Robert Grottenthaler, Vice President, P.E., LEED AP, DBIA, Class of 1980
Vice President
Barton Malow
Bob received his Bachelor of Architectural Engineering from Penn State in 1980. He participated in the study abroad program at the University of Leeds, England in spring 1979. While beginning his career designing mechanical and electrical systems in Dallas, Texas in 1980, he attended night classes and received his Master of Business Administration from the Southern Methodist University in 1984. Bob is a Registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania and Texas. He is also a LEED Accredited Professional and a DBIA Designated Design-Build Professional.
Bob has been with Barton Malow for over 19 years. He is a Vice President in the company’s Eastern Region and is responsible for their Maryland operations. His favorite project assignment was serving as Project Executive on Penn State’s Beaver Stadium Expansion and Renovation project that completed in September 2001. Bob’s support of business diversity inclusion helped Barton Malow win the following awards from the Maryland Minority Contractors Association: Best Practices in Contracting in February 2009 and Business Diversity Achievement in July 2010.
In his 32 years of design and construction experience, Bob has worked on higher education, healthcare, and sports projects for such high-profile clients as Penn State, Johns Hopkins, University of Virginia, UMMS, and University of Maryland. His emphasis is on working in collaborative project environments, preconstruction planning, operations, commissioning, sustainability, and Building Information Modeling (BIM), utilizing construction management at risk and design-build project delivery methods.
Bob has been an active participant in Penn State’s AE/CM program since 1998. He received PACE’s Excellence Award in 2005 for his support of the CM program and their research. In 2010, Bob was elected into PACE’s Hall of Fame for his contributions to the construction industry. Also in 2010, he was named a Penn State AE Centennial Fellow. Bob also serves on the PACE Advisory Board, judges the AE 5th year Senior Thesis Project Presentations, and is an Alumni Mentor in the Penn State SSAE Mentor Program. In 2011, Bob was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the Penn State Alumni Society of Architectural Engineers (ASAE). He is currently the Vice President and Mentoring Committee Chairperson for ASAE.
Bob resides in Bel Air, Maryland and enjoys traveling to the Caribbean and Europe. He is married and has three daughters who live in Pennsylvania.