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O'Brien & Gere has become more than an engineering solutions provider throughout our history of creating a better future since 1945. At the center of our story are clients ranging from advanced manufacturers to higher education, federal agencies, and municipalities. These clients trust us to deliver sustainable solutions and integrate innovative technology to solve the evolving energy, water, environmental and facilities challenges of today and tomorrow. By living our mission of People creating a better future by making a difference each day, we are improving natural and built environments for our clients, employees, and communities. And our story keeps getting better…
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- 2. NOTICE This material is protected by copyright. No other use, reproduction, or distribution of this material or of the approaches it contains, is authorized without the prior express written consent of O’Brien & Gere. © Copyright, 2014 O’Brien & Gere, All Rights Reserved All materials printed on recycled paper. 2 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 3. SafetyMoments App for iPad® and iPhone® iPad and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. 3 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 4. Mission 4 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 5. Vision 5 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 6. Values 6 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 7. The Numbers 26 offices Throughout the United States 1945 rich history of employee ownership Commitment to corporate social responsibility and employee engagement 90 percent repeat business Strong client relationships and satisfaction 900 $200M employees Purposeful growth and sustainable financial performance People creating a better future by making a difference each day 7 in annual revenues © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 8. Our Offices New York Delaware Wilmington Georgia Atlanta Savannah Albany Binghamton Buffalo New York City Rochester Syracuse (2) Utica North Carolina Kentucky Raleigh Lexington Louisville Ohio Maryland / Washington D.C. Pennsylvania Cincinnati Baltimore Washington D.C. Michigan Virginia Edison Pompton Lakes File Location Charleston New Jersey © 2014 O’Brien & Gere South Carolina Detroit 8 Danville Philadelphia Pittsburgh Richmond Virginia Beach
- 9. Our Brands 9 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 10. Our Services 10 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 11. Our Services 11 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 12. Our Services 12 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 13. Our Services 13 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 14. Our Services 14 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 15. Our People Air Quality Engineers, Air Dispersion Modelers, Natural Resource Specialists, Construction Engineers, Construction Managers, Facility Engineers, Field Project Managers, Environmental Health Specialists, Energy Specialists, Transportation Engineers, Government Liaison Personnel, Media Specialists, Control Systems Engineers, CPM Schedulers, Plant Operations Engineers, Process Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, Funding & Grant Specialists, Cost Engineers, Acoustical Engineers, Noise Experts, Marketing Specialists, Engineers HVAC Engineers, Data Processing Specialists, Information Systems Specialist, System Analysts, Biochemists, Fabrication Biologists, Aquatic Construction Corrosion Designers Geochemists, Wildlife Biologists, Scientists Engineers, Industrial Operators Engineers, Instrumentation Engineers, Safety Engineers, System Integrators Procurement Specialists, Meteorologists, Technicians Designers, Hazardous Waste Specialists, Civil Engineers, Architects, Architectural Engineers, Industrial Hygienists, Environmental Engineers, CADD Experts, Chemical Technology Engineers, Municipal Engineering, Project Support / Ecologists, Electrical Engineers, Geologists, Geological CAD, GIS, Modelers Engineers, Project Controls Hydrogeologists, Estimators, Hydrologists,Program / Project Mechanical Engineers, Land Use Experts, Master Landscape Architects, Management Planners, Site Planners, Zoning Experts, Waste Treatment Engineers, Solid Waste Managers, Waste Water Engineers, Water Supply Engineers, Water Treatment Experts, Spec Writers, Structural Engineers, Geotechnical Engineers, Aerial mapping Specialists, Geographers, Water Distribution Specialists, Water Management Engineers 15 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 16. Strategic Objectives Client Satisfaction Corporate Social Responsibility 16 Employee Satisfaction Sustainable Financial Performance © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location Commitment to checking our progress and making adaptive changes in support of continuous improvement
