Who We Are

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2024, QUARTER 2

Work Hard / Play Hard

Tom Kelly

Tom Stanton appreciates Tom Kelly’s responsiveness and knows many people have seen this in our Connecticut office. Tom will never shy away from extra work to support a team. The Play Hard piece of this nomination is actually two years in the making! We have a company incentive that those who use all of their vacation time receive an additional $200 and are entered into a drawing for an extra week off. Instead of going after the annual company incentive, he saved up two additional vacation days each year – for two years – so he could take an amazing honeymoon to Italy and not use all his vacation on a 2-week trip. Congrats to Tom and his new wife Carrisa!

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2024, QUARTER 1

Prepare For Success

Cesar Velez

We recently submitted our first bid for a project in Palmer, MA. Newcomer Cesar Velez was assigned to be the Estimator on the project. Being a healthcare project, there were a lot of strict requirements that needed to be followed. As Cesar dug into the project, he discovered several ambiguities, errors, and open-ended items in the drawings and specifications. Cesar diligently noted these all and sent multiple rounds of RFIs to the client.

During the scope review, the client expressed how impressed he was with the number and accuracy of the RFIs Cesar asked, noting that no other bidding GC’s were nearly as thorough. As a result, he commented that they has several projects coming up that require Preconstruction services that he would like to work with us on, because it’s clear we dig into the details and ask the right questions to ensure the budget is accurate. Even though we didn't win the project, Cesar showed the importance of both providing excellent service to the client and preparing for the future success of the project.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2023, QUARTER 4

Service Above All Else

Mark Way

Mark played a key role in getting the River Homes building at Livewell ready for turnover, which included working both the Saturday and Sunday before our TCO walkthrough. On top of dealing with the last minute discoveries, Mark went above and beyond over the course of the project:

• Worked closely with an electrician to adjust electronic hardware, including cutting hand holes, drilling new wire holes, and reconfiguring systems.
• Patched and taped drywall for painting before the final walkthrough, staying late on Monday to tackle emerging issues.
• Collaborated with Craig and the owner to order and install decorative "temporary lights" on a temporary sidewalk, addressing a lighting concern flagged before the turnover.
• Diligently addressed door hardware issues after hours, primarily assigned to the renovations segment of the project.
• Extended support by covering for a team member and addressing a plumbing issue dedicating extra time and effort to resolve the issue promptly.

 A common phrase you hear on this project is “Mark is the man”, which could not be truer given he’s always willing to go the extra mile for the client and fellow team members. Thank you, Mark!

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2023, QUARTER 3

Work Hard / Play Hard

Tony Cascone

Tony took the lead in organizing our volunteer day with House of Heroes (HOH). He found the group and contacted them, then made all the arrangements for us to get assigned to one of their projects. We had a group of 10 people on volunteer day to build a new deck and complete some yard work. At the end of the day, Tony was disappointed we didn’t get to replace the unstable wooden handrails on the front steps of the house. He took it upon himself to set it up with the homeowner and HOH to return the following Saturday to replace the handrails. Tony’s been working the overnight shift (everyone’s favorite!) at Midstate Medical, so it would have been easy for him to just move on and use the day for himself, but instead he dedicated a second Saturday to help a veteran’s widow and make her house safer.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2023, QUARTER 2

Never Shirk

Eric Butler

Since coming to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts project Eric Butler has always taken the time to help develop Owen Tobin into a stronger Field Engineer. Eric always takes time to answer Owen’s questions and even comes to Owen when he has a field issue that makes for a great learning opportunity. Eric proposed the idea to set an hour aside each week to sit down and help develop Owen’s career. This time has been used to go over anything that would help Owen learn and grow, even if it’s not project specific. Owen says these moments show that Eric Never Shirks from the opportunity to build up his coworker’s career (or as Eric likes to say, “train his replacement!”) while successfully completing his assigned project.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2023, QUARTER 1

Work Hard / Play Hard

Shaun Boughton

Chassidy Bermudez, one of our assistant project engineers, says that Project Manager Shaun Boughton has always shown interest in her career and personal growth. In mid-December, Chassidy told Shaun she wasn't feeling motivated to work out. He took it upon himself to take her to his gym, which she joined and is now thriving at. In January, Chassidy and Shaun joined a six-week challenge at the gym that focused on improving overall physical health. By following Shaun's lead, Chassidy has been able to pour time and energy into her mental and physical health. While noticing a change in herself, Chassidy also saw Shaun pushing himself to change. Before the six-week challenge, Shaun wasn’t taking the time he is taking now for himself, but he has risen to the occasion to lead the way for Chassidy. She's proud of him and grateful for his support!

