Today, July 6, Mike Brown joins the Louisville team as Construction Manager for the Local 51 Market. Mike recently moved to Louisville from North Carolina after 20 years working in the racing industry. He spent the majority of that time at Bill Davis Racing, where he acted as General Manager and CFO. Until it was sold in 2009, Bill Davis Racing participated in all three of NASCAR’s top divisions, winning the Daytona 500 in 2002 with driver Ward Burton. After all those years working weekends, Mike is excited about a job that allows him to spend more time at home with his family. I am thrilled to bring Mike’s management expertise to our Louisville branch.
The Energy Star ratings program and the Home Star program will hopefully be joined soon by the Building Star program, an incentive program for commercial building owners. The legislation was introduced in the Senate on March 4, 2010, by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR). If passed, the program would save building owners $3 billion annually on their energy bills, and reduce U.S. emissions by 21 million metric tons. Plus, the program would create 150,000 jobs over the next two years in some of the hardest hit industries – construction, manufacturing, and distribution. Mechanical insulation would be covered by the Building Star incentives, and the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers support the legislation. Click here for the press release from Senator Merkley.
Welcome to our renovated website. Over the past 25 years, we have evolved to satisfy the needs of our customers and the industry, and we want our website to match that dedication to progress. Going forward, company news will be posted in our “GribbinsNews” section, which you can see cycling at the top left of our website. These posts will be archived on the site for future reference. Also, I plan to write quarterly entries in this “President’s Message” blog, commenting on newsworthy events within the company and industry. The link to Facebook at the top right will take you to our company fan page for timely information and more photos. Check back soon for updated news items, quarterly blog entries, and more upgrades.
