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Shout out to the employees who volunteered to w**d and plant at Bushnell Park. And a thank you to Bushnell for maintaining such a wonderful place! We hope we can continue helping in anyway we can :)

Yesterday was Administrative Professional Day! Thanks to our administrative team for always keeping us in check 😁

Had our first Backyard BBQ of the year! Hopefully many more to come 😁 Very grateful for all of our employees and the hard work they do!
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Freeman Companies is HIRING!

We are looking for multiple candidates for various positions. We are currently hiring for a civil engineering manager/all other levels of civil engineering, manager of the environmental department, land survey manager/assistant manager/survey staff, senior geo-technical engineer, and landscape architect professionals!
Message us here for more details or visit our indeed and LinkedIn!
We look forward to reviewing your applications and hopefully working together in the future!

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Freeman Companies held an Ugly Christmas Sweater competition in its office yesterday.
Senior Geotechnical Engineer Chris Tonzi walked away with first prize for his sweater, which was not only ugly but jingled every time he walked.
So from all of us hear at Freeman Companies, we wish you and your family a Joyous Holiday Season and a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Freeman Companies President Rohan Freeman, PE, LS, recently delivered the keynote speech at the AIA Connecticut’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (J.E.D.I.) Annual Conference.

The theme of the event, which took place on Sept. 15 at the Aria Wedding & Banquet Facility in Prospect, was Justice and Equity in the Built Environment. J.E.D.I. is an AIA “knowledge community” and was created with the goal of helping the AIA CT in “acknowledging and denouncing racism and sexism, removing barriers to opportunities, and promoting the success of all individuals in the profession to feel welcomed, respected, supported and valued to fully participate,” according to the AIA’s website.

Rohan spoke about starting both Freeman Companies and 7 Summits Construction, summitting some of the world’s highest peaks, and his experiences as an immigrant and black American both while working and climbing.

Rohan’s message to the attendees was to look for opportunities to help and do good work in their own community. Rohan highlighted some of his work in the Hartford Community, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford and the Blue Hills Civic Association.

It is with great pleasure that we announce Grant Losapio has been promoted from Landscape Designer to the new position of Assistant Project Manager. Grant has been with Freeman Companies for more than three years and has contributed greatly to his role as Landscape Designer by developing client relationships and project production management.

Grant has more than 7 years of experience in Landscape Architecture and has achieved his State of Connecticut professional license and a SITES Accredited Professional. He has been an active participant on the Executive Board and chairman of the Emerging Professionals Committee for The Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (CTASLA). He continues to exceed expectations and has proven himself to be a committed company advocate while advancing the goals of the Landscape Architecture Studio.

As Assistant Project Manager Grant will embark on a journey of learning and development to eventually achieve the position of Project Manager. Through guidance from the entire Freeman Companies management team, he will work on developing the skills needed to be a quality Project Manager.

Congratulations Grant. We know you will excel.

The Goodwin Park Golf Course has been a Hartford, Connecticut landmark since its creation over 100 years ago.

Now Freeman Companies is pleased to be part of that history. And not just because some of our engineers have been known to make amazing shots on the links.

Freeman Companies civil engineering and landscape architects are collaborating with Tecton Architects, p.c., the prime architect on the project, to provide due diligence and concept design services to the City of Hartford for multiple proposed facility and site-related improvements to the beloved, historic Goodwin Park Golf Course.

The architectural elements being studied include conceptual designs for a new clubhouse building with expanded program and facilities, which will maintain views down the first fairway and coordinate with the civil engineering and landscape improvements. The potential for providing a new larger cart barn at a more desirable location, and upgrades to the existing pavilion, are also being explored.

Freeman Companies is guiding assessment of site-related improvements such as ADA access to the existing driving range, the redesign of the existing putting green, redesign and repair of the existing golf cart paths, the extension of site lighting north throughout the existing parking lot, feasibility of additional parking spaces at the unrenovated tennis courts, and an assessment for the drainage for the existing putting green and entire golf course.

John Charles Olmsted and Charles Eliot, of the firm Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, established the park in 1895 as part of the Hartford Park System. Its most significant feature was the 90-acre Great Meadow, a gently sloping lawn left unmown and surrounded by native tree groves. In 1906 a nine-hole golf course was laid out upon the meadow, shortly followed by another nine holes in 1911. The meadow served as an airfield during the 1920s and in World War II. In 1927 an additional 37 acres were added to the southeast corner of the park, used to extend the golf course by another nine holes and introduce a second pond.

