Employee Spotlight! Nathan Speck is our Architectural Project Manager. He has his Bachelor of Architecture from University of Kentucky and has been with us since 2021. Nathan manages our architectural services, develops proposals for clients, provides quality control for our BIM modeling work, and shuttles his daughters to and from dance class. Fun fact: Nathan was in Rotorua, New Zealand in 1996 during the Ruapaehu volcanic eruption and witnessed about an inch of ash cover the town like snow!
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