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Sebesta Employee News

January 2015

Sebesta Team Anniversaries

20 Tom Schubbe St. Paul

John Carlson St. Paul

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Mike Morrissey Boston

Manny Day St. Paul

Bob Kilgore St. Paul

Charlie Wendt DC

Dave Collins Boston

Chuck Wojack St. Paul

10

Wayne Beierman St. Paul

Jacob Hendel St. Paul

Bradley Willers St. Paul

Rich Roy Dallas

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Rob Moore DC

Jesse Stallions Boston

Cheryl Schuldt St. Paul

Michelle Moore St. Paul

Kay Anderson St. Paul

John Gardner Houston

Ward Connors Raleigh

Davide Vettraino Boston

Lisa Allison DC

Barrett Buechler St. Paul

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Liz Bolin DC

Todd Gilles St. Paul

Cindy Jacobsen St. Paul

Nicholas Miller Dallas

Jaime Sampana Houston

Sarah Carver Dallas

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Leisbel Lam St. Paul

Larry Nemer St. Paul

Nathan Venos DC

Ron Ciesla Chicago

George Houk Boston

Chaz Teetzen St. Paul

Kevin Barnett Philadelphia

Robert Noe St. Paul

Daniel McClure Philadelphia

Gabriel Stallions Boston

Welcome New Sebesta Team Members Dustin Allen St. Paul Carlos Castro Dallas Ray Kampa St. Paul Thomas Klidzejs St. Paul Hilda Perez Dallas Robert Rhein St. Paul Rey Roca Dallas Matthew Stiebling St. Paul Frederick Stokes DC Denise Strohbehn Cedar Rapids Mattew Van Oosbre St. Paul

Transfers

Barrett Buechler DC

Promotion

Abdullah Khaliqi Engineer 3 Leisbel Lam Engineer 3

Farewell

Mark Banas Retired

Holiday Office Celebrations!

Like following the GPS on your phone, let’s chart the wisest route to get Sebesta to its ideal destination.

Our ongoing focus on Sebesta’s Core Purpose, our Core Values and our Envisioned Future are hopefully becoming second nature to you. embedding these concepts into the fabric of our company’s culture is paramount to our long term success. I know this is true because I’ve seen corporate cultures make or break companies through my decades of running AEC firms. I know you understand both our Core and our Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) but some of you have been asking about specific steps we will take

to achieve our vision. You know the “what”, now you want to know “how”… How do we demonstrate our core values in our day-to-day work and how will that help us achieve our goals? Enter the 2015 Sebesta Roadmap. Sebesta’s roadmap will not magically contain all the answers, but it will provide a solid framework to encourage dialogue and ideally create excitement a about how each of you contribute to our success and our future.

Sebesta’s roadmap is a framework to help us clearly define and mutually understand how we can apply our Core Values and Purpose. It defines the corporate and regional initiatives for

2015 that will enable our growth as we navigate the road toward the BHAG.

The Road Best Travelled

Market Sector Spotlight

EDUCATION

This roadmap will:

Communicate how our day to day activities relate to our Core Values and Purpose

Create clarity and accountability around six specific corporate initiatives for 2015

Showcase how regional initiatives will uniquely support and compliment corporate efforts

Force a conversation between you and your management team to better understand how your personal role contributes to Sebesta’s overall success

Each region is currently in the process of customizing/tailoring the corporate roadmap to meet the unique business requirements of each office. Stay tuned over the next four weeks for more information from your Regional Business Unit Leader or your direct supervisor. Please familiarize yourself with our Sebesta Roadmap. Ask questions. Seek clarity. Attain understanding. This tool will help us ensure focused alignment across our markets, our services and our regions – an alignment critical to our overall success. Thank each and every one of you for your hard work, your dedication, and your steadfast commitment to helping Sebesta pursue our goals. I am very excited about our future and am confident that, with your support and contributions, we will make 2015 a banner year for Sebesta. Let’s drive down this road together!

