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Mr. Fedors began work at Godfrey Hoffman Associates in 2009.  His responsibilities as a project engineer include site layout, grading, drainage, sanitary sewer systems, utility layout, municipal permitting and review.

Prior to joining Godfrey Hoffman Associates, Mr. Fedors was a staff engineer for McFarland-Johnson Inc. working both out of their New London, CT and Concord, NH offices.  While in the New London, CT office Mr. Fedors worked on the design aspect of a variety of site/civil projects for clients including residential and commercial developers, Indian Tribes, private universities, and public schools.  Mr. Fedors worked as an environmental field engineer/inspector on projects, overseeing storm water management and erosion and sedimentation control during construction.  Mr. Fedors also assisted the surveying staff with projects including boundary, topographic, and construction survey.  While working in the Concord, NH office Mr. Fedors worked as an airport engineer.  His responsibilities included airport design, construction cost estimates, construction management, and local, state, and federal coordination for airport construction projects.

Mr. Fedors holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Connecticut.  While attending Uconn he worked for a consulting engineer/ land surveyor, Karl Acimovic PE & LS in Coventry, CT.  Mr. Fedors duties included working with the survey crew and earthen dam design and analysis.

Kyle enjoys spending his down time with close friends and family at his mansion in the Hamptons.

A little blurb about my nephew Jason, former GHA employee:

Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, March of Dimes and former GHA employee, Jason Skorupski, team up for a good cause. 

The March of Dimes contacted artist, Jason Skorupski at the Motorcycle Mania in Middletown about airbrushing the guitar for the foundation.

 
Jay is the owner and artist of XSPAINT Airbrush & Design, a custom paint/airbrush studio located in Wallingford, Ct. 

Guitar Center was gracious enough to donate a $1,600 Fender Stratocaster for the paint work. After several weeks and countless hours, the guitar is what you see now. The idea behind the paint is to display how something as beautiful as the March of Dimes and something as dirty and raw as rock music can live in harmony in one place.

The MoD commity only had two requests for the paint. The guitar had to represent the March of Dimes as a whole along with displaying the Bikers for Bikes logo. Jay took care of the rest. The Base coat color on the guitar is a Cadillac Pearl White which displays class and longevity. All the colors used for the MoD portion were cool tones (blues, purples, and a lot of pearl), which really brings out what the March of Dimes is really about, kids. But that was just the opposite with the other side, where deeper, darker warm tones were used to really capture the raw evil of what the rock industry is known to be. The Chrome Bull Skull with Pistons is actually Dee Snider’s tattoo (Lead singer from Twisted Sister and National spokes person of the March of Dimes) and Logo for the Bikers For Babies (another division of MoD).

  Dear friends,

 Here we are at the end of another year and in the midst of the holiday season.  This time of year gives us the opportunity to look back and reflect on the past 12 months.  I know that this year was tough on many of us with the current state of this country, but the good news is, if you are getting this newsletter, you made it through!!!!!

Although we sometimes seem to dwell on what is not so great, this time of year should inspire us to look back and focus on the positive.  Recent months have shown an improvement in many of our businesses, and although conditions aren’t perfect, they certainly are better. 

I wish each of you more of the same and good health. And may the New Year bring prosperity to you and your families.

God Bless. 

Your friends at Godfrey-Hoffman Associates

We are pleased to announce that Godfrey-Hoffman Associates has been chosen by Connecticut’s Attorneys and Law firms as one of “The Best.”

Check out our announcement in The Connecticut Law Tribune’s October 19 issue.

We are proud of this success!!!

Has it seemed like it’s raining every day?
Well it has.
Is it global warming?
I’ll leave that up to the experts. What we do know, is that lately the lending institutions have more requirements,  FEMA required Elevation Certificates. GHA has been an expert in the preparation of not only FEMA Elevation Certificates, we also have helped our clients with LOMA (Letter of Map Amendment)applications to further reduce insurance premiums.

Munger Construction recently completed a 26,000 s.f. addition for Steve Burt at his manufacturing facility in Hamden. Godfrey-Hoffman was instrumental in prepareing the initial survey and site planning as well as construction stakeout and As-Built mapping for this project. The big plus was that GHA was able to convince the town that by limiting the parking lot expansion strictly to what Burt Lab requires as opposed to the total the town regulations calls for was a win win for everyone. Our engineers were able to reduce the amount of asphalt, which saved the client lots of money and was also a savings to the environment by limiting the amount of impervious surface. GHA did have to prove to the town that the entire required parking was available if need be.

Mr. Gagnon began work at Godfrey Hoffman Associates in 2009.  His responsibilities include engineering design, site planning, project management and preparation of submittals to town, state and federal agencies and presentations of submittals to various agencies on behalf of his clients.

Before joining Godfrey-Hoffman Associates, Mr. Gagnon was a Senior Engineer with McFarland-Johnson Inc. located in New London, CT.  While with McFarland-Johnson he managed the site/civil component of projects for clients including Indian Tribes, private universities and secondary schools and private developers.  During his time at McFarland-Johnson Mr. Gagnon became well acquainted with many of the rules and regulation which are unique to the Telecommunication industry.  Mr. Gagnon was the lead engineer for multiple Telecommunication facilities throughout New England.  He participated in the design and permitting of various projects from the erection of new towers on raw land to the co-location of antennas on existing structures including buildings, smoke stacks or existing radio antenna towers.  His responsibilities there included engineering design, project management, and preparation of submittals to town, state and federal agencies and presentations of submittals to various agencies.

Before joining McFarland-Johnson, Mr. Gagnon worked for various engineering and surveying firms in New England and Oregon. As his experience increased so did his responsibilities.  He prides himself on fostering constructive relationships with both clients and the regulatory bodies responsible for reviewing his client’s projects. 

Mr. Gagnon holds a Professional Engineering license for the State of Connecticut.  He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Union College.