Last month, the Engineering News-Record (ENR) once again ranked Tighe & Bond among the top 500 design firms in the nation, as it has for more than 10 consecutive years. ENR ranks companies on the previous year’s gross revenue for providing design services to domestic and international markets. This year marked a substantial bump for the firm as it claimed the 250 spot in ENR’s 2013 report, which exceeds last year’s 272 ranking, and reflects the firm’s 2012 annual gross revenue of $41 million. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Ronald Maniscalco, P.E., recently joined Tighe & Bond, Inc. as a senior electrical engineer who will work out of the firm’s corporate office in Westfield, Massachusetts. He has more than 20 years of experience in electrical and telecommunication design for both public and private clients, which will benefit the firm’s expanding electrical and mechanical engineering team....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Jason Plourde, P.E., PTP recently joined Tighe & Bond, Inc. as a project manager who will work out of the firm’s Portsmouth, New Hampshire office. One of only eight certified Professional Transportation Planners (PTP) in New England, he has more than 17 years of experience in traffic studies and engineering, as well as transportation planning. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

The Westfield News profiled our work on the Granville Reservoir Dam in its April 1 issue....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

 
The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) presented Tighe & Bond with a Gold Award during its 2013 Engineering Excellence and Awards Gala on March 20, 2013 at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge. This annual competition recognizes recent engineering achievements that demonstrate the highest degree of merit, ingenuity, complexity, and client satisfaction.

This Gold Award recognizes innovative upgrades that Tighe & Bond recently completed for the Town of Sturbridge’s wastewater treatment facility (WWTF), which became the first full scale combined BioMag/CoMag wastewater system in the nation. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Last month, the State of Connecticut House of Representatives appointed Joseph Balskus, P.E., PTOE to the Connecticut Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Last month, James Webb joined Tighe & Bond as an environmental compliance specialist who will work primarily out of the firm’s Middletown, Connecticut office. A resident of Lebanon, Connecticut, he brings almost 10 years of experience providing New England clients with hazardous building materials inspections and oversight on abatement projects. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

 
Last month, the American Council of Engineering Companies of Connecticut (ACEC/CT) presented Tighe & Bond with a 2013 Engineering Excellence Award for a multi-million dollar upgrade at the Putnam Water Filtration Plant (WFP) in Greenwich, Connecticut. Presentation of the award took place at the 2013 ACEC/CT Engineering Excellence Awards Gala held on January 17th at the Hartford Club in Hartford, Connecticut....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

 
The only municipally owned and operated solar facility in Central Massachusetts will be complete early this year when permits and connections to National Grid are final. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Daniel Valentine, who works out of Tighe & Bond’s Middletown office, recently passed his PE exam to become a professional licensed engineer in the state of Connecticut. He joined the firm in 2008, after graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor of science in civil engineering....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

The United States General Services Administration (GSA) recently preapproved and awarded Tighe & Bond a five-year contract to provide federal clients with a range of environmental consulting and engineering support services. Known as a GSA Schedule Contract, this certification makes it substantially easier for federal clients to procure services from Tighe & Bond since it streamlines what is often a lengthy procurement process. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

This month, Tighe & Bond promoted ten employees who have demonstrated exceptional performance, client service and leadership. This includes four who have been promoted to Associate....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

    
Tighe & Bond employees once again pitched in to make the holidays a little brighter for 65 children and their families in the Westfield area. Colleen Corliss, Payroll Administrator in the firm’s Accounting Department, organized the annual employee gift giving event to benefit children in need through the Salvation Army’s Angel Program. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Last week, the Affiliated Chambers of Commerce of Greater Springfield (ACCGS) in Massachusetts recognized Tighe & Bond as a “Super 60” business at its Oct 26th luncheon at Chez Josef in Agawam. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Last Wednesday, Ian Catlow, a project manager at Tighe & Bond’s Worcester office, was recognized as a 2012 “40 Under Forty” winner by the Worcester Business Journal. The awards ceremony for the “40 Under Forty” winners took place at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Mass....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

In business for 101 years, Tighe & Bond, Inc. has always believed in supporting the community and giving back to the youth. Through the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Tighe & Bond, Inc. awarded its yearly scholarships to three local college students pursuing engineering degrees. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Tighe & Bond recently gained recognition for its contribution to the Housatonic Valley Association (HVA), which protects land and water throughout the entire 2,000-square-mile, tri-state Housatonic River valley....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Todd Kirton, a senior hydrogeologist who has worked with Tighe & Bond for 17 years, earned his Licensed Site Professional (LSP) credentials earlier this summer. A resident of Holyoke, he works primarily out of the firm’s Worcester, Massachusetts office....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

At its annual "Best Firms To Work For" summit this past July, ZweigWhite again recognized Tighe & Bond as one of the best civil engineering firms to work for in the nation. The New England-based firm was awarded the eighth place spot during the 2012 event in Seattle, Washington....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

In September 2011, ZweigWhite named Tighe & Bond No. 8 on its Best Firms to Work For list in the civil engineering category. This past July they profiled us in one of their publications.

This article was originally published in The Zweig Letter, www.thezweigletter.com, a ZweigWhite publication, www.zweigwhite.com....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Jeffrey Faulkner, P.E., joined Tighe & Bond last month as a project manager who will work primarily out of the firm’s growing Worcester, Massachusetts office. He brings more than 13 years of civil and environmental engineering experience to Tighe & Bond’s expanding water and wastewater markets. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Andrea Robitaille, P.E., recently joined Tighe & Bond, Inc. as a project engineer who brings eight years of professional experience to the firm’s expanding structural engineering team. She has provided bridge design and inspection, construction design, and transportation planning services for numerous clients and projects throughout New England. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Last night, Daniel Rukakoski, a senior environmental scientist at Tighe & Bond, was recognized as a 2012 40 Under Forty winner by Business West, the Business Journal of Western Massachusetts. The award ceremony for the 40 Under Forty winners took place at the Log Cabin in Holyoke....To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Last month, the City of Concord, NH awarded Tighe & Bond a contract for chemical process improvements at the city’s water treatment plant. Earlier this year, the City of Portsmouth, NH also awarded the firm a contract for water system engineering services in support of its master planning efforts. Both projects signify an expansion of Tighe & Bond’s water engineering services offered to New Hampshire municipalities, and complements the firm’s well established portfolio of water system projects throughout the Northeast. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

The Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers (CSCE) recently presented Tighe & Bond with a 2012 Transportation Award of Merit for traffic control signal system improvements in support of Yale-New Haven Hospital’s new Smilow Cancer Hospital. Presentation of the award took place at the Fifth Annual Achievement in Civil Engineering (ACE) Awards Program on May 8 at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington, Connecticut. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

Matthew Davison recently joined Tighe & Bond, Inc. as a Senior Environmental Scientist. Working out of the firm’s Middletown, Connecticut office, he offers clients environmental and wetland expertise that is fully integrated with the firm’s wide range of engineering and environmental projects throughout Connecticut. ...To read the rest of this item or to print click here

 

Tighe & Bond recently welcomed two new engineers into its growing Westfield, Massachusetts office.  Eric Fontaine, LEED AP has more than 10 years of mechanical engineering experience in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. Jean Christy, P.E. has 10 years of experience in the management, design, permitting and construction of civil engineering design projects....To read the rest of this item or to print click here