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Suffolk Construction Company

Suffolk Construction Company

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Suffolk Construction Company stylized as Suffolk[4] is an American construction contracting company based in Boston, Massachusetts[5] with additional locations in California, Florida, Maine, New York and Texas.[6][7][8] The company is contracted for work in the aviation, commercial, education, healthcare, gaming, residential, mission critical, and government sectors.[9][1][10] Suffolk is the largest construction contractor in Massachusetts and one of the 20 largest in the country.[11][9]

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History

Suffolk Construction Company was founded in 1982, by Edward Fish Sr. as an open-shop building contractor.[12] Immediately thereafter, Fish seeded Suffolk with an $80,000 loan and transferred full leadership and management to his 23-year-old son, John F. Fish, who has led the company as president and CEO since its founding.[13]

By 1987, the company had grown its annual revenues from $300 thousand to $66 million.[14] In 1989, the company expanded its operations to South Florida.[12]

Suffolk reached an agreement with Boston's carpentry union in 1993, in which it agreed to use union workers in downtown Boston, but would remain non-union in other areas.[12] In 1999, Suffolk reached a larger deal with the carpentry union in which it agreed to use union workers throughout the New England area.[15]

In 2009, Suffolk acquired William A. Berry & Son, a large New England contractor that specialized in biomedical and healthcare construction.[9] Suffolk acquired the San Diego-based ROEL Construction in January 2011 in an effort to expand its growth in California.[16][17]

In January 2016, the company was selected as general contractor for the $1.7 billion Wynn Resorts casino in Everett, Massachusetts.[18] In September 2016, the company held a ceremony in which they used virtual reality technology to "break ground" on their new headquarters project.[19] Suffolk was chosen as the general contractor for the General Electric's Boston headquarters building in December 2016.[20]

Notable projects

Acknowledgments

In 2018, Forbes reported that the company is the 148th largest private company in the U.S.[35] That same year, Suffolk was ranked 23rd on Engineering News-Record's "Top 400 Contractors" list.[36]

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