Company News

This past Sunday our guys enjoyed a tailgating party at the Chiefs game. The weather was beautiful, the food was plentiful and even though the Chiefs lost, we all still had fun.

In the picture above are [seated left to right] Mike McNeil (Project Manager), Chris Durr (Construction Manager), Bob Ades (Energy Engineer), Koby Kampschroeder (Director of Business Development); [standing facing camera] Ryan Terry, (Business Development Manager) & Paul Jensen (Energy Engineer).

In the picture above are [standing in foreground] Chatchai Pinthuprapa (Data Analytics Engineer) and [seated] Mitch Reed (Project Manager).

In the picture above are [left to right] Tim Bensman (Director of Engineering & Construction), Luke Lindesmith (Energy Engineer), and J.D. Delaney (Construction Manager).

We had a surprise visit from Tim Unruh, the new Executive Director of NAESCO, the National Association of Energy Service Companies (https://www.naesco.org/). Since he took over the role of Executive Director in January, he has been making the rounds of all the ESCOs. This week he was in the Kansas City and Olathe area, so he stopped in for a visit.

NAESCO is the national trade association provides a rigorous accreditation process for ESCOs as well as being a collective voice of the ESCO community. Navitas is a NAESCO accredited energy service company and believes strongly in our involvement in this organization.

Here is a photo of Tim posing with some of our people. Pictured from left to right are Mike McNeil, Koby Kampschroeder, Tim Unruh, Mary Robertson, Luke Lindesmith, Kent Clow, Kevin Brown, and Paul Jensen.

Navitas is excited to announce four new members to our team:

Mike Manhoney

Mike joins our team as a Senior Energy Engineer. In this role, Mike will lead the design/audit team in developing energy analysis and design for solutions. Mike draws on his 33 years of experience to apply a sound technical approach to program development.

Lucas Lindesmith

Luke joins our team as an Energy Engineer. In this role, he will be responsible for performing preliminary energy analyses, which outline opportunities for energy savings and construction for a given site as well as comprehensive energy audits, which precisely define the guaranteed savings and guaranteed construction price for a client to proceed with an energy efficiency program.

Rob Rippee

Rob joins our team as a Construction Manager. Rob has a strong background in facility and construction management. As a Construction Manager, Rob will be Navitas’ on-site person overseeing the project’s daily activities.

Chris Durr

Chris also joins our team as a Construction Manager. As with Rob, he will be our on-site person for the project. He will be responsible for day-to-day construction coordination issues and field supervision of all subcontractors.

Welcome aboard!

We had the fun experience of hosting a high school student from Sabetha High School today. David Pierson was job shadowing some of our Navitas and Smith & Boucher (our sister company) engineers to get a feel for what working as an engineer is like.

In the photo above, David talks with Zack Flageolle our Director of Optimization about what’s involved in reporting energy savings back to our clients.

In the photo below, David chats with Chris Albright, one of the principals at Smith & Boucher about mechanical engineering.

In the photo above, Ryan Diediker, also a principal at Smith & Boucher, shows David some electrical design drawings.