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2022, QUARTER 4

Never Shirk

Alec Pollack

When Project Superintendent Gary left for a weeklong vacation, Alec agreed to stay in Connecticut for the week to cover the project in Gary’s absence. This was critical for the project’s success because of Alec’s intimate knowledge of the project and relationships with the trade partners and owner. As we approached our CO date Alec again volunteered to spend the week in Connecticut to assist Gary as we prepared for final inspections and turnover, ensuring a successful project completion.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2022, QUARTER 3

Work Hard / Play Hard

Michaela Catallozzi

Michaela is one of our Project Managers who has been a shining example of our Work Hard / Play Hard core value. While on the clock, Michaela works hard to give our clients the highest quality service, and while off the clock, she makes it a priority to decompress through fun activities. Michaela started organizing a C.E. Floyd team for the Riverfront Dragon Boat races in Connecticut several years ago but had trouble filling the boat with exclusively CEFamily members. Trade partners had joined in years past, and while Michaela always reached out to clients and architects, this past year was the first time the boat had representation from a client and two architecture firms. It was a huge success! Each year the team enjoys hanging out on the banks of the Connecticut River and building a sense of teamwork. While most teams in the race have a competitive demeanor, the team Michaela leads focuses on having fun, which is a winning strategy! The team consistently medals and has taken home several golds.

Michaela started with C.E. Floyd in 2014 as a Project Engineer for the Massachusetts office. Being from Massachusetts but having gone to college in Connecticut, she expressed the desire to move back to Connecticut. After a few short weeks in Mass, Michaela was transferred to Connecticut and then promoted to Project Manager in 2018.

Michaela continues to build authentic relationships with clients, trade partners, and coworkers while acting as a role model for women and a mentor for CEFamily members with less experience. This is Michaela's second time as a Golden Hammer finalist for Work Hard / Play Hard, proving that she fully embodies this core value. Her ability to relate to others has undoubtedly contributed to the success and growth of C.E. Floyd.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2022, QUARTER 2

Service Above All Else

Peter McGrath

This project is a tough site with 3 out of the 6 floors open for business and C.E. Floyd occupying the remaining three floors. There’s a lot of intermingling with staff members and patients. Pete excels at communicating and listening to the needs of the staff and the general public as well as accommodating hospital staff requests.

We have offices moving from one finished floor to the next. If and when we need to get back in to one of the finished floors, Pete always makes sure there’s a smooth transition from construction to the staff’s use the next day. He protects and cleans each area as if we were never there. The doctors and nursing staff now go directly to Pete with any questions or requests. Pete also made the staff on each floor feel as safe as possible during COVID by installing shields at the public desks and reception areas. Pete has set an atmosphere of collaboration and trust and goes out of his way with grace and style to help. He represents CEF and himself to the highest standard of service.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2022, QUARTER 1

Firm but Fair

Kevin Carrillo

Kevin Carrillo is a Carpenter here at C.E. Floyd and recently he was Firm But Fair with a trade partner on one of our sites. He clearly set his safety expectations with the trade partner, communicating in both English and Spanish, and had them sign JHAs. When the trade partner wasn’t meeting expectations, Kevin held them accountable and was able to get the trade partner to follow the requirements.

Thank you, Kevin, for being Firm But Fair and reinforcing our safety culture with our trade partners. A safe job site reduces construction risks to the owner and workers, and the project is more likely to be completed on time and on budget.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2021, QUARTER 4

Never Shirk

Jerry Domingo

Jerry and his team are building a Big Y store that is going up in an active shopping plaza. Big Y is working with the plaza’s landlord who hired a separate General Contractor to handle demolition of the existing building and site preparation. 

The landlord’s General Contractor began to fall behind multiple times leading to issues our team continually has to navigate, such as telephone poles, power lines, and utilities not being moved out of the way when our team needs to set precast panels within inches of these hazards.

Jerry coordinated the move of the power lines, but telecom lines were still on the poles and our panels needed to get within 10” of these lines. They had voltage so they are still treated as “live”, but Jerry kept grinding and working with his team of trade partners to develop a solution. Jerry and his team worked with the trade partner’s Safety Consultant to receive a Professional Engineer-stamped letter to perform the work within 10” of the lines and had the team develop a Job Hazard Analysis, Work Plan, and Critical Lift Plan.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2021, QUARTER 3

Never Shirk

Mike Buonincontra

When we were awarded this project a year ago the Owner’s Representative asked that Mike be the Estimator for the job. He had done such a phenomenal job working alongside their team during a previous project and they wanted to keep the momentum going. This put a lot of pressure on Mike because this was a much more complicated project.

