Parker Construction chosen for feature cover story with Builder/Architect Magazine
Parker Construction is pleased to announce that we have been chosen for the feature cover story in the April edition of Builder/Architect Magazine's Rhode Island edition. We are honored and delighted to be the featured builder in this issue. Our commitment to quality craftsmanship will be highlighted in the full-color spread, giving us an opportunity to showcase some of our work.
Builder/Architect is a sixty-nine year old publication read by Architects, Designers, Landscape Architects, and the building industry trades in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Click Here To View Our April Postcard (pdf)
Our second seminar for CEU credits was a success!
Our second seminar, "HVAC for Custom Homes," was a success (despite the excessive rain and ensuing floods). Mike Zimmerman from Allied Consulting Engineering enlightened attendees on the "art" of achieving premium thermal comfort in large living spaces.
Please join us for our FREE HVAC seminar and earn 1.5 CEU credits!
Presented by Parker Construction in conjunction with Allied Consulting Engineering Services.
HVAC Systems for Custom Homes
Forget everything you know about air distribution and HVAC systems! The rules for designing custom homes are not the same as the rules for spec houses. Get a glimpse into the "art" of achieving premium thermal comfort in large living spaces. We will discuss air distribution, convection cells, register grilles and diffuser sizing and placement, designing ductwork for noise, radiant floor heating and warming, as well as the energy efficiency and applicability of the available systems types including high efficiency "hydro-air," geothermal heat pumps and high efficiency VRV systems.
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Location: Parker Construction Co.
Agenda: 8:00 - 9:00am: Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00am: Workshop
RSVP: Scott Jabagjorian
Instructor
Mike Zimmerman, PE has over 30 years of experience in the design of mechanical systems for commercial, industrial and residential buildings, as well as construction project management, project development, design review, and value engineering. Mr. Zimmerman is a professional engineer, LEED accredited professional, a certified energy manager, and a certified plant engineer.
Reserve your spot today as space is limited. Attendees will be selected on a first come, first serve basis.
Our CSD Technicians do whatever it takes to make our clients happy.
It's a new year, and we're singing the praises of our Client Services Division Technicians. Our CSD guys are amazingly talented and can expertly complete any job laid before them.
In addition to regular warranty and house maintenance, our CSD team will do whatever it takes to make clients happy. As Master Technician Briston Bell says, "Our job is to get in, do the job, and get out so the client doesn't even know we were there."
CSD can create customized personalized touches for your home to make your life easier. One of CSD's past projects was to build a dog-owning client a customized "Poopy Box" in his yard. Complete with a dog bone shaped handle, this special waste receptacle is just for the dog's business. Not only did CSD build the box, but they come by monthly to collect and dispose of its contents.
CSD can take care all of your home needs, whether you need some customized woodworking, like pedestals to display your artwork, or a backyard children's playset put together, Parker Construction's CSD Technicians have the expertise!
Meet our CSD Technicians:
To schedule any maintenance with CSD and dispatch a CSD technician to your home, call (401) 427-8515.
In case of a home related emergency, you can also reach CSD 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at (401) 427-7911.
Our first seminar for CEU credit is a success!
This past Thursday we held our first seminar for CEU credits on Demystifying Geothermal Heat Pumps. We want to thank the architects and other interested parties for attending. We had great fun getting to know each other while learning important information about geothermal heat pumps.
Our special thanks to Mike Zimmerman from Allied Consulting Engineering Services for leading the seminar.
This seminar is just the first offering in a series of three seminars on HVAC systems. Please stay tuned to learn about the next installment coming in Spring 2010.
Join us for a FREE Geothermal Workshop!
Please join us for this FREE workshop presented by Parker Construction in conjunction with Allied Consulting Engineering Services.
Attendees will earn 1.5 CEU credits.
Demystifying Geothermal Heat Pumps
Design innovations in HVAC equipment are breathing new life into a technology that has been around for decades. Geothermal systems are revolutionizing the way both commercial and residential properties are heated and cooled. Due to rising oil and gas prices, traditional fuel fired equipment is becoming more costly to operate. Carbon monoxide emissions are also concerns with fuel burning equipment. In addition to significant savings in fuel cost, maintenance costs can be lowered by as much as 30% over “conventional” systems. A geothermal heat pump system is an environmentally friendly, low profile, low maintenance, energy efficient, cost effective alternative to fossil fuel burning systems with a positive cash flow starting on day one.
