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Community Support: March Madness Bracket Winner Gives Back

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Every year, P1 Group hosts a March Madness bracket challenge designed to build a bit of competitive fun around the office and support great causes that are meaningful to our associates. The winner of the bracket challenge receives half of the entry proceeds, and P1 Group matches the other half to make...

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Project Profile: Children’s Mercy Hospital Research Tower

Childrens Mercy Pictured, above: Massive cooling towers and chillers getting ready for installation.

What you don’t usually see when you visit a hospital are the massive mechanical systems behind the scenes that keep the environment precisely regulated, operations running smoothly, and patients and personnel safe. In 2017, P1 Group was selected by General Contractor McCownGordon Construction for the mechanical scope of the two-part Children’s...

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A Half Century of Wisdom: Joe Camren Shares Insights from Then and Now

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P1 Group is in full-swing with its 100-year celebration, and Senior Estimator Joe Camren has been around for more than half of it. One of P1 Group’s longest-tenured employees, Joe started as a plumber apprentice in the field in 1966 (with founding company A.D. Jacobson) and is still going strong as...

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P1 Group Las Vegas Corners Restaurant and Bar Business

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You can’t go to Vegas without an extensive array of specialty restaurants and bars at every turn and P1 Group’s Las Vegas office is a major player in their construction and remodel. You already knew Team Las Vegas is a major provider of hospitality construction in the Las Vegas area. But in addition...

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LMH Honors P1 Group with Prestigious Elizabeth Watkins Award

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On February 28 at Maceli’s in Lawrence, Kan., the Lawrence Memorial Hospital (LMH) Health Foundation bestowed one of their highest awards upon P1 Group. Annually, LMH selects a few individuals or businesses to receive the award. Six awards were given this year. According to Earl Reineman, Major Gifts & Planned Giving...

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Lawrence Office Gets a Remodel

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The P1 Group Lawrence office is a big part of our history and our future. But the office space at the 220,000 sq. ft. warehouse facility was due for an upgrade.  When P1 Group’s Lawrence office relocated to the current building 13 years ago, it was spacious, but in need of...

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Kindred Bio Expansion Showcases Capabilities

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P1 Group’s Kindred Biosciences Production Expansion project was born from customer relationship building and a solid example of P1 teamwork across many trades and services. KindredBio, a pet biopharmaceutical company based in San Francisco, took over an older pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Elmwood, KS, and will soon manufacture drugs there for...

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Experts in Technologies: P1 Group’s Mike Griffith Earns BICSI RCDD Certification

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Building Technologies Foreman Mike Griffith recently earned the Building Industry Consulting Service International Registered Communications Distribution Designer (BICSI RCDD) certification, adding even more technical expertise to P1 Group’s robust Technologies division.

Serving Customers Through War and Peace: A Proud Kansas City History

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In celebration of our 100-year anniversary, we've been going through the family albums (so to speak). P1 Group’s founding company, A.D. Jacobson, began in 1919 and survived a lot during times of war, peace and even disaster. We found some of their remarkable stories in a promotional brochure published in 1954. In...

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Beyond Monopoly: Julie M. Plays Board Games Like a Pro

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In the world of gamers, there are many who prefer to play board games, with thousands gathering at tabletop game conventions where they can meet game creators and play role, strategy or card games (to name a few) and watch live demonstrations.     P1 Accounting Clerk Julie Metzler has been demonstrating games...

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Building Better Lives: Las Vegas Office Donates Resources to Veteran’s Cause

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Pictured, above: Army Staff Sergeant Jared Stacey and family; the Stacey family sees their new home for the first time. Building Homes for Heroes is a national organization that recognizes those who serve in the United States Armed Forces by supporting the needs of severely wounded or disabled soldiers and their families. The...

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P1 Kids Make Safety Fun with Calendar Art

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Safety has never been more colorful thanks to the first annual P1 Group Safety Calendar, a new idea this year from our Safety Department. In August, Safety Coordinator Cheri Totta put out the call for artwork from the youngest members of our P1 family. Children ages K-8 belonging to, or related...

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P1 Group Exceeds National Averages Through Staunch Commitment to Safety

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Making sure conditions are safe for the 900+ people working at P1 Group jobsites on any given day is a huge task, but in a company where safety is the highest priority, no one takes shortcuts. Like any organization of this type, P1 Group is required by the Occupational Safety and...

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The Fantastic Five: P1 Group’s IT Department

p1 group information technology Pictured, above, from left: Cameron Cooper, IT Manager; Matt Damon, IT Systems Engineer; Cody McCray, IT Support Tech II; Vanessa Taylor, IT Special Projects; Trevor Payne, IT Support Tech

While technically billed as a “support” department, there’s a lot more to P1 Group’s small-but-mighty five-person IT Department than meets the eye. In today’s digital age, the company simply would not survive without the dedication, strategy, proactive solutions and expertise of our “fantastic five.” Between headquarters, the field and additional P1...

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Celebrating 100 Years with a Special Mark

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P1 Group is gearing up to celebrate 100 years and we’ve added one more item to the list: our special anniversary “100” mark. Expect to see it on just about everything throughout 2019. The goal for the mark was something clean and classic that could be used at many sizes on...

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Washburn Tech Students Explore Trades in Fab Shop Tour

Washburn Tech P1 Group Pictured, above, from left: Mike Wessel, Electrical Fabrication Foreman, with Washburn Tech students; Aquatherm pipe in the P1 Group fabrication shop; Jeremy Price, Pipe Shop Manager, with Washburn Tech students.

As is the case with many visitors to P1 Group’s fabrication shop in Lawrence, KS, students who recently toured the shop were drawn to the bright blue Aquatherm pipe awaiting delivery to a job site. The students had several questions: “How much faster is it to use this?” “Does this pipe...

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P1 Project Profile: Saint Luke’s South

saint lukes south p1 group Pictured, above: Greg Sweeney, David Wright and Steve Cole on site at Saint Luke's; Allen Kluender installs duct work during construction.

Steve Cole, Vice President, is on familiar ground at a major project that is underway at Saint Luke’s South Hospital. He was the Project Manager for the original building on that campus, when AD Jacobson, Inc. built it in 1998. The Saint Luke’s South Hospital Rehabilitation Addition and Renovation project includes:...

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How Do You “Holiday”? P1 Associates Share Favorite Traditions

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It’s that time of year, and we asked P1 Group associates to share their favorite fun holiday traditions. We hope their stories help put you in the spirit of the season! Phil Van Hoecke, Pipe Fitter Foreman The Van Hoecke family, including my brothers that are in town, have a standing...

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P1 Group Gets Creative: "100 Years" Tagline Contest

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To help get everyone in the spirit of P1 Group's upcoming milestone 100-year celebration (1919-2019), we gave associates a chance to get in on the 100th anniversary fun by launching an employee tagline contest. A total of 90 taglines were submitted, and associates really got into the spirit of our milestone...

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P1 Group Makes ENR Top Specialty Contractor List

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P1 Group has been named a 2018 Top 600 Specialty Contractor by the Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine. P1 Group hit the list at number 122 among all specialty contractors and also placed 37th on the “Top 50 Firms in Mechanical” list. For more than 30 years, the Top 600 Specialty Contractors...

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