Employee Break Room Renovated

A mentor of mine always said:

"How can one expect a staff to take pride in the front of the house if there is no pride in the back of the house?" 

In the Peninsula GCM department we believe in this motto. We take pride in our golf course and the conditions we provide on a daily basis. We also take much pride in our facilities that we work out of every day. We strive to maintain a clean, organized and efficient maintenance facility.

Two years ago the employee break room, the management offices and equipment storage area flooded when we received over one inch of rain. This made it difficult to maintain the type of facilitiy we know is needed to do the job up to member's expectations.

The Club graciously decided to allocate funds to repair and clean up the Golf Course Maintenance Compound permanently. We have been working on doing this for the past two years. We have cleaned, organized, instituted more efficient storage techniques and made a much more professional looking department.

The next step in this process was renovating the break room that had been damaged from years of flooding.    

During rainfall events water would build up behind the shop leaving it no place to go but into the maintenance facility.

The first place to flood were the management offices and employee break room.

It did not take much water to make the employee break room uninhabitable.

Flooding of the locker rooms

First we had to divert the water away from the building. Adding over 300 feet of drainage pipe did the trick.

Once we had controlled the water, the next step was to renovate the inside that had been destroyed from year's of flooding.

The HVAC system was serviced to stop leaks from the ceiling and new more energy efficient lights were installed.

The break room was gutted, all cabinets removed, and new hardware was installed.

Club Maintenance Director Brian Frank and Earl Gillon installing the new cabinets. This project could not have been completed without the help of these two individuals.

Staff installing new hardware on the cabinets.

New paint, light fixtures and plumbing were installed.

The final product. A clean environment that staff can feel good about and take pride in.

This project would not have happened without the graciousness of The Peninsula Club, Ray Armini, Brian Frank, Earl Gillon, Ryan Wells and my GCM Staff. They did an amazing job making the break room a place to be proud of! I am proud of what our team accomplished and look forward to moving onto the next step!