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009
Location: Parker Construction Co., Inc.
Agenda:
8:30am: Breakfast
9:00-11:00am: Workshop
RSVP Stacie Parillo
Instructor
Mike Zimmerman, PE has over 30 years of experience in the design of mechanical systems for commercial, industrial and residential buildings, as well as construction project management, project development, design review, and value engineering. Mr. Zimmerman is a professional engineer, LEED accredited professional, a certified energy manager, and a certified plant engineer.
Reserve your spot today! Space is limited. Attendees will be selected on a first come, first serve basis.
Check us out in Southern New England Home!
One of our favorite homes, a major historic renovation, was recently featured in Southern New England Home! Be sure to pick up a copy! In the meantime, please download the article here.
Click Here To View The Queen Anne Article (pdf)
Parker Construction renovation featured in Projo!
Our College Hill renovation was recently featured in The Providence Journal.
Parker Construction completes a stunning shingle style renovation
Parker Construction completes a stunning shingle style renovation in Southern Rhode Island.
This seasonal home is the perfect retreat from the city with an infinity edge pool and sweeping views of the ocean. Parker Construction transformed an older outdated home into a quintessential Rhode Island residence.
The first floor was completely renovated into a more open floor plan to allow for flow from the kitchen, to the dining room, sun room and living room. Magnificent millwork was completed in the kitchen and dining room to showcase the homeowner's china, and to surround the fireplaces. White dormer ceilings throughout the first floor add a simple elegance to every room. The floors are refinished red oak with a dark stain making a beautiful contrast with the white walls and marble of the kitchen.
A lower level was developed into more livable space by creating a kids' room, laundry room, exercise and weight room, bathroom and storage facility. The mechanicals were redone, including electrical, Audio and Visual, and plumbing. Closed circuit TV surveillance is installed throughout the house with monitors in the master suite and mudroom, with the ability to view remotely, so homeowners can check on their home from anywhere, anytime.
Additionally a 500 square foot shingle style cabana was built on the pool deck, where homeowner and guests can lounge poolside and enjoy the warmth from outdoor fireplaces.
Turn to Ten Turns to Parker Construction!
Tune into local NBC affiliate WJAR Channel 10 to see Parker Construction's progress on Stand Up for Animals' animal shelter. Tonight's news story will focus on the diffficulties pet owners face taking care of their pets in today's economy.
The need for more modern animal shelters, like the one PC is building in Westerly, is high as they are crucial in ensuring that Rhode Island's pets continue to be cared for with compassion and dignity. Please consider attending a fundraiser or donating SUFA; visit their website to learn more.
PC Welcomes: David Louttit
Parker Construction is pleased to welome a new Associate Project Manager, David Louttit. David recently relocated from Massachusetts to Rhode Island, and is excited to be working with PC. David says, "I have been involved in residential construction since I was a teenager and truly enjoy the work. As an APM with Parker Construction, I am excited to combine my degree in Civil Engineering and love of the trade."
Parker Construction in Top Ten!
Parker Construction is excited to announce that they are ranked in the Top Ten of General Contractors in Rhode Island by Providence Business News. Parker Construction is known for their reputation as a quality residential builder, and are thrilled at this very impressive ranking.
To see more, check out this week's issue of Providence Business News.
*please note: you must be a subscriber, or a purchaser of their Book of Lists to view the story online.
Raising the barn 12-19-08
Mike from New Energy Works and interior designer
Lane Myer at the barn raising.
To celebrate and thank our partners for the work we've been doing on a large timberframed barn in southern Rhode Island, we threw an old fashioned barn raising. We invited everyone who has worked on the project with us to join in as we set the final pieces of the timberframe, which as expertly carried out by New Energy Works.
There was a fantastic turn out despite the event coinciding with our first big snowfall of the year. Guests kept warm inside the structure, and just in case anyone forgot their winter coat, Parker Construction handed out commemorative Barn Raising sweatshirts.
Click Above For a GalleryTo see more of Raising the Barn, browse through the gallery.
PC employees meet Bobby Orr!
PT employees, Marcus Lee, Mike Houle, Adam Vanacore,
and Scott Herlihy among hockey legend Bobby Orr.Last Friday was an exciting night for 4 lucky Parker Construction employees – they got to meet Bobby Orr at a Providence Bruins game at the Dunkin' Donuts Center! Marcus Lee and Mike Houle from our Client Services Division as well as project managers Adam Vanacore and Scott Herlihy said was a thrill meeting the hockey great who was very gracious in signing all the memorabilia they brought.
