Case Studies October 2026

Joe Swingle was working toward a graduate degree at the University of Arkansas when a gift from the Tyson family changed the trajectory of his career. The donation set in motion the construction of a new indoor track facility, and when the school needed hands to help host the national indoor championships, Swingle raised his […]

Kody Wood operates at the center of one of the most complex environments in collegiate athletics, where tradition, revenue pressure, and constant change intersect daily. As associate athletic director for facilities operations and capital projects at Texas A&M University, he manages an infrastructure that must serve a massive fan base while adapting to a revolving […]

Rob Jeffcoat arrived in Charleston with a Clemson diploma, a sports management degree, and a city full of friends. After graduating in 2012, he landed a recreation coordinator position with the small town of Hanahan, just north of the city. He loved the work — organizing programs, connecting with the community, watching people thrive — […]

On a Tuesday morning somewhere between a Las Vegas job site and a Utah ski lift, Victor Fuchs‘s phone buzzes. It doesn’t matter where he is or what he’s doing — if something happens on a Helix Electric project, he wants to know immediately. Not because he doubts his people, but because he refuses to […]

Nicholas Crupi has a favorite way of describing his department, and it is not the kind of line you expect from a facilities director. He calls it Noah’s Ark. Walk through the boiler rooms and mechanical closets of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Public Schools, and you will find two of nearly everything: spare pumps, backup systems, […]

Growing up in Suffolk, Virginia, Nick Hamilton was raised in a project family, where weekends and evenings were often spent fixing, improving, and caring for the things they had. Work was not something outsourced by default; it was something the family took on together. That mindset followed him early. As a teenager, Hamilton’s father volunteered […]

Growing up in East Lansing, Dylan Marinez didn’t just attend Michigan State University — he lived it. As a kid, he ran the hallways of its athletic buildings while his mother and uncle worked within the department. He rooted for the Spartans on Saturdays and dreamed about a future inside the program. Decades later, he’s […]

Before Christina Pimenta ever set foot on a construction site, she was arguing cases in a Massachusetts courtroom. A political science graduate of UMass Amherst who earned her JD from New England Law Boston, Pimenta spent roughly six years as a litigation attorney before a pivot into real estate law opened a door she hadn’t […]

There is a meeting happening somewhere right now where nobody can agree. The engineers want more time. The contractors need a decision. The budget is already strained. And someone from Tokyo is waiting on a call. Karen Flachman has been in that meeting. In fact, she has built a career out of surviving them—and, eventually, […]