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Award Winning South Coast Improvement Company to Exhibit at Mass-ALFA Conference and Trade Show

South Coast Improvement Company, one of the largest design, construction and management companies in the Northeast, will be featured as an exhibitor at the Massachusetts Assisted Living Facilities Association (Mass-ALFA) Conference and Trade Show on October 25, 2012 at the DCU Center, located at 50 Foster Street in Worcester.

Over the course of the day, South Coast Improvement will be conducting a brief survey among attendees regarding construction and renovation in assisted living facilities and will hold a drawing for an iPad for all survey participants.
South Coast Improvement has recently been awarded “Best in Class” for the renovation and construction of a Life Guidance® Memory Care Neighborhood at Atria Bay Spring Village in Barrington, RI.

The company has successfully completed a large number of construction and renovation projects in occupied and operational environments such as assisted living facilities. Their portfolio of healthcare and senior occupied renovation projects includes numerous projects for Atria, Benchmark, Revera and Welch Health Care & Retirement Group, to name a few. They are experts in the construction of Specialized Therapy and Rehabilitation (STAR) units at assisted living facilities. STAR units often include beautiful resident rooms, a special rehabilitation gym, a spa and a café to better cater to patients who are in the rehab program with concierge level care and advanced amenities.

ICRA Matrix Utilized in Sensitive Environments

South Coast Improvement utilizes Special Building Practices and Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) Matrix of Precautions for Construction and Renovation to ensure the comfort and safety of residents and patients who occupy assisted living spaces that are being renovated. Their experience, high standards of compliance, overall quality and their ability to complete projects on time and on budget, sets them apart from their competitors.

About Mass-ALFA

The Massachusetts Assisted Living Facilities Association (Mass-ALFA) is a non-profit association dedicated to professionally operated assisted living residences in Massachusetts that provide housing and services for individuals with varied needs and income levels. Mass-ALFA has hundreds of members and serves as the voice of assisted living in Massachusetts, providing information, education and advocacy. For more information, visit http://www.massalfa.org.

About South Coast Improvement Company

South Coast Improvement Company offers an extensive range of design, construction and construction management services regionally in the Northeast and across the U.S. With decades of experience, the company is renowned for high quality, efficiency and high standards of compliance, which sets them apart from their competitors. They are engaged in projects across sectors that include healthcare, institutional, commercial, hospitality and planned communities/residential. The company offers pre-construction analysis, construction management, general contracting, design/build services, capital improvement, building envelope improvements and interior renovations.

South Coast Improvement maintains memberships and professional affiliations with the

Assisted Living Facility Association, the American Society of Interior Designers, the International Facility Managers Association, the Community Associations Institute, as well as International Real Estate Managers and the Greater New Bedford Chamber of Commerce.

South Coast Improvement is headquartered at 208 Wareham Road in Marion, MA 02738.

For more information, contact (508) 748-6545 or visit the website at www.southcoastimprovement.com

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South Coast Improvement Company Raises $5K in First Annual Tri-Town Four Families Cancer Benefit

Cancer is one of those devastating diseases that we all seem too powerless to do anything about, yet it touches all of our lives in some way. Everyone has a family member, friend or someone they know with this terrible disease. The VP of a Marion, MA based design, construction and management company decided that maybe he could help some of the families in his community.

As Tom Quinlan President of South Coast Improvement Company recalled, “One morning my brother Henry, who is our VP and also the Head Football Coach at Old Rochester High School, told me he personally knew of four families in the Tri-Town area that had a member currently undergoing treatment for cancer. Henry wanted to do something to help out in some small way. That was the genesis of the Tri-Town Four Families Cancer Benefit – my brother wanted to help.”

From there Michelle Holmen, Head Administrator at the South Coast Improvement Company organized the event. Jerry Garcia, General Manager of The Kittansett Club in Marion was contacted to host the benefit for the families and immediately jumped on board and offered up the facility at no charge. Holmen got the word out through word of mouth and print advertising. The Old Rochester Bulldog High School Football Community rallied behind it and vendors of South Coast Improvement Company also stepped up to the plate to support the company’s efforts.

