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Spencer Bristol successful delivery of the Operation Balto projects
Engineering and continued growth of the teams. We welcomed
with Cuong Dinh Tom Ferrera to our design team recently along with
President Soney Patel and Jason Colapinto as our summer
interns.
We all continue to navigate and When times are tough, families have to pull together
adapt to the new ‘normal’ during these uncertain to make it through. I’m proud of the way our SBE
times. Whether it’s working from home, using Teams family accomplished this and proud to be part of the
for meetings, or figuring out how to engage our Gray family that does the same.
clients remotely, our team has worked through these
challenges to continue to deliver in-flight projects and
win future projects. The team commitment, effort,
and fearless attitude to unite around these obstacles Gray Architects &
is truly remarkable and will be remembered long after Engineers
these challenges fade away. with Dowell Hoskins
We’re excited to partner with Gray on key wins President 7
including Georgia Pacific Project Jupiter and The past few months have been very
Operation Balto projects. Along with the opportunity busy with proposal activity, and there are many great
to further develop our design capabilities in the prospects on the horizon – the food and beverage
food and beverage sector, it’s great to be part of a sales pipeline for Gray AE remains strong. Even with
collaborative team primarily composed of Gray family the large effort on proposals, we anticipate finishing
companies. The turnkey delivery of large, complex the fiscal year in a very good financial position. We
design and construction projects with most services have adapted well to the challenges that COVID-19
provided by Gray family companies fulfills the strategy has presented with the overwhelming majority of
set in place years ago and is exciting to witness. team members feeling that they are more productive
Our sales funnel is full and we have maintained working from home. Additionally, we are currently in
a strong backlog during these challenging times. the process of developing a strategic plan for Gray AE
Considering that the majority of our aviation projects that will guide our continued growth over the next few
were put on hold at the start of the crisis, a promising years by focusing on team member growth, process
sales outlook and awarded projects list is a truly improvement, expanding our design service offerings,
amazing feat. Looking ahead, we’re focused on and continued bottom line profit growth.

Team members on the Southwest Gas project for
Gray West. From left to right: Terry Gardner, Yazan
Kesbeh, Shahid Azmat (Southwest Gas), Abel Lopez,
Autumn Romero, Scott Puente (Owners Rep),
Thomas Nguyen, and Andres Rosas.