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DEPARTMENT DOWNLOAD: THE STRUCTURE OF CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION TEAMS TEAM ATOMIC Led by Vice President Tom Crumrine Mechanical Nuclear Construction TEAM MISSION CRITICAL Led by Operations Manager Casey Walsh Mission Critical/Data Center Work TEAM VEGAS Led by Vice President Brad Davis Vegas Mechanical & Electrical Construction TEAM ENCOMPASS Led by Operations Manager Rick Drake Regional Electrical Construction TEAM VANGUARD Led by Vice President Glenn Shain National Mechanical Construction TEAM CATALYST Led by Operations Manager Steve Hinshaw Mechanical Industrial, Commercial & Millwright Construction TEAM SYNERGY Led by Vice President Paul Smith Mechanical Healthcare Construction TEAM ARCH METALS Led by Vice President Allen Supplee Architectural Metal Fabrication and Construction continued next page 

Have you ever found yourself thinking “I really don’t know what that department does, who’s who, or how it’s structured”?

You’re not alone. As a single-source provider, P1 Group has pretty vast capabilities, and we’re growing and changing for the better every day, making it hard for even a long-time P1 veteran to keep up.

The P1 Connection Newsletter presents “Department Download,” a recurring feature to help all of us learn who does what, where, and with whom.

This month we’re featuring construction operations. P1 Group’s construction divisions are broken into teams, outlined on the left.

While some of the newer teams have pretty straightforward names, others went through a creative process to come up with something more abstractly representative.

“The original team names (Synergy, Encompass, Atomic, Vanguard & Catalyst) were created by each team leader,” President Kollin Knox explained.

The team leaders took ideas from their individual team members and put the ideas to a vote. Some leaders submitted Webster’s/ Wikipedia definition with their final decision as a way of explaining the choice.

For example, Glenn Shain says the inspiration for Team Vanguard came from the idea of forging into new markets.

“Vanguard is defined as ‘a group of people leading the way in new developments or ideas’,” Glenn explained. “As we were tasked with growing P1’s markets outside the KC metro area, we chose a name that represented the forging of new frontiers in both geography and markets.”

Steve Hinshaw says Team Catalyst was also chosen to represent action that starts a reaction.

“We liked the definition of a ‘person or thing that precipitates an event’”, Steve said.

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TEAM TECHNOLOGIES Led by Operations Manager Rick Drake and General Manager Dan Farnan Building technologies (access control, CCTV, Network cabling and fiber, etc.) construction TEAM NATIONAL ELECTRICAL Led by Vice President Steve Smith National electrical construction TEAM ST. JOSEPH Led by General Manager Heather Richards-St. Clair Mechanical and electrical construction

For Rick Drake, Team Encompass was rooted in the belief that the talent on the team “encompasses our wide range of knowledge as well as the opportunities we have.”

Paul Smith’s team liked the “gestalt” effect, where the organized whole is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.

“We chose Team Synergy because it represents a state in which two or more things (each team member) work together in a particularly fruitful way (great execution) that produces an effect (successful projects) greater than the sum of their individual members,” Paul said.

The teams are growing and evolving every day, and we can’t wait to see what opportunities are in store for the construction side of P1 Group. 

TEAM WICHITA Led by General Manager Andy Dunbar Mechanical construction

The First Construction The hunter-gatherers of the late Stone Age, who moved about a wide area in search of food, built the earliest temporary shelters that appear in the archaeological record. Excavations at a number of sites in Europe dated to before 12,000 BCE show circular rings of stones that are believed to have formed part of such shelters. They may have braced crude huts made of wooden poles or have weighted down the walls of tents made of animal skins, presumably supported by central poles.

Early building materials were mostly perishable, such as leaves, branches, and animal hides. Later, more durable natural materials, such as clay, stone, and timber - and, finally, synthetic materials, such as brick, concrete, metals, and plastics were used.

Human shelters were at first very simple and perhaps lasted only a few days or months. Over time, however, even temporary structures evolved into such highly refined forms as the igloo. Gradually more durable structures began to appear, particularly after the advent of agriculture, when people began to stay in one place for long periods.

The first shelters were dwellings, but later other functions, such as food storage and ceremony, were housed in separate buildings. Some structures began to have symbolic as well as functional value, marking the beginning of the distinction between architecture and building.  Source: Britannica.com

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Connecting with Customers: Partners Tour P1 Fab Shops

Thanks to the leadership of P1 Group Business Development Manager Tim Moore, P1 Group has been doing a lot more entertaining.

Tim has been instrumental in organizing events like P1 Fun@4 and fabrication shop tours that allow customers, prospects, and partners a chance to get to know us better.

The Fun@4 format is simply social. Guests are invited to have a few drinks, some food, and just hang out with select P1 associates. There’s also a pretty mean Cornhole competition with premium prizes for the winners.

