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Essex Builders Celebrate Recent Milestones

2_header_MilestonesCanton, MA –Essex Builders’ rebranding program, including new logo and website, has coincided with project awards from new clients and an expansion of its construction management team.

Recent contract awards include a multi-residential renovation in Newton, Massachusetts for Newton Community Development Foundation, as well as similar work in Wareham and Taunton for South Shore Housing Development. These projects, in addition to renovations for Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill and a Volkswagen dealership in Watertown, have placed the company in a position to expand its workforce.

New hires include professionals across the company’s platform from field superintendents to office based managers in estimating, operations and business development. Essex Builders also welcome Ben Gilbert as Project Manager. A Worcester Polytechnic Institute graduate, Ben brings 12+ years of construction expertise gained throughout the United States. New Assistant Project Manager hires include Caillin Wall and Alexandrea Banks. Caillin brings 7+ years of construction and architectural experience gained throughout New England. Both Caillin and Alexandrea are graduates of Wentworth Institute of Technology. Lastly, Michelle O’Neil brings 10+ years of experience in the real estate investment realm and joined the company to augment its business development team.

The company is now well positioned to recognize when it needs to gear up for an increased work load. Michelle O’Neil’s business development efforts are already paying dividends, with the company poised to ink sizable contracts in the coming months.

“In the last quarter of 2014, I signed a lease for new office space in Canton, which doubled the size of our footprint” explained Essex Builders’ President, David O’Neil. “Our workload was trending in a positive direction and I wanted to positon the company to avail of these growth opportunities. The first two quarters of 2015 have reinforced the wisdom of this expansion”.