Hodess Cleanroom Construction

Hodess builds and retrofits controlled environments — ISO-classified cleanrooms, dry rooms, and laboratories — for industries that require particulate, temperature, and humidity control. Typical clients include semiconductor fabs, pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotech labs, and medical device assembly plants. The firm self-performs process piping, HVAC, and cleanroom enclosure systems rather than subcontracting these scope items.

Richard Hodess founded the company in 1974 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, initially serving the early semiconductor manufacturing cluster in the Northeast. The firm remains privately held. Richard Hodess is the namesake founder; current day-to-day leadership is not publicly detailed beyond the founding generation.

Confirmed end-markets include semiconductor fabrication, pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotechnology and life sciences laboratories, medical device assembly, and aerospace component production. The common thread is any manufacturing process that requires ISO-classified particulate control, precise temperature and humidity management, or vibration isolation.

The firm was founded by Richard Hodess and remains privately held. It has not been acquired by a larger engineering or construction conglomerate, which is unusual among specialist cleanroom builders. Many competitors operate as divisions of firms like Exyte, Jacobs, or DPR Construction, while Hodess retains independent specialist ownership (public record).