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This article was printed in The Indianapolis Star on December 11, 2008.

Engineer Receives 2nd Highest Civilian Award in Poland

Bartosz Pietrzak of Applied Engineering Services was awarded the very prestigious Order of Polonia Restituta (the Order of Polish Rebirth), one of Poland’s highest Orders and the second highest award Polish civilians can receive. The order is awarded to those who have rendered great service to Poland and the Polish people. In particular, the Order honors outstanding achievement in the areas of art, science, academia, agriculture, industry, philanthropy, and unpaid public service.


Mr. Bartosz Pietrzak of Applied Engineering Services receives the Order of Polonia Restituta, the second highest award Polish civilians can receive, from the President of Poland. Mr. Pietrzak is in the third row and
is the fifth gentleman pictured from the right side of the photo.

Mr. Pietrzak received the award for his political activity with the Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR), the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KSS KOR), and the Solidarity Trade Union in Poland in the mid to late 1970s.As part of his work with KSS KOR, Mr. Pietrzak helped raise money and provide free legal consul for those protestors who had been arrested for speaking out against the communist rule and who organized strikes against drastic increases in food price. Mr. Pietrzak was also an editor and photographer for the underground magazine Puls (Pulse). During communist-imposed marshal law in 1981 Mr. Pietrzak was arrested and imprisoned, and later immigrated to the United States. Opposition activity like this helped transform Poland from a communist-ruled state into a democratic country. Mr. Pietrzak went back home to Poland to receive the award presented to him from the President of Poland on November 11th, 2008, which is Poland’s Independence Day.

Mr. Pietrzak has been employed as an automation engineer at Applied Engineering Services since 1998. Applied Engineering Services is an Indianapolis-based consulting engineering firm providing mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation engineering services. For more information about Applied Engineering Services please visit their web site at www.applied-e-s.com. Mr. Pietrzak may be contacted at bpietrzak@applied-e-s.com.

 

 

This article was printed in The Indianapolis Star on December 16, 2008.

Applied Engineering Services Hosts Food Drive

Mayor Gregory Ballard issued a food drive challenge in the Indianapolis area for corporations, community organizations, churches and schools to help stock local food banks by collecting non-perishable foods. In response to this challenge, Applied Engineering Services donated over 1,250 items to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana. A friendly competition between two teams at Applied Engineering Services encouraged employees to bring in items for four weeks. The ELFS donated 520 items, and the Keystone Can-ables contributed 734 items. Applied Engineering Services plans on making the food drive an annual event for the company.


The Keystone Can-ables collected over 700 items in the food drive at Applied Engineering Services.  The company donated a total of over 1,250 items to Gleaners Food Bank.

Food items needed at Gleaners are these non-perishable items:

  • Beef stew, tuna, and other canned meats
  • Cans of soup
  • Canned fruits
  • Apple sauce
  • 100% juices
  • Macaroni & cheese and other boxed dinners
  • Canned vegetables
  • Peanut butter
  • Cereal

Cash contributions are also accepted and checks can be made out to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc. and mailed to Gleaners Food Bank at 1102 E. 16th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Online donations can be accepted at www.gleaners.org

Over 137,000 Hoosiers are not hungry today because Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana provides food and critical groceries to hunger relief charities. Gleaners, a member of Feeding America (the largest domestic hunger relief charity), was established in 1980. Since then the food bank has distributed over 215 million pounds of food and critical grocery products to nearly 400 hunger relief charities serving Hoosiers in need in 20 central Indiana counties. To learn more, log onto www.gleaners.org.

Applied Engineering Services is an Indianapolis based consulting engineering firm providing mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation engineering services. They focus on facilities and utilities engineering for industrial, higher education, governmental, and healthcare clients. For more information about Applied Engineering Services, please visit their web site at www.applied-e-s.com.
 

Applied Engineering Services Receives Achievement Award

Applied Engineering Services was an Achievement Award Winner in Keep Indianapolis Beautiful's A Monumental Affair competition.  The awards are given for excellence in design, development, construction, engineering, neighborhood beautification, public art, and innovative reuse in Indianapolis.  The award was given to Applied for its entry in the engineering category for the Citizens Thermal Illinois Street Chilled Water Plant-Phase II project.  A brief description of the project follows:

Citizens Thermal’s satellite chiller plant’s latest expansion added 2,500 tons of capacity to the district chilled water system serving downtown. Large capacity chilling equipment operates efficiently, yet out of view, behind the attractive new facade that blends in with the surrounding buildings. Inside are a new 2,500 ton chiller, water pumps with a total capacity of 30,500 gpm, and large piping up to 36” diameter. Also concealed from most street views are large high voltage electrical equipment serving existing chillers, the new chiller, and other low voltage equipment. The unstaffed facility is operated remotely from a facility on West Street.