BENSALEM, PA (SBN) — A Bensalem-based contractor, EDA Contractors, is seeing significant benefits in terms of reduced injuries and better customer and employee relations from a training program to provide construction workers with tools to improve their mental health and emotional intelligence.
According to EDA, the construction industry ranks second highest in suicide rates among major industries. Up to 90% of people who die by suicide have a mental health condition.
Factors contributing to higher suicide rates in construction include the male-dominated industry, stigma around mental health, and high stress due to long work hours and separation from family when working away from home.
EDA Contractors, founded by the guest on this edition of SBN Newsmakers/AUDIO, Ed DeAngelis, marked its 25th anniversary this year, with headquarters in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and an office in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The company has seven consecutive years, including 2023, on the Top Workplaces list, and has been featured for its workplace culture and emotional intelligence leadership in a number of publications. EDA promotes mental health support and advocacy for its workers, and is a leading voice for emotional intelligence in the construction industry.
DeAngelis describes the contracting firm’s mental wellness program in this audio interview with SBN news director Steve Lubetkin.
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About the Guest
Ed DeAngelis, CEO, EDA Contractors
Ed DeAngelis founded EDA Contractors, Inc. in 1999 following 11 years at Belcher Roofing Corporation. After graduating college, DeAngelis started his career as an entry level Estimator but moved quickly through the ranks to Chief Estimator before his departure in 1999. During his tenure, he became responsible for 75% of the sales volume for this firm. DeAngelis’s innovative personality has allowed EDA to become a leader in its industry. Under this tutelage, EDA started exclusively as a roofing contractor but has grown to include all scopes on the exterior envelope. Always looking for another challenge and provide value to his customers, DeAngelis started a masonry division and purchased Bregenzer Brothers, a historical restoration slate and copper roofing company in 2018.
DeAngelis is a Board Member of the General Building Contractors Association (GBCA) and a Board Member and Trustee of the Roofing Contractors Association (RCA). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Saint Joseph’s University.
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Steve Lubetkin is the news director for StateBroadcastNews.com. Steve’s journalism background includes print and broadcast reporting for NJ news organizations. He refocused on multimedia journalism and podcast production after a long career in corporate branded journalism and public relations.
He has won numerous awards for his audio and video news reporting from the Garden State Journalists Association, and he has also been recognized for video by the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has produced a wide range of audio and video podcasts in his other role as managing partner of State Broadcast News’s parent, The Lubetkin Media Companies.
Steve is co-author, with Toronto-based podcasting pioneer Donna Papacosta, of the book, The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional.
In March 2021, he was elected to the board of directors of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and in July 2021 he was named secretary of the chapter. In August 2021, he was honored by SPJ with one of the organization’s 2021 Howard S. Dubin Outstanding Pro Member Awards, given to regular members of an SPJ chapter who go above and beyond in serving their chapter.
Steve has been the computer columnist for the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, since 1996.
Steve also has reported on-camera and produces virtual conferences for NJSpotlightNews.org, a public policy news coverage website focused on New Jersey government and industry; and for clients of StateBroadcastNews.com, a division of The Lubetkin Media Companies LLC.
From May-November 2019, he produced and reported a weekly podcast, The CRE News Hour, a news and features program focusing on the commercial real estate industry.
From 2014 to 2019 he was New Jersey and Philadelphia editor for GlobeSt.com and filled in covering Chicago/Midwest and Atlanta.
Steve has also served (from August 2017 to March 2018) as national broadcast news correspondent for CEOReport.com, a news website focused on practical advice for senior executives in small- and medium-sized companies.
Earlier in his career, Steve reported on rock music at the Jersey Shore for the Asbury Park Press, and was a broadcast news anchor and production engineer for WJLK-AM & FM, then owned by the Press. He also worked as a general assignment reporter for the Red Bank Register, Shrewsbury, NJ.
You can email Steve at steve@statebroadcastnews.com.
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