GAI’s Most-Read Web Articles of 2022

The year 2022 saw several meaningful developments for GAI, topped off by the company’s approval of a financial partnership with Comvest Partners last October. Below is a list of GAI’s most-read web articles of 2022, which compiles the topics our online visitors found most popular over a year of significant events and notable accomplishments.

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In his first message of 2022, Gary DeJidas looks back over 2021, a year in which GAI continued to successfully navigate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, adopted flexible work locations for staff, surpassed its year-end workplace safety goal, and realized another year of positive financial performance and client and employee satisfaction.

GAI Chairman and CEO Gary DeJidas shares the news that the company has entered into an agreement for Comvest Partners to make a significant strategic private equity investment in GAI.

GAI led the design and engineering of this initiative—one of several recent examples in which community residents voted to fund civic improvement through a self-imposed tax—that will transform a 110-acre former golf course into a public park that offers residents and visitors a variety of activities and improvements.

GAI environmental professionals describe the special challenges that face the Indiana Bat, and their efforts to help clients mitigate impacts on these and other threatened/endangered species in order to pursue their project goals while satisfying state and federal agency requirements.

This article explores how GAI partnered with prime consultant and lead designer Perkins&Will in the redesign of a premier public space located on the Jacksonville, FL waterfront.

With housing market reports placing Tampa, Jacksonville, and Orlando among the top-10 hottest U.S. housing markets for 2022, three GAI professionals discuss the boom and how GAI’s comprehensive consulting services are helping developers deliver high-quality residential development projects to this hungry housing market quickly and efficiently.

In one of a series of staff spotlights that began publication in 2022, we meet GAI pro Lexi Brunstad, who followed her early fascination with electrical topics into a career in substation design.

In this staff spotlight, GAI pro Claire Abele describes how her environmental engineering career offers a ever-stimulating blend of building, creativity, and problem solving.

Marking his 50th anniversary with GAI with a business tips article series, company Chairman and CEO Gary DeJidas shares how strategic risk taking can help optimize growth opportunities—one of the valuable lessons he’s learned on his long journey toward building a thriving, multidiscipline company that provides industry-leading expertise to a range of public and private clients.

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