Our thanks to Arnold Lumber for providing us this opportunity!
Historic renovation featured in Home and Garden Magazine
Our renovation in the Fox Point section of Providence's East Side was featured in a gorgeous feature in this season's issue of Rhode Island Monthly's Home and Garden Magazine. Check out the article to see how we helped transform a former bishop's residence (circa 1835) into a modern, stylish home, perfect for entertaining.
Click Here To View Pc History Major Article (pdf)
See photos of SUFA in The Westerly Sun
Photo by Ellen Connery
The Westerly Sun has been tracking the construction progress of Stand Up For Animals' new animal shelter. You can see the photos as a slideshow on their web site.
Our winter enclosures featured in This Old House Magazine
This Old House Magazine has caught on: "Somebody finally figured out how to control the weather." A recent issue reviews our innovative tenting so that workers can continue through out the winter months without losing a work day due to weather.
And what's better, "you no longer have to wait till spring's thaw to get your addition built." Instead homeowners get to enjoy their home in time for the summer season without interruption.
We won silver and bronze for Residential Renovation!
We are pleased to announce two of our projects have won silver and bronze in Rhode Island Monthly Magazine's 2008 Design Awards for Residential Renovation. We are very proud and privileged to have worked with the collaborators on both projects. Our congratulations to the other winners!
PC lends a hand for Habitat for Humanity
Click Above For a GalleryParker Construction put together a build team to assist Habitat for Humanity lay a floor system for a new home in Providence's south side. The Habitat coordinators were impressed with the amount of work we did in such a short period of time. Our 5 person team had accomplished in one Saturday what it had taken other teams to do in three. Everything was plumb, level and square.
Executive Vice President Tammy Borges was thrilled by the build day. "Our entire team was proud of our accomplishment but more so because it is for a good cause. For those of you who have not had the experience, we hope you will consider it."
Contact your local Habitat for Humanity office to learn more.
Photos in gallery by Colleen Fox Choiniere.
Kids
This month's Rhode Island Monthly Magazine features the children's rooms in one of our newly completed homes.
PC announces completion of oceanfront home
To be featured in the Provincetown’s Pilgrim Monument Historic House Tour, September 2008.
Parker Construction is celebrating the completion of a modern, oceanfront residence in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This 4,000 square foot home was a major historic renovation for the firm.
Parker Construction converted this multi-family home into a single family artist’s cottage. The historic colonial exterior was preserved, while the interior underwent a complete renovation into a modern, open space. Extraordinary millwork, stunning tile, and precious stones feature throughout the entire cottage. Exotic woods, such as Australian cypress were used, as well as recycled materials such as harvested antique old growth oak for the flooring.
To accommodate the client’s request for an open floor plan, Parker Construction installed a steel skeleton which was designed to meet building and structural requirements. A formidable challenge was integrating the historical exterior with the modern interior infrastructure while maintaining code compliance and the historical integrity of the home.
Parker Construction launches green building challenge
Parker Construction, the general contractor and construction management firm, has launched an internal green building challenge to educate their project managers and other personnel about new green building products, methods, and techniques.
This spring, a company analysis culled that employees were interested in continued education about the building industry and specifically about green technologies. The executive team responded with a challenge for all employees — interested personnel would be spilt into 5 teams of 5, and asked to present a proposed green residence. Of the five proposed projects one will be chosen to be built in the Great Woods neighborhood of East Greenwich.
The challenge has sparked a competitive atmosphere in the office while each team secretly devises their game plan, including site selection for the residence, design schematics, preliminary drawings and specifications as well as a proposed construction schedule. The teams will be competing for best overall design.
By fall, a winning green project will be selected, and construction on the green residence will begin before the end of 2008.
Recent promotions at Parker Construction.
Tammy Borges has been named executive vice president. Joining Parker Construction at its inception as senior project manager, she has exemplified the position. In addition to her current role, Tammy will now also be responsible for new administrative tasks, project management training and continued development of company policies and procedures.
James Kavanaugh has been named chief financial officer, overseeing all financial activities. During his 5 years with the firm, James has streamlined accounting processes and developed efficiency enhancing procedures. He holds a B.S. in Accountancy from Bentley College.
Brady Parker and Joseph Rego have been named associate project managers. Both have displayed a willingness to learn and an interest to take on more responsibility in the construction management process.