BLUEPRINTS WEAVERCOOKE S QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER

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1 BLUEPRINTS WEAVERCOOKE S QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER April - June 2017 Current Projects New Employees Jack Rathgeb Retires Procore Update Prefab for Habitat FTCC Tour of the Office Company Meeting 2017 A NEWS UPDATE FROM WEAVERCOOKE

2 7 F E A T U R E S 1. Current Projects WEAVERCOOKE is continuing to thrive, with a lot of projects recently completed and many new ones now under construction. 3. New Employees As we continue to grow our workload and pipeline, we continue to bring in exceptional new talent to meet the needs of our Clients. Speak straight. Speak honestly in a way that forwards what we are up to. Make clear and direct requests. Be willing to surface ideas or take positions that may result in conflict when it s necessary to reach our objectives. 4. Jack Rathgeb Retires Jack Rathgeb is retiring after twelve years working for WEAVERCOOKE. We appreciate his contributions to the company, and wish him a wonderful retirement Habitat for Humanity A group of volunteers from WEAVERCOOKE recently helped to prefabricate and put up the frames and wall panels for a Habitat for Humanity home. 7. FTCC Tours the Office DeEtta Famiano recently led a tour of about twenty students from Forsyth Tech as they learned about how WEAVERCOOKE s office achieved LEED Gold certification Company Meeting 2017 WEAVERCOOKE s annual company meeting was held in May at Revolution Mill. The meeting focused on the importance of our work at WEAVERCOOKE and why we do what we do.

3 The renovations to the clubhouse at St Joseph of the Pines have completed on schedule, in time for their 4th of July party. The memory care addition is scheduled to complete in August. CURRENT PROJECTS WEAVERCOOKE s workload has continued to increase in We currently have over $147 million worth of work under construction. Eagle Market Place Battery Park Hotel Givens Gerber Park Crescent Properties Winder, GA Grayfield Apartments Cedartown, GA Brighton Pointe II Raleigh, NC Pennington Grove Garner, NC Cherokee Springs Cedartown, GA Sumner Ridge Greensboro, NC Twin Lakes Garden Homes Burlington, NC Willow Pond Wilmington, NC Givens Gerber Apartments - Phase II Givens Gerber Apartments - Phase III Southside Revitalization - Phase II Durham, NC Givens Gerber Phase I is completed and occupied, with the second and third phases under construction and scheduled to complete in December and October respectively. Pennington Grove recently held a Topping Off party, inviting every member of the team, from subcontractors to city officials, to thank them for their help in keeping to a rigorous schedule. The Gallery at West Greenville Greenville, SC The Harbor at West Greenville Greenville, SC Deacon Place Winston-Salem, NC Bristol Hotel Bristol, VA St. Joseph of the Pines - Memory Care Southern Pines, NC St Joseph of the Pines - Clubhouse Southern Pines, NC Eagle Market Place is scheduled to finish construction in February of Two of our new hires have been added to the team at Eagle Market: David Shelton (Superintendent) and Brock Melton (Summer Intern). 1 2

4 JACK RATHGEB RETIRES WEAVERCOOKE has hired fourteen new employees in the last quarter, including five summer interns. Name Title Date of Hire Walter Rogowski Assistant Superintendent May 1 Andrew Lewis Project Coordinator May 16 Davis Johnson Project Coordinator May 16 Gabriel Jones Summer Intern May 16 Jon Michael Spake Summer Intern May 16 Tyvonn Ricks Summer Intern May 16 Brock Melton Summer Intern May 16 David Shelnutt Summer Intern May 19 David Shelton Superintendent June 1 Caleb Fortwengler Wall Designer June 1 Katherin Zekendorf Subcontractor Coordinator June 5 Brian Adams Superintendent June 20 Edgar Gallegos Wall Fabricator June 26 Josue Gallegos Wall Fabricator June 26 After twelve years of working with WEAVERCOOKE, Jack Rathgeb is retiring. Jack has been involved with several of WEAVERCOOKE s biggest projects, including Hotel Indigo, The Civil Rights Center & Museum, the Galloway Ridge expansion, and several student housing projects. We appreciate the many contributions that Jack has made to WEAVERCOOKE over his years here, and wish him a wonderful retirement. TOP USERS BY PROJECT Congratulations to the project team at Deacon Place! Deacon Place has, by a large margin, been using ProCore the most of any project team. 3 4

5 At 7:00 AM on June 24th the Habitat home at 730 Prince Rd was just a concrete slab. By 11:00 in the morning, all the framing for the walls had been put up, and foam insulation was installed on the outer walls. Over twenty volunteers from the WEAVERCOOKE office and prefabrication workshop chalked out the placement of the frame on the concrete slab, and then moved each section off the truck, caulking the edges, and nailing the pieces of the frame into place. The frame for the Habitat House was created in WEAVERCOOKE s prefabrication warehouse beforehand, in sections small enough to move by hand with just a few volunteers. Using 3D modeling technology, we can find the exact measurements of a home and the precise way the pieces will fit together, making prefabrication a viable, and fast, option. Habitat for Humanity s mission is a natural fit with WEAVERCOOKE. Our company originally started in 1939, when Herman Weaver saw a need for housing as veterans returned from World War II. As WEAVERCOOKE grew, those roots in housing continued to inform what projects we focused on. We have been helping to fill the need for affordable housing in North Carolina, and the Southeast as a whole, for as long as the programs have been in place to provide it. WEAVERCOOKE is excited to have been able to work with Habitat for Humanity on this project. 5 6

6 FTCC TOURS THE WEAVERCOOKE OFFICE COMPANY MEETING 2017: Why We Do What We Do In 2009, as a student at Forsyth Tech Community College, DeEtta Famiano took a tour of the WEAVERCOOKE office building. I remember thinking when we did the tour how cool it would be to work in this office, she says to a group of rising second-year students at FTCC. And now look at me. DeEtta is WEAVERCOOKE s Director of Virtual Design and Construction. On June 21 she led a group of about twenty students on a tour of the office. The students, who are all currently taking the Environmental Systems class at FTCC, went on two trips to learn more about the LEED Certification process. The first was to the Proximity Hotel, a LEED Platinum project WEAVERCOOKE completed in 2007, nine months after our new office, built to LEED Gold standards, opened just off of Highway 68. operate a laser scanner, which only a handful of people in North Carolina are certified to use. FTCC will soon be offering students a way to achieve that certification through their program. WEAVERCOOKE looks forward to teaming up with FTCC on future projects, in both education and recruitment efforts. COMPANY MEETING VIDEO Our Annual Company Meeting was held at Revolution Mill on May 19th. The focus and theme of this year s meeting was on our culture and goals as an organization. We were excited to welcome several new folks onto our team, including five summer interns, who started just before the annual meeting. Many of our long-time employees received Service Awards, including James Ferguson, who has been with WEAVERCOOKE for forty years. There were also awards for the people best utilizing Procore and The Last Planner system. Each of the Project Managers gave a presentation on one of their jobs, including a masterfully directed video by Brian Conrad of his work at Deacon Place. (Link to the left.) Donations of canned goods were collected from employees at the meeting and donated to Greensboro Urban Ministries. After their tour of the office, the group met in the To the left, there s a link to a video that gives an overview training room and DeEtta explained some of the things of the meeting as a whole. We appreciate everyone who that she had learned at FTCC that have proven the was able to attend, and those who were manning the job most useful in her work at WEAVERCOOKE. She sites so that others could come. also emphasized the importance of knowing how to DEACON PLACE VIDEO 7 8

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