Case Studies September 2026

On a Tuesday afternoon at Macopin Middle School, a cluster of students who once dreaded the school day now race through the hallway to beat the bell — not for gym class or lunch, but for a converted woodshop humming with monitors, headsets, and the sound of friendly trash talk. The room used to smell […]

The sub-basement of University Hospitals‘ newest planned oncology center sits below grade, yet the building was deliberately rotated so that patients receiving chemotherapy can look out floor-to-ceiling windows at a creek winding through the surrounding wildlife. That single detail—a subtle act of design with significant human consequence—captures precisely how Sean Murphy thinks about his work […]

When California’s first new steel mill in more than half a century needed an electrical contractor capable of executing a highly complex industrial project, A-C Electric Company was prepared for the challenge. That capability did not develop overnight. It reflects more than 80 years of experience, investment in people and a company culture built around […]

As a young teenager in a small town outside Dallas, where his graduating class numbered just over 40 students, Ragan Henderson grew up embracing every opportunity to compete. Throughout his high school years, he starred in football, track and field, baseball, and powerlifting, earning All-State honors in each. Learning to balance multiple commitments at an […]

Radelmis Rosario has built a career making the invisible essential — turning Cambrex‘s Durham facility into a catalyst for the science that changes lives. When a 50°C walk-in stability chamber had to be designed, built, and operational in under a month, most facilities professionals would have penciled in a realistic six-month timeline and pushed back. […]

There is a phrase locals use to describe Baltimore that Will McCullough has heard more times than he can count: Smalltimore. The idea is simple — in a city where industries overlap and careers span decades, nearly everyone eventually crosses paths with everyone else. For McCullough, vice president at Gold and Company, that observation is […]

If Nick Kurtz looks familiar, it is because he might be. Somewhere between a Bosch Tools commercial, a two-year run as spokesperson for Skil Power Tools, and shooting pool with Charlize Theron in a Budweiser ad, Kurtz became one of those faces people swear they know but can’t quite place. He found out just how […]

One January many years ago, Jeff Rankin showed up for work at 6 a.m. He was a teenager with no particular plan for his life, but he had received an unusual offer from a neighbor: come work on concrete and see what happens. The morning was cold, the hours were long. He did it anyway. […]

In his first days at Jefferson County, Mark Danner wasn’t sitting behind a desk. He scrubbed toilets at a nature center, hauled trash and did every piece of janitorial work the job required. More than four decades later, he still keeps that memory close, not as a hardship but as a foundation. It taught him […]

Jason Patak‘s grandfather was known around town as “Stan the Man with the Plan.” Stan never met a stranger, and he could talk to anyone about anything. Decades later, sitting in and around offices and construction trailers outside a hospital that never stops running, Jason realizes he inherited more than the nickname’s spirit. He inherited the gift of […]