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GBBN president and CEO, Bob Gramann, announced that four deserving individuals were offered and had accepted the position of Partner. They are: John Bunyan, CFO; Marcie Kinney, AIA, LEED AP, Project Manager, Michael Lied, Director of Organizational Development; and Jodi Mulcahy, Director of Marketing.

TEC Engineering, Inc., a multi-national transportation engineering corporation with local offices in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, has been honored with an International Roads Federation (IRF) Global Achievement Award for their Intelligent Transportation Systems Master Plan for the country of Saudi Arabia. IRF recognizes organizations that demonstrate significant achievements in maximizing existing infrastructure to accommodate traffic growth, using advanced traffic management concepts or systems.

TEC’s Master Plan, completed in 2006, sets forth a detailed deployment plan for “intelligent” infrastructure throughout the country of Saudi Arabia, designed to monitor traffic conditions and provide traveler information systems for the nation’s over-congested highways.

Champlin/Haupt is pleased to announce the following employees have recently achieved the status of LEED AP: Mike Koch, Krutarth Jain, Kristie Pudlock, Mike Murphy, Bridget Williams, and Brian Danyi

Heapy was selected as the Energy Performance, Sustainability and LEED Training provider for the US Department of Veterans Affairs. This contract involves training all of the VA’s Energy Engineers on the topics of LEED and Sustainability.

Heapy Engineering was awarded the Mechanical-Electrical Systems design contract on The Ohio State University’s $165 Million, 185,000 SF West of Cannon Ambulatory Outpatient and Research Center.

Heapy Engineering recently opened an office in Indianapolis, Indiana. The office provides Mechanical, Electrical and Technology Systems Design, and LEED and Commissioning Services for the Healthcare, Education, Government, and Commercial Building markets. John O’Brien, PE, LEED AP is the Indiana Operations Manager and can be reached at jpobrien@heapy.com

Heapy Engineering is currently providing services (LEED, M-E Design and/or Commissioning) for over 100 projects. To date, Heapy has been involved with 14 projects that have achieved their LEED certification! (5 GOLD, 4 SILVER, 5 CERTIFIED). Wright State University Diggs Laboratory with BHDP (Gold), Spartech Plastics (Silver), Holophane R&D (Silver) and City of Cincinnati Fire Station #9 (Certified) are the latest projects to earn their LEED Certification.

D.A.G. Construction won an award at the Deloitte 100 for being a Rising Star

You may have heard that the Fernald Preserve Visitors Center is now Ohio’s first certified LEED-Platinum building.

KLH Engineers is proud to have served as the LEED consultant for the mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering design.

KLH also provided design services for the electrical system, for the communication technology systems, and lighting.

Not only is it Ohio’s first certified LEED Platinum project, but it is the second certified LEED Platinum project of the Dept. of Energy; and 1 of only 100 certified LEED Platinum projects worldwide.

Champlin/Haupt Architects will have several projects featured in the December issue of Cincinnati Magazine as part of its annual Interior Design Awards. Clinton Memorial Hospital – Foster J. Boyd Regional Cancer Center won for Healthcare Design. Squire Sanders & Dempsey – Office Renovation won in the Corporate Space category.

Baker Concrete Construction was named one of the Greater Cincinnati area’s Best Places to Work for 2008.

The recognition, given annually by the Cincinnati Business Courier, honored Baker with the top spot in the Grand category, which includes businesses with more than 500 employees.

D.A.G. Construction is named a finalist for Dayton Business of the Year, by the Dayton Business Journal.

Matt Tepe, Director of Preconstruction at Oswald Company, passed his LEED exam and is now a LEED AP.

Once a pre-engineered steel warehouse located on a $4.4 billion Superfund cleanup site, the Fernald Preserve Visitors Center is now Ohio’s first certified LEED-Platinum building.

The $3 million, 10,800-square-foot Visitors Center was created by the design/build team of Megen Construction Company and glaserworks Architecture. The firms, which had separately completed Silver LEED buildings, paired for the first time on the Fernald project and struck Platinum.

Lauren Della Bella has been appointed president of SHP Leading Design.

Della Bella, a LEED^® Accredited Professional, is the first female to be named president of SHP. A partner who has been with SHP for more than 20 years, Della Bella currently serves

as executive vice president.

Nick Crews, Project Manager at Oswald Company, has passed his LEED exam and now is a LEED AP

KLH Engineers was honored with an Outstanding Corporate Leadership Award at the recent Northern Kentucky Celebration of Philanthropy. Recipients were chosen based on their exceptional demonstration of volunteerism in the community. The award program was sponsored by Children, Inc,, The Northern Kentucky Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, and Vision 2015.

KLH Engineers is pleased to report that our office building has earned the Energy Star rating! The Energy Star is the mark of the superior energy performance and identifies our building as one of the most efficient buildings in the nation. Commercial buildings that earn the Energy Star use an average of 40 percent less energy than typical buildings and also release 35 percent less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. KLH Engineers is pleased to accept EPA’s Energy Star in recognition of our energy efficiency efforts. Through this achievement, we have demonstrated our commitment to environmental stewardship while also lowering our energy costs.

D.A.G. Construction received the award for Diverse Supplier of the Year 2008 at the Health Alliance Spirit of Diversity Annual Dinner.

Kudos to Champlin/Haupt Architects who helped organized the ZERO Landfill Cincinnati project. This effort diverted 22,485 pounds of design materials from local landfills by making them available to students, teachers and artists in the community.