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¡Feliz Día del Padre! In honor of Father’s Day, our Mexico Employee Club welcomed all the dads in the office with a donut and card. Run by employees, for employees, our Employee Clubs promote educational, social, and recreational activities to encourage intra-office fellowship and employee appreciation. #SSOEmexico #workperks #chooseSSOE
PRESS RELEASE: SSOE Offers Real-World Job Experience to Rogers High School's Visual Communication Design (VCD) Career Technology Program. Providing each student with a creative brief, project imagery, and feedback along the way, the assignment required them to produce a 60-90 second final product. Press Release: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMFXt. Watch all 10 student submissions here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMFXi. #PressRelease #WorkforceDevelopment
IPD from A to Z: last week, we kicked off an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) project in Mexico City with training for the project team, rolling into the first Collaborative Design Session. Eight SSOE team members from our U.S. and Mexico offices participated. Within an IPD framework, all stakeholders work together at every stage of a project to achieve deliverables and meet objectives. Team success is tied to project success, sharing both risk and reward. Activities occur concurrently, allowing and engaging early contribution of knowledge and expertise of contractors and key trades, and we utilize Lean tools such as pull planning, Target Value Design, and Virtual Design and Construction, among others, to the fullest extent to bring our client optimal value.
Data, dubbed "the new oil", is now argued to be the world most valuable resource—but who owns it? SSOE's Tony Sabat, BIM / CAD Technical Specialist and one of several licensed drone pilots at SSOE, featured on the SPAR 3D guest blog where he explores the future of reality capture and its data and what it could mean to our clients and industry.
SSOE in the Southeast: we appreciate the opportunity to partner with our friends at Turner Construction Company to provide mechanical and electrical engineering on this project for Torch Technologies in Huntsville, Alabama. #SSOEsoutheast
PRESS RELEASE: SSOE Group Recognized as one of the Fastest-Growing Architectural, Engineering, Planning, and Environmental Consulting Firms in the U.S. for Third Consecutive Year. Zweig Group’s “Hot Firm” List is determined by evaluating a firm’s percentage growth rate and dollar revenue growth rate over the previous 3-year period. This ranking, established over 20 years ago, is the only list celebrating and honoring growth in the industry. Read it here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMBIL. #chooseSSOE
Booming in Birmingham! Construction job growth in Birmingham, Alabama is on the rise to the tune of 11% over the past year, and we’re focused on perpetuating that growth from our local office. We’re hiring for multiple positions in our Birmingham and Huntsville office locations. With our established and ever-growing Southeast presence and collaborative culture, you can expect a challenging and satisfying work life when you choose SSOE in Alabama. #SSOEsoutheast #chooseSSOE
Hats off to the grads! The Leadership Toledo Class of 2019 recently completed their 9-month program. SSOE’s Heather Judge and Erin Curley were among this year’s graduates. The program serves to provide individuals with the opportunity to become more confident leaders while connecting with the community through service and volunteerism. Both architects by trade, Heather and Erin joined more than 40 community leaders from diverse backgrounds and professions for this intensive program. #SSOEcares #chooseSSOE
TBT: as Bob Howell, President and CEO, channels the optical style of Al Samborn and Jack Steketee, two of our four founders, we’re reminded that history repeats itself (and not only when it comes to fashion). As a firm, we once again find ourselves looking forward into the future, preparing for new leadership as well as the disruption of our industry. Although the future is bright, we find it’s important to remember our past—the 70-year journey that brought us to the present. Take a trip with us down memory lane at http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMBXh. #ThrowbackThursday #TBT
Leaning into learning: last week, a multidisciplinary group of SSOE employees traveled from our offices in Mexico, Ohio, and Minnesota to the Lean Construction Institute Lean in Design Forum in the Windy City of Chicago. As an organization, we’ve been taking actionable steps toward Lean Project Delivery (LPD), a strategy guided by a Lean mindset with a goal of defining and delivering a collective vision of success on projects. Our annual attendance at this event helps us maintain focus on LPD and bring back actionable learnings and best practices in design technology and innovation to apply on future projects. This year, highlights mentioned by our attendees included a Target Value Delivery cost benchmark workshop, Big Room workspace ideas, roundtable discussions on technology, and how to navigate complex decision making using Choosing By Advantages.
