where stakeholder value and transparency take center stage.

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  • Recognizing Our Veterans

    November 9th, 2023


    Recognizing Our Veterans

    In honor of Veteran's Day, we asked the Veterans at C.E. Floyd to share about the things they learned while serving that they apply in their jobs today. Here's what they said:

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  • Chasing Dreams with C.E. Floyd's Dream Manager Program Pt. 1 - Building People: C.E. Floyd Podcast Episode 5

    September 21st, 2023


    Chasing Dreams with C.E. Floyd's Dream Manager Program Pt. 1 - Building People: C.E. Floyd Podcast Episode 5

    Brand Storyteller Richie McNamara and Accounts Payable Manager Katie Smith sit down to discuss Katie's journey with C.E. Floyd's Dream Manager program, where she is discovering how to prioritize herself, chase her dreams, and build a brighter future.

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  • Work Hard / Play Hard Core Value Story - Building People: C.E. Floyd Podcast Episode 4

    July 10th, 2023


    Work Hard / Play Hard Core Value Story - Building People: C.E. Floyd Podcast Episode 4

    Brand Storyteller Richie McNamara interviews Chassidy, an assistant project engineer, and Shaun, a project manager, about their experiences with our core value program. Chassidy nominated Shaun for his support and encouragement in helping her prioritize her fitness goals. Shaun shares his perspective on how the core value program has resonated with him and helped foster a supportive and thriving work environment.

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  • Building a Sustainable Future - Building People: C.E Floyd Podcast Episode 3

    June 14th, 2023


    Building a Sustainable Future - Building People: C.E Floyd Podcast Episode 3

    Pre-construction manager Christopher Dittrich joins me to talk about sustainability and what it looks like in our industry. We discuss how to implement sustainable practices into projects and why sustainability should be a priority across our industry.

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  • Building People, Not Just Buildings: Jeff Palmer Profile

    May 10th, 2023


    Building People, Not Just Buildings: Jeff Palmer Profile

    This profile highlights the impressive and impactful career of Jeff Palmer, the President of CT operations at C.E. Floyd. From his humble beginnings in a blue-collar family to his love for woodworking and wrestling, Jeff's journey in the construction industry is a testament to his dedication to personal growth and mentorship. Through his authenticity and compassion for those around him, Jeff has made a significant impact within C.E. Floyd and in the lives of those he works with. This profile explores Jeff's career path, his leadership style, and his life philosophy centered around continuous growth.

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  • Our Industry is Aging, How Do We Change That? - Building People: C.E Floyd Podcast Episode 2

    April 11th, 2023


    Our Industry is Aging, How Do We Change That?  - Building People: C.E Floyd Podcast Episode 2

    I sit down with C.E. Floyd's Director of Marketing, Catie McMenamin, to discuss her involvement in the AGC's Communication Advisory Committee and the importance of young people entering the construction industry. Building People is a podcast highlighting the people behind C.E. Floyd’s construction projects. We are Building People in the sense that our work is centered around building, and we are also Building People in the sense that we build people to reach their full potential. Both a noun and a verb, Building People represents who C.E. Floyd is.

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  • Moving Forward with Purpose featuring Chris Floyd - Building People: C.E Floyd Podcast Episode 1

    March 9th, 2023


    Moving Forward with Purpose featuring Chris Floyd - Building People: C.E Floyd Podcast Episode 1

    I sit down with the CEO of our company, Chris Floyd, to discuss our newly achieved B Corp certification and PBC status. We talk about his lifelong learning mindset, and the personal journey that inspired these certifications.

    Building People is a podcast highlighting the people behind C.E. Floyd’s construction projects. We are Building People in the sense that our work is centered around building, and we are also Building People in the sense that we build people to reach their full potential. Both a noun and a verb, Building People represents who C.E. Floyd is.

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  • Fully Living Out Your Dreams – Mark Beckler Triathlon Story

    February 8th, 2023


    Fully Living Out Your Dreams – Mark Beckler Triathlon Story

    Mark Beckler raced in the Atlantic City 70.3 mile Ironman triathlon, achieving his dream with the support of his family, friends, and C.E. Floyd.

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  • Nate Seiler Promoted to Project Executive

    January 18th, 2023


    Nate Seiler Promoted to Project Executive

    In this new role, Nate will build and guide Project Managers in Massachusetts by providing tools and insight. He will also be involved in risk management as his breadth of experience makes him an administrative asset.

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  • Chuck Tobin's Formula for Success

    December 14th, 2022


    Chuck Tobin's Formula for Success

    We point to the C.E. Formula to give our clients an idea of what it would be like to work with us. It consists of our core values combined with client needs and creating a non-adversarial partnership built on performance with integrity. While this formula characterizes C.E. Floyd, C.O.O. Chuck Tobin has formulated his compound of virtues to find success for himself. Chuck has built his career upon confidence in himself, a strong work ethic, and a sense of patience with himself and others.

