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They survived their arrival at SEI, a mojo shower, a wedding and a honeymoon, and they are still eating chocolate.  Officially presenting Mr. and Mrs. Wobser.  Congrats to Kiel and Kelly!!!!

It was all in good fun when we decided to have a surprise April Fool’s Party.  Brian led the charge with the grill in the parking lot for a great lunch and then we had some funny April Fool’s Day trinkets for all.  It wouldn’t be April Fool’s Day without some pranks, but the studio didn’t take kindly to one of the little annoyances, or rather the “annoyatron”.  Brian got the payback, but it wasn’t even his gig.  By the time they figured out that it was orchestrated by yours truly, there was a big payback being planned.  It was certainly more creative than the former antic.  Jimmi made 3 Star Wars movies with the partners taking parts from Brian as Luke Skywalker to myself as Princess Leia as you can see in the picture.

I promise to take an official picture once my hair is done up in that “doo”.  Unfortunately I didn’t publish this in a timely fashion, therefor the “uncle”.  An upcoming post will explain the ramifications.

Bradley Moreland, Assoc. AIA Sr. Architectural Designer

Kurt A. Vater, CSI, CDT, AAIA Sr. Architectural Designer

We think our client, Michelle Kavanaugh, Superintendent at Honeoye Falls – Lima CSD, looks pretty official at our booth at the NYSCOSS conference.

The Albany Office got up close to President Obama as he passed by near the office.  Here are a few photos including one where they saw President Obama on his cell phone as his car passed by.

Well, Eric told me that I had to put the blog on the blog. 

We got a copy of  the brand new Marketing Handbook for the Design and Construction Professional published by SMPS and BNI Building. 

SEI Design Group Blog was featured in the section on Promoting Your Firm By Leveraging Web 2.0.

We would like to welcome our newest client, Lebanon Valley Protective Association.  LVPA, a non-profit volunteer organization which provides fire and rescue services to the towns of  New Lebanon and Canaan in Eastern New York.  LVPA has a current membership of 50 volunteers.  In 2008, the LVPA responded to a total of 416 rescue calls and 121 fire calls.  SEI will assist LVPA in consolidating their fire department from the current 2 out-dated fire stations to a single updated facility.

Canned Pie got an honorable mention at the Canstruction Awards Dinner on Friday. Eric and Justin display the award. We have been fortunate to have generous sponsors who have  financially supported this charitable activity. Our big piece of lemon meringue pie will be donating over 5,000 cans to Foodlink when deconstructed. The total for the activity will be 36,000+ cans.  We would like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors: M/E Engineering, Energy Concepts, Engineered Solutions, Day Automation, Appel Osborne, Torchia Structural Engineering, and Christa Construction.

After the much planned and anticipated Canstruction Build Day, the results of the SEI team build are in below.  As always, you can click to enlarge the photos.  Judging is today, but results will not be announced until the award dinner on Friday.  Wonder how many calories in that piece of lemon meringue pie?

Be sure to enter the “What’s In Your Bag?” contest by end of October 10!  Win a brand new Nano!