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Breaking Down KBE’s Long-Term Strategy for Success
by Emily Langner When it comes to the construction industry, a company’s trustworthiness and reliability are on par with its ability to complete projects quickly and efficiently and the quality of work it delivers to its clients. Building a reputation based on these core values can be a predictor of success, and can be credited […]
KBE’s 50 Ways to Make A Difference Program Donates $2.75 Million Over Last Nine Years
Farmington, CT – Nine years . . . $2.75 million in donations and services . . . 13,000 volunteer hours . . . these are the latest tallies from KBE Building Corporation’s 50 Ways to Make A Difference corporate philanthropy program, launched in 2009. The program was established to celebrate the firm’s new ownership, name […]
KBE Expands Preconstruction Services Team
Farmington, CT – KBE Building Corporation has promoted Erica Millard, CPE, LEED AP, to manager of preconstruction services, and has added two new preconstruction managers. Millard joined KBE in March of 2012 as a senior project engineer in the field and has worked as an estimator and preconstruction manager. She previously worked with Balfour Beatty […]
KBE Awarded Fifth Safety Training Partnership from OSHA
Farmington, CT – A sterling safety reputation has earned KBE Building Corporation two new Safety Training Partnerships with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Hartford Area Office and federal OSHA. These represent the fourth and fifth partnerships that OSHA has recognized KBE with since the first partnership in 2014. KBE’s two newest partnerships are underway on the […]
KBE Ranked Among Top 400 National Contractors
Farmington, CT – KBE Building Corporation was recently ranked as one of the top 400 contractors and one of the top New England contractors by Engineering News-Record. Jim Culkin, KBE COO, noted that, “We’ve been ranked by ENR among the nation’s top 400 contractors each year for at least the last 20 years.” Among the […]
KBE Wins International Partnering Institute Award
Farmington, CT – The International Partnering Institute gave its 2015 Partnered Project of the Year Award — Vertical Building Projects, Sapphire Level — to the Connecticut College boiler plant replacement project team. Team leader KBE Building Corp. served as construction manager at risk for the $5 million, seven-month project at the college’s New London campus, […]
Creative Approach to Corporate Philanthropy Earns Business Champion Award for KBE
Farmington, CT – KBE Building Corporation recently won the Business Champions Award for Community Involvement, made possible by a partnership between the MetroHartford Alliance and the Hartford Business Journal. KBE was honored for its creative approach to corporate philanthropy, including 9,000 volunteer hours logged and $1.5 million donated since 2009. KBE’s corporate philanthropic program, 50 Ways to Make a Difference, was […]
KBE Opens Third Office
Norwalk, CT – KBE Building Corporation opened its third office, at 200 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 5J, in Norwalk on May 5. KBE works in 14 states throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Its current office locations include Farmington, Conn. and Columbia, Md. “We could have continued to serve our Fairfield County clients from our Farmington headquarters […]
Three New Hires at KBE
Farmington, CT – KBE Building Corporation is adding key project staff to its Northeast operations, with the recent hire of two new project managers, Simon Bernard and Robert Leo, and a new safety and quality control manager, Brian Patenaude. Bernard has 20 years of experience as a project manager in retail, higher education, K-12 schools, and […]
KBE Completes Nashua Pier 1
Designed by Weber Nashua, NH – KBE Building Corp. has completed construction of Nashua’s newest Pier 1 Imports store. KBE served as general contractor for the $1.04 million project, which encompassed the demolition of the existing Michael’s store at 226 Daniel Webster Highway, new construction of the 9,000sf Pier 1 Imports store, and 2,035sf of […]
