Bold Strategies and New Alliances

ABC Washington's chairman Brian Mattingly vows to fight union-only project labor agreements; and SMPS holds its first Mid-Atlantic regional conference.

Brian Mattingly, of Largo, Md.-based Goldin & Stafford, became the Associated Builders and Contractors, Metropolitan Washington Chapter 2006 chairman of the board. Mattingly promised to continue fighting union-only project labor agreemtns on Washington, D.C.'s new baseball stadium, as well as increase apprenticeship programs and political activism. Attending the swearing-in ceremony held earlier this year, back row, left to right, are: Mattingly; chairman-elect Deborah Murphy of Standard Supplies; director Paul Barry, Facchina Construction Co.; director Bridget Burns, Century Fence Construction; director Thomas Capps, Harkins Builders; director Rick Forrester, Forrester Construction Company; director Gregory Harraka, Coakley & Williams Construction; director Clint Heine, Electrical General Corporation; director R. Kevin Lapanne, HITT Contracting; and director James Payne, Aggregate Industries. In the front row, left to right, are: vice chairman Steven Donohoe of Donohoe Construction Co.; treasurer D. Scott Vossler of Centex Construction; director Eileen Rodgers, Rodgers Construction Management Associates; director George Taylor, Hess Mechanical/Comfort Systems USA; secretary George Nash of Siena Corporation; and past chairman Adam Prill of Prill Construction Group. Not pictured are financial advisor, ex-officio, Timothy Cummins of Aronson & Company; director John Barron, Manhattan Construction Co.; director Michael Burlas, Miller & Long Co.; and director Aldo Pasquariello, Insurance Associates.