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BUSINESS NEWS EMERSON TO LAUNCH $100 MILLION RENOVATION PROJECT FOR ITS FACILITIES IN SIDNEY, OHIO Building on its longstanding commitment to west-central Ohio and to advance its global leadership in the heating and cooling industry, Emerson announced plans for a major renovation and expansion of the labs and offices at its existing 1-million-square-foot facility in Sidney, Ohio. The project is expected to require $100 million in investments over the next four years. Emerson broke ground in July on the first phase of construction, which will include building a two-story office addition onto the current facility and converting existing space to new and expanded engineering laboratories. With a focus on creating an environment to attract tomorrow’s engineers, scientists, and industry leaders, the renovated facility will facilitate cross-functional collaboration and provide an efficient, modern workplace. A highlight of the project will be an upgraded, cutting-edge lab space to conduct advanced performance and refrigerant testing with its compressors and related products. “Emerson is committed to growing our global leadership position in the heating and cooling industry. To do that we need best-in-class facilities that provide our current employees a cutting-edge space to continue their critical work – and that help us attract the next generation of engineers and scientists,” said Bob Sharp, executive president for Emerson’s commercial and residential solutions business. “These facility improvements will enable us to develop next-level technology and solutions to meet our customers’ future needs.” The new construction projects in Sidney

SIEMENS JACOBS CELEBRATE THE WALPOLE EXPANSION PROJECT GROUNDBREAKING Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and Siemens Healthineers celebrated the groundbreaking of a major expansion to a key Siemens Healthineers manufacturing and R&D facility for laboratory diagnostics in Walpole, Massachusetts on June 30, 2017. HEALTHINEERS AND Providing engineering and construction support for the expansion project, Jacobs’ scope of services includes more than 30 projects over a three-year period as part of a complex master plan to increase the production capacity, expand office and lab space, and add warehouse space at the existing 500,000 square-foot complex. “Our team brings considerable knowledge to this project, with proven capabilities and 11 years previous on-site experience at Walpole,” said Jacobs Senior Vice President Life Sciences, Consumer Goods and Manufacturing Ken Gilmartin. “Jacobs is proud to be working alongside Siemens to grow the company’s U.S. manufacturing footprint and support their goal of providing improved healthcare worldwide.” Walpole is a main Siemens Healthineers location for developing and manufacturing laboratory diagnostics assays for immunoassay instruments, as well as consumables for molecular and blood gas testing instruments. The Walpole facility impacts patients and healthcare providers across the globe. R&D efforts at the site bring new tests to the diagnostics market to help physicians diagnose and treat disease.

come just a year after Emerson opened its Helix Innovation Center on the University of Dayton campus. The Helix Innovation Center is an industry-first effort funded by Emerson to spur research, collaboration, and education across the heating and cooling manufacturing industries. Since 1937, Sidney has been the home of Emerson’s world-renowned Copeland compressors for air conditioning and refrigeration, and the Sidney location today serves as the company’s headquarters in the Americas for compressor technology and manufacturing. The renovated facility will enable engineers to conduct research, development and testing to develop future technologies for compressors, in addition to manufacturing Copeland Scroll compressors, which are found inside air conditioning systems for homes and commercial buildings, and in refrigeration systems at retailers, restaurants and other institutions worldwide. Globally, Emerson has produced 150 million Copeland Scroll compressors and invested $1.5 billion to date in development of the technology. “Through our Copeland brand, we have a history in this area that stretches back eight decades, as well as 1,700 employees at the Sidney location who call Ohio’s Miami Valley region home,” said Brent Schroeder, group president of heating and air conditioning for Emerson’s Commercial and Residential Solutions business. “We are grateful for the local, regional, and state agencies and officials who have provided support for this major renovation project. We are excited to get the project underway and continue to build for a bright future.”

Fehr Graham wants to grow. We work hard to create an en- vironment in which failure is a positive – an opportunity to learn or solve another problem. A lot of effort goes into making sure that our failures are exposed internally and fixed before the deliverable leaves our office out of respect to our clients. In the end, this is very much a human busi- ness and, as such, mistakes and missteps will happen no matter how good our process is or gets. My colleagues are confident enough in their abilities to come together and de- liver when we experience a failure with one of our initia- tives. The team quickly regroups, formulates a strategy to address it and moves forward. When that failure involves a client, we own it and work diligently to make it right. If you spend time in our office, I know you will hear this phrase, “If you ain’t falling down, you aren’t really skiing!” “Failure is a necessary experience to grow at the pace Fehr Graham wants to grow. We work hard to create an environment in which failure is a positive – an opportunity to learn or solve another problem.”

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consistent culture across the firm. We now have 10 offices in three states, and integrating and ensuring the “Fehr Gra- ham Way” across all locations takes time. It defines how we treat clients, how we complete our work, and how we sup- port each other. Also important is patience and having an open mind. When new people join the firm through acqui- sitions, they often bring great ideas as well as a strong hold on how they approached things before. They also bring new talents that we find ways to use. You must take the time to listen and learn so the whole team gets better. From there, we can communicate to the entire team why certain deci- sions were made and how we will work together moving for- ward. Our all-for-one and one-for-all approach to business as opposed to profit centers encourages cross-office support in securing as well as executing work. This is a big change for some, and it takes adjustment. Once you see the benefits of our process, you never want to go back to those other means that often create silos. TZL: In the event of failure, how does your firm react? MG: Failure is a necessary experience to grow at the pace

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