In order to rise to the challenge, Mike adjusted how we approached budgeting for this project by creating a budget tracking log. Each week he summarized the potential changes. This kept the Owner constantly aware of the financial impact of the decisions he was making. A few days before the bid was due, a set of updated drawings and an addendum were released. Knowing what needed to be done, Mike worked additional hours to ensure the GMP was delivered on time and was fully complete. Then when our price came in over budget, Mike began the long, arduous process of Value Engineering.

He put his clients first, stepped up and delivered time and time again. His dedication to the project not only strengthened our relationship with the Owner's Representative, but impressed the heck out of the design team as well. The MEP engineer said repeatedly that he’s never had such a great experience working with a contractor through a project with so many challenges. That’s a testament to Mike and the positive rapport he brought to the team. Always smiling, always thinking of options to make the project a success, and always there to help move the project forward. Due to Mike’s hard work, we now have a signed contract, and are in the final stages of completing the Preconstruction process.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2021, QUARTER 2

Work Hard / Play Hard

Kristin Darvish

We had three important proposals due in a two week timeframe. Two were due on consecutive Fridays and the other one on a Thursday. It just so happened that Kristin had scheduled to be off on those two Fridays. She communicated this to her colleagues early in each of the weeks. Everyone else working on the proposals were able to prioritize their work so that Kristin could pull the proposals together a day early so she wouldn’t have to make final edits Friday morning during her time off.

Because of Kristin’s early communication to the team and her diligence and organization she made this happen, but of course it’s never perfect… There were still a few final edits in key sections of one proposal on Thursday afternoon. She found herself waiting for her colleague to email her back at 9PM. The final draft was ready the next morning. Kristin worked hard until 11:30 PM to ensure the team had a complete winning proposal to submit the following day, and she was able to wake up that Friday with her job done so she could play hard with her family! Kristin continually puts into the hard work that helps C.E. Floyd submit winning proposals for our people while balancing and prioritizing time with her family.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2021, QUARTER 1

Service Above All Else

Grace Steward

Grace recently showed her willingness to help the team out in any way possible. In Early February, the project was hit with a significant amount of snow in a very short period of time. Our Project Superintendent, Andy Anton, called on the project team for help. Not only did Grace reach out to some of the subcontractors to work through some additional labor change orders to keep progress moving forward, but she also grabbed a snow shovel and drove to the site to help Andy and the field team with the snow removal operation. When other office team members used the excuse of “having meetings all day”, Grace rearranged coverage for her meetings so she could help with the snow removal for a few hours. 

This news made its way to the owner, who was also impressed with Grace’s willingness to be a team player. This core value is typically highlighted when a CEF team member goes above and beyond for a client, but in this case, Grace proved that “Service Above All Else” is just as important to apply to internal CEF team members. Grace could have easily sidestepped this task as outside of her job role, but instead she proved once again why she is the GOAT (Grace of All Time). Thank you Grace!

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2020, QUARTER 4

Service Above All Else

Stephanie Donahue

We all receive a paycheck but most of us don’t realize what’s involved behind the scenes. There are MANY pieces to the payroll process: pay rates, charge rates, job cost reporting, PTO balances, benefit deductions (we have over 15), payroll taxes, bonus payments (including 401K deduction requests), service awards, etc. Stephanie does a fantastic job with our payroll processing, ensuring that the payroll and related financial reporting is completed in a timely and accurate manner. This also involves reconciling our systems to ensure our process is accurate and working correctly. 

Stephanie provides excellent service as demonstrated by her ability to answer questions in a timely and well communicated manner, often going beyond her daily responsibilities. Stephanie also does a great job providing support to Operations and HR with any ad hoc reporting requests. 

This year has been complicated by COVID reporting, implementation of Replicon and associated employee training, as well as CEF growth. Throughout it all, Stephanie has seamlessly performed her typical responsibilities in addition to new demands, working long hours to meet deadlines and provide excellent service to the CEFamily.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2020, QUARTER 3

Firm but Fair

Adar Elstein

Over the past few months Adar has diligently and meticulously worked his way through a daunting stack of owner and subcontractor change orders for Brookhaven. Many of the change orders have been challenging. Adar has responded to these with thorough, fact-based and firm but fair responses. Project Manager Nate Seiler has been incredibly impressed with Adar’s level of detailed review of every subcontractor change order prior to submitting to the owner for review and with Adar’s comprehensive knowledge of every change. Adar’s confidence and knowledge of every change reinforces his responses and has made a difficult process more efficient. 