- 17. Strategic Objective: Client Satisfaction “They demonstrate daily their commitment to safety and achieving the project goals in the most effective and efficient manner.” - Industrial Client Services were beyond expectations. Superb service in every category. - Higher Education Client “Our experience with O'Brien & Gere has been a positive one. Principals meet with us regularly for status updates and consistently provide us with an excellent work product.” - Municipal Client Great value for professional services. - Federal Client “O’Brien & Gere is an excellent resource firm with capable staff in all areas required by our organization. They are a world class firm with a hometown personality.” - Municipal Client Working with O’Brien & Gere is always a worry-free experience. - Industrial Client *Quotes from 2012 Client Satisfaction Survey 17 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 18. Strategic Objective: Employee Satisfaction As a co-op, I have received more real engineering work here than anywhere else. I appreciate the trust in my ability and the chance to prove my talent. 2012 Exceptional Employee Awards …it is the people that drive the value of working here. I am surrounded by people I genuinely like, respect, and trust. *Quotes from 2012 Employee Satisfaction Survey 18 2012 “Confidence Rising” Strategic Plan Tour © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 19. Strategic Objective: Corporate Social Responsibility Day of Caring – Charleston, SC / Atlanta, GA Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics – Maryland Holiday Toy Drive – Syracuse, NY Youth Basketball – Syracuse, NY 19 Francis Center Breakfast – Rochester, NY © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 20. Strategic Objective: Sustainable Financial Performance Sustainable financial performance through a commitment to living our Strategic Plan 20 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 21. Our Clients Higher Education Federal Industrial Chemical & Petrochemical Food & Beverage Life Sciences Manufacturing Power & Utilities 21 Municipal © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 22. Federal Multi-discipline A-E Services, U.S. Air Force at McGuire Air Force Base – McGuire AFB, NJ Demolition Program, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Midwest – Naval Station Great Lakes, IL A-E Services, Fish Lift Repair, USACE, Charleston District – St. Stephen, SC 22 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 23. Higher Education Energy Master Plan for Central Utility Systems, Syracuse University – Syracuse, NY Stormwater Management Master Plan for University of Albany, NYSOGS/DASNY – Albany, NY GHG Inventory, Energy Assessment, and Climate Action Plan Program, City University of New York 23 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 24. Industrial High Tech Battery Manufacturing Plant, Manufacturing Client – Northeast U.S. Campus Restructuring and Process Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical Client – Northeast U.S. WWTP System Concept Design and Detail Design, Food & Beverage Client – Southeast U.S. 24 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 25. Municipal Comprehensive Regional Water Supply Plan, Tennessee DRDA – Shelbyville, TN Eastside Water Supply Project, Monroe County Water Authority – Rochester, NY Comprehensive Wastewater Facility Upgrades, City of Martinsburg – Martinsburg, WV 25 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 26. Connecting Technology and Innovation 26 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 27. Connecting Technology and Innovation 27 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 28. Connecting Technology and Innovation Turning the creative ideas of our employees… Innovation …into solutions for our stakeholders 28 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 29. Recognition for Excellence Top 500 Design Firms (#100) Top 200 Environmental Firms (#58) ACEC National Awards 2012 IHS “Healthiest Companies in America” Award 2011 IHS “Healthiest Companies in America” Award 29 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 30. Commitment to Quality Markets & Growth Operational Excellence People Corporate Social Responsibility / Governance Consistently doing things right! 30 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
- 31. Find us, we’re social! Like Us: 31 Follow Us: Connect with Us: © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location Watch Us:
- 32. www.obg.com © 2014 O’Brien & Gere
- 33. Life-Cycle Services 33 © 2014 O’Brien & Gere File Location
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- Note: This slide introduces the SafetyMoments app. Use a full-page slide from the Safety Moment presentation (on the intranet) to deliver a safety moment. Script Suggestion:O’Brien & Gere’sSafetyMoments app for iPad® and iPhone® provides accessto safety content to promote and enhance corporate safety culture. SafetyMoments provides free safety content to help support safety awareness in any office, field, industrial setting, or workplace. With safety examples for a wide range of applications, these safety moments are applicable to most industries.Features: Free app for use with iPad andiPhone Provides more than 50 safety moments – new additions coming soon Categorized by type for easy searching Excellent way to kick off any type of meeting Valuable at all levels of an organization Great tool to help enhance a safety culture Emphasis on visuals – easy to understand / minimal text
- Note: Depending on your presentation approach, you have the option of using separate mission, vision, and values slides. For time / efficiency purposes, a combined mission, vision, and values slide is provided as an option.Script Suggestion: Our people align O’Brien & Gere’s mission and strategic objectives. Our mission statement also allows O’Brien & Gere to develop objectives in the spirit of how we make a difference for our stakeholders, regardless of change in our services, geographies, and markets. No matter what we do, who we are working with, or where we are, O’Brien & Gere will be creating a better future by making a difference each day.
