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ON THE MOVE PENNONI ANNOUNCES FIVE PROMOTOTIONS With five decades of engineering expertise, Pennoni – a multidisciplinary engineering, science, planning, and consulting firm – has grown to more than 1,200 staff in offices strategically located throughout the U.S. Pennoni has recently made the following promotions: ❚ ❚ Michael Cromer, PG, DBIA, ENV SP, of Pennoni’s West Chester, Pennsylvania, office, will now serve as regional vice president for the newly created energy and design-build region and has also been promoted to associate vice president. The new energy and design-build region will be market-focused offering energy management, energy efficiency, and design- build services to industrial, commercial, federal, and institutional clients. Cromer will be directly responsible for growing the new region through increased service offerings and strategic business development. ❚ ❚ Tom Frederick, PE, water/wastewater director, joined Pennoni in March 2018 and is leading the firm’s water/wastewater sales efforts. Frederick has since been promoted to associate vice president. Based in Pennoni’s Virginia Beach office,

Frederick will have a strong impact on projects and water/wastewater business development efforts up and down the East Coast. Frederick has been a leader in the water industry for more than 35 years and has served in a variety of roles in his career, including the chief executive and spokesperson for a regional wholesale authority in central Virginia. ❚ ❚ Frederick Brinker, PE, a geotechnical engineer and geotechnical division manager in Pennoni’s Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, office has been promoted to associate vice president. He has nearly 35 years of experience in civil engineering with expertise in geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering. He is responsible for division staff management, business development, proposal preparation and reviews, technical direction and review of geotechnical reports/ engineering calculations, contract reviews, financial performance, and technical mentoring/guidance of division personnel. ❚ ❚ Kevin Sabol, accounting manager in Pennoni’s Philadelphia office, has been promoted to assistant treasurer. Sabol is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University

with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and has been at Pennoni for almost 15 years. Outside of Pennoni, Sabol is a current board member (former treasurer) of Foundation 58 Inc., a charity that supports first responders fighting cancer. ❚ ❚ Dan Mullen, Esq., assistant general counsel in Pennoni’s Philadelphia office, has been promoted to assistant secretary. Mullen graduated magna cum laude from Temple University School of Law as a member of an Order of the Coif. At Temple, Mullen served as the executive editor for the Temple International and Comparative Law Journal . At Pennoni, Mullen works on a range of matters including contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, and dispute resolution. Additionally, as time allows, Mullen provides pro bono legal services for local tax-exempt organizations. Pennoni, founded in 1966, is a multidisciplinary firm with a breadth of services including civil/ site, construction services, environmental, geotechnical, landscape architecture and planning, MEP, structural, survey and geomatics, transportation, water resources, and water/wastewater.

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transforming them into indoor, hydroponic gardens. We hope to be able to start an urban farm that will be able to supply fruits and vegetables, grown locally and picked fresh daily. This will allow us to utilize the balance of our recycled water. Along with solar-generated electricity from our rooftops to power LED lamps, color tunable to exactly the color that the plants want to grow best, we’ll be making use of everything in the project to reduce water use, reduce waste, and save money for our residents and tenants. On top of that, residents and restaurants in the district will have ready access to the freshest of vegetables. Ever tasted kale picked fresh? Instead of the bitter, tough greens I’ve had from a grocery store, it’s delightfully sweet and tender. Recently, researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Stanford, discovered new ways to not just make recycled water suitable for cooling towers and irrigation but also to make it drinkable as well. A whole new approach to making nanotechnology filters will soon allow the water to be potable at a very reasonable price. A new organization in Reno, called the Nevada Water Innovation Campus, has representatives from our local University, the Truckee Meadows Water Authority, the City of Reno, Washoe County, and the Desert Research Institute, along with several other Nevada cities and other entities concerned with water. This effort will allow us to share resources to make Reno a model for conserving and reusing water. Stay tuned. I’ll keep you posted as all of us progress on this very important issue. EDWARD FRIEDRICHS, FAIA, FIIDA, is the former CEO and president of Gensler. Contact him at efriedrichs@zweiggroup.com.

The recycled water will be “gray” water, not potable. If a person drank it, it wouldn’t make them sick. It just wouldn’t taste very good. We’ll be able to use gray water for landscape irrigation, to keep our cooling towers filled and to flush our toilets. Our first discovery in our design calculations was that we would be producing too much recycled water, and the regional authorities wouldn’t allow us to put it into the Truckee River, directly adjacent to our site. “We’ll be building our parking garages with predominantly flat floors, suitable for transforming them into indoor, hydroponic gardens. We hope to be able to start an urban farm that will be able to supply fruits and vegetables, grown locally and picked fresh daily.” So, we came up with another strategy. We’ll be building 5,500 parking stalls in conjunction with the project, many of which will become redundant as autonomous vehicles hit the road, starting in about three years. The timing couldn’t be better. Just at the time people begin to use autonomous vehicles for local transportation, avoiding the cost of owning, insuring, and maintaining a second car, we’ll have quite a number of excess spaces. So, what to do with them? We’ll be building our parking garages with predominantly flat floors, suitable for

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