2008 June
DECCO Wins National Awards
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) honored DECCO, Inc. with two national Excellence in Construction Awards at its June conference in Washington, D.C. The Wyeth Suite II project received a coveted Eagle Award; Nuvera Fuel Cells’ Relocation Project won a Pyramid. Both jobs were featured in the 2008 Winter issue of Building Massachusetts after winning Eagle awards from ABC’s Boston Chapter in November. Read about them here:

Nuvera Fuel Cells project (.pdf) required sophisticated process piping within a tight utility chase. Judges' Comments: "DECCO used 3D modeling techniques to coordinate the utility routing, precise welding and bending, and the need for future expansion.
 
Wyeth BioPharma.pdf project (.pdf) involved building onsite skids to demanding requirements. Judges' Comments: "Nobody builds skids onsite, without drawings, sandwiched between operating suites, with FDA validation such that the new components can be sequentially started and does it with .97 productivity. But DECCO did."

2008 March
DECCO Apprentice Wins Gold at National Crafts Champtionships
Precision, skill, knowledge, and efficiency in pipefitting won the gold for Mike Basch at this year’s National Craft Championships at the Associated Builders and Contractors’ National Convention in Puerto Rico. Basch, a 4th year pipefitter apprentice from DECCO, Inc. was one of 136 tradesmen and women who competed for the coveted award.

The Greater Lowell Tech (Andover MA) graduate has been employed at DECCO since 2004. In addition to on-site experience and training at ABC’s Gould Institute pipefitting program, Basch’s preparation for the event included months of special training and study from DECCO’s past-participants in the event- Mark Perior (National silver medal), Ryan Clancy (National gold medal), and Tim Pellerin (MA State Champion).

The annual two-day competition is open to apprentices from the more than 24,000 member companies of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) in specialties including carpentry, welding, sheet metal, electrical, and HVAC. The national organization is dedicated to promoting free enterprise in the construction industry.

DECCO, a Brookline NH-based company, is one of New England’s premier merit shop mechanical contractors, specializing in critical process and power systems for multiple industries, including biopharm and semiconductor.

News Archives
2007 May/June
Pharmaceutical Engineering:
Testing, Commissioning, Qualification and Acceptance of Biopharmaceutical Skid Systems
May/June, 2007, Vol 27, No 3 by Roy F. Greenwald, President of DECCO, Inc. and Thys Smit
This article was a finalist for that publication’s 2007 Article of the Year.

2007 May
Press Release: DECCO, INC. RECOGNIZED FOR SAFETY EXCELLENCE BY ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS
Brookline-based company awarded STEP Award for Record on Safety

2007 March
Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology
Precision skills training is vital to technology workforce

2007 March 23-29
Boston Business Journal
The BBJ reports on the growing Life Science industry in Massachusetts, and on our Partner Company, DENS Facility Services, a facilities management provider for the industry.
Visit www.densfs.com.

2006 December
Kevin Shield elected DECCO Vice President

2006 November
CONSTRUCTION EXECUTIVE
Manufacturing responds to pharmaceutical

2006 June 20
DECCO RECEIVES INDUSTRY HONOR
National Award Recognizes Safety Excellence

March 2008. DECCO's
Mike Basch won the
gold at National Craft Championships.