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Metro Walls would like to thank all who participated in their “First Annual Rally for a Cause,” a motorcycle ride for charity! This year’s beneficiary was The National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. With “Mike’s Match,” $1,585 was raised for this cause. The trip started at Metro’s home base of Manchester and ended at the well-known Broken Spoke Saloon in Laconia, NH. Motorcycle enthusiasts from Metro Walls, Exterior Designs, Atlantic Prefab, and Patriot Building Systems all attended. “This year we had 25 riders and our goal is to grow this tradition. This event was both fun and rewarding. It was a chance to spend time with employees and friends while giving to a cause that matters,” said Mike Dion of Metro Walls. Stay tuned for details on Metro’s next charity ride! Pancreatic Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases and takes lives within months of diagnosis. For more information on how you can help, visit: https://www.npcf.us/

Even in these uncertain times, Metro Walls is doing what they can to support the NH Heart Association! Last year, the Metro team came in as the #1 fundraisers for this walk! Some of our teammates (Bryan Hussey and Amber Jackson) even walked away with some pretty impressive awards! We are super grateful for your support! This year, our company has made a $10,000 gift to this organization. That’s a sweet number to start off with! Some victims of Covid-19 are suffering strokes right now and the AHA needs your support more than ever. This 2020 walk will be virtual, but still a lot of fun! Please consider donating or walking yourself to help this worthy organization. DONATE HERE: http://www2.heart.org/goto/metrowallsforheart

The community of Bath, Maine has committed some serious resources into building a brand-new high school, slated to open in December of this year. Morse High School in Bath sits on a new location at 34 Wing Farm Parkway. Built for the students of Bath and seven other towns, this school will be well-equipped for many uses. Plans include a two-tiered auditorium, a state-of-the-art vocational school that will serve several towns, a cosmetology division, a culinary division with dining room, two gyms, and more! Harvey Construction has been awarded the contract for this project. Jim Klemarczyk, the Superintendent, says, “This job has had some challenges as they all do, but I’d consider this one a pretty smooth ride”. As previously reported, this land ended up coming with the burden of large clay mass. This unexpected snag came with a price tag of $500,000. Fortunately, funds were available for the unexpected and neither the budget or the construction start time was impacted. Klemarczyk says the biggest challenge to maintaining the timeline is having the labor needed to meet deadlines. He credits the talents and manpower of Metro Walls for keeping this job on track. “Everyone is just so busy in this industry and a lot of my challenges involve finding creative ways to work around other team’s packed work schedules. The team that I can always count on is Metro. Their guys are hard workers and they always deliver. In my forty years in this business, Metro Walls is the best drywall company I’ve worked with”, says Klemarczyk on how he stays on schedule. This project has been the largest for Metro Walls’ Maine division. Leading the charge from Portland is General Manager, Don Lessard. Lessard, a native of Maine, has been working in the industry for over thirty years. His responsibilities include client relations, project management and office administration. In addition to these, he spends a lot of his time visiting job sites throughout Maine and supporting his staff in the field. Metro Walls’ Maine Division has grown tremendously the past few years. Lessard is proud of the nearly sixty workers he manages in Maine. According to both Lessard and Klemarczyk, Metro provided some standout employees on the Morse School project. “Both Casey and Dana have proven we can handle any size project in Maine. Their hard work, skill level, and ingenuity has not gone unnoticed by Metro or Harvey Construction”, says Lessard. With leadership and collaboration from teams like Harvey Construction, Lavallee Brensinger Architects, and Crooker Construction, this school is sure to be gorgeous, on time and on budget. These students will be thrilled to call the Morse High School their new home for years to come.

This past Saturday evening we kicked off the Holiday season with our annual holiday party. Guests included teams from Metro Walls, Exterior Designs, Atlantic Prefab and Patriot Building Systems. All enjoyed dinner, drinks, dancing, and socializing at the Doubletree Hilton in Manchester.

We’re so happy to donate $10,000 to the NH Food Bank this holiday season. We have supported this organization for many years and we are grateful for all they do to help our community! With this money, approximately 20,000 meals will be served to those who need them. Happy Holidays! https://www.nhfoodbank.org/

Metro Walls was excited to be a Platinum Sponsor for the NH Construction Career Days job fair last month! Thanks to the NHCCD for hosting over 1,500 high school students from across the state! Over two days we were able to connect with kids interested in the trades and we had a blast! To see our job fair video, click here!

We are so happy to report that our team "Hard Hat Heroes" came in as the #1 fundraisers for the 2019 NH Heart Walk! With a give of over $24,000, we love knowing that we are helping kids live healthier lives across NH! Congratulations to Amber Jackson and Bryan Hussey who were two of the top individual fundraisers for this event!

