by Kylie Julius | Apr 8, 2024 | SASEF 2024
Thank you to our Southern Appalachian Science & Engineering Fair (SASEF) judges, (from left to right – top row) – Michael Russell, Mark Swientoniewski, Allen Bradley, Tom Siard, Karen Atchley, Leah Berry, Paula Hulette, Scott Ward, Dan Gelb, (from left to right – bottom row) – David Tran, MacKenzie Bunch, and Nathan Brummette!
SASEF is the premier science and engineering competition for students in middle and high school for a 23-county service area of East Tennessee. SASEF has promoted teaching the scientific method in science, engineering, and math since 1952.
SASEF encourages students to ask testable questions and become involved in the process of gathering scientific evidence to answer their testable question.
Strata-G has been a proud sponsor of SASEF for several years.
Thank you, also, to SASEF President Leah Berry, Member-at-Large Mark Swientoniewski, and Strata-G Outreach Coordinator Paula Hulette for organizing our judges for this great event!
by Kylie Julius | Mar 1, 2024 | Fiber Optics Reroute
Successful completion of another project at ETTP is attributed to excellent collaboration among UCOR, Y-12 National Security Complex, City of Oak Ridge, Tyto Athene, LLC, and Trinity Contracting Services Co., LLC.
Appreciation goes to Aaron Wright, Senior Instrumentation and Control Project Manager at Strata-G, his dedicated team, and collaborating organizations. Through their efforts, the rerouting of the main fiber optics line between ETTP and Y-12 was accomplished seamlessly, enabling the continuation of soil remediation at EU-30. This project signifies a crucial step in addressing soil remedial needs at ETTP.
For more information on this project, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co03WW3c3YM
Congratulations to Aaron Wright, and the UCOR team for their efforts on reroute of the fiber optics!
by Kylie Julius | Feb 2, 2024 | JCI Construction Project - Clemson University
Strata-G’s Senior Project Superintendent Mike Burcham (pictured above) and Senior Construction Project Manager Charles Campbell are providing project management and safety support services to Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI).
Their efforts are aimed at improving the Clemson University campus in South Carolina one building at a time!
JCI expanded its 25-year partnership with Clemson University under a new $45M net zero campus initiative that will generate savings to fund the entire project.
Through these improvements, Clemson University is projected to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2025, a major milestone toward its 2030 carbon neutrality goal. The updates will foster a modernized environment for learning and living, while generating estimated savings of more than $3M annually throughout the 15-year contract.
by Kylie Julius | Jan 11, 2024 | Shark Tank Project Management Course
Our Project Controls Subject Matter Expert, John Clayton, teaches MGT 480, a project management course held within the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee. This class places students in the role of project managers, navigating the integration of scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, risk, procurement and stakeholder management.
The final class project was to create a scope, cost, schedule,and risk baseline for their vision of the Neyland Entertainment District project. Students were judged on their projects “SharkTank” style!
A major thank you to those who participated in judging these final projects, featuring the following sharks: Former Federal Project Director Laurie Folden and current Project Director Jon Caldwell from National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Director of the UCOR Project Management Office Steve Braden, Chairman of the Tennessee State Board of Education and Navarro Project Consultant Bob Eby, Project Director and Senior Vice President John Platt from Bechtel Corporation, and our very own Chief Operating Officer, Leah Berry!
by Kylie Julius | Dec 18, 2023 | LPF Groundbreaking
Congratulations to the Lithium Processing Facility (LPF) Project Team and to Strata-G Engineering Oversight Manager, Mark Swientoniewski, in conducting their ground-breaking ceremony on October 19, 2023, marking the start of site preparation work. LPF staff, contractors, and community members joined leadership from Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), Y-12 Acquisition and Project Management Office (APMO), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and NNSA Production Office (NPO) including NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator Fank Rose for the ceremony. LPF supports the NNSA’s vision for sustainable Lithium processing operations and critical NNSA mission needs for decades to come!
The project recently received Critical Decision-3A approval, which authorizes the project for site preparation construction work and long-lead procurement of equipment. “This continued progression demonstrates how we’ve been tracking to the schedule that was put into place 3 years ago towards a critical path where the end objective is to get workers out of Beta 2″, LPF Project Manager Robert Sperling said.
Strata-G is thankful to provide the NNSA Y-12 APMO organization with project management, technical, and administrative support to conduct Y-12 capital projects such as LPF.