- Note: Depending on your presentation approach, you have the option of using separate mission, vision, and values slides. For time / efficiency purposes, a combined mission, vision, and values slide is provided as an option.Script Suggestion: O’Brien & Gere achieves the premier provider distinction when we provide integrated, innovative, and sustainable solutions. Integrated:Our solutions are integrated when we blend more than one solution or service through our project life-cycle. We are premier when we seamlessly integrate our solutions with our high level of client service. O’Brien & Gere’s ability to act not just as a consultant and partner to our clients, but as an extension of their team sets us apart from competitors in the marketplace. Innovative:Our solutions are innovative when we respond to our clients using teamwork and diversity of thought to arrive at unique and efficient solutions to the most pressing and challenging client issues and needs. Our ability to provide innovative services increases our competitive advantage by assuring our clients that we can adapt to future needs through inventive thinking and project execution.Sustainable:Our solutions are sustainable when we consider impacts on the environment, community, employees, and clients and ensure that our products and services are delivered in a manner consistent with our corporate and social responsibilities. By focusing on sustainable business, environmental stewardship, and corporate social responsibility, we focus on maintaining O’Brien & Gere’s existence in the future.
- Note: Depending on your presentation approach, you have the option of using separate mission, vision, and values slides. For time / efficiency purposes, a combined mission, vision, and values slide is provided as an option.Script Suggestion: Whereas our mission helps us understand who we are as a Company, our values prescribe how we will treat others and our clients along the path to our vision. Our values define our behavior in creating a better future by making a difference each day. Our values affirm that the way we accomplish our mission and objectives is equally important as the end result. Our values are, in essence, the heart of O’Brien & Gere.People are at the center of our core values. From the selection of our core values to the implementation, our employees are the essence of O’Brien & Gere.
- Note: The purpose of this is to give context to who we are in terms of size and history. To help narrate this slide, our “story” text is appropriate:Script Suggestion: O'Brien & Gere has become more than an engineering solutions provider throughout our historyof creating a better future since 1945.At the center of our story are clients ranging from advanced manufacturers to higher education, federal agencies, and municipalities. These clients trust us to deliver sustainable solutions and integrate innovative technology to solve the evolving energy, water, environmentaland facilities challenges of today and tomorrow. By living our mission of People creating a better future by making a difference each day, we are improving natural and built environments for our clients, employees, and communities. And our story keeps getting better….
- Note: Our corporate message presents our office listings in the context of the nearest major city. This approach helps to support our current and future clients’ understanding of where are offices are nationwide without asking them to be knowledgeable of local geographies throughout the country.Script Suggestion: O’Brien & Gere maintains a clear focus on each office location in terms of markets served and services offered. We look to geography of our growth in terms of where our valued clients would like to see us and where we feel comfortable going. National and international expansion is possible under this vision.Regional Messaging:If you are presenting a regional message, you have the option of stating the appropriate local office name(s) by their physical location – since your audience will be familiar with the geography. These office names include: Wilmington, DE to Newark, DE Baltimore, MD to Hunt Valley, MD Washington D.C. to Bowie, MD Detroit, MI to Farmington Hills, MI Syracuse (2), NY to Syracuse and Liverpool, NY New York City, NY to Hawthorne, NY Philadelphia, PA to East Norriton, PA Richmond, VA to Glen Allen, VA
- Note: See the previous slide for a more dynamic version with animation.Script Suggestion:In all presentations, corporate or sector/regional, we always want to make sure we get the message across that O’Brien & Gere has four brands – energy, water, environment, and facilities.
- Note: Our MarCom and Branding team is currently working on updating the content behind each of these services. When this step of our branding implementation is complete, the Company will be notified. In the meantime, we encourage the use of our L2 graphics in presentations to have the initial conversation of the services we perform for each of our brands.
- Note: Our MarCom and Branding team is currently working on updating the content behind each of these services. When this step of our branding implementation is complete, the Company will be notified. In the meantime, we encourage the use of our L2 graphics in presentations to have the initial conversation of the services we perform for each of our brands.
- Note: Our MarCom and Branding team is currently working on updating the content behind each of these services. When this step of our branding implementation is complete, the Company will be notified. In the meantime, we encourage the use of our L2 graphics in presentations to have the initial conversation of the services we perform for each of our brands.
