Tom Walsh is Executive Vice President of A.P. Construction Company, a division of The Ashforth Company. He is responsible for preconstruction services and business development. Tom is also a member of A.P. Construction’s executive committee which helps develop and implement new strategic initiatives for the company.
Tom has over 45 years of experience in the construction industry including construction management of high-tech facilities, high-rise office facilities and heavy industrial projects. He has a wealth of out-of-ground and specialty project experience and his projects range from medical centers to sports arenas, from corporate office buildings to courthouse facilities. Some of the more notable projects include Chelsea Piers Connecticut, the Arena at Harbor Yard, the White Plains Hospital Dickstein Cancer Center, Peconic Landing Assisted Living Facility on Long Island, 66 Summer Street Residential Tower, the Advanced Semiconductor Technology Center for IBM Corp., and a 600,000-square-foot Pharmaceutical Research Center for Bristol Myers Squibb. Other projects include the one-million-square-foot Ronald Dellums Federal Building and Courthouse in Oakland, CA and cogeneration power projects in Montana, Wyoming, New Jersey, Ohio and California.
Tom began his career as a Project Engineer at Fluor Engineer and Constructors in 1975 in Houston, Texas. In 1991, after acting in various capacities, he became President and General Manager of Walsh Construction Company (a Division of Guy F. Atkinson Company) and from 1998 to 2004 he served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Klewin Building Company, Inc., based in Klewin’s Fairfield, CT office.
Tom earned a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana and a Masters of Building Construction from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.