DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 16, 2026--
Suffolk, one of the most innovative and successful builders in the country, today announced the hiring of Chris Guice as General Manager of Advanced Manufacturing. Based in Dallas, Mr. Guice will help lead Suffolk’s continued expansion into advanced manufacturing sectors, including semiconductors, electric vehicle and battery production, robotics, solar, precision manufacturing and other highly technical facilities across the United States. He will also support Suffolk’s continued growth across Texas.
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Mr. Guice brings 25 years of construction and business development experience with Austin Commercial, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Over the course of his career, he has supported projects across semiconductors, healthcare, aviation, higher education and commercial real estate. His semiconductor experience spans wafer fabrication, advanced node manufacturing, analog chip plants, optical chip manufacturing and research and development environments. He also brings extensive relationships across the Dallas/Fort Worth commercial real estate market, including Granite Properties, KDC, Stream Realty and Trammell Crow Company.
“Advanced manufacturing clients need builders who understand the technical complexity behind these facilities,” said Pat Lucey, President of Suffolk Northeast and National Centers of Excellence. “Chris brings deep experience across the semiconductor ecosystem, along with longstanding relationships in Texas, that will help us continue scaling this platform while strengthening Suffolk’s presence throughout the region.”
The strategic hire comes as companies continue to invest in domestic semiconductor production, supply chain resilience and highly technical facilities that require speed, precision and certainty. Suffolk’s Advanced Manufacturing group is designed to meet those needs by bringing technical planning to the areas that matter most in advanced manufacturing environments, including detailed digital twins, process piping, high-purity systems, commissioning, test and balance, cleanroom layout, tool installation and work within active environments where production and existing tools must remain online.
“What attracted me to Suffolk is the company’s willingness to invest in the people, technology and planning capabilities these projects require,” said Mr. Guice. “Clients in this sector and region are looking for partners who can think ahead, solve problems early and understand the technical coordination required for these facilities. Suffolk’s national platform, technology-forward approach and collaborative culture create a strong foundation to help clients bring greater certainty to schedule, cost and delivery.”
Suffolk’s Dallas/Fort Worth diverse project portfolio includes Children’s Health Specialty Center at RedBird, The Galbraith, The Terminal at Katy Trail, the Dallas County Mesquite Government Center and significant work at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, where the company is managing renovations to DFW Terminal C and construction of an all-electric Central Utility Plant (eCUP).
About Suffolk
Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates and invests. Suffolk is an end-to-end business that delivers value across the entire project lifecycle by leveraging its core construction management services with vertical service lines that include design, self-perform construction services, technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies), supply chain management, and innovation research and development focused on advancing AI and data-driven solutions that will redefine the way America builds.
Suffolk – America’s Contractor – is a national company with more than $10 billion in annual revenue, 3,500 employees, and offices in Boston (headquarters); New York City and Westchester County, New York; Estero, Miami, Tampa and West Palm Beach, Florida; Dallas; Los Angeles, Milpitas, San Francisco and San Diego, California; Las Vegas; Portland, Maine; New Haven, Connecticut; Herndon, Virginia; and Salt Lake City.
Suffolk manages some of the most complex, sophisticated projects in the country, serving clients in every major industry sector, including healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, transportation/aviation, government and public work, mission critical, advanced technology and commercial. Suffolk is privately held and is led by Founder, Chairman and CEO John Fish. Suffolk is ranked #8 on ENR’s list of “Largest Domestic Builders” and #7 on its list of “Top CM-at-Risk Contractors.” For more information, visit www.suffolk.com and follow Suffolk on Facebook, X, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Suffolk appoints Chris Guice as General Manager of Advanced Manufacturing, strengthening its national platform and supporting growth across Texas.
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Rep. Mike Collins on Tuesday defeated first-time candidate Derek Dooley for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Georgia, advancing to face Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff for a seat that will help determine control of Capitol Hill for the final years of Donald Trump’s second presidency.
The president, who endorsed Collins on Sunday, will be a key fault line in the general election matchup.
The second-term congressman has identified with the president since he first won his House seat in north Georgia in 2022. A trucking company owner and son of a congressman, Collins campaigns as a self-described “MAGA warrior” and echoes Trump's false claims that his 2020 election loss in Georgia and nationally was rigged. Dooley, a former football coach who had the support of outgoing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, did not ratify Trump's lies about the 2020 election.
The other big race on the ballot on Tuesday — the GOP nomination for governor — was won by billionaire businessman Rick Jackson, whose campaign has spent more than $100 million, much of it from the first-time candidate’s personal fortune. He bested Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, the president’s pick.
Despite Collins' allegiance to Trump, the congressman notably did not mention the president's endorsement during his victory speech or include the president in a litany of thank yous to his family, staff and supporters who gathered in his hometown of Jackson. Instead, he pitched himself as a sound conservative who can achieved bipartisan progress by “doing the right thing ... building coalitions and finding common ground.” And he promised to campaign in “every zip code and every community” of this closely divided state.
Collins said he’d talked to Dooley and Kemp and that Republicans “stand united around one mission,” which is defeating Ossoff in November. Dooley offered a similar message to his more subdued crowd in metro Atlanta.
“We have a lot of disagreements but the one thing that hasn’t changed is my opinion of Jon Ossoff,” Dooley said. “We need to work together to fire his (expletive) in November.””