“As Business Development Manager, part of my responsibilities is to meet with our trade partners in the A/E/C (architecture, engineering, construction) community every week,” Tim explained.

We also like our colleagues to get a first-hand look at our capabilities.

Tim began organizing tours of our Lawrence, KS, fabrication shops in 2019, and to date Turner, McCarthy, Henderson Engineers, Burns & McDonnell, and Kendall have come through the shop.

Guests have been pretty amazed at our fabrication capacity.

Here are some of the comments we’ve gotten on our follow-up feedback forms.

“You guys are definitely going to be the top of our list when it comes time to make a call on a partner.”

“By meeting with these folks, we get an idea of what projects they’re chasing, currently working on or have already done.”

“The tour reinforced my knowledge that P1 was an organized, sophisticated, and capable trade partner that could handle any problem or any size project.”

Tim says the strategy for Fun@4 is to take that information and try to pair companies that have, want to or will work together on a project. Guests are usually invited in combinations representing A/E/C.

“I didn’t realize all of the prefabrication that P1 was performing in terms of Electrical scope. I also didn’t realize the capabilities P1 had in terms of custom steel fabrication.”

To date, P1 Group has welcomed Lytle Construction & BSA Lifestructures; Nabholz, Hoefer Wysocki, & WSP; McCownGordon, Henderson Engineering & HOK; BranchPattern, McCarthy, & Pulse Design Group; and Saint Luke's & ACI Boland Architects to the exclusive Fun@4 events.

“Your team is clearly talented with integration of systems to help quicken the ability to install faster!”

In 2020, P1 Group will be offering more Fun@4, more tours, and adding educational opportunities at our training facility for our industry partners as well. 

Industry partners like Lytle Construction, McCownGordon, Henderson Engineering, Saint Luke’s Health System, Burns & McDonnell, Henderson Engineers, McCarthy, and Turner Construction have visited a Fun@4 or fab shop tour over the past year.

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PROJECT PROFILE: Single-Source Capabilities Solve Operating Room Needs for Leavenworth VA First Medical Gas Trailer Built by P1 Group

“We have not made one of these before, but because we have a history with medical gas and operating rooms in buildings, we knew what the requirements were for a bottle room and we applied those requirements to the trailer.

It’s all standard work, we are just did it in a non-standard application.”

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Just because we haven’t done it before doesn’t mean we can’t. When the Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center in Leavenworth, KS needed a medical gas trailer to equip their mobile operating room (OR), P1 Group stepped up to the challenge.

The VA Medical Center is preparing to renovate the operating rooms and, due to the nature of the renovations, they are not able to move surgeries to another location in the building. In order to continue providing surgical procedures, they brought in a mobile OR trailer to use during the remodel. However, this trailer did not come equipped with its own medical gas supplies.

The contractor in charge of the renovation contacted P1 and asked if we could provide a medical gas trailer and of course we said, “Yes!” “We could not find a manufacturer that provided medical gas trailers,” Plumbing Service Manager Dave Rollo said. “We have not made one of these before, but because we have a history with medical gas and operating rooms in buildings, we knew what the requirements were for a bottle room and we applied those requirements to the trailer. It’s all standard work, we are just did it in a non-standard application.”

The requirement was a 24-foot enclosed trailer to sit next to the operating room trailer and house the oxygen, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, and medical air. It also contains all the

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electronics for the sensors, manifolds and electricity for lighting, heat, and exhaust.

The trailer purchased by P1 Group was a bare shell with plywood on the floor and walls. The floor was later covered with aluminum diamond plate and the walls with 16-gauge aluminum to create the one-hour fire rating required by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).

The gasses are heavier than air, so they are located near the floor. The exhaust system pulls the air in from the bottom and out through the top. Some of the gasses are temperature sensitive which required the trailer to be heated.

The trailer was custom built inside the Lawrence Fab Shop. The Sheet metal shop took care of the floor and wall panels and the exhaust system. The electrical crew installed all the lighting and outlets, and the plumbing fab shop set the medical gas piping and the manifolds. The entire process took approximately three weeks.

Upon completion, the trailer was moved onsite and the service plumbers came in to get it operational. The gasses were piped from the medical gas trailer to the OR trailer, and a cold water supply from the building to the operating trailer was installed. The trailer also required waste piping from the bathrooms in the OR trailer to a nearby manhole. The waste piping was heat traced, insulated, anchored to the parking lot and covered for protection. The sheet metal shop created a manhole cover that would accommodate the temporary waste pipe.

