It鈥檚 that time of year, and we asked P1 Group associates to share their favorite fun holiday traditions. We hope their stories help put you in the spirit of the season! Phil Van Hoecke, Pipe Fitter Foreman The Van Hoecke family, including my brothers that are in town, have a standing...
To help get everyone in the spirit of P1 Group's upcoming milestone 100-year celebration (1919-2019), we gave associates a chance to get in on the 100th anniversary fun by launching an employee tagline contest. A total of 90 taglines were submitted, and associates really got into the spirit of our milestone...
P1 Group has been named a 2018 Top 600 Specialty Contractor by the Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine. P1 Group hit the list at number 122 among all specialty contractors and also placed 37th on the 鈥淭op 50 Firms in Mechanical鈥� list. For more than 30 years, the Top 600 Specialty Contractors...
When P1 Group recruits interns, the company strives to find talent that will go on to do great things in a P1 career. Project Engineer Brady K. was one of those interns. Brady accepted his first internship at P1 Group following his third year at Pittsburg State University upon the suggestion...
. . . it might look like this. Walking through an art fair in Venice, FL a few months ago, Smitty and Donna Belcher happened upon some art they thought would be perfect for P1鈥檚 Lenexa lobby. The piece, 鈥淢etallic Weave鈥� was created by Joseph Ferris, a metal artist. 鈥淲e...
P1 Group had the chance to serve as a classroom this summer for a Pittsburg State University construction science professor who wanted to learn more about current trends and techniques in the industry. Associate Professor Shannon Nicklaus also had some advice for P1 on tactics for recruiting the best students from...
鈥淚 don鈥檛 have time for this.鈥� That was P1 Group Proactive Solutions Consultant Hilary Edward鈥檚 first thought when she was diagnosed with Stage 3 Invasive Ductal Carcinoma on February 16, 2017. 鈥淚 told my husband, don鈥檛 worry, I got this.鈥� If anything, Hilary says, the whole thing seemed like an annoyance -...
Internship experiences vary from company to company, but one thing is for sure at P1 Group: our interns get real-world, on-site, project-specific experience. When you work at P1 Group, there鈥檚 not much copy making and coffee getting. We recently caught up with some of our P1 interns who shared their experiences,...
Hear that noise? The college recruitment machine is revving up at P1 Group. As summer winds down and college students are heading back to campus, P1 puts considerable effort into recruiting construction management and engineering students to fill next summer鈥檚 internships and full-time positions. Shana Wallace, Human Resources Manager, said P1...
鈥淚t鈥檚 not exactly what you think of when people say 鈥榁egas鈥�,鈥� P1 Group Senior Project Manager Brian Maginness said of the scenery pictured above. From distant mountain peaks dusted with snow to the all-terrain outdoor scenery, it didn鈥檛 take long for Brian to embrace the western landscape. A native of the...
When the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation requested a proposal for the Essential Service Water and Containment Area Cooler Replacement Project scheduled for Refuel 22, P1 Group was the natural choice. According to Tom Crumrine, nuclear division vice president, the project was competitively bid out to four or five contractors. P1...
A recent report released by The Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2015 indicated that although Texas had the most heat injury cases that year, Kansas had the highest rate of heat injuries: 1.3 per 10,000 workers. Luckily, P1 Group's record has not followed that trend. So what do P1 field associates...
P1 Group鈥檚 document management system has been featured in 鈥淭he Bluebeam Guidebook: Game-Changing Tips and Stories for Architects, Engineers, and Contractors.鈥� Black & Veatch engineers Rachel Atteberry and Jason Hascall wrote the guidebook and included a five-page case study on P1 Group鈥檚 work with Bluebeam Studio Enterprise. P1 Group's Vanessa Taylor,...
Carey Minihan is the recipient of the April 2018 Grit Award, which is part of P1鈥檚 Commitment to Excellence award program. Kollin Knox presented Carey with the award at the All Office Annual Meeting on Friday, April 27th. Carey, a senior project manager for Team Synergy, has worked at P1 Group...
P1 Group has been named a 2017 Top 600 Specialty Contractor by the Engineering News-Record (ENR). P1 Group was ranked 110th among all specialty contractors and also placed 38th on the 鈥淭op 50 Firms in Mechanical鈥� list. The ENR list combines 16 categories of specialty contractors and ranks them by annual...
Smitty Belcher, P1 Group CEO, has been named to the Ingram鈥檚 2017 list of the 250 most powerful business leaders in the Kansas City area. In its profile of Smitty, Ingram鈥檚 said: 鈥淲ell-known across the country for safety and craftsmanship, P1 is under the leadership of a one-time certified welder for...
LENEXA, Kan. - P1 Group, Inc. was recently awarded a Bluebeam eXtreme Award (bXa) for Advanced Use of Bluebeam Revu. The award was presented in August at the Fifth Annual Bluebeam eXtreme Awards in Los Angeles, during the 2017 Bluebeam Conference, attended by more than 1000 people. The eXtreme awards recognize...
BURLINGTON, Kan. 鈥� P1 Group has been awarded the Essential Service Water (ESW) / Containment Area Coolers (CAC) Replacement Project at Wolf Creek Generating Station. The scope of the project will include prefabrication of piping assemblies prior to the refuel and the replacement of approximately 540 feet of ESW pipe. Additional...
To reduce inefficiencies and utilize new technologies, P1 is replacing stacks of paper drawings at many project sites with electronic plan documents that can be viewed on tablets in the field. P1 has also integrated our SharePoint project management system with Bluebeam, a PDF solution that is used by construction, architecture...
LAWRENCE, Kan. - Ben Gannaway is the recipient of the 2017 Virtue Award, which is part of P1鈥檚 Commitment to Excellence award program. Ben is the Warehouse Operations Manager and works out of the Lawrence office. Ben was nominated for the award by three fellow associates. Ben is described as being...
