AIA Chicago recently presented the 2019 Design Excellence Awards, an annual awards program that honors the best work by Chicago architecture firms found worldwide; this includes Chicago-based projects by national and international firms. Kleingers is proud to be part of the winning team for the UC Health Gardner Neuroscience Institute project, which won a Design Detail Award and a Citation of Merit for a Distinguished Building Award. Click here to read more about this incredible project.

Jim had an interview over coffee with Juli Smith, President of Smith Consulting Group, LLC.

“Jim shares with us his journey of becoming an engineer, how embracing change and taking risks is a good thing, what being a servant leader means to him, and why he doesn’t have any professional regrets.”

Click this link to read more about Jim’s journey and see how awesome he is.

What are the most significant risks faced by every design and construction project? Group Leader Nick McCullough was invited to be part of Cogence Alliance to offer his insights and explore others. Last week the Cogence Alliance (a select group of owners, architects, engineers, CM/GC, construction trades, and insurance/banking/legal affiliates) released the 2^nd installment of its 8-part series. It answers this critically important question that was asked in its first installment. Their goal is to share this information to inspire greater understanding between disciplines, reducing risk, and improving project outcomes for everyone.

Click here to view the Owner’s perspective.

On Friday 9/13/19, at our all-employee annual meeting, we took a break from talking strategy, finances, and branding to build 60 cabinets for Adopt A Book to donate to the community. Depending on which employee you talk to, it was either the best or worst thing we’ve done in a while (hint: the cabinets were from IKEA). Definitely one or the other. A special thank you also goes out to the employees who collected over 1,000 books. Way to go!

The Cincinnati Preschool Promise, Cheviot Academy, LEAP Academy, Riverview East Academy, Cincinnati Early Learning Centers, Inc. – CELC, First Step Home, Butler County Educational Service Center, The HealthCare Connection, Good Samaritan Hospital – we hope you enjoy your cabinets. We may or may not have an employee uprising on our hands if we ask our people to build any more IKEA furniture.

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