Since its creation the course has drawn people from all over to the links. Freeman Companies is glad to be a part of the history of this beautiful gem in our home city.

Freeman Companies has once again been named one of the largest minority-owned businesses in Greater Hartford.

Each year the Hartford Business Journal releases a list the top 20 largest minority-owned businesses in the area, ranking them by total number of employees.

Freeman Companies was ranked 9th overall with 38 employees. It has been on the list each year since 2018.

This ranking also makes Freeman Companies one of the top ranked engineering firms on the list.

Rohan Freeman is set to be the keynote speaker at next month’s The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Connecticut’s Justice and Equity in the Built Environment event.

According to the AIA, the event, which takes place on Sept. 15 at The Aria in Prospect, was “created with the goal of increasing firm leaders' and associates' awareness and understanding of justice and equity in the built environment.”

Rohan Freeman is Founder and President of Freeman Companies, LLC, an award-winning, multi-disciplinary site development, engineering design, and construction services enterprise. He founded the company in 2009 shortly after summiting Mount Everest.

He has also summited the highest peak on every continent, known collectively as the Seven Summits, becoming the first African-American to achieve this feat. He went on to complete The Adventurer’s Grand Slam, which includes the Seven Summits and the North and South Poles.

Following the success of Freeman Companies, Rohan subsequently launched 7 Summits Realty and 7 Summits Construction, both named after his mountaineering feats.

While blazing trails in both his personal and professional life, Rohan has tried to make it easier for people to follow in his footsteps. He has served as a board member of multiple community and charitable organizations, including Connecticut Landmarks, The Bushnell, the University of Saint Joseph, the Connecticut Business and Industries Association and national board of Outward Bound, where he serves as Vice Chair. Rohan was also recently appointed by Governor Lamont to serve on the Governor’s Workforce Council. In 2014 he established the University of Connecticut School of Engineering “Freeman Companies BRIDGE Endowed Engineering Scholarship” to support minority students with an interest in civil engineering who have overcome obstacles such as socioeconomic or educational disadvantage.

Find more information about the event at https://lnkd.in/ehxckhJB

Photograph by Steven Laschever Photography

We’d like to congratulate Dunkin' Donuts Park for being selected as the Best Double-A Ballpark in America.

This is the fourth time the ballpark has been recognized as the best ballpark since it opened in 2017. The recognition comes from Ballpark Digest, an online publication dedicated to all aspects of ballparks.

Freeman Companies had a hand in the early stages of the project, including planning and engineering services.

The ballpark is the home to the Double-A Minor League Baseball team Hartford Yard Goats Baseball.

The Yard Goats are currently 59-36 and are scheduled to host the New Hampshire Fisher Cats for six games starting on Aug. 16.

Congratulations to Dunkin' Donuts Park and Hartford. And let’s go Yard Goats!

Closing off a street and redirecting traffic is never easy. It is especially difficult when that street is a busy thoroughfare in the heart of Connecticut’s capitol.
On June 26 Hartford hosted its first DominGO! Hartford event. The event, which featured vendors, live music, pop-up dances performances, and art installations, ran along Farmington Avenue from Whitney Street to Bushnell Park.
The City contracted Lumi Hospitality of Hartford to put together a multi-disciplinary event planning team, with Freeman Companies as the company responsible for traffic management. This meant, while everyone else was putting together plans for the festival, Yuyang Lin and Christopher Surprenant, of Freeman Companies’ Transportation and Traffic/Safety and Signal Engineering Group, were hard at work figuring out how to minimize the impact the additional traffic and road closures would have on residents and festival attendees.
This included completely closing Farmington Avenue to all traffic, making streets surrounding the route open to local traffic only, and ensuring motorists could safely bypass the festival area. The plans also made sure that police and fire stations remained open and emergency vehicles had easy access to and from the festival.
There are more DominGO! events planned for this summer and information can be found at www.domingohartford.com. Currently the city is working on the exact portions of roads it wants to close off. But whatever the city decides, Freeman Companies will be hard at work ensuring people can attend the event and navigate the area with ease.