The Tri-Town Four Families Cancer Benefit was held last Thursday night at The Kittansett Club and was a huge success. There was live music by Rebecca Correia from Rochester and Jason Kelley from Dartmouth, great food and a roomful of people looking to help. The benefit raised more than $5,000, all of which helps support four families touched by cancer in the community. South Coast Improvement Company covered the cost of the event.

“I have to give a heartfelt thanks to Michelle Holmen in our office as without her efforts, this never would have happened. Also Kristen Kaminski, John Allessandrini, Dan Talbot, Ethan Sherman and John LaChapelle (employees at South Coast Improvement) who all helped. Sarah Murphy (sister to Tom and Henry) was also a big help in getting this off the ground. Of course, without Henry to spurn us to action, nothing happens. It just feels good to get together with people in a community that cares and to raise funds for a good cause,” says Tom Quinlan.

According to Henry Quinlan, “My community is important to my family. While I know I can’t do much to alleviate the pain that cancer causes, I can do something. We were able to raise awareness as well as some money. Based on the outpouring of support this year, we plan on making the Tri-Town Four Families Cancer Benefit an annual event.”

To make a donation to Tri-Town Four Families Cancer Benefit, visit the website at http://tri-townsfourfamilies.com. Check donations may be made out to “Bulldog Community” and mailed to the attention of Michelle Holmen at South Coast Improvement Company, 208 Wareham Road, Marion, MA 02738.

About South Coast Improvement Company

South Coast Improvement Company offers an extensive range of design, construction and construction management services regionally in the Northeast and across the U.S. With decades of experience, the company is renowned for high quality, efficiency and high standards of compliance, which sets them apart from their competitors. They are engaged in projects across sectors that include healthcare, institutional, commercial, hospitality and planned communities/residential. The company offers pre-construction analysis, construction management, general contracting, design/build services, capital improvement, building envelope improvements and interior renovations.

South Coast Improvement maintains memberships and professional affiliations with the Assisted Living Facility Association, the American Society of Interior Designers, the International Facility Managers Association, the Community Associations Institute, as well as International Real Estate Managers and the Greater New Bedford Chamber of Commerce. South Coast Improvement is headquartered at 208 Wareham Road in Marion, MA 02738.

For more information, contact (508) 748-6545; email Information@southcoastimprovement.com or visit the website at www.southcoastimprovement.com

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South Coast Improvement Company Appoints Sean J. Whalen as Vice President of Business Development

Sean J. Whalen

South Coast Improvement Company, based in Marion, MA, one of the largest providers of design/build, construction and renovation services in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states,

has recently named Sean J. Whalen, a Marblehead resident, as Vice President of Business Development.

In his new role at South Coast Improvement, Mr. Whalen’s responsibilities will include building relationships and strategic alliances, channel development, expanding the company’s sales markets and overseeing the sales team.

Mr. Whalen has more than 22 years of business development experience working for large public and private corporations as well as start-ups. He has held a number of senior positions over the years, most recently, he served as a Senior Account Executive at CGL Electronic Security, Inc. of Norwood. Prior to that, Mr. Whalen was Commercial Sales Director at DriveABLE and Director of Sales, Eastern USA at Magtec Products, Inc. One of Mr. Whalen’s most notable achievements while serving as Director National Accounts/OEM at LoJack Corporation was development of a new channel of distribution for the company which focused on commercial construction equipment, national accounts and transportation. He successfully implemented OEM installations and secured the company‘s single largest order in history, $1.5 million.

Mr. Whalen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Boston College. As the father of five sons, one with Type 1 Diabetes, Mr. Whalen volunteers and also serves as a mentor at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He and his wife Sandra strive to raise awareness and funds for a cure through the Promise to Remember Me campaign and the annual Walk to Cure Diabetes Boston.

