True, summer may have recently ended and the kids have been back to school for more than a month. Yet summer when the kids will be out of school again is on our minds at South Coast. For general contractors who serve the education sector, like South Coast, summer is when most renovations and improvements take place. That’s something many colleges, universities and secondary schools had to put on...

The term ‘street smart’ implies a lot of things. In the construction industry, it involves a few things. Experience and having seen similar issues before and knowing how to address those things ahead of time. It also implies a knowledge of the landscape and getting an accurate read on the players, AKA the people involved in any given project. A recent South Coast Improvement Company (SCIC)...

We’re not quite there but (fingers crossed) the Pandemic of 2020-21 that our grandchildren will read about in school some day is almost in the rearview mirror. Never in my wildest imagination did I think, back in March of ’20 that COVID would do what it did. Coupled with the pandemic, I saw things politically and socially that I also never thought I would see in the United States of America. I...

It's become a real expertise to know who the actual experts are. That’s true in our industry. Particularly as it pertains to current conditions and the future of skilled nursing and nursing home facilities. Lisa Cini is one of our experts. Her company, Mosaic Design Studio, is the nation’s leading provider of design services for senior living, long-term care and healthcare institutions. She’s...

South Coast Improvement Company (SCIC), a design-build general contractor serving New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, announced its full support for the upcoming National Women in Construction Week. The annual recognition event, held by The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), takes place this year during the week of March 7-13. “We applaud the recognition week NAWIC holds...

We all have our sounding boards. Mine is Bill Hughes, former president of Shawmut Construction. It was during a recent conversation where I got on a bit of a roll about South Coast and our clients. You could say it turned into my own state of the nation address. It started with me mentioning how fortunate we were that we had some of the largest providers of senior living as longtime clients....

Why not both? This month people are raving about the speed at which pharmaceutical companies developed a vaccine for the coronavirus. The more cynical among us might be thinking corners were cut to get this vaccine to market less than a year since the first reported case in the U.S. Not here. You see, we have developed our own reputation for doing high quality work with a reasonably quick...

During tough times, you would hope people would be even more grateful for the people and things in their lives. Particularly if you and yours are healthy and relatively unscathed from the pandemic. Here at South Coast Improvement, we are grateful for that if nothing else. Being grateful also means being even more thankful for the good things that occur. The recent renovation of the iconic Hood...

New England Patriots QB Cam Newton missed the recent game against the Chiefs due to Covid. Remarkably, he was the only one on the team who tested positive after three games against opposing teams. Even more remarkable has been the NHL and NBA seasons where players lived in a “bubble” for three months. This controlled approach to quarantining has reaped very good results, and both leagues have...

We talk a lot about relationships at South Coast. In fact, Bill Hughes (former President of Shawmut and my muse over the past six years) took our relationship philosophy to a new level known. As Bill sees it, “there are relationships and then there are partnerships.” Everyone throws around the word partnership. Bill, however, has a standard measure of a partnership that’s become ours. Here’s how...