We are pleased to announce that Arion recently received the National Safety Council Million Work Hours Award. The National Safety Council Million Work Hours Award recognizes companies, locations, or divisions that have completed at least 1 million consecutive work hours without an injury or illness that resulted in days away from work or death.

In response to receiving this top safety award, Arion COO Edmund Lunde said, “Zero incidents and zero accidents - it's not just our goal, it is our expectation!”

Arion was recently recognized and distinguished among large companies (100-399 employees) in the Greater Houston Area as one of the Houston Business Journal’s (HBJ) Top Places To Work for 2022. Arion has been fortunate to be named a Best Place To Work and named on HBJ’s The Lists as one of Houston’s Largest Engineering Firms for 4 consecutive years since its inception in 2018.

Arion was recently featured on the local Houston edition of Fox Business Channel’s Inside the Blueprint, airing on KRIV-FOX Saturday, April 16th at 11:00 AM Central, and KIAH-CW Sunday, April 17th at 9:00 AM Central. 

You can catch the replay here - our segment begins at the 0:40 mark.

Is your facility tag data missing or incomplete? Do you find your team wasting valuable resources in tracking down missing documentation or performing unnecessary site walkdowns to confirm as-built information? Are you frustrated by the time it takes to retrieve key information about your equipment? Join Josh Menk, Arion’s Delivery Systems and Innovation Manager, and Trygve Ronningen, Cognite’s Group COO & EVP Operations, on Wednesday, April 20th at Noon Central.

Arion has been selected to be featured on the local Houston edition of Fox Business Channel’s Inside the Blueprint, airing on KRIV-FOX Saturday 4/16/2022 at 11:00 AM Central, and KIAH-CW Sunday 4/17/22 at 9:00 AM Central. 

Kash Arfa has been named Vice-President of Arion’s Automation Business Unit. For over 32 years, Arfa’s activities within the instrumentation and process control and automation markets in the energy and chemical industries have given him invaluable experience he now will bring to Arion.

Focus will be on reliable digital twin solutions that optimize the ongoing management of industrial facilities.

Houston Business Journal has ranked Arion #14 in their list of the 2021 largest energy engineering firms in the Houston area.

Sarah Hoelzen has been named Vice-President of Business Development for Arion’s Upstream & Midstream markets. Hoelzen comes to Arion with over 10 years of experience in Business Development, and will work alongside Dan Dutherage and Brian O’Higgins to serve our customers in the Onshore and Pipeline segments of the Upstream and Midstream industries.

Houston-based EPCM firm Arion has recently signed cooperation agreements with Amerson Engineering and MDNTec for the joint pursuit of Automation projects in the US and South America.

Kyle Lednicky has been named Vice-President of Business Development for Arion’s newly launched Automation Business Unit. Lednicky comes to Arion with over 22 years of experience in Business Development, with the last 10 years exclusively dedicated to Automation, Instrumentation, and Electrical endeavors. Beginning in Summer 2021, Lednicky will leverage his previous management of strategic customers across the energy and chemicals markets to develop Arion’s presence in the Automation sector of the energy industry.

What combinations of processes, people and tools are needed to deliver the new hybrid flexible workforce solution post pandemic return to work? From remote on-boarding to small footprint flexible desking and smarter help desk solutions, tune into FromTheExperts (FTE) to hear Josh Menk address these issues and more.

Arion’s People pillar is at the core of why we do everything we do. Every day we come to work, our #1 care and concern is helping A-Teamers take care of themselves and each other, empowering them to then focus on taking care of our clients. To this end, we launched our Wellness Program in 2020 to provide a framework for encouraging physical, mental, and financial wellness for the A-Team.

Join Patrick Blomberg, PE for The Pipeliners Association of Houston virtual monthly Business Meeting on Monday, March 1st at 12pm CST. Patrick, Arion's Process Department Manager, will be speaking on PSM/PSV Remediation. PAH members can login to view the presentation.

Arion Co-Founder and COO Edmund Lunde, MPM is set to deliver the Opening Keynote address for the 23rd Annual Rice Global Engineering & Construction Forum on Wednesday, November 11th, 2020. Edmund will be presenting on the "State of the Union (COVID-19)" touching on the current climate and the impacts of COVID-19. Register to attend and catch Edmund’s impactful and inspiring State of the Industry opening keynote address to learn more. The virtual event will be held November 11th from 8:30am-3:00pm. Tickets are available here through November 10th.

So far in 2020, we have completed over 30 arc flash analyses for our clients’ industrial facilities, providing solutions to decrease hazards and bring facilities into compliance with OSHA requirements. Our experience has been that once our initial work is complete, our clients recognize the value we provide and ask us to expand our study work to include more of their facilities. Our team is capable of utilizing arc flash mitigating techniques as advised by NFPA 70E for your switchgear and MCC work.

Arion Blue, LLC, was ranked #19 in the medium company category for the 2020 Houston Business Journal Best Places to Work awards in a virtual ceremony aired live on October 22, 2020. “From day one, we have remained committed to placing our People at the heart of our business,” said CEO Michele McNichol. “We are thrilled that HBJ has recognized this commitment by honoring the A-Team in this way two years in a row.”

AIRYon...OR-I-on...ARRYon...we've heard it all, and then some. Just how are you supposed to pronounce "Arion," anyway? We've gotchu, fam.

After learning of our successes with utilizing their software, the folks at Drawboard (DB) sat down with Josh Menk, Delivery Systems and Innovation Manager at Arion, to chat more about Drawboard Projects and the impact the software is having on project delivery at Arion.

Project success depends on safety requirements being met to achieve an outcome of zero injuries or accidents. Arion’s Supplier Quality Surveillance (SQS) program can help ensure your projects are as safe as possible. In addition to utilizing SQS internally to support our engineering and procurement services, we also provide direct inspection management and in-shop inspection support excellence to our clients. By executing proven best practices to ensure supplier compliance, we embody a main principle of our Performance pillar. Further, we draw on our People pillar in fostering an “all in” team mentality to form lasting, trusting relationships for the duration of the project and beyond.