Even though we had never done it before, a plan for construction was put together and the teams performed their parts like clockwork: Another example of how P1 Group expertise provides top notch service to customers. ď ś

PROJECT TEAM Dave Rollo Plumbing Service Manager Andrew Noone Project Manager Zach Noll Plumbing Fabrication Foreman Mike Wessell Electrical Fabrication Foreman Tom Keating Sheet Metal Foreman John Rotterman Plumbing Field Foreman

The project started with a plain 24-foot trailer, and piece by piece, each team did their part to turn it into a life-saving solution.

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Hooking the Big Fish: Associate Spotlight on Michael Schram Michael Schram has filled many roles during his 10 years at P1 Group, including field technician and Ammonia Division service manager. But after his recent move to the role of Industrial Mechanical Specialist, he’s going after some “big fish” for both the Ammonia division and P1 Group.

Michael started at P1 in 2010 as an HVAC field technician with primarily industrial clients. Soon, he was pricing small service projects and moved into a project manager role, where he worked with ammonia refrigeration customers. He then became a service manager focusing entirely on ammonia. Thanks in part to his leadership, the ammonia division has seen much growth and success.

That success created a need, so Michael moved into his current role, Industrial Mechanical Specialist, where his focus is project and business development for Ammonia.

“With P1 Group fully invested in ammonia, the time has come to focus entirely on project and business development in order take the

Ammonia division to the next level,” Michael said.

And Michael is exactly the right person to do it. In his previous roles, he has already developed trust and positive relationships with the ammonia customers, which is critical since most of the work is customer-driven.

His new process looks something like this.

• Meet with customers who want to initiate projects to identify needs and budget expectations.

• Clarify end-goal expectations and validate to confirm it’s viable and fits within budget.

• Put together a plan including alternate ideas to provide energy savings and rebates.

In the end, most of the projects don’t end up going the way the customer originally envisioned, so Michael takes into careful

“The customer knows what they want, but don’t know how to get there. Those are the unique situations where we can think outside the box a little bit.”

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consideration the potential return on investment and makes sure all the financial pieces of the project makes sense for that customer.

“The customer knows what they want, but don’t know how to get there. Those are the unique situations where we can think outside the box a little bit,” Michael said.

“If we do have competition, we usually don’t beat them on price, we beat them on scope and qualifications and overall final outcome of the project.

Providing great service to customers has always been a huge focus, but Michael also has in his sights set on loftier goals.

He is going to trade association shows and Mechanical Contractors of America (MCA) industry events with the intention of getting to the corporate level with some of the companies that we are already doing business with, as well as some new ones.

KC Sausage is a current customer, and also a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, a U.S.-based global food company.

“We do work for KC Sausage, but nothing else ammonia-related for Smithfield Foods,” Michael said. “I’m trying to get in on the corporate level so we can become a preferred vendor with not only them, but also several other large-scale meat producing corporations.”

His 2020 initiative also includes pushing ammonia service out to all of the meat processing and packaging facilities in western Kansas.

Michael has great vision for the future, and with the backing of P1 Group’s solid reputation, he is sure to find success.

“I’m trying to get on the corporate level so we can become the preferred vendor with not only them, but also several other largescale meat producing corporations.”

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Gone Fishin’

When not at work, Michael and his wife Jaime have fallen in love with the little town of Pass Christian on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. They spend as much time there as possible enjoying the beach and salt water fishing, and plan to retire there someday.

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N E W FAC E S AND AWARD ED W O RK SAVE THE DATE. SAVE LIVES. PLEASE GIVE BLOOD. LENEXA: March 19, 2020 (details coming) LENEXA: September 24, 2020 (details coming) Zach Gustafson Electrical Service Solutions Lenexa

Susan Grote Senior Project Engineer Lenexa

Erik Woods Purchasing Coordinator Lenexa

PROMOTION Megan Berry HR Coordinator Lenexa

Rod Mickelsen Warehouse Manager Las Vegas

PROMOTION Jeff Gardner Electrical Preventative Maint. Mgr. Lenexa

SPECIAL DELIVERIES Congratulations to Preconstruction Electrical Estimating Engineer Bryan Bahr and family on their new baby, Bronson Joseph Bahr.

Bronson was born February 4 weighing 7 lbs., 5 oz.

AWAR D E D W OR K CONSTRUCTION February, 2020 Hills Pet Nutrition – Load Cell Displays Reloc.

