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SMBH Wins Spark Fit Columbus Spring Fit City Challenge!

We are the proud winners of the Spark Columbus 2021 Spring Fit City Challenge! We won the Small Company Category with 26,647 active minutes.

The challenge tracked fitness minutes of all types - "walks with the dog, family bike rides, a yoga session, roller skating, gardening - if you're active, you're in."

Because wellness is a priority for SMBH, and many of our team members are already very active, this was a perfect fit for us. We started keeping track of all our minutes and managed to clock 18.5 days by the end of the competition!

This has been such a fun challenge for us as individuals and as a team, and we can't wait to participate in the next one. In the meantime, a big thank you goes to our team members who really made their minutes count. We're always better together!

SparkColumbus Winner

AIA Volleyball League 2021 is Back On!

Sign-up Now!

A volleyball in the grass, up against a fenceAfter a 2020 COVIC hiatus, we're ready to be back on the grass, enjoying some volleyball! We only have 8 team openings left, so get your team together and register quickly.

As always, we'll be playing Thursday nights @ 7 pm on the grass field in front of the SMBH office at 1166 Dublin Rd, Columbus.

Here are the details:

Who:

  • The league is open to architecture firms, engineering firms, and building trades/construction companies.
  • There must be a minimum of 2 players from the representative company on the team. Your team can have as many members as you want, and can include friends and family.
  • If you don't have enough people to form a team for your company, you can combine teams with another company or firm. Just send us an email and we'll hook you up with someone else looking to do the same. We really want to give everyone a chance to play, so we work hard to find matches like these.

When:

  • League starts Thursday, June 10th.
  • Plays every Thursday @ 6:45 pm through August.

Where:

  • Field in front of SMBH offices at 1166 Dublin Rd, Columbus.

Additional Details:

  • This is a free league, which is fantastic! However, it also means we do not have officials. This is a self-officiated league.
  • Each team must provide their own good quality outdoor volleyball and volleyball net suitable for grass.
    • Net must be 8-feet at the center.
    • No badminton nets, please!
  • Players must sign an injury/COVID waiver before starting their first game.

A More Musical Side of SMBH: With A Little Help From My Friends

Let's be real for a minute - the past year has been hard for everyone. Masking up, social distancing, working from home, and missing our friends and family is brutal. Since so much of our culture at SMBH is about being together, it's been difficult to connect with one another without our normal events. Though we've all found little ways to reach out and be there for one another despite the digital distance, it's just not the same. But while we're missing our bake-offs, cook-offs, cookouts, pi days, and lots of other things, one thing we could take virtual was our (little-known) in-office jam session.

From time to time, a small group of our team members have casual jam sessions during lunch in one of our conference rooms. Mike, Jerry, and Kevin usually play guitar, while Ebiji plays the keyboard, Ryan plays something as a drum, and the rest of us sing along. One of the most played artists at our jam sessions is The Beatles, and we felt their song "With A Little Help From My Friends" would be a fitting cover for our COVID Zoom Virtual Jam Session. So, here's our team - each of us making our individual contributions to help us all get through the pandemic together.

What about Bob?: Bob Baumann Changes Roles

Bob is an SMBH cornerstone. He is the “B” in SMBH. We have named a conference room after him; we call it “The Bob”. He hosts team members’ baby showers in his home. He participates in every fun office activity we do. He is always ready with a joke, some good advice, and a supportive demeanor. He is also a brilliant engineer, mentor, and leader.

In Bob’s 39 years working with SMBH, his role within the firm has evolved and changed many times – culminating in his most recent title of Vice President + Principal. We have grown and accomplished amazing things under his leadership and guidance. So, it is with much excitement that we announce Bob has decided to move onto the next step in his career by changing his role to Senior Project Engineer.

While Bob will be handing off the baton as owner and principal, he is now assisting and supporting our teams wherever possible. This help will doubtlessly take many forms, including continued mentorship, independent reviews, quality control and assurance, and leading investigations, feasibilities studies, and peer reviews.

We are happy for Bob to move into the next stage of his career and are extremely grateful that he will continue to work with us in his new role. The institutional knowledge and experience that Bob contributes to SMBH, and each project he works on, is one of his many great strengths, and we are privileged to continue to benefit from them. Bob is one in a million, and we are so glad he’s ours.

Portrait of Bob Baumann of SMBH, Inc.

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