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October 2nd, 2009 | Matt Gentry | Our Community
Bowen’s Knoxville team recently organized a highly successful golf outing with proceeds benefiting East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. This was a repeat performance for the Knoxville team, as they also conceived, planned and hosted this event successfully in 2008.
This year’s outing raised over $24,500, bringing the two year total to over $40,000. See photos by reading more! Read more
June 9th, 2009 | Kristi Keeker | Our Community
Bowen’s SQP (Safe-Quality-Production) training sessions include exercises to emphasize how SQP can be incorporated in all types of activities, both business and personal. Bowen Senior Vice President and Division Manager Jeff Purdue recently attended a Construction Industry Institute course in which the group participated in a bicycle building competition. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate how proper planning positively affects the process of building a project. The exercise was so successful, that upon learning about it, the Bowen SQP Steering Committee decided to incorporate a similar competition into the spring 2009 SQP training program that was held at Bowen’s corporate headquarters.
May 1st, 2009 | Tim Barnett | Corporate Culture, Our Community
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption today announced the third annual America’s 100 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces list recognizing organizations nationwide for their adoption benefits.
This year more than 90 organizations established or enhanced adoption benefits. “We continue to see increases in the number of companies establishing and enhancing adoption benefit policies. Even with today’s tough economy, we found that companies are dedicated more than ever to providing competitive benefits packages to help their employees when they adopt,” said Rita Soronen, executive director of the Foundation. “It is one benefit that employers can add without negatively impacting the bottom line.”
America’s Top Ten
1. Wendy’s International, Inc.
2. Citizen’s Financial Group, Inc. / RBS Americas
3. LSI Corporation
4. United Business Media LLC (UBM)
5. Liquidnet
6. Subaru of America, Inc.
7. Bowen Engineering Corporation
8. Timberland
9. Barilla America
10. Time Inc.
To learn more about the Dave Thomas Foundation, click here.
May 1st, 2009 | Matt Gentry | Corporate Culture, Our Community
Charity Golf Tournament to Benefit East Tennessee Children’s Hospital
Gettysvue Country Club in Knoxville, Tennesee will be the site for the second annual event benefiting ETCH. ETCH is a not-for-profit, private, independent medical facility serving area children since 1937.
Last year, Bowen team members raised over $15,000 for the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. For more information about the East Tennessee Children’s hospital and the families they serve, have a look at the video below.
Click here to download the flyer for this exciting event. You can also contact Bowen’s Devan Welch to obtain more information or to make a contribution. 865-293-4042.
Event Date: September 28, 2009
January 15th, 2009 | Tim Barnett | Corporate Culture, Our Community
Each year multiple teams within Bowen Engineering adopt families for the Holidays. This allows our less fortunate neighbors the opportunity to provide gifts for their family during otherwise difficult times. Read more
November 19th, 2008 | Tim Barnett | Our Community, Video
Park Receives New Bridge
Bowen Engineering Project Manager Holly Tank and Superintendent Brad Wiggins have given their community a gift that will serve generations of outdoors enthusiasts. Holly, Brad and their team designed and built a bridge for Wolf Run Regional Park in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The bridge connects 25 acres of grassland trails not previously available to the public. Holly and Brad inspire us with their concern for the community in which they live!
Read more about this community project here.
Video Courtesy of Mount Vernon News.
November 17th, 2008 | Doug Bowen | Corporate Culture, Our Community
From left: Julie and Doug Bowen, keynote speaker Terry Bradshaw, Jim Ankrum, Bob and Terry Bowen
Community service is an important part of our family culture here at Bowen, and Big Brothers Big Sisters is a cause close to our hearts. In October, we attended an annual dinner supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana. We, along with 850 others guests, worked together to raise $250,000 to support the goal of serving 1,200 local boys and girls with positive adult mentors.
We were thrilled to be a part of such a successful effort.
Learn more about Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana here.
November 14th, 2008 | Tim Barnett | Our Community, Project Updates
Bowen Engineering recently joined forces with the City of Indianapolis and others to replace an important walking bridge in Juan Solomon Park. The 100-foot-long bridge replaces a concrete one that floodwaters washed out in 2001 at the 41-acre park. The bridge was the only access to 22 acres of parkland across the creek.
Hats off to Bowen Project Manager Bill Lamkin and Team for leading the way!
Read more about this project here and here.
November 12th, 2008 | Matt Gentry | Leadership, Our Community
Knoxville Team Raises $15,000 For Children’s Hospital
Bowen Engineering’s Knoxville office hosted its inaugural charity golf outing supporting the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital on October 20th. The event was played at Gettysvue Country Club and was a huge success in that Bowen raised over $15,000 for the hospital! Bowen reached out to all of its key partners for sponsorships and teams. A total of 32 sponsors and 15 Teams contributed .
November 10th, 2008 | Tim Barnett | Corporate Culture, Leadership, Our Community
Sure, we’re proud of the business side of our success at Bowen. When a Bowen project team descends upon a project, the professionalism and expertise of our people are what our clients identify as the Bowen Difference Maker. It is really exciting when the opportunity arises to see this level of passion for service applied to community service projects.
November 8th, 2008 | Kris Bowen | Corporate Culture, Leadership, Our Community
As a Protégé in Bowen’s Leadership Challenge Workshop, the Community Project Challenge portion of the year-long leadership program was daunting at first mention. The Community Project Challenge requires each Protégé to lead a major community service project. This requires the identification of an appropriate opportunity, the organization and scheduling of the effort, the recruitment of help to accomplish set goals, the execution of the project and finally the reporting back to the group of what the effort accomplished. In the course of our workshop sessions, it became clear to me that I had been ‘waiting for permission’ to spend time helping in the community – there was and is always plenty to do at work and at home! But shortly after the challenge was announced, the opportunity called.
