Get to Know: Ian Kapura
March 13th, 2025
Ian Kapura has been working with his hands for as long as he can remember.
“My dad was a carpenter,” he says. “When I was 12 years old, I was working with him on job sites. I knew, early on, I’d be working with my hands.”
Ian went to a trade high school, working in carpentry before finding his way into concrete work. He liked the fresh air, the physicality of it. “When you’re good at something, you stick with it,” Ian says. “I kept moving up the ladder — crew leader, foreman; now I’m a superintendent.”
In June, Ian will mark three years with Loureiro, where he was hired by Andy Corsetti as a Concrete Superintendent. He came from a smaller concrete company focused on commercial foundations, and the opportunity to work at Loureiro intrigued him. “It’s not your typical construction company,” Ian says.
When we spoke with Ian, he was in his truck at the site of the Centredale Project in Rhode Island, where the team was getting ready to open up the bridge again. The Centredale site is a Superfund project that spans two Rhode Island communities, including nine acres of residential buildings and homes, parking lots, and a 25-foot wide access roadway. Loureiro’s Environmental division played a key role in securing the work, highlighting the company’s unique ability to integrate engineering, environmental, and construction expertise under one roof.
“If you think about it like a toolbox, there’s a lot of different tools in it,” Ian says of working at Loureiro. “Most places outsource things like engineering and environmental work. Here, we do it all in-house. The work is varied, and often we’re getting jobs based on the work of our other divisions. It makes for an atmosphere where you get to work on lots of different projects.”
As Concrete Superintendent, Ian is responsible for setting up manpower, ensuring projects are well-staffed, and overseeing quality control. When needed, he doesn’t hesitate to throw on his tool belt and get to work alongside his team. “When we’re shorthanded, I’m right in there with the guys,” he says.
His dedication was on full display during one of Loureiro’s most challenging projects at Folly Brook in Manchester, Connecticut —a project he reflects upon to this day. A critical culvert running under I-384 needed rehabilitation, but with minimal traffic disruption. Ian and his team had to figure out how to pour a new 8-inch concrete invert in a 10-foot-diameter pipe—310 feet long—while working around a suspended 30-inch temporary bypass pipe carrying water. After a post-work meeting, the team came up with the idea to use a slip form system. It kicked off a 17-hour concrete pour.
“When I say that working at Loureiro is unique, I think about this project,” says Ian. “I love technical concrete work—encountering a problem and finding a solution. We still talk about the project to this day, the 17-hour day we put in and the camaraderie that came with it. It’s something that sticks with me.”
Beyond the job site, Ian finds inspiration in personal growth. “I’m just always striving to be the best version of myself—a better dad, a better husband.” His two children, 8 and 10 years old, share his love for anything on two wheels, and have started riding dirt bikes together.
When asked about the best advice he’s ever received, he doesn’t hesitate: “My dad taught me what was expected of an eight-hour physical workday. That lesson carried me the furthest in my career—knowing what it takes to put in a full day’s work and be efficient.”
It’s a mindset that has defined his career, from those early days working alongside his father to leading teams on some of Loureiro’s toughest and most rewarding projects.