In April Freeman Companies was part of a team that was recognized with an Award of Merit by Preservation Connecticut for its work on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Campus in Hartford.

The award recognizes the work to “demonstrate the many ways historic places contribute to the life and vitality of Connecticut communities,” according to Preservation Connecticut.

The Martin Luther King, Jr., Campus opened in 1923 as Weaver High School and became a middle school in 1974. Now, it has been renovated to house the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Middle School as well as the Breakthrough North Magnet School.

JCJ Architecture was the lead on the project and Freeman Companies provided Land Surveying, Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering Services, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Oversight Services, and Traffic Engineering Services.

This last award concludes our look back at the first half of the year. There are still many months left is 2022, so who knows what recognitions Freeman Companies will receive.

However, whether we are recognized with awards or not, we undertake every task as if it is the most important one in the world because the greatest award for us is the satisfaction of a job well done.

Freeman Companies was recognized twice during the Connecticut Building Congress’ 26th Annual Project Team Awards.

The company was part of the team that won a Merit Award in the “K-12 (Large)” category for work on the CREC Ana Grace Academy of the Arts in Bloomfield.

According to the CBC, this project created “a cutting-edge 21st century-school that combines Ana Grace Academy of the Arts Elementary School and the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Middle School.”

Friar Associates, Inc. was the lead on the project. Freeman Companies provided Land Surveying, Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering Services, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Oversight Services, and Traffic Engineering Services.

Freeman Companies was also part of the team that won first place in the “Civic (Large)” category for the design of the Boys & Girls Club of Hartford’s South End building.

JCJ Architecture was the lead on the project and Freeman Companies provided Land Surveying, Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering Services, Environmental Sciences Services, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Oversight Services, and Traffic Engineering Services. Freeman Companies also provided Due Diligence and Site Selection Services on the project.
According to the CBC, The Boys & Girls Club of Hartford (B&GC) South End, which opened in September 2021, is the culmination of a high degree of collaboration and problem-solving between the City of Hartford, Hartford Public Schools, the B&GC, and the entire design and construction team.

“Due largely to the relentless teamwork among all the project team members, the $21-million, 32,000 square-foot facility opened within schedule and budget parameters despite encountering numerous challenges along the way,” the CBC said.

So often we drive, or walk, over a bridge without thinking about how much work goes into safely getting us from point A to point B. We are able to take these trips without worry because engineering firms like Freeman Companies have poured hours of thought and design into the safety, longevity, and functionality of the bridge.
All that paid off in March, when The National Steel Bridge Alliance named the I-91 Interchange 29 Exit Ramp Flyover Bridge in Hartford, also known as the Charter Oak Bridge, the 2022 Bridge of the Year.
This is the first year this award has ever been handed out.
Clough, Harbour & Associates, LLP was the lead on the project. Freeman Companies provided geotechnical engineering services.
The bridge features a triple I-girder straddle bent that provides load path redundancy, eliminating fracture-critical designations and the associated long-term inspection costs – a design that the NSBA called “a highly innovative and very effective solution."
NSBA Senior Director of Market Development Jeff Carlson praised the design of the bridge for having long-term impacts on how bridges are constructed in the future.
"The I-91 Interchange 29 Exit Ramp Flyover Bridge marks the beginning of a new approach to eliminating fracture critical elements by providing load path redundancy--one that has already made an impact beyond Connecticut's borders," Carlson said.

With the year half over, Freeman Companies would like to look back at the recognitions it has received during the first 6 month of 2022.
Over the next few days we will highlight recognitions we received, from the best bridge in the nation to an award of merit for the reconstruction of a middle school.
So please keep checking back and celebrate with us.

2021 Power 50 No. 48: Rohan Freeman broke ground on a major Hartford project last year!

2021 Power 50: 48. Rohan Freeman Rohan Freeman, founder and president of engineering firm Freeman Cos. LLC, reached a milestone in 2020 when he broke ground on a $26 million project that will redevelop longtime blighted Hartford properties at the corner of Park and Main streets. When construction is completed this year the mixed-us...