Ossoff, first elected in 2020, has blasted Trump as a “national embarrassment” who is using the presidency to enrich himself and his family. The 39-year-old is the lone Senate Democrat running in a state that Trump won in 2024. Democrats face tremendous pressure to hold his seat as they try to gain a net of four seats to claim a Senate majority.
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Trump endorsed Jones 10 months ago. As a state lawmaker, Jones was part of Trump’s attempt to overturn his 2020 defeat to former President Joe Biden. In that race, it was Kemp who made a late-hour endorsement, announcing his support for Jones on Sunday.
Republicans have not won a U.S. Senate contest in Georgia since 2016, Trump’s first election.
Despite his ties to Trump and the Republican base, Collins has argued that he can build a broad coalition, and he plans to use immigration as a contrast with Ossoff. In the House, Collins sponsored the Laken Riley Act, a 2025 law that requires immigrants accused of certain crimes to be detained. It is named for a Georgia nursing student killed in 2021 by a Venezuelan man who was in the U.S. illegally. Ossoff voted against a version of the legislation before backing the final proposal after Trump’s return to power.
Collins won the nomination despite his Republican opponents highlighting a House ethics complaint that accuses him of abusing taxpayer funds by paying the girlfriend of his former top adviser for congressional job duties she allegedly did not fulfill. After an initial investigation, a federal panel forwarded the matter to the House Ethics Committee.
The congressman begins his general election campaign at a financial disadvantage. Collins raised about $4.9 million through the end of May, and reported having less than $1.2 million remaining. Through late April, the last time Ossoff had to file before his primary, the incumbent had raised $60.4 million and had $32.5 million on hand.
Conservative activists and Georgia voters Jenny Beth Martin and Debbie Dooley — who has no relation to Derek Dooley — were split over which Republican has the best chance of defeating Ossoff. Martin and Dooley were both early tea party organizers during Barack Obama's presidency.
Martin, who supported Collins, says energizing the conservative base is necessary to protect Republican majorities that aren’t populated with Republican “anti-Trumpers” or “liberals like Jon Ossoff.”
But Debbie Dooley voted for Derek Dooley. She said Collins has too much baggage and is too closely tied to the far-right to win.
“He will drag down the whole Republican ticket in Georgia,” she predicted. “This is about actually winning. It’s not about just following Donald Trump.”
This election cycle, the president’s preferred primary candidates have a strong record so far in 2026. But none have faced a self-funded rival with Jackson’s spending power.
Jackson, a 71-year-old business owner, amassed a fortune from his company that provides contract healthcare personnel, and he's used it to blanket television and online platforms with ads. Appealing to hard core Trump supporters, he’s pledged that immigrants in Georgia illegally will be “deported or departed.” He promises a slew of tax cuts. And previewing a potential general election argument, he’s played up his biography as a product of the state foster care system and featured his grandchildren advising him on how to make friendlier ads.
Jones, 47, comes from a wealthy family but is running a more modest campaign. Framing himself as a “proven leader,” Jones proposes eliminating Georgia’s state income tax — without detailing how he’d make up the revenue. And he trumpets his presidential seal of approval and time as a University of Georgia football player in the 1990s. As lieutenant governor, Jones pushed legislation that ultimately did not pass but would have disqualified Jackson’s company from receiving taxpayer-funded contracts.
Trump did not travel to Georgia to campaign with Jones but he's given the lieutenant governor a fresh round of support on social media and called in to a telephone rally during the early voting period.
“Burt was strongly committed to my Campaign in 2016, 2020, and 2024, and worked tirelessly to help us WIN. He has been with us from the very beginning,” Trump posted on Truth Social last week.
Georgia's secretary of state race was open for the first time since Trump’s attempts to subvert the 2020 election, famously pressuring outgoing Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,800 votes” to overtake Biden. Raffensberger refused.
For his potential successor, Republicans were left to choose between an outright election denier, Vernon Jones, and a state lawmaker, Tim Fleming, who avoids explicitly disputing the president’s 2020 election lies. They went with Fleming, who won the nomination on Tuesday.
Jones, a perennial candidate who was once a Democrat, embraced Trump’s “stop the steal” movement and said he stood “with those who believe there was election fraud.” Fleming, who once served as deputy secretary of state, has said there were “irregularities” in 2020, a word choice that has become code for Republicans who want neither to ratify nor call out Trump’s errant claims.
Democrats voted for Penny Brown Reynolds — a former state judge in Fulton County who also served in the Biden administration as deputy assistant secretary for civil rights for the Department of Agriculture — over Dana Barrett, a Fulton County commissioner.
Catherine Harrison, left, and Margaret Williamson view election results during a runoff election night watch party for Republican gubernatorial candidate Burt Jones, Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in Jackson, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins celebrates during an election-night watch party after winning the Republican nomination, Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in Jackson, Ga. (AP Photo/Colin Hubbard)
A woman speaks to a Fulton County Election worker before she votes in a runoff election at the C.T. Martin Recreation Center, Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
U.S. Rep Mike Collins campaigns in Woodstock, Ga., Sunday, June 14, 2026. ( AP Photo/Bill Barrow)
FILE - Gov. Brian Kemp, center left, and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Derek Dooley greet supporters at campaign stop for Dooley at Farmview Market in Madison, Ga., on May 8, 2026. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