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  • C.E. Floyd Is Officially a Purpose-Driven Business

    May 25th, 2022


    C.E. Floyd Is Officially a Purpose-Driven Business

    C.E. Floyd Company is now a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). PBC is a designation for a purpose-driven business. A Public Benefit Corporation gives the Board of Directors a legal responsibility to create the stated Public Benefit in addition to creating a return for shareholders. A typical company is only required to create a return for shareholders.

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  • Creating a Set of Core Values That Actually Have Value

    April 27th, 2021


    Creating a Set of Core Values That Actually Have Value

    Every company has a list of core values, carefully crafted to represent their ideals. However, I would guess that very few employees are even aware of their company’s core values, let alone use them as a guiding principle. If the employees aren’t living out the core values, then who is?  Can those values be trusted? How do they separate your company from the pack? And most importantly, how does the company ensure that the services and experiences they provide are being passed along to their clients? 

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  • Mentoring Matters: A Father-Son Experience

    September 24th, 2020


    Mentoring Matters: A Father-Son Experience

    Mark Giglio, senior project superintendent, got the experience of a lifetime while overseeing construction of a new gymnasium and school house at Riverbend School in Natick, MA. His son Tony was assigned to the project as assistant project superintendent. They had worked on a project together before, but this time, Mark was directly responsible for training and mentoring Tony.

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  • Developing a Comprehensive Response Plan in Times of Uncertainty

    June 4th, 2020


    Developing a Comprehensive Response Plan in Times of Uncertainty

    During times of unrest, upheaval, or uncertainty there is a guarantee of only one thing: change.

    Because the construction industry was deemed essential and many of our projects remained open, we needed to act immediately to protect our workers, trade partners on our job sites, and those in the communities where we were working.

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  • The Empowered Employee

    January 7th, 2020


    The Empowered Employee

    What makes a company great? In this competitive labor market, this is something we are all scrambling to decode, especially in the booming construction sector. Is it a workplace with a fully-stocked kitchen, ping pong tables, and beer on tap? Or is it one with sleek modern offices and polished marble floors?

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  • C.E. Floyd employees give back

    September 26th, 2017


    At C.E. Floyd we’re thankful to be given a day to give back to a non-profit organization of our choice. Two of our employees recently volunteered with One for Health Foundation and The Wish Project.   

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  • Lean construction is a cultural fit

    June 26th, 2017


    “When people hear the words Lean Construction, they think of pull-planning, but that’s just one component,” says Chris Floyd. “The fundamental values include continuous improvement through investing in our people to provide more value for our customers.”

    The concepts can be adapted to work well with C.E. Floyd’s mission and culture. Floyd sees Lean as a framework that can help C.E. Floyd achieve better performance, while making the company a better place to work.

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  • C.E. Floyd employees give back

    May 18th, 2017


    Check out how two more C.E. Floyd employees used their volunteer day off.

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  • C.E. Floyd gives back

    January 31st, 2017


    Community engagement is important to us. Leading by example, Chris Floyd and his family recently volunteered at Cradles to Crayons. Following their volunteer experience, they “adopted” three kids through the organization and were responsible for providing them with a winter wardrobe.  

    As a company, we complete service projects throughout the year, but we also enable employees to give time to an organization of their choice. Every C.E. Floyd Company employee gets one paid volunteer day off each year. Keep reading to learn how three employees recently used their volunteer time off.

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  • This Is Not a News Page Disguised as a Blog!

    June 16th, 2015


    Yes, we’ve created a blog.

    No, it is not a self-promoting, news page like we’ve seen on many other company websites. (We would have created a news page for that!)

    It is a place for us to share industry insights, trends and best practices.

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  • 20 Years at C.E. Floyd - Q & A with Joe McCoy

    January 29th, 2015


    Joe McCoy, director of business development, just celebrated 20 years with C.E. Floyd Company. Over that time, he’s spent the equivalent of 625 days commuting. So what keeps him going? I sat down with him to find out.

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  • C.E. Floyd Gives Back

    January 6th, 2015


    We held our 12th annual toy drive for The Home for Little Wanderers and adopted a family from Meriden Wallingford Chrysalis, Inc. for the second year in a row. We also joined Building Impact and held our first in-office event.

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  • Our Year in Review!

    December 30th, 2014


    We had a great 2014! Check out some of our accomplishments...

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  • Chris Floyd Named President of C.E. Floyd Company

    December 23rd, 2014


    After leading C.E. Floyd Company through 25 years of growth, Chuck Floyd has decided to move to the role of Chairman and hand the President position over to his son, Chris Floyd, effective January 1, 2015.

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  • TED Talk- Science Inspired Design

    November 25th, 2014


    Check out some takeaways from our November TED Talk Lunch & Learn! 

