Our Approach
Our Approach
We have always treated our clients as partners, and have built client, partner, subcontractor, and vendor relationships spanning decades. Our expertise allows us to span from traditional civil infrastructure to vertical construction to environmental exploration
programs to highly technical in-situ treatment systems.
Our Story
Meet the Team
Founded and managed by engineers. Do you know why your contractor is so difficult to deal with?
We don't either - give us a call to let us learn more about your project!
Charles R. Paonessa
Our president Charles Paonessa has operated Dura Construction and its predecessors since 1972, and is an acknowledged authority on underground utilities throughout Connecticut. He holds Connecticut's plumbing and piping limited contractor and sub-surface sewer installers' licenses, and has experience in all types of water, wastewater/sewer, and stormwater piping throughout the state.
He is the President of the Reconnstruction Center, a New Britain, CT non-profit facilitating building material reuse, and has successfully re-development brownfields sites through the CT Transfer Act, reviving a dormant heating oil transfer station into viable industrial property. He received an associate degree in Civil Engineering from Hartford State Technical College.
Michael E. Paonessa, PE (MA, ME)
After growing up on Dura's sites, Michael worked for than 20 years in environmental remedial design, construction management and quality control/assurance (CQA). He has managed numerous environmental due diligence investigation programs and designed and provided field oversight for a wide variety of remedial construction as well as site utility and building construction.
He was the onsite construction manager for remedial construction/closure at the 100-acre Sutton Brook NPL site in Tewksbury, MA. The project included construction of a groundwater extraction system, 40-acres of geosynthetic landfill cap, and a 1700-ft subsurface soil-bentonite groundwater cutoff wall installed using slurry trenching, as well as excavation and relocation of debris piles and impacted sediment in an on-site brook and wetlands replication and reconstruction. The project took 18 months, averaged 45 craft personnel per day for a total of 80,000 man-hours; 135,000 CY of waste excavated and relocated, and 466,000 tons of soil materials were imported in 15,500 truck trips. No lost time injuries occurred.
He currently manages the firm’s civil and environmental construction while maintaining a consulting practice for select clients.
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