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honored him by naming Randall the 2022 Newburg management, design, and preconstruction team
Legend due to his contributions to the practice of members participate in career fairs, university thesis/
architecture as well as to the Louisville community. senior project advisory boards, young professionals
events and more to make sure we are tapping the
market for the best and brightest.
Southeast Office Regarding sales and performance, we have
with Drew Romans maintained a solid backlog and are tracking some
Regional Manager,
Southeast Office very attractive projects as we near the end of
the fiscal year. We are very optimistic about the
We are now well over halfway through fiscal remainder of the year.
year 2022. Now is a great time to measure our
performance and goals for the year and adjust if Distribution &
necessary. I would encourage that we all do that on Commercial
6 a personal level as well. What were our goals for this with Rodney Carpenter
office this year, and are we on track? Vice President, Distribution
Don’t forget your roots: This means don’t lose & Commercial Market
focus on design-build manufacturing projects It is hard to believe we are over halfway through
because that is what sets us apart in our region. FY 2022 — what an amazing journey it has been.
Austal in Mobile, Alabama and Georgia Pacific in The present and future outlook remain bright. We
Sweetwater, Texas are both nearing completion. We continue to grapple with supply chain disruption,
were recently awarded projects for Cerro Wire and material shortages and labor shortages throughout
Hahwha Q-Cells, which means we are tracking very every facet of our industry, but through it all our
well for this goal! teams continue to find and implement technologies
Expand upon established relationships: into our daily execution of work to improve our
We are highly focused on building upon existing processes and enhance our efficiency from start
relationships with customers like Georgia Pacific, to finish.
Austal, Hanwha QCELLS, Amazon & multiple The Commercial team has been working diligently
developers. This effort continues to produce results. on our latest project for Costco located in St.
Explore a new market: Expanding upon the Augustine, Florida. The project is a 157,120 s.f.
previous goal, the Q-Cells relationship has provided warehouse located on a 17-acre site which is being
an opportunity to perform in the extremely high tech fully developed by Gray; it is slated to open in
“advanced technology” market. Solar energy is the August. Our team is planning and budgeting other
backbone of the project, but the manufacturing opportunities for Costco with construction set to
process for individual cells and wafers is very begin in early Fall 2022. We value our continued
similar to semiconductor, battery and other partnership with Costco, which has resulted in many
related manufacturing. successful projects over the years.
Continue to hire, grow and retain the best Our Distribution teams have been steadfast in
people in the industry: I think our folks are among our ongoing execution of a number of projects
the very best in the industry and we are working to be delivered later this year. In August and
harder than ever to obtain more of the same. September we will be delivering to Publix Super
Over the last few months, we have had project Markets, Inc. the entire campus in Greensboro,