     

     

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  • TED Talk- How to Get Your Ideas to Spread

    November 12th, 2014


    Check out some takeaways from our most recent TED Talk Lunch & Learn! 

     

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  • 7 Takeaways from LeadingAge 2014: Redefining Age

    October 28th, 2014


    Chuck Tobin and Joe McCoy have returned from Nashville and the LeadingAge 2014 Annual Meeting. They were entertained by The Band Perry, Delta Rae and Ashley Campbell. They watched the documentary I’ll Be Me about Glen Campbell’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. They heard speeches from Simon Sinek and Ellen Langer. Sounds like a tough few days! 

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  • C.E. Floyd Lectures at Northeastern!

    October 15th, 2014


    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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  • TED Talk: The Happy Secret to Better Work

    September 9th, 2014


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

    August 19th, 2014


    “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


    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


    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


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

    April 24th, 2014


    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


    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


    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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  • C.E. Floyd Sponsors KidsBuild!, Catallozzi Volunteers

    April 11th, 2014


    C.E. Floyd Company was a first-time sponsor of this year’s KidsBuild!, which was held on April 5th. KidsBuild! is a hands-on, interactive learning experience for children ages 5-13

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  • McMenamin Volunteers at Cradles to Crayons as Part of Community Connect 2014

    April 3rd, 2014


    On April 1st, Catie McMenamin participated in Community Connect 2014, where she volunteered at Cradles to Crayons with over 100 other members of the CRE Industry. She worked in the Library, where she inspected books for “like-new” quality, sorted them into age groups and created bundles of five books to go into customized “KidPacks”. 

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  • Derby Academy Hard Hat Tour: Connecting classroom learning to the real world

    February 18th, 2014


    Recently Derby Academy, in Hingham, MA, hosted an educational ‘hard hat’ tour of the school’s new Innovation Center for students, which is now complete. Students of all ages visited the construction site and wore construction hats to go through the building. C.E. Floyd and Olson Lewis + Architects worked together to create an interactive experience for all ages by demonstrating connections between the skills students learn in the classroom with the real world applications of them in the construction site.

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  • C.E. Floyd Donates to The Home for Little Wanderers and Chrysalis, Inc.

    January 14th, 2014


    Our Bedford office participated in our 11th annual Big Wishes for Little Wanderers Gift Drive benefitting The Home for Little Wanderers. We donated gifts to 10 children and made a financial donation to the organization as well. 

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  • Bedford Falls Project wins Excellence in Construction Award!

    November 22nd, 2013


    C.E. Floyd received the ABC Building Green Award for the Bedford Falls Senior Living Community at their 2013 Excellence in Construction Awards banquet this week!

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  • Employee Spotlight!

    October 22nd, 2013


    Project Engineer Lucy Frye competed in the Head of the Charles this past weekend! She raced for Giant Rowing Club in the Women’s Club 4+ event. The race had over 50 boats ranging from Olympic rowers to private clubs and college crews. 

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  • C.E. Floyd’s Connecticut Office Adds Three

    October 3rd, 2013


    C.E. Floyd Company has added three to its Connecticut office. Mike Mertz joins the company as Project Superintendent, Heather Mezza as Office/Business Development Coordinator and Jonathan Rios as Assistant Project Engineer.

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  • Chris Floyd Named Vice President

    September 9th, 2013


    Congratulations to Chris Floyd who has been promoted to Vice President. He is overseeing C.E. Floyd’s Business Development, Marketing, Finance and Administrative departments. 

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  • Back-to-School Drive for The Home for Little Wanderers

    August 26th, 2013


    Heading back to school can be stressful for many kids, especially those in The Home’s care who rely on generous donors to properly outfit them for the year. This year we held our first back-to-school drive and stuffed five new backpacks with lots of supplies for the kids.

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  • Interview with Concord Academy’s Don Kingman

    August 5th, 2013


    C.E. Floyd Company has been working at Concord Academy for the last 20 years and recently completed the school’s Moriarty Athletic Campus. We sat down with Don Kingman, Concord Academy’s Director of Operations, to talk about why he continues to choose C.E. Floyd for the school’s building projects. Check out what he has to say about us!

     

  • Thank you Massachusetts! C.E. Floyd Receives Workforce Training Fund Grant for Professional Development Program

    July 8th, 2013


    We are excited to announce that the State of Massachusetts has awarded a major training grant to C.E. Floyd Company to support our Professional Development Program. I will be writing a series of posts about our Professional Development Program, lessons learned and the Massachusetts Workforce Training Fund Grant process over the next twelve months with a few guest writers.

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  • New Hires: Welcome to Dung and Ashley!

    June 21st, 2013


    We have added two new employees to our Bedford office. Dung Duong joins us as Project Estimator and Ashley Buckley is our new Business Development Coordinator.

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