THE BOGNET WAY BUZZ
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Month in Review
IN CASE YO U M I SSE D I T
WELCOME Kris Car! He is joining us as Vice President of Base Building Construction and he will be starting our new base building team. Kris has 24 years of preconstruction, estimating, business development, and operations experience. He joins us from Katerra Construction where he oversaw several multi-family and mixed use projects. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Drexel University and is certified LEED AP.
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WELCOME Jerry Brown! Jerry is a Superintendent joining us from Katerra/Fortune Johnson. Jerry has twenty years of experience working on base building, multifamily and interiors projects. SUGGESTION BOX! The suggestion box has a new home! It is now located in the pantry for better access. Now that we’re an ESOP, we want to make sure everyone has an opportunity to have a say in our company culture. Please feel free to drop a suggestion in there. Fire Safety Month - October. Take a moment ot read this article with some great pointers on how to go about Fire Safety in the workplace. https://www.safetyresources.com/october-is-fire-safety-month
E M PLOYEE NE WS CONGRATULATIONS! To all of the Bognet Way Award Winners and the Bognet Employee Anniversaries:
Mark Gentili
Abbey Zacharias
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Alex Narrow
David Piraino
Bobby McCormack
James Pumphrey
Justin Combs
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CUSTO ME R FE E DB AC K - B U I L D L ON G- T E R M R E L AT I ON SH I PS Ballston 1 - Mike Coyle, Greg Johnson, Mike Williams, Charles Petitt and Juan Sanchez
“Good morning all, I wanted to send out the latest update to the entire team regarding our multi-floor projects at Ballston 1; we’ve been working on this particular floor for a long time… I am happy to say that yesterday, with Greg’s help, we successfully passed our accreditation testing for the 3rd Floor secured space with flying colors. There were only minor items identified and we tag-teamed to resolve them onsite and immediately approved to our inspectors’ satisfaction. With this portion completed, we have finished all three floors at Ballston 1 to substantial completion and I am requesting GSA continue with close out actions with LPC and their vendors. There are a couple of small items having no impact on moving forward; they are very minor and Greg and I will coordinate their completion soonest. The remaining work on site now is IT-focused. Lastly, I want to say thank you to everyone on the project team; this particular build has been on our books since 2014 and thru the perseverance and patience from all of you, got us to the finish line. Each of you stuck with our agency thru three presidential administration, 4 DHS Secretaries, a complicated agency rebranding, and countless change orders that came about through all of it. Thank you for working with me as we constantly worked each of these challenges and in the end, met the exact mission needs our leadership wanted. It was an incredible feat that I often wondered if we were ever going to achieve. I also want give a special shout out to a few of you whom I worked with on almost a daily basis: To Greg—this was my first DHS project to work with Bognet and I can tell you, I hope it won’t be the last. Mike, your entire construction team provided us with three outstanding spaces that not only met our requirements, but in many ways, exceeded them. We have been fortunate to have Greg to take on so many of what were significant roadblocks, but his patience and ability to work with myself and the other trades, so that when we came to the table with a problem, he found us multiple solutions on how best to resolve them. That’s how I like to work and Greg was phenomenal as our PM; thank you for letting him stay throughout and get us over the finish line. I couldn’t have had a better peer to work alongside. Thank you, Greg—you’re a true professional. A few weeks back, I was internally struggling with if we were ever going to get to this point after all these years, but I had a conversation with our former LMS PM, Ron Ryan, whom himself is considered both a mentor and friend; Ron told me a successful PM’s job isn’t to know everything-- a successful PM’s job is to know who to call to get the answers he needs. I am in no way a PM who knows even a portion of what I should, but I can say with these projects, I surely knew whom I needed to call and learn from to make me better. Thank you GSA, Bognet, LPC, OTJ, GPI Century Link and Global Com—tho we still have to wrap it up, I am forever grateful to have had this opportunity to work alongside the very best in the business. WE DID IT!!!” V/R, Bubba
Roylyn “Bubba” Monroe Construction Project Manager, OCOSO Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Department of Homeland Security
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OPERATE AS O NE TE AM - ON - S I T E! Let’s Take Flight! Don Blevins sent stunning aerial photographs of the developing Walker Road Project.
NOAA DEMO DAY! Mark Gentili, Billy Franklin, Tracey Gardiner, Rosalie Gibbons and Julia Danis took part in the NOAA Demo Day! This event was well attended by members from GSA, NOAA, Foulger Pratt and OLBN. It was broadcasted and live streamed to the entirety of NOAA!
Job Wins
EN GI N EER W IN-W IN S O L UTIO N S - J O B W I NS Metron RTC Reston, VA | $3,227,360.00 Repeat Customer
ECLAC - UN Washington, DC | $173,805
Pansophic Learning Tysons, VA | $1,761,997.00 One Central – 6th Fl. Amenities & Spec. Suites Rockville, MD | $1,531,111.00 Nestle Baking Kitchen Arlington, VA | $183,769.00 Repeat Customer Truist Suite at The Capital One Arena Washington, DC | $105,691.00
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Pansophic Learning
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Mission Forward
MIS SIO N: FO RWA RD
As always, if you are personally involved in anything to do with giving back, we would love to hear about it! Send Rosalie and Julia a quick email with a sentence or two description and photo if you have one. October - Breast Cancer Awareness Month In honor of Debbie Corsetti, pictured, we wore pink on her birthday October 14th. We raised $1,790.00 to benefit the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Congrats to John Hennessy of the drawing for the Yeti cooler! Operation Turkey! Please find the list of canned foods you may donate from Aimee’s email. The deadline to deliver these items to the office is: Monday, November 16th. We will plan to drop off the food by Wednesday, November 18th.
ESOP
October we celebrated ESOP Month!
Looking Forward
FUN CO MMIT T E E / E V E N T S
FUN Committee Meetings | The FUN Committee meets every 3 weeks on Friday afternoons to plan events and company-wide initiatives. Everyone is welcome to join. Reach out to Aimee if you would like to attend!
E M PLOYEE M I L E STON E S November Birthdays John Veselick – November 4 Don Blevins – November 29 Step Challenge Month 1 – (September 20th – October 17th) - 35,000 Steps a week (Equates to 5,000 steps a day) Month 2 – (October 18th – November 14th) - 49,000 Steps a week (Equates to 7,000 steps a day)
Now Hiring! If you know anyone who is qualified that would be a great fit for our Bognet culture please encourage them to apply for the open PM, Superintendent and Estimator positions. Book Club Book club is currently reading is ‘The Silent Patient’ by Alex Michaelides. Meeting 11/4 to discuss. -11/1 World Vegan Day 11/4 Diwali
11/11 Veterans Day
11/25 Thanksgiving! | The office will be closed Thursday 11/25 and Friday 11/26 11/26 Black Friday
11/27 Small Business Saturday 11/28 Hannukah | 11/28-12/6 11/29 Cyber Monday
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Field Spotlights
NAEYC
1401 H STREET NW WASHINGTON, DC PROFESSIONAL PHOTOS! Fun Fact: Julia and Carlo modeled for this photoshoot!
FIELD SPOT LI G H T S
BOGNET TEAM:
Mike Coyle
Mark Gentili
Michael Williams
PROJECT TEAM:
Robert Tranmer
West Lane & Schlager & Hickok Cole Architects
FAST FACTS:
20,000 SF, Nonprofit, Repeat Customer
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