{"id":7030,"date":"2017-05-09T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:41:32","slug":"union-paving-constructions-tomasello-named-construction-engineer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/union-paving-constructions-tomasello-named-construction-engineer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Paving &#038; Construction\u2019s Tomasello Named Construction Engineer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"styles_HTMLContent__LDG2k\">\n<p>MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J. \u2013 Union Paving and Construction (UPC) of Mountainside is thrilled to announce that Louis Tomasello, Jr., P.E. has been named Construction Engineer of the Year by the New Jersey Professional Engineers in Construction (NJPEC). Mr. Tomasello received the award at the 43rd Annual Bonhag Awards Dinner held on April 21 at the Grand Marquis in Old Bridge, N.J.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"styles_HTMLContent__LDG2k\">\n<p>\u201cOne of Lou\u2019s first assignments at UPC was the demolition of the Route 21 viaduct over Amtrak\u2019s Northeast Corridor. Lou played a pivotal role in the approval of the complex demolition plan as well as seeing the work through. Since joining us, Lou has been an essential part of every one of our projects,\u201d said UPC President Gerard Burdi.<\/p>\n<p>Tomasello also played a pivotal role in UPC\u2019s work on the Garden State Parkway\/Route 78 West access project; reconstruction of the New Jersey Turnpike project between Interchanges 6 and 9, the largest project ever undertaken in the history of the NJ Turnpike Authority; and the critical Route 35 reconstruction after Hurricane Sandy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"styles_HTMLContent__LDG2k\">\n<p>\u201cLou is always looking to improve the Engineering design on any project he is involved in. By performing crucial Value Engineering, he is able to get projects done quicker and most cost-effective, saving both the company and the public money,\u201d said UPC CFO Scott Woodfield.<\/p>\n<p>Tomasello graduated from Ohio University and became a licensed Professional Engineer in 1999. He joined Union Paving and Construction in 2002 where he currently serves as the firm\u2019s Chief Engineer. He also currently serves on the board of the NJPEC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J. \u2013 Union Paving and Construction (UPC) of Mountainside is thrilled to announce that Louis Tomasello, Jr., P.E. has been named Construction Engineer of the Year by the New Jersey Professional Engineers in Construction (NJPEC). Mr. Tomasello received the award at the 43rd Annual Bonhag Awards Dinner held on April 21 at the Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7075,"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions\/7075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexmediastaging.com\/demos\/unionpaving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}