“As you are probably aware of by now, we received our final occupancy inspections for the Democracy Tower base building project in early August and the last of the College Board tenant floor occupancy inspections was received in early September. Both Boston Properties and the College Board have given high praise, are extremely grateful and are proud of the product that HITT and its subcontractors provided them in the successful completion of this “LEED Silver” project. While this marks the end of a string of successful base building projects for HITT with Boston Properties in the Reston Town Center, we can all be confident that we have exceeded Boston Properties expectations and that they recognize that even under the toughest circumstances that HITT & its subcontractors have a proven ability for providing a quality product, on time & within budget.HITT would like to take this opportunity to provide some specific comments with regards to Newmat USA Ltd’s performance on this project. With any project there are inevitably going to be some issues that need to be overcome and on the Democracy Tower it was eventually the Newmat ceiling that ended up being one with a lightning rod attached to it. Issues ranging from payment terms, light fixture layouts, switching requirements, limits switching and manufacturing and installation issues all plagued this single ceiling in the main lobby of the project. However, in the end we have a product that the Owner and Design Team have found acceptable and the continued efforts by Newmat USA to get it there are not forgotten. It is for these reasons that HITT Contracting, at Democracy Tower, would like to express our sincere appreciation to Newmat USA Ltd for its contributions to this successful project.We would like to recognize & especially commend the efforts of your management leaders: Eric Greco and Tim Greco, along with your field forces whose diligent work, focus on quality & other positive qualities have shown that Newmat USA Ltd is dedicated to their product and that together with HITT Contracting we have a relationship that works successfully. We hope that the feeling is mutual and we look forward to continuing our positive relationship on future projects. Sincerely,
David A Underwood, ”
Vice President of HITT
Democracy Tower Project Testimonial,
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