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Synergy Group Adds to its "Green" Capabilities with John Rosenburg and Mike Bolger Earning LEED Certifications
February 19, 2009
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI -- Synergy Group, Inc. - Synergy Group Project Managers John Rosenburg and Mike Bolger, are the latest members of the design-build firm to become LEED Certified, it was announced today.
As LEED Accredited professionals, Rosenburg and Bolger have demonstrated a thorough understanding of green building practices, principles and the LEED rating system. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Synergy Group, a member of the USGBC, is pleased to announce their latest members to demonstrate their knowledge and skills to the LEED certification process.
"Becoming LEED Certified has made me more aware of the simple changes that can be made on a construction project to utilize green and sustainable technology," said Mike Bolger. "I'm glad that Synergy Group is taking a proactive approach to new practices in our industry and that I have already had the chance to work with important clients making use of green technology."
"Building and designing green and sustainable projects is becoming the way of doing business today," said John Rosenburg. "It's important that we begin today our practices in building more sustainable structures and I'm glad that Synergy Group is expanding its expertise in green designed construction."
Since 2005 Rosenburg has been a project manager for the Synergy Group and has used his background as a hands-on project manager to take many of Synergy's projects from start-to-finish, on-time and in a cost effective manner.
Bolger has been with Synergy Group for two years. His excellent communication skills and collaborative approach to projects is what Synergy Group believes in when working with owners, architects, subcontractors and municipal authorities.
"Their technical and interpersonal communication skill along with their team oriented approach has made them both a great fit for Synergy Group's team. A large measure of our success is in making owners comfortable with the complexities of the construction process and on team members keeping pace and innovating cost-saving ideas" said E. Pete Petrella, Synergy Group Principal.
John has 20 years of experience in construction from automotive, R&D, laboratories, educational, industrial, hospital/medical, high-rise office, government, retail, and hotel/entertainment within the United States. He has been trained in ISO practices and co-developed ISO-9004 programs and has quality control and internal auditing experience.
John is a member of the United States Green Building Counsel, MichBio, and Detroit Regional Chamber, his education includes a B.A. in Economics and Management from Albion College and M.S.F. Masters in Finance from Walsh College.
Mike has extensive experience with a variety of projects including medical, municipal, office and educational construction work. Past projects include work with Oakland University, Utica Schools, Marquette General Hospital, Baraga Community Hospital, Mayo Clinic Guggenheim/Hilton Expansions, Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children and Beaumont at National City Center.
With over 20 years of experience, Mike has also been involved with the construction process as a Field Engineer/Superintendent, Field Accountant and Safety, Estimating and Project Management.
Synergy Group stands for the highest quality construction and specializes in fast-track build outs to bring projects to completion faster at less cost to owners. Synergy approaches each project from an owner's perspective and works to ensure total satisfaction on each and every project. Synergy is noted for both high-quality interior renovation as well as construction of ground-up new buildings.
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Your Generosity Helps Make Spirits Bright With 240 New Bikes
December 8, 2008
E. "Pete" Petrella, along with the Synergy Group, would like to thank you for helping make the dreams of needy area children a reality for the Holidays. Area children rolled through the Holidays thanks to the generosity of Synergy's contractors, friends, family and staff. With your help, more than 240 Metro area children enjoyed a party with Santa Claus, toys, games and pizza on December 10 at the Southfield Civic Center.
The best gifts of all may not have been the bikes given to needy children, but the smiles on the faces of the children, their families and everyone involved in the program sponsored by Variety the Children's Charity of Detroit.
"This event should always remind us to be grateful for what we have. A lot of kids have toys they may have played with just once. For other kids, these bikes are a dream come true. We at Synergy are glad to be a part of such a worthy effort and thank our employees, friends and business colleagues who helped us, once again, to reach our goal for bikes this year," said Petrella, who was warmly greeted by program hosts Diana and Glenda Lewis of TV station Channel 7.
Wayne County Airport Authority Airport Police and Homeland Security Training Facility
August 12, 2008
Executive Summary:
Synergy Group, Inc. was chosen in competitive bidding by the Wayne County Airport Authority to build three separate buildings in an Active Airside Area of the airport to provide long-awaited training facilities for airport police, fire departments and homeland security. The property also includes an area to be used as a driving obstacle course for training of first responders and emergency personnel.
