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P1 Group Goes to College: Recruiting Our Next Generation

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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’s internships and full-time positions. Shana Wallace, Human Resources Manager, said P1...

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New P1 Group Coil Line Slashes Manufacturing Time

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P1 Group can now manufacture standard lengths of duct at a fraction of the time in the Lawrence, Kansas, fabrication shop. The recently acquired equipment is called an Iowa Precision Coil Line. P1 Group “adopted” the previously owned machinery from a contractor in Boston. The equipment was shipped in pieces on...

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K-State Junior Earns P1 Group Construction Science Scholarship

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P1 Group is committed to nurturing the professional talent of tomorrow. Helping promising students fill the pipeline of professionals that will one day work in our industry is an integral part of our sustainability. That’s why P1 created the Construction Science Scholarship, awarded each year to a promising student in the...

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Associate Profile: Brian M. Embraces Work and Relaxation in Las Vegas

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“It’s not exactly what you think of when people say ‘Vegas’,” 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’t take long for Brian to embrace the western landscape. A native of the...

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Profile: Wolf Creek ESW/CAC Replacement Project

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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...

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Hot Enough for You? Practicing Summer Heat Safety

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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...

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Spring 2018 Corporate Sponsorship Awards Benefit Two Great Causes

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The Native Sons Motorcycle Club and a regionally-ranked Taekwondo competitor are the recipients of the Spring 2018 P1 Group Corporate Sponsorships. Twice each year, in the spring and fall, P1 associates are invited to apply for a Corporate Sponsorship award. The sponsorships allow P1 to serve our communities through the organizations...

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P1 Group Included in Bluebeam Guidebook

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P1 Group’s document management system has been featured in “The Bluebeam Guidebook: Game-Changing Tips and Stories for Architects, Engineers, and Contractors.” Black & Veatch engineers Rachel Atteberry and Jason Hascall wrote the guidebook and included a five-page case study on P1 Group’s work with Bluebeam Studio Enterprise. P1 Group's Vanessa Taylor,...

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P1's Grit Award Goes to Carey Minihan

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Carey Minihan is the recipient of the April 2018 Grit Award, which is part of P1’s 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...

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P1 Charity Bracket Challenge Raises $1,160 for the American Heart Association

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LENEXA, Kan. -  Ron Schwatken, the father of P1 associate Sonja Raye, won P1 Group’s March Madness Bracket Challenge. Each year, P1 Group associates, family and friends are invited to fill out NCCA Tournament brackets for ten dollars per bracket. The winner receives half of the proceeds while the other half...

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P1's Pipe Shop Completing Unique Panel Fabrication Job

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LAWRENCE, Kan. – P1 Group‘s fabrication shop is taking on more panel fabrication work and recently landed a significant contract to build room pressure reference panels for a lab client. These panels track the pressures in a room space versus a neutral space and/or an adjacent room’s space for the building...

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P1 Charity Golf Tournament Raises $12,260

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LENEXA, KS – The 15th annual P1 Group Charity Golf Tournament raised $12,260 for The Young Traffic Offenders Program (YTOP) of The Research Foundation. Paul Smith of P1 Group presented the check recently to Foundation staff. “We are extremely grateful for this generous donation from P1 Group,” said Rose Simone, director of...

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P1 Group Named a 2017 Top 600 Specialty Contractor

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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 “Top 50 Firms in Mechanical” list. The ENR list combines 16 categories of specialty contractors and ranks them by annual...

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Smitty Belcher Makes Ingram's Business Leader List

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Smitty Belcher, P1 Group CEO, has been named to the Ingram’s 2017 list of the 250 most powerful business leaders in the Kansas City area. In its profile of Smitty, Ingram’s said: “Well-known across the country for safety and craftsmanship, P1 is under the leadership of a one-time certified welder for...

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P1 Awards Fall 2017 Corporate Sponsorships

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LENEXA, Kan. - An outdoor learning area at an elementary school and a competitive softball team are the recipients of the Fall 2017 Corporate Sponsorships. The P1 Corporate Sponsorship program provides financial contributions to selected organizations nominated by P1 associates. The sponsorships provide a way for P1 to serve the community...

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P1 Group Recognized in Aquatherm Case Study

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LAWRENCE, Kan.  - Aquatherm Pipe has published a case study on a project at Berry Global, which was completed by P1 Group. Berry’s Lawrence plant produces food-grade plastic cups and containers, operating 24/7 all year long. The plant uses an injection molding system and the steel piping that circulated cooling water...

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P1 Group Honored with Bluebeam eXtreme Award

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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...

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P1 Group Awarded Work at Wolf Creek Generating Station

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BURLINGTON, Kan. – 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...

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P1 Group’s Flexibility Helps Magna Continue Production Through Project

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P1 Group’s millwright project at Magna Excelsior Springs involved the demolition of three existing storage and retrieval systems and replacing them with new structures. The towers weighed 9,000 pounds and each one had to be operating before the next system could be removed. P1 provided flexible labor hours to work with...

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More Efficient by Going Paperless

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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...

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