- Note: Our MarCom and Branding team is currently working on updating the content behind each of these services. When this step of our branding implementation is complete, the Company will be notified. In the meantime, we encourage the use of our L2 graphics in presentations to have the initial conversation of the services we perform for each of our brands. Facilities Wheel – PublicAdvanced Manufacturing Wheel - Private
- Note: Our MarCom and Branding team is currently working on updating the content behind each of these services. When this step of our branding implementation is complete, the Company will be notified. In the meantime, we encourage the use of our L2 graphics in presentations to have the initial conversation of the services we perform for each of our brands. Facilities Wheel – PublicAdvanced Manufacturing Wheel - Private
- Note:Depending on the nature of the presentation, you may want to highlight a particular segment of our employee base and acknowledge that the diversity of our staff supports our ability to provide integrated, innovative, and sustainable solutions.
- Script Suggestion: O’Brien & Gere defines purposeful growth as an objective in terms of clients, employees, and shareholders and identifies a balance between the objectives and priorities of our employee-owners and our stakeholders — clients, employees, and communities. Our four objectives (client satisfaction, employee satisfaction, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable financial performance) are the strategic areas of measure upon which our implementation strategies and priorities have been developed and of which we will check our progress and make adaptive changes.
- Suggested Script: O’Brien & Gere chooses to measure client satisfaction because clients are at the foundation of the Company’s enduring success and growth. O’Brien & Gere’s purpose for growth is to better serve our ideal clients in their areas of greatest need with the solutions that we provide. Our experience, the way our employees adhere to and exemplify our values, and the quality of our deliverables affect our ability to foster long-term client relationships. These same factors also determine whether or not our clients would recommend us to others.We measure client satisfaction through: Annual Survey – Focuses on key areas of measurement (Quality of Experience; Quality of People; Quality of Delivery; Repeat Business; Recommendation to Others) Client Satisfaction Score (CS2) – This is the result of our annual survey. We utilize this score to measure our progress and implement changes into our annual planning process so that we can meet our objective of client satisfaction Project Closeout – Assures the opportunity for client communication and access to feedback
- Suggested Script:O’Brien & Gere needs highly satisfied, high performance employees in order to create a better future by making a difference each day. By focusing our efforts and resources (and measuring our progress) on developing an engaged, high performance team, strong client relationships with challenging projects, and opportunities for growth, we will be able to continuously work towards a high performance team.We measure employee satisfaction through: Annual Survey – Focuses on key areas of measurement (Quality of Clients; Quality of Projects and People; Quality of Training and Career Opportunities; Quality of Tools and Resources; Quality of Ownership and Leadership Opportunities) Employee Satisfaction Score (ES2) – This is the result of our annual survey. We utilize this score to measure our progress and implement changes into our annual planning process so that we can meet our objective of employee satisfaction
- Suggested Script: O’Brien & Gere’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program formalizes the guiding principles that will enable O’Brien & Gere to achieve a balance between profitable growth, social accountability, and environmental stewardship.Internally: Our CSR objective focuses on EHS and Code of Conduct - Conducting operations ethically, safely, and in an environmentally sustainable manner while improving the quality of life of our employees, our clients, our value chain partners, and the local and global communities we impact.O’Brien & Gere believes that all safety incidents are preventable and therefore we strive for zero safety incidents.Externally: Philanthropy Fund: O’Brien & Gere has a philanthropy fund, governed by a set of established guiding criteria, to support corporate and regional philanthropic requests in a consistent mannerTime & Talent: O’Brien & Gere is committed to supporting the contribution of time & talent by its employees in support of local communities in which employees, clients, and other value chain partners work and live. In 2012, O’Brien & Gere launched a Time & Talent Pilot Program that features two key components:Leadership Grant: O’Brien & Gere encourages employees to volunteer their personal time to 501c3 organizations.Philanthropic Projects: O’Brien & Gere encourages employees to work together on philanthropic projects that connect to the Company’s Strategic Plan with philanthropic activities in local communities.
- Suggested Script: Our 2012 performance resulted in historically high levels within just about all of our financial metrics, including profitability, sales, and capitalization. Simply put, our results signal a rising trend in operating performance and confidence in our expectations for sustainable future performance. This financial success is built upon our market position, diversification, and the operational excellence of our people and provides greater stability in uncertain economic times.
- Suggested Script: Our clients trust in our ability to deliver solutions to their evolving energy, environment, facility, and water challenges. Our unique ability to integrate solutions as well as develop innovative and sustainable solutions will be what continues to set O’Brien & Gere apart from its competition. The markets (clients we serve) include: Federal Higher Education Industrial Municipal
- Script Suggestions: O'Brien & Gere has fostered long-standing relationships with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Veterans Affairs, US Postal Service, General Services Administration and a number of other federal agencies. O’Brien & Gere supports the Federal Market sector with our energy, water, environment, and facilities brands/solutions.
