Case Studies

Brian Midyett – STG Pacific

Est. reading time: 4 mins

In the more than 30 years Brian Midyett has worked in the construction industry, he’s directed design-build projects for public, commercial and industrial construction throughout Alaska and beyond. As president of STG Pacific, he’s ensured the Anchorage-based contractors expand the scope of work and project locations into the Lower 48—as far away as Florida. Midyett […]

Brent Snoddon – Southlake Regional Health Centre

Est. reading time: 5 mins

In terms of Southlake Regional Health Centre’s facilities, its switchboards may be its nerve center. It’s not the type of switchboard seen in vintage movies where incoming phone calls are directed to someone by an operator plugging a wire into a circuit. The two switchboards at Southlake distribute electricity received from two high voltage transformers […]

Blake Broadway – Elgin Power Solutions

Est. reading time: 4 mins

Being away from family for sometimes two weeks out of the month can be tough on Blake Broadway. There’s something magical, he says, about his 2- and 4-year-old sons at home in Midland, Texas. But at least the older boy seems to appreciate what his dad’s been doing. “We’ll pass a substation, and the 4-year-old […]

Bob Ortiz — Services for the UnderServed

Est. reading time: 4 mins

Bob Ortiz is not a native New Yorker —shoutout to Brooklyn—and he’s spent most of his career helping Big Apple residents find places to call home. These are more than homes, too. They’re facilities that Services for the UnderServed, better known by its S:US acronym, provides for people with developmental disabilities, and mental and behavioral […]

Britt Phillips – Sharonview Federal Credit Union

Est. reading time: 4 mins

Despite a digital age shift that, according to Forbes, has seen the percentage of people who prefer to use apps and websites for banking increase to 78 percent, personal interactions are the foundation for Sharonview Federal Credit Union in North Carolina. As Sharonview approaches its 70th anniversary, Britt Phillips, its vice president of facilities and […]

Brenna Morfitt – Artis REIT

Est. reading time: 5 mins

It’s easy for residents and visitors in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to see how the 300 Main mixed-use high-rise is becoming a downtown landmark. After all, it’s the tallest building in the city. It towers over Portage and Main streets at one of the Canadian city’s most famous intersections. It offers 395 apartments with one, two and […]

Brian Weldy – HealthTrust

Est. reading time: 4 mins

Imagine a hospital that can monitor its HVAC as closely as it tracks the blood pressure of patients. It uses sensors and controls to generate real-time data on energy use, temperature and air pressure throughout the facilities. As vice president for HealthTrust FacilitiGroup, Brian Weldy hopes to do just this for the nationwide network of […]

Brandon Chandler – Temple University

Est. reading time: 4 mins

Like many who rise to the rank of university housing facilities director, Brandon Chandler started at the bottom of the ladder, serving as a resident assistant at his alma mater, Rutgers University, and then taking a job as a housing coordinator after graduation. But as he began climbing the rungs, Chandler did something different: he […]

Bryan Wakefield – Western University

Est. reading time: 4 mins

It takes some doing to earn the designation of Canadian Certified Healthcare Facility Manager. Bryan Wakefield reckons that everybody who has the certification, along with his experience, would fill a modest room with seats to spare. He garnered that certificate in 2019 while finishing a 14-year stretch at Ontario’s London Health Sciences Centre in facilities […]

Brian Dirksmeier – Wood River Community YMCA

Est. reading time: 4 mins

When visiting a pool, people may think about cooling off in the water, getting some refreshing exercise or simply having some fun. Most aren’t considering the air quality around an indoor pool. And at Wood River Community YMCA they don’t have to because Property and Facilities Manager Brian Dirksmeier has it under control. When he […]

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