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KS ASSOCIATES DESIGNS RIVER FRONTAGE AREA FOR THE FOUNDRY KS Associates Inc. (Elyria, OH), a civil engineering and surveying firm, is helping put infrastructure in place to support Cleveland’s growing interest in the sport of rowing. KS Associates was responsible for designing the dock area and river frontage for The Foundry, a new state-of-the-art rowing facility located along the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland. The Foundry is the vision of Mike Trebilcock and his wife, Gina, who purchased a series of industrial buildings in hopes of transforming them into a recreational hub and education center for high school and college student athletes who want to become high performance rowers and sailors. In 2014, Trebilcock, in conjunction with MCPc Family Charities, contracted with KS Associates to prepare construction plans for the Foundry’s dock area. KS Associates’ design included 520 lineal feet of rowing and launch docks, gangway ramps, steel platforms, and anchor piles. KS Associates also provided some permitting and surveying services for the project. Trebilcock and The Foundry are exceptionally proud of the due diligence with the project, including obtaining a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers, approval by the United States Coast Guard, and the Northeast Ohio shipping community. The docks, constructed by RowAmerica, and boathouse opened for their first season in August 2015, just in time for the 2015-2016 school year. When fully constructed, The Foundry will be complete with a fitness center, indoor rowing tanks, and park. The Foundry is located on the east side of Columbus Road across from Rivergate Park. With Rivergate Park and The Foundry on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, the project is helping make the riverfront more accessible to the growing rowing community. GRIFFIN STRUCTURES CONGRATULATES THE CITY OF LAKE FOREST ON THE AWARD On October 3, the City of Lake Forest received the Parks and Recreation Project of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Section of the ASCE for the Lake Forest Sports Park Complex in Lake Forest, California. “We would like to congratulate the City of Lake Forest on its tenacity and foresight on one of the most important community projects in Orange County. It was a privilege to serve as construction manager on the largest sports park in Orange County,” said Roger Torriero, CEO of Griffin Structures . Included within the 86-acre area, designed by RJM Design Group , this state-of-the-art sports park also includes a 25,600-square-foot recreation center designed by Robert Coffee & Associates in the center of the site. The building is sited on a plateau overlooking the “park commons” and includes recreation office space, a double gymnasium with a two-over-one basketball court configuration, activity and dance rooms, a teen center, a computer and homework center, and two meeting rooms, as well as a teaching kitchen and restrooms. The recreation center is designed to capture the pastoral lineage of Lake Forest, integrating heavy timber porches, plaster walls and stacked stone pillars. The building profile is defined by a broad sloping roof gesturing toward Saddleback Peak in the distance, and uses the materials and forms found in many of the vernacular ranch buildings of the foothill area of the Saddleback Valley. All rooms are oriented to the distant views to the south and the west and have large porches leading out to the shaded activity areas surrounding the building. Griffin Structures is an innovative, award-winning program and construction management organization providing strategic project delivery solutions to its public, non-profit, and private sector clients. Griffin specializes in program and construction management, as well as strategic services such as needs assessment, and has the ability to structure public-private partnerships. Griffin delivered this important community asset on schedule and under budget.

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ments. I also really care about solving problems for our clients and about grow- ing and developing our employees. I value discernment, and I strive to un- cover and understand the deeper issues and solutions behind facts, appearances, and superficial statements. TZL: What areas do you think need some work? MY: Delegation. As much as I delegate, I always find I have more to do than I can possibly get done. I surround myself with a great team who are constantly pulling work away from me. I am also told I’m too controlling, too hard to please, too hard on people, and impatient. Interestingly, I recently took a Myers-Briggs in-depth assessment which revealed that for my ENFJ type, I had an uncharacteristically high level of “ques- tioning.” The summary pointed out that asking too many questions too quickly puts other people on the defense because it sounds demanding. So, I’m working to spread out the questions.

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pletes the Myers-Briggs type indicator, and we hold a four-hour class every year or two, taught by a professional facilita- tor, to teach about the different prefer- ences and types, and about how our com- pany appreciates and values the diversity of our team. TZL: What do you feel are your strengths? MY: My biggest strength is my abili- ty to quickly look into the future, envi- sion a number of potential outcomes, fig- ure out the steps to get to each outcome, see where the pitfalls are, and then de- cide on the best path to take. I share and test this vision with the stakeholders – our BrightFields’ managers, our team- ing partners, our client, and the regula- tors. From our initial discussions, a plan takes shape that can be further devel- oped and implemented by others. I’m a very good writer, and I often write and edit proposals, reports, project sum- maries, and challenging technical docu-

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