- Suggested Script: O’Brien & Gere collaborates with institutions of higher education, helping to provide and maintain the facilities and systems, infrastructure and safe environment, and maintenance of cultural legacy necessary for progress toward a sustainable future.This allows these institutions to fulfill their fundamental missions of education, training, public service, research and discovery, development and application of knowledge, the growth of the leadership of the future, and as engines of economic development.
- Suggested Script: O’Brien & Gere provides a full range of services to clients within the automotive, chemical, primary metal, conglomerate, and power utilities industries. For industrial clients, O'Brien & Gere provides expertise in energy, water, environmental, and advanced manufacturing.
- Suggested Script: O’Brien & Gere supports municipalities, public and private water and sewer utilities, and state agencies with our water, energy, environment, and facilities brands/solutions.
- Note: Click the video icon to open the YouTube DentonTSI video. Click the [i] icon to visit the DentonTSI webpage.Suggested Script:O’Brien & Gere successfully relocated its manufacturing operations, including its thermal product brand Denton TSI™, to a new location within the Central New York region to support anticipated growth. The new 100,000 ft2 manufacturing and technology development facility, located in Liverpool, NY, represents a major investment by O’Brien & Gere to increase production capacity forcustom thermal systems. The move also represents O’Brien & Gere’s strategic effort to fortify its unique integration capability and create jobs within the region.The $3M investment features state of the art fabrication equipment, nine overhead cranes, and several high-bay fabrication and assembly areas to simultaneously implement multiple projects from pilot to full-scale production. The more efficient facility will enable O’Brien & Gere to meet a growing demand from U.S. and international clients in a wide range of industries, such as aerospace, power, automotive, defense, medical, and oil & gas.
- Note: Click the [i] icon to visit the Vaprotect webpage.Suggested Script: Vaprotect® Vapor Intrusion products and services provide assessment, delineation and effective mitigation of vapor intrusion from indoor environments. With nearly 1,000 of our Vaprotect® Vapor Intrusion Mitigation (VIM)™ Series mitigation systems in operation, O'Brien & Gere is the industry leader in supplying total, 360o Vapor Intrusion resources to industry, consultants and attorneys, nationwide.Vaprotect® VIM™ mitigation systems have been demonstrated in a wide variety of residential, daycare centers, schools and commercial office buildings, and the Vaprotect® VIM1.4™ Series reduce sub-slab concentrations of organic compounds by establishing a pressure barrier. Our vapor intrusion projects range from single structures to communities involving hundreds of buildings.
- Suggested ScriptO’Brien & Gere’s culture is a culture of innovation united under the definition “turning the creative ideasof our employees into solutions for our stakeholders”. O’Brien & Gere’s innovation strategy model considers two innovation decision-making processes: incremental and game-changing. Each simplified, defined process serves as a tool to help each employee understand how to participate in innovation at O’Brien & Gere. By effectively communicating these processes, we provide an opportunity to all employees to consider innovation in everything that they do. We celebrate successes and failures and look to connect the innovative ideas of our employees to our core, emerging, and future business investments that are analyzed as part of our annual planning process.
- Script Suggestion: From the quality of work we provide to the health of our employees, O’Brien & Gere is nationally recognized for the achievements we make – all in support of our strategic objectives of client satisfaction, employee satisfaction, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable financial performance
- Script Suggestion:Our Quality Management System (QMS) is aligned with our Strategic Plan to reflect processes and business practices that have been developed in conjunction with the implementation of our strategic plan. QMS 2013 is organized into four processes that represent a direct connection to our Strategic Plan Strategies:1. Markets & Growth2. Operational Excellence3. People4. Corporate Social Responsibility / Governance
- Script Suggestion:O’Brien & Gere is connected 4 different social media channels if you want to Like, Follow, Connect or Watch Us.
- Script Suggestion: Checkout obg.com for more information on who we are, what we do, and where we are going!
- Note:The branding team is currently considering different approaches to connecting the life-cycle to our Level 2 and Level 3 brand / service descriptions. In the meantime, the 360 life-cycle is still appropriate to use to describe “how we do it” – More guidance will be provided on this topic in 2013.
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