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2020, QUARTER 2

Never Shirk

Mike Stuart

With COVID-19, we identified that we needed a better way for all workers to sign in daily to the jobsite. We knew with the other safety precautions needed, such as social distancing, transfer of germs, etc., physically signing in would have its challenges. Mike didn’t just leave this to his Superintendent to figure out. He sought out a better way to track all workers on site. Mike identified a program called Smartsheet and developed a sign in with the Fox Hill Village team that would allow the subcontractors to sign in all of their workers. This then gets directly uploaded to the Fox Hill Village team and can be pulled up on any device. Mike put the health and safety of his field team first and never shirked his responsibility to manage our risk and simplify this process for everyone.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2020, QUARTER 1

Work Hard / Play Hard

Lucy Frye

Over the past month Lucy has kept the projects and teams on track at Riverbend, athenahealth and Nashoba Brooks, while managing to get in a few long weekends away skiing with friends and family. Much of her success with executing this core value boils down to her commitment to the fundamentals and her ability to understand and execute our risk management process at a high level. Lucy has shown the true definition of working hard so she can take the time to do the things she’s passionate about.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2019, QUARTER 4

Prepare for Success

Ray Pagliarini

Ray is the Superintendent for our Connecticut Children’s Dialysis project and has quickly proven himself to be more than capable of working carefully in an occupied Healthcare space, despite his lack of experience in this sector. His communication with the Owner and his containment measures and due diligence are on point. The scope of the project includes running sanitary piping in the floor below the Dialysis Unit. This is extremely sensitive work because it’s taking place in the PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit), where children requiring the highest level of medical care stay.

Our challenge was to work in areas that would take away rooms and corridors, severely impacting the PICU operations. This is where Ray went above and beyond. He’s done a fabulous job understanding the hospital’s rules and regulations along with understanding the needs of the PICU. He’s held pre-installation meetings, daily huddles with subcontractors and coordination meetings with design consultants. Ray instituted his own method of total protection in patient rooms to hold negative air pressure. His mock-up of the plastic was so good the client commented, “We are now going to adopt this method of containment going forward.” Ray has drilled pilot holes and helped the design team in re-designing the sanitary waste piping in order to have less impact on the PICU. When the day came to start the below floor sanitary work Ray was ready. He scheduled the work thru Saturday and Sunday, supervising both days after working a 5-day week. The first phase of the sanitary work has gone without an issue. Ray, and his team, are the reason for this.  

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2019, QUARTER 3

Service Above All Else

Ian Rogers

During our very busy summer, Ian did a great job keeping two critical, fast-paced projects organized with the submittal registers and procurement logs, while dedicating a lot of his time to mentoring a new project engineer. Due to an increased workload and some unfamiliarity with our process/procedures, the Project Manager was not able to spend the time to mentor the PE, as is customary. Ian stepped up in a big way. Despite working long hours on his own tasks, Ian found a way to dedicate a significant amount of his time introducing the PE to our systems and procedures and being an overall mentor. 

The service Ian is providing to the company by mentoring the new employee shows the dedication Ian has to C.E. Floyd and provides a high level of service towards our core focus of Building Visions and People. Additionally, while Ian is preparing the PE for future success, he is learning an important component of a PM’s role.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2019, QUARTER 2

Prepare for Success

Tony Giglio

Congratulations to Tony on his college graduation! He graduated Cum Laude from Everglades University (Boca Raton, FL) with a Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management. Tony was able to accomplish this with the support of C.E. Floyd or better yet, his CEFamily. Not only has he graduated from college, but he was also able to buy a house, all while working full time and serving in the Army Reserve. This is a great example of a company supporting a young man to achieve his goals. This support will probably pay back dividends to the company in the future.

Tony is pictured (left), with his father Mark (right), who proudly nominated him for this award.

CORE VALUE RECOGNITION WINNER

2019, QUARTER 1

Prepare for Success

Adam Bergevin

Adam was asked to provide a schematic design budget for a new 218,000 sf senior living community. Because he has previously worked with the client, he knows the level of detail they expect. Putting together a $60M budget is not easy. Doing it in a little more than a week is very painful. Maintaining great detail on a budget that size with that little amount of time is almost impossible. Yet Adam did it. Watching Adam at work inspires and pushes each of the estimators to do more and to do it better.