Take a look inside our APEX Center of New England project in Marlborough, MA for Republic Building. This entertainment complex will be home to a Go Kart Racing Track, Bumper Cars, Bowling Lanes, Trampoline Room, Planet Fitness, Virtual Reality company, and much more!!! Our sister company Atlantic Prefab constructed and installed StoPanel Classic CI Panels to wrap the entire exterior of the building and provided a massive, custom prefabricated tire to hang from the ceiling as go carts race by underneath.

Last night Metro Walls joined 21 teams made up of over 100 bowlers for the ABC Young Professionals Group's 3rd annual charity bowling tournament. Teams of 5 challenged fellow associate members munched on pizza and wings while competing for the coveted Best Dressed, Best Team, and Worst Team trophies. This year's tournament raised over $2,500 to benefit Granite United Way with an additional $500 raised in raffle ticket sales!

DOVER — It’s going to be close, but the new Dover High School and Career Technical Center remains on schedule to open to students at the beginning of the next school year. The $87.4 million project also remains on budget, said Deputy Mayor Bob Carrier who chairs the Joint Building Committee overseeing the project. On Wednesday afternoon as part of the JBC meeting, the committee toured the new building under construction. The exterior brickwork is complete, and the roof is on. Some of the interior electrical wiring and plumbing have been installed along with some drywall. Some areas have also been painted or are getting prepped for painting. The windows, of which the new school will have many, have all been delivered. Many have been installed and many other windows still need to be. PC Construction’s project manager Scott Blair said the project would be complete for Aug. 28, the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year. PC Construction is the general contractor the city selected to build the new school. The project began in July 2016. The building is a trapezium or irregular quadrilateral with an outdoor courtyard in the middle. The high school and career technical center classrooms are intermixed together and not separated as at the current high school. “I love the incorporation of career tech into the general curriculum classrooms,” said Amanda Russell, who is on the JBC and chairs the School Board. She believes the school’s new design will entice more students to learn and be certified in a trade at the school while at the same time have the credits needed to attend a four-year college. The main entrance of the school is the entry to the large auditorium as well as to the “Town Square” on the lower level of the building accessed by stairs near the entrance. The Town Square is a community space for the students during the school day and the public during events in the gym and auditorium. The Town Square is open-aired to the first floor where the CTC’s culinary arts and cosmetology programs will be. The gym and the connecting practice gym will have numerous skylights to allow in natural light. There will also be skylights throughout the school along lots of windows to let sunlight into the building, a change from the current high school. Russell estimated around 48 percent of the current classrooms have no natural light. “It’s incredible,” Russell said of the new school after the tour. The project has gone to plan for the most part, Carrier said. One of the more challenging and costly aspects of the job occurred when workers hit ledge during excavation for some foundation work about four months ago. As part of initial site work due diligence, Carrier said there were test borings done in search of ledge. The borings were done every 25 to 30 feet, he said. However, in between a section of test holes, ledge was found that had to be blasted and chipped away, Carrier said. The city has set aside $3 million of the project for contingency issues, and more than half of the contingency still remains with most of the unknowns out of the way, Carrier said. One major challenge to getting ready for the school to open on time is moving classroom equipment from the current high school into the new school. That move will begin soon after the conclusion of the current school year. After the new school opens in August, the old school will be demolished. The contractor is also scheduled to do road and field work on the school grounds. The entirety of the project is slated for completion in January 2019

Sunday, Metro Walls was proud to jump on the bus joining twenty-five other local businesses for the conclusion of Granite United Ways 2016 “Get on the Bus” Stebbins Family Challenge, led by PROCON owners, Sally and Mark Stebbins. Participants and their guests boarded a bus to Gillette Stadium for a New England Patriots game against the Carolina Panthers. Metro Walls would like to congratulate PROCON, the participating companies, Granite United Way, and the Stebbins family for the success in this years "Get on the Bus" Challenge which raised $100,000!

Metro Walls, Inc., provider of full-service commercial framing and drywall, announced today that the Dion Family has proudly shown their support with a gift of $10,000 to Easterseals N.H as they celebrate their 80th anniversary. The donation will assist in their Capital Campaign to raise funds for the renovations at the newly named Easterseals NH John A. Samefeld Center on Auburn Street in Manchester. “As a member of the New Hampshire community for more than 80 years, we are extremely grateful for the support we have received along the way from businesses and individuals who have joined us in our critical work of serving people with disabilities or special needs,” said Easterseals NH President & CEO Larry Gammon. “Our friends at Metro Walls have truly shown the importance of philanthropy by joining us in our renovation efforts to create a facility to meet the needs of people across the Granite State for years to come.” The Auburn Street facility has been home to children, adult, and senior services for over 35 years. To date, Easterseals N.H. has raised $1.7 million of the needed $2.5 million from local companies and individuals. The first phase of renovations is planned to begin in October with projects completion set for the summer of 2018. For more information regarding Easterseals N.H. and how you can get involved in their organization please visit www.easterseals.com.