WCAA Capital Improvement Projects AF20C, AF20D, AFO5I also known as Pistol Range Building and Site Work, Live Fire House, Rappelling Tower and Obstacle Course respectively were all built by Synergy Group. The training facilities were constructed on a 3.8 acre site on airport grounds. The total project cost was $3.8 million.
The Pistol Range Building is 9,000 square feet and includes multiple live-fire ranges for pistol practice by law enforcement personnel. The facility was designed to reduce noise, pollutants and provide for a contained and secure environment for pistol training. The building is a load-bearing concrete and masonry structure. It features a bituminous membrane roof on a steel deck and long span steel joists. Synergy as responsible for coordinating the installation of special gun range equipment and all aspects of the site construction including delivering a new electrical substation and service to the remote area.
Live Fire House is approximately 4,000 square feet, one-story building. The pre-engineered building was specially designed to house a ballistic wall paneling system and special demountable wood panel walls for replacement of areas damaged during live fire weapons training exercises. A special HVAC system was installed to clear smoke and GSR gases from the building.
Rappelling Tower. A five-story tower is adjacent to the other two buildings. The concrete and masonry structure was built with removable windows for the training of police and fire personnel to rappell and scale the structure for training purposes.
All three projects and the Obstacle Course were built on a greenfield site that required utility installation, extensive site grading and compaction testing.
The three projects were begun in the fall of 2007 and completed in 2008 adjacent to airport land where Synergy had built ARFF No. 300 (Airport Rescue Fire Fighting station) on a design-build basis with funding from the airport and FAA. The three newest buildings provide a state-of-the-art pistol range, a “live fire” building where law enforcement officials can practice with “pop-up and moving targets to provide realistic training scenarios. The last of the three buildings is a four-story rapelling tower for both law enforcement and fire fighters to practice ingress and egress for rescue and police emergency scenarios.
All of the projects were built adjacent to active runways and taxiways in secured areas of the airport grounds. All Synergy personnel and subcontractors had to undergo extensive background screening and training in order to comply with airport authority rules and regulations for construction activity in an active airside operations area. All subcontractors were required to be photo-badged or temporarily badged and escorted to and from the construction site within the AOA. All construction vehicles display a DTW card on the dash and signage of no less than 12-inches by 12-inches on the vehicle’s driver and passenger doors.
We further understand that breaches in security guidelines could become a threat to general aviation and will not be tolerated. We understand penalties for violating AOA security rules could result in penalties and fines of up to $10,000.00 per incident.
ARFF No. 300 --- 3,500 s.f. $2.5 million. Two bay fire station, expandable to five bay for fire-rescue aparatus.
PROJECT SITE SPECIFIC SECURITY REQUIREMENTS
The Synergy project team understands and will adhere to all WCAA, Transportation Safety Administration, State and local guidelines with respect to security at DTW.
All access to the site (see attached map) shall be through Gate 53. Gate 53 shall be staffed by a full-time security guard that will check for badging and vehicle dash cards and signage. All vehicles used in construction, all vehicles entering the construction site shall display the following:
Photo or temporary badged personnel
A DTW Security Card on the Dash
Signage of the company logo no less than one-foot in size on the passenger and driver's side doors.
Under NO circumstances is anyone to access the AOA construction site without the above documents.
Per Federal Regulation 49 CFR 1520, all documents shall be identified as "Security Sensitive Information". All drawings shall be marked with the following statement "WARNING: This record contains Sensitive Security Information that is controlled in 49 CFR part 1520. No part of this record may be disclosed to persons without a "need to know", as directed in 49 CFR part 1520, except with the written permission of the Administrator or the Transportation Security Administration or the Secretary of Transportation. Unauthorized release may result in civil penalty or other action. For US government agencies, public disclosure is governed by 5 U.S.C. 552 and 49 CRF part 1520."
Mona Lisa is ahead of schedule
January 16, 2007
Synergy Group's Florida office is ahead of schedule in constructing a 240-suite condominium/hotel complex called the Mona Lisa at Celebration, Florida. The project is slated for completion in November 2007.
International developer, Mona Lisa Hotels & Residences, which has developed more than $800 million in condominium/hotel projects in the French Alps, chose Synergy to build the $50 million project based on the firm's demonstrated experience in quality construction and commitment to expansion in the Florida market.