Congratulations to all ACEC 2020 Engineering Excellence Award winners! The ceremony was held last week and Freeman Companies was well-represented. We were a subconsultant on three of this year’s award-winning projects:

CDM Smith, Inc. & Tighe & Bond - Modern Roundabout Design, Glastonbury, CT

H.W. Lochner - Design-Build-Rehabilitation of Bridge Nos. 02366, 02367, and 02369 in East Hartford, CT and Bridge No. 00847 in Willington, CT

WSP USA - Superstructure Replacement of US Route 1 Over 1-95, Stamford, CT

We are looking forward to another year of engineering excellence.

This year Freeman Companies paid tribute to our city by celebrating the holidays close to home. The Bushnell Park Carousel is a vintage Stein and Goldstein carousel, first carved in 1914 and was the venue for our 2019 Holiday Party. Ever since its arrival in Hartford in 1974, it has stood in Bushnell Park and has become an iconic symbol of the city. Our party was truly special as we were able to celebrate our team, our partners, our friends and our city in such a fun and unique way. The unlimited carousel rides were a real treat and were perfectly complemented by the always-delicious catering from Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ. It was a night full of laughter and cheer as carousel music played in the background!

Read more about the carousel here:

http://www.bushnellpark.org/attractions/the-carousel

The American Council of Engineering Companies has announced their 2020 ACEC/CT Engineering Excellence Awards. Congratulations to CDM Smith, Inc. & Tighe & Bond on the award for their Modern Roundabout Design in Glastonbury, CT and to H.W. Lochner on the award for their Design-Build-Rehabilitation of Bridge Nos. 02366, 02367, and 02369 in East Hartford, CT and Bridge No. 00847 in Willington, CT. Truly well-deserved! Freeman Companies always enjoys partnering with these prime contractors and were honored to help provide services on these two projects. We are looking forward to many more successful and innovative collaborations in the future!

The Connecticut Business and Industry Association has recently announced Rohan as one of the new fourteen members on the Board of Directors. Freeman Companies is proud to be CBIA member, and Rohan is excited to serve his term on the board. Thank you CBIA!

Read more about the elected members and the CBIA here:

https://www.cbia.com/news/media-releases/new-cbia-board-members/

CBIA Membership Elects New Board Members The membership of CBIA, the state's largest business organization, has elected 14 new members to its board of directors.

A couple weeks ago, Freeman Companies attended the ribbon cutting for our completed Phase 2 Streetscape South project with Brookfield, Connecticut. We loved working with the Town of Brookfield and are so excited for Phase 3 of this project.

Thank you to all the brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting our freedom. Happy Veterans Day! Here are some pictures from the Fallen Star Memorial at Goodwin College on Saturday where people were honoring past and present service members.

Thank you to all the brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting our freedom. Happy Veterans Day! Here are some pictures from the Fallen Star Memorial at Goodwin College on Saturday where people were honoring past and present service members.

Check it out! Our President, Rohan Freeman, was featured on the "Real People with Stan Simpson" segment on Fox 61 News. Watch all three clips about Rohan's '7 Summits' adventure and business endeavors here:

Real People with Stan Simpson: Rohan Freeman, from UConn to Mt. Everest and beyond Rohan Freeman is a UConn-educated entrepreneur with an unusual passion: he has scaled the world's highest mountains, including Mt. Everest and Kilimanjaro. He's even trekked to the North and South poles. He joins Stan to tell his fascinating story.

Happy Holidays and may you have a joyous New Year from us to you!

The Hartford Business Journal highlights one of our most recent projects that is right around the corner from our office!

http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/20181127/NEWS01/181129953/1002

Plans offer glimpse of Hartford's Main-Park St. redevelopment The developers of a planned 108-unit mixed-use apartment community at the corner of Main and Park streets in Hartford have revealed site plans showing the project will include over 20,400 square feet of retail, restaurant and co-working space.

Freeman Companies is celebrating the completion of the demolition of 10 Clinton Street in Hartford where we provided project management, civil engineering, land survey, hazardous building material services, vibration monitoring and construction administration services during demolition. We are proud to be on this team with the State of Connecticut Department of Construction Services (DCS)/Department of Administrative Services (DAS), Manafort Brothers, Inc. and Macchi Engineers, LLC who provided demolition contracting and structural engineering services, respectively.

In the heart of Hartford's historic neighborhood, 10 Clinton Street previously served as the Department of Health Laboratory building. We are excited to see how the site will be better utilized for the evolution of our favorite city.

