BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS
On Saw Mill Road

September 2008

August and September brought visible exterior progress to our construction, thanks to many helpful hands.

The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers & Allied Workers Local 12 volunteers under Butch Davidson were able to finish installing the roof. The house wrap, donated by Dow Chemical Company via Rings End of Bethel, was installed around the exterior, followed by the windows, giving the building some definition. An even bigger esthetic advance came with the framing of the portico on the front entrance – adding some real personality!

Planning for the sewer installation continued, while some of the small mountain of unsuitable rocky site materials began to be relocated by the volunteer efforts of M. Cardillo Excavating, LLC. Much more site work will be necessary in coming months to prepare for the parking lot and its retaining wall.

United Way Day of Caring on September 16th brought enthusiastic community volunteers from neighboring Praxair Corporation in the Corporate Center, led by Brian Morgan of the HR department. His crew included HR and IT employees Peter Woloszyn, Jim Annunziato, John Lachs, Edwin Martinez and Dick Lowndes. They accomplished a ton of site work clean-up, as well as taking turns at construction. Some have volunteered to come back on their own time and help out again. As we are learning, this is really satisfying work!

As we turn our attention to interior work, planning is already underway for the electrical and mechanical systems. The Connecticut Carpenters Apprentice & Training Fund workers will be ending their months of work soon, as other union trades volunteers and contractors begin their portions of the community project.

In coming weeks and months, we will be offering naming opportunities for brick pathways and the terrace, as well as continuing to offer naming opportunities for rooms and windows, enabling tributes to loved ones and corporate participation.

The following contractors and suppliers have donated substantially to move the project forward with materials, services or labor to date:

MATERIALS

A.H. Harris A Stake Company of East Windsor, CT.  Barker Steel Barrett Roofing Berlin Steel Blakesley Prestress Casey Fuel Colony Hardware CT Concrete Construction Dow Chemical Company ESSROC Grace Construction Products H.I. Stone & Sons J. Four Winds Farm LaFarge North America Lehigh Cement Lowe’s Home Improvement Montanari Fuel National Construction Rentals O & G Concrete, Inc. Patent Construction Ridgefield Supply Company Rings End Lumber Company Russo Farms of Danbury and Falls Village Santa Fuels Sign-A-Rama Silk Town Roofing St. Lawrence Cement Superior Products Taylor Family Farms

LABOR

Carpenters Apprenticeship & Training Fund Carpenter’s Local # 210 International Association of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers International Union of Elevator Contractors Local # 91 Iron Workers Local # 424 Laborers Local #390 Laborers Local # 675 New England Silt Fence Co., Inc. Operating Engineers Local 478 Praxair Corporation United Way of Western Connecticut United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers & Allied Workers Local 12

SERVICES & EQUIPMENT

A.C. Victor Drilling A Quick-Pick Crane Service, Inc. Associated General Contractors of CT  Paul Dinto Electrical Contractors, Inc Peter Buzaid, Esq. Doyle Coffin Architecture Elliott Insurance Group Country Lane Interiors DiSalvo Ericson Group Earthmovers Epifano Builders Haley & Aldrich H.O. Penn Machinery Industrial Riggers J. Iapaluccio J.S. Sullivan Cable Co., Inc. Joseph Merritt & Company K&W Construction Lostocco Refuse Service M. Cardillo Excavating, LLC Manafort Brothers Mercedes Landscaping, Inc. The Morganti Group, Inc. Mulvaney Mechanical, Inc. Pioneer Gas & Appliance RCG Drilling & Blasting Roald Haestad, Inc. Surveying Associates Tighe & Bond Tremson Corporation United Rentals Vets Explosives W.I. Clarke Williams Scottsman, Inc. Woodlands Group, Inc.

Paul P. Dinto, CEO of Paul Dinto Electrical Contractors, Inc., is Chairman of the Building Committee. Paul is coordinating the labor and management sectors of the construction and gathering statewide support for the project, with additional support from John Farnham, Executive Director of the Associated General Contractors of Connecticut.

Contractors, labor leaders and the building committee gather to celebrate the groundbreaking on Saw Mill Road.


The Morganti Group, Inc. (Construction Management Division) is supervising construction planning and scheduling, which also represents a generous donation to the agency.  This diverse team concept represents a broad cross-section of the trades industry.


Basia Pontello, our Construction Coordinator, stops to chat with Tim Gunn and Ed Barrett of The Morganti Group at the Construction Trades Groundbreaking Breakfast. To inquire about participating with materials donations, contact Basia at (203) 733-5739.