About South Coast Improvement

South Coast Improvement offers an extensive range of design, construction and construction management services regionally in the Northeast and across the U.S. With decades of experience, the company is renowned for high quality, efficiency and high standards of compliance which sets them apart from their competitors. They are are engaged in projects across sectors that include healthcare, institutional, commercial, hospitality and planned communities/residential. The company offers pre-construction analysis, construction management, general contracting, design/build services, capital improvement, building envelope improvements and interior renovations.

South Coast Improvement maintains memberships and professional affiliations with the

Assisted Living Facility Association, the American Society of Interior Designers, the International Facility Managers Association, the Community Associations Institute, as well as International Real Estate Managers and the Greater New Bedford Chamber of Commerce.

South Coast Improvement is headquartered at 208 Wareham Road in Marion, MA 02738.

For more information, contact 888-448-8887; email Information@southcoastimprovement.com or visit the website at www.southcoastimprovement.com

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South Coast Improvement Company adds Memory Care Apartments at Atria Bay Spring

South Coast Improvement Company, based in Marion, MA, one of the largest providers of construction and renovation services to senior living and healthcare facilities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, recently completed construction of the Life Guidance® Memory Care Neighborhood at Atria Bay Spring Village in West Barrington, RI.

South Coast Improvement completed the conversion of Atria Bay Spring’s traditional assisted living space into a memory care apartments in 24 months.

The newly created Life Guidance® Memory Care Neighborhood’s grand opening was held on May 17th.

South Coast Improvement’s President, Tom Quinlan explained the project, “Atria came to us with an idea to create more memory care units to meet increasing demand within their assisted living facility. We took the concept and worked with Atria providing pre-construction services including preliminary design and budgets. The project was innovative in its use of existing space. The challenge was to meet the regulations for a memory care unit in terms of space and usage while maintaining a construction budget that made the project feasible.”

South Coast Improvement was granted approval in late 2011 and was the General Contractor on the project. South Coast Improvement has worked with Atria on dozens of projects throughout the Northeast, however this project had its unique challenges.

“All of these types of projects have their challenges as renovations in occupied spaces with special needs residents are extremely complicated,” Henry Quinlan, Executive VP at South Coast Improvement noted. “We had a particularly tight time line for completion on this project. We had to manage the process very efficiently and we succeeded in meeting the expectations of all parties.”

Occupied and Operational Environments are South Coast Improvement’s Niche

South Coast Improvement are the experts in complex renovation projects within occupied and operational environments. The company provides new construction, full renovations, capital improvements, building envelope improvements and interior renovations.

Their portfolio of healthcare and senior occupied renovation projects includes numerous projects for Atria, Benchmark and Welch Health Care & Retirement Group, to name a few. They have just completed their 23rd major renovation for Revera Health.

South Coast Improvement utilizes Special Building Practices to ensure the comfort and safety of special needs residents and patients who occupy the spaces that are being renovated. Their experience, high standards of compliance, overall quality and their ability to complete projects on time and on budget, sets them apart from their competitors.

About South Coast Improvement

South Coast Improvement offers an extensive range of design, construction and construction management services regionally in the Northeast and across the U.S. With decades of experience, the company is renowned for high quality, efficiency and high standards of compliance which sets them apart from their competitors. They are are engaged in projects across sectors that include healthcare, institutional, commercial, hospitality and planned communities/residential. The company offers pre-construction analysis, construction management, general contracting, design/build services, capital improvement, building envelope improvements and interior renovations.

South Coast Improvement maintains memberships and professional affiliations with the

Assisted Living Facility Association, the American Society of Interior Designers, the International Facility Managers Association, the Community Associations Institute, as well as International Real Estate Managers and the Greater New Bedford Chamber of Commerce.

South Coast Improvement is headquartered at 208 Wareham Road in Marion, MA 02738.

For more information, contact 888-448-8887; email Information@southcoastimprovement.com or visit the website at www.southcoastimprovement.com

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