Pratt & Whitney holds ceremonial groundbreaking for global headquarters and engineering facility

Pratt & Whitney held a ceremonial groundbreaking on July 16th for its new state-of-the-art 425,000-square-foot building that will serve as the company’s global headquarters and world-class engineering facility. Construction work, which is supported in part by the 2014 Connecticut Aerospace Reinvestment Act, will begin later this year and is scheduled to be completed in late 2017. The ceremony was held exactly 86 years to the day that ground was broken for construction of the company’s current East Hartford campus, which remains its global headquarters. To commemorate the event, Nathan G. Patch, grandson of Pratt & Whitney founder Frederick Rentschler, joined company leaders and state and local government officials in reenacting the ceremonial 1929 groundbreaking, as depicted in a historic photo.