Professional Profile: Vincent Vappi - 1966

Name: Vincent Vappi - 1966

Title: President

Company: Vappi Construction Co.

Location: Cambridge, MA

Birthplace: Boston, MA – 1926

Education: H.S.: M.I.T. (Construction & Engineering – B.S. ’46) Member: Milton Hospital (Tr.); Milton Academy (Tr.); County Bank & Trust Company (Dir.); Milton Savings Bank (Tr.) “Having been aware of construction as a child, I was always attracted to it. So it was only natural that I moved into the business,” Vappi said. He moved into his dad’s firm as field engineer in 1948, and from that position, Vince became a superintendent, an estimator, then a project manager and General Mgr. of the firm in 1955. He assumed the Presidency in 1959: “Construction gives me a great deal of satisfaction in terms o f tangible results.” And results are what Vince aims for – for he built a firm active in industrial alterations and repairs to a construction giant doing an annual $120 million, Vince’s activities are concentrated in the realm of education construction “where the bidding is selective and of high quality.” Vappi is responsible for the Frances Greenwood Peabody Terrace, better known as the Harvard Married Students Dorm, which cost some $9 million. At the top, Vince handles construction planning and finance, and some 500-600 men in his charge. He sees New England as having “a continuing heavy volume of construction, especially in the field of hospitals, due to Medicare, and schools which will have to accommodate the growing numbers of students.” In Beatown, Vince forecasts a rise in residential construction as the New Boston is being realized, “though commercial building will remain at a steady pace.”