Today is the day!

Happy Halloween from Freeman Companies!

Attention, marketers! Join SMPS CT for their lunchtime event on Wednesday Oct 31st! The Content Whisperer aka Danielle Gray will be speaking to the SMPS CT chapter on how to extract data from your technical team, how to use it, and how to apply Google Analytics to your content to gain the most exposure and traffic. Registration ends this Friday!

https://smpsct.org/meetinginfo.php?id=75&ts=1538408578

Confessions of a Content Whisperer and Google Analytics Guru

They've done it again! Our friends at Christopher Williams Architects were presented with an Award of Merit from AIA CT in the preservation, restoration, adaptation category for their work as the prime architect on the relocation of the historic Hoyt Barnum House.

Freeman Companies provided Civil Engineering and Landscape Architecture services for this project in the heart of Stamford.

The design team has also received an Award of Merit from the Connecticut Preservation Awards for this project.

Congratulations to all!

Photos of the house are courtesy of Bernie Weiss Photography for the City of Stamford.

Some inspiration today!
https://www.earth.com/news/wildlife-corridors-habitat-fragmentation/

Wildlife corridors help reduce deaths from habitat fragmentation • Earth.com Wildlife corridors are structures which link two or more wildlife habitats and help animals cross over roads and other obstacles.

Rohan recently spoke at Outward Bound’s 2018 National Benefit Dinner. Outward Bound is the premier provider of experience-based outdoor leadership programs for youth and adults.

Accompanied with a slideshow of photos Rohan took himself while on his expeditions, he spoke of his journeys across the world as he conquered all seven summits, the highest peaks of each continent. Through his philosophy of “Living an Outward Bound Life,” he shared tales of his life from being a young boy in Jamaica to becoming one of the world’s premier mountaineers and endurance athletes. With every ascent and every mile informed by uncommon insights, Rohan’s experience helps us to identify our own metaphorical “Everest” and to conquer it, ringing true to the values of Outward Bound.

Outward Bound’s mission is to "change lives through challenge and discovery. While perhaps ambitious and bold, our vision is a more resilient and compassionate world, with more resilient and compassionate citizens."

Rohan currently serves on the Board of Directors as Vice Chairman.

For more information, visit www.outwardbound.org.
Photos courtesy of Michael Priest Photography

We have provided Geotechnical Engineering, Environmental, and Hazardous Building Materials Investigation services for this vital development in Bridgeport!


https://fox61.com/2018/09/19/tear-down-of-bridgeport-public-housing-complex-continues/

Tear down of Bridgeport public housing complex continues BRIDGEPORT - Outdated and often times dangerous public housing complexes across Connecticut are slowing being vacated and demolished. That includes in Bridgeport. It has been at least a year and a half since anyone has lived in two thirds of the massive Marina Village public housing complex. And the...

We are always excited to do work in our neighborhood. Freeman Companies is just around the corner from the "Park and Main" site, and it is an honor to be providing services for a project that will enhance our community.
http://www.courant.com/real-estate/property-line/hc-biz-park-main-development-collapse-20180829-story.html

New Developer Takes Over Redevelopment Of Crucial Corner Of Hartford's Main And Park Streets The city of Hartford is making a major change in the redevelopment of two vacant lots at the corner of Park and Main streets — long an eyesore — bringing on a new developer plans that could create a new gateway to downtown.

Yesterday we saw the groundbreaking for Section 1 construction of the Bloomfield Greenway Multi-Use Trail take place. Town of Bloomfield Town Engineer Jonathan Thiesse presided over the celebration.

Freeman Companies is providing Construction Inspection to the Town for this important, and much awaited, trail and recreation amenity.

Read more on our website!

http://freemancos.com/news-resources/company-announcements/?id=702799/groundbreaking-at-the-bloomfield-greenway-multi-use-trail

Groundbreaking at the Bloomfield Greenway Multi-Use Trail The sun shined brightly today over the groundbreaking for Section 1 construction of the Bloomfield Greenway Multi-Use Trail. Town of Bloomfield Town Engineer Jonathan Thiesse presided over the celebration, which was attended by an enthusiastic crowd of local dignitaries, state representative, CTDOT....