Suffolk Construction Company

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Suffolk Construction Company
Company typePrivate
IndustryConstruction
Founded1982 [1]
FounderEd Fish
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Key people
 John F. Fish CEO
Puneet Mahajan CFO
Jay Tangney General Counsel
Tim Stroud COO
Ralph Esposito National President
Katy O'Neil CMO
Revenue$6 billion (2024) [2]
Number of employees
3,000 (2024) [3]
Website www.suffolk.com

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, Texas and Virginia. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] The company is contracted for work in the aviation, commercial, education, healthcare, gaming, residential, mission critical, and government sectors. [11] [1] [12] Suffolk is the largest construction contractor in Massachusetts and one of the 20 largest in the country. [13] [11]

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History

Suffolk Construction Company was founded in 1982, by Edward Fish Sr. as an open-shop building contractor. [14] 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. [15]

By 1987, the company had grown its annual revenues from $300 thousand to $66 million. [16] In 1989, the company expanded its operations to South Florida. [14]

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. [14] In 1999, Suffolk reached a larger deal with the carpentry union in which it agreed to use union workers throughout the New England area. [17]

In 2009, Suffolk acquired William A. Berry & Son, a large New England contractor that specialized in biomedical and healthcare construction. [11] Suffolk acquired the San Diego–based ROEL Construction in January 2011 in an effort to expand its growth in California. [18] [19]

In January 2016, the company was selected as general contractor for the $1.7 billion Wynn Resorts casino in Everett, Massachusetts. [20] In September 2016, the company held a ceremony in which they used virtual reality technology to "break ground" on their new headquarters project. [21] Suffolk was chosen as the general contractor for the General Electric's Boston headquarters building in December 2016. [22]

Notable projects

Acknowledgments

In 2018, Forbes reported that the company is the 148th largest private company in the U.S. [43] That same year, Suffolk was ranked 23rd on Engineering News-Record's "Top 400 Contractors" list. [44]

In 2023, Suffolk was ranked the 133rd largest private company in the U.S. by Forbes, [45] and was ranked 24th on Engineering News-Record's list of top contractors. [46]

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