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WE ARE WALBRIDGE

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BUILT FOR GOOD.BUILT TO LAST.

OUR PEOPLE ARE CRITICAL TO OUR SUCCESS.Without their creativity, drive and passion, we run the risk of becoming just another construction company. We care about health and wellness. That’s why we created a program that can identify health-related issues early and provides resources and support necessary to make important lifestyle changes. With the commitment and vigor of our employees, we believe we can achieve anything.

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5 Florida: School’s in session

6 A clean ‘Exchange’

8 The renovation of Alice Lloyd Hall

10 Western Regional Water Reclamation Facility

12 Wellness in the workplace

13 EPIC: Voicing ideas for improvement

14 What we’re building

15 Our people

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Cover: Freshly planted green roof on the new Navy Exchange in Bethesda, Md.

This Issue

Winter 2013

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From our leadership

Having worked for Walbridge for the past 32 years, I’ve seen the firm grow from a formidable regional firm in the construction

industry to one with global reach. Many key people, from our leadership group to our project managers and through to support groups (Get Work, Administrative, etc.), have worked closely together at Walbridge for decades. We depend on one another to successfully meet the needs of our customers and to continue to expand our business. But what happens if one of those key players falls seriously ill? That individual’s level of expertise and in-depth knowledge of our processes and our industry is lost to us for some time. Compounding the loss is the impact this illness exacts on the employee, his or her family, and co-workers. We realize you can’t eliminate illness, but we believe you can reduce its impact by focusing on wellness. We began our formalized wellness program in 2011, with biometric screenings and health risk assessments for our employees. Our Chairman and CEO, John Rakolta, Jr., was first in line to be screened. We’ve since provided our employees with ongoing educational tools, presentations on wellness at “Lunch and Learn” sessions and encouraging the use of a nearby gym and local walking paths. Our people really make Walbridge the innovative, dependable company it is. Emphasizing wellness helps our employees address health-related issues before they take a toll on the individual and their families, not to mention long-standing colleagues and friends.

Terry Merritt Group Vice President Walbridge Detroit, Michigan Terry Merritt is Chair of Haven, a non-profit organization promoting violence-free homes and communities; Chair of the Michigan Women’s Foundation, which has been championing social justice for women and girls for the past 26 years; and a Board Member of Inforum Center for Leadership, the research and education arm of Inforum, a professional women’s alliance.

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Over the past decade, Walbridge’s Florida Group has made quite an impression on the communities in and around

Tampa Bay. It’s completed 12 projects for Pinellas County Schools, nine for Hillsborough County Public Schools and three for Pasco County Schools – not including more than 50 smaller jobs completed for Pasco as part of a continuing contracts program with the district.

It’s no secret clients remember the contractors that do a good job. While a few projects the Florida Group has done for its local school districts over the years have been hard-bid, the majority have been shortlisted construction management jobs.

“I think they see an added value in our pre-construction services, especially in our construction management work,” said Tim Sewell, Walbridge Assistant Vice President and Deputy General Manager of the Florida Group. “The way we sequence our projects, our logistics planning and constructability reviews – how we deliver these efforts sets us apart from competitors.”

Most recently, Pinellas County Schools put out 13 construction manager at-risk opportunities and the Florida Group was shortlisted on all but one. This eventually led to Walbridge being awarded two contracts, one of which being the largest of the crop: a