Fred Williams, Inc.

Fred Williams, Inc. isn't a typical residential HVAC outfit. Its BBB profile shows an engineering firm established in Massachusetts in 1936 — 90 years in business — with 50 employees and registered professional engineers on staff; the company's own site describes it as the Greater Boston anchor of the Equans MEP Services network, part of EQUANS North America, covering commercial, industrial, municipal and institutional mechanical work. Procore shows 27 of its projects since 2022, averaging $14.4 million each. Every review on file, though, is about something else: unsafe driving by company vehicles, not the mechanical or engineering work itself. Google reviewers in 2025 and 2026 described trucks blowing through crosswalks and taunting pedestrians, speeding and erratic lane-changing in Portsmouth, and — in one detailed account — a driver in "Vehicle 76" swerving into oncoming traffic on Nahant Street in Lynn on July 3, 2025 to pass two cars, nearly causing a crash (license plate noted). Anyone considering Fred Williams for a project is better served asking about its road-safety practices directly than reading these reviews as a verdict on its construction or engineering work — the complaints are specific and recent, with two of the three posted in the past six months.