Sebesta’s market sectors represent groupings of clients that share similar areas of focus or business interests. Our goal, as consultants, is to apply our technical expertise uniquely to each market to meet their specific needs. The Education market sector is mainly comprised of public and private institutions that own and operate multiple buildings on a campus – often served by a central utility plant. From a facilities perspective, these institutions need to have top-notch facilities for both faculty and students, but are constantly challenged to reduce costs. This tension makes the market ideal for Sebesta. The more we embrace and understand these needs, the more successful we will be in winning work from these clients and improving their lives. Our Core Purpose of Delivering Solutions and Improving Lives fits perfectly with this business model. A college campus provides ample opportunities for all of our service offerings – from planning and design to retro-commissioning and sustainability to central utility work and strategic facility consulting. Our Education market in 2015 is focused on building relationships with campuses near to our offices to promote all of our services. The Service Spotlight article highlights a specific example of how we are working to meet the emerging needs of the University of North Carolina with a new central utility plant that will cost-effectively meet the future needs of the campus. Contact Davide Vettraino, Sebesta’s Education Market Sector Leader, with any questions about the Education market sector. Stay tuned for the next market spotlight article on the Government market sector.

How many Sebesta employees have professional certifications? Send your guess to mpeters@sebesta.com and the first 10 responders will receive a prize.

SERVICE SPOTLIGHT: Campus Utility Solutions University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Read More About This Project on Our Website

Our project team includes Stacey Ayuthia, Project Manager, John Carlson, Sr. Mechanical Engineer, Manny Day, Sr. Electrical Engineer, and Tom Schubbe, Energy Analyst.

Sebesta Employee News January 2015

Sebesta

is nationally known for our Campus Utility Solutions service, which is a part of our Planning and Design Services. We work with owners and operators of central utility plants serving multiple buildings that provide steam, hot water, chilled water, and electric power to serve campus energy needs. Our services range from trouble shooting a single piece of equipment, to developing and implementing a comprehensive infrastructure master plan as well as designing, commissioning, and retro-commissioning utility plants. Campus Utility Solutions services require an integrated approach that addresses our client’s goals for reliability, efficiency, and sustainability. Sebesta has interdisciplinary teams that work on these projects, including mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineers, environmental consultants, energy analysts, and sustainability specialists. This past year we have embarked upon our largest campus utility project to date, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (UNC). The project started when UNC invited us to propose on a feasibility study to evaluate alternatives for a new chiller plant and additional standby power generation. Sebesta was asked to bid due to our continuing involvement in the campus utility market nationally and past relationships which evolved from a successful project steam turbine drive chiller plant project at Iowa State University several years ago. Our team was selected over other major engineering firms because we created a very solid message in our proposal and interview. Both were focused on the client’s needs and their vision for the future. Our project team developed relationships with key UNC personnel and subconsultants as we successfully executed the study. A major subconsultant was BBH Design, which was also our architectural teaming partner on the recently constructed cogeneration plant at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

The scope of the study was to analyze alternatives and develop a conceptual design for a new chiller plant and backup power system to improve the resiliency of critical campus cooling and power needs. Our recommended design includes a chilled water plant with two 5,000-ton steam, turbine driven chillers and an 18 MW reciprocating engine generator. Total project cost is approximately $90 million.

Our study contract gave UNC the option to retain the same team to execute design and construction, which the owner chose to exercise. UNC selected Sebesta to lead the design and construction. This will be the first 18MW, single-engine generator facility designed by Sebesta. It will be one of the first plants with an 18MW, gas-fired reciprocating engine in the US. The chiller plant will be one of the few new field-erected steam turbine driven chiller plants currently being built in America. Our fee is approximately $8 million (including our subconsultants) which is the largest design project in Sebesta’s history. We started the design phase last fall, with an 18 month schedule for design and an 18 month construction schedule. The project is led from our St. Paul office with on-site support from our local Raleigh, N.C. team.