Greenmen Builders

Greenmen Builders is Eric Byrne's Needham-based general contracting firm — Byrne trained as a tradesman in Cork City, Ireland, worked in the Bay Area and New York, and settled in Boston in 2007 before founding the company in 2011. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active, and the Better Business Bureau gives it an A+ grade. The 30 reviews on file describe a genuine full-scope contractor rather than a one-trick kitchen shop: kitchen remodels, full bathroom reconstructions, home additions, basement and outdoor renovations, and at least one structural job that removed load-bearing walls to open up a kitchen, dining, and living room into one space — engineering, permitting, and inspections handled start to finish through the certificate of occupancy. An architect who hired Eric for a bedroom addition and full-bathroom conversion specifically called out his handling of budget, timeline, and the permitting agencies involved, which is a meaningfully different kind of praise than the usual "great to work with." Several clients have come back for more than one project — one couple has used Eric for work since 2022, another completed two separate projects over two years — and reviewers repeatedly single out his background as a trained carpenter when praising the finished woodwork. In a 2023 review, a South Boston condo owner said Eric's master bathroom redo looked "night and day" better than what a previous contractor had left behind in 2017. One review stands apart from the rest: a 2024 one-star post describes a company truck blocking a downtown Boston crosswalk, inconveniencing pedestrians. It's a real complaint about a driver's conduct on the road, not about the quality of any renovation — worth knowing, but a different kind of issue than the project-based reviews around it. For a kitchen, bathroom, or larger addition in the Needham, Newton, or Brookline area, Greenmen's history supports a serious look — the volume of repeat business and the structural/permitting work described suggest a contractor comfortable with bigger, more complicated jobs, not just cosmetic remodels.