Topeka, KS | $71,000 | ELEC Hills Pet Nutrition – Load Cells Display Topeka, KS | $57,100 | ELEC Hills Pet Nutrition – EOHS #6 East Topeka, KS | $77,800 | ELEC Hills Pet Nutrition – ESIS #12 Topeka, KS | $50,600 | ELEC Hills Pet Nutrition – SC B Filler Seamer Guard Doors Topeka, KS | $57,100 | ELEC

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North Kansas City Hospital – Vivion Phase II N. Kansas City, MO | $76,350 | SM The University of Kansas Health System

Stateline Eye Surgery Center Kansas City, KS | $86,290 | PLBG The University of Kansas Health System

Sutherland Clinic Test Fit Kansas City, KS | $68,016 | PIPE Goodyear – 40-ton Boiler Topeka, KS | $141,500 | ELEC Goodyear – Low RRC Electrical Pkg. Topeka, KS | $297,211 | ELEC

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B I RT HDAYS + A N N I V E R S A R I E S Office and field associate birthdays and work anniversaries

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MICHAEL ALLEN BRYCE DENTON ALLEN EASTRIDGE JERRY ROBERSON JOHN ALLEN KENT LUTZ CODY MCCRAY DONALD PARDEW RYAN WALTER TONY BRICE DEWEY JONES JR JULIAN MILLAN JOSEPH SALERNO RONALD TABOR TERRY FRY PATRICK KENT KYLE CLEMENTS PHIL SANDERS JASON SCHUTTER CHAD DARK RAMON SOLOMON STEPHEN COLE JEFF GARDNER DEBORAH STARR BEN KUFAHL CARL BROWN WYATT BROWNING JILL HOLLINGSWORTH JOSEPH PETTY

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CHRISTOPHER BOATWRIGHT CATALINA DE LEON WILLIAM JASKINIA KRISTI BERGLUND CELSO ESPINOZA KENNETH HINES CHRISTOPHER JACKSON ZACHARY LUTHI BRETT ROHRS TYLER TESKE DON FOLDS WILLIAM NISELY PAUL LARSON KELLY MASTERS MITCHELL MATHEWS EARL PAUL SHERWOOD JASON TALIAFERRO ELOY VELASCO-BRISENO RALPH EVANS CHASE MIKESSELL JOHN SHERMAN WADE BROUSSARD DAVID CATHCART MICHAEL VANDEVENTER PAUL DREILING DON ERISMAN CHRIS WHEELER CLIFFORD WINSEL

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DAVID APT PAUL SMITH TOBY STEPHENS WILLIAM BIRD TRAVIS HOWER TAYLOR KOBE DEVON MINCKLEY BLANE SUMMERS ANDREW MAGINNESS MARILYN ROSE DYLAN BROCK SHAWN CREMEEN JONATHAN WELCH DAVID BRAMBLE TERRY BURTON LOGAN GLENN GARY MCDONALD JEFFREY REESE ROBERT ZIMMERMAN JOHN BULLIMORE BRADFORD DAVIS TYRONE QUINN

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BRYAN MILLER LUCAS SATTMAN JOHN STUMP II RYAN COLWELL TARA SHEAFER CLINT WELCH JOHN MULARONI LUCAS NELSON KYLE POSER CHRISTOPHER ZOOK JAMES CONLEY TED LUNN RAY COLEMAN BRIAN MILLER JAMES MOREHOUSE MARK TOLLIVER TAMMY VANCE BRAD WINSOR CRIS RAY MICHAEL REUSER WILLIAM SWEET CORY WILSON

WORK ANNIVERSARIES 5 YEARS: DEREK BALDOMINO  MICHAEL BROWN CHARLES CLIBON  ROBERT GASTON JR WILLIAM MICHAEL OWENS II  PETER RODGERS MIKE SEARS  STACY SEIBERT  ROBERT SMITH

15 YEARS: SHAWN LIGHTFOOT 25 YEARS: CAREY MINIHAN 30 YEARS: KENNETH SWEETWOOD

10 YEARS: MICHAEL FARVE  JOE SORRELLI

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continued SERVICE February, 2020

CONSTRUCTION continued Ameriprise Financial Call Center Las Vegas, NV | $142,000 | PLBG BNSF - Argentine Yard Electrical Sub Stations Kansas City, KS | $125,000 | ELEC Honeywell – 6200 Water Skid Installation Kansas City, MO | $270,553 | ELEC, PIPE Saint Luke’s East Flex Capacity Expansion Lees Summit, MO | $4,840,567 | ELEC, PIPE, PLBG, SM Saint Luke’s Wornall IR Remodel Phase 1B Kansas City, MO | $337,7667 | PLBG, SM University of Texas Hal C Weaver Power Plant Lees Summit, MO | $141,950 | PIPE

National Weather Service – TI Kansas City, MO | $29,428 ATK Lake Army Ammunition/Fire Damaged Duct Independence, MO | $27,338 Saint Luke’s Health System/PM & Testing Overland Park, KS | $31,639 1201 Walnut Tower/Pipe Replacement Kansas City, MO | $46,126

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Corporate Challenge Sign-Up Deadline is March 10!

Don’t forget to sign up! Seriously, it’s fun! This year’s events take place April 10-June 27. Go to the KCCC website. In the upper right, sign in or create an account. The password is p1group. Questions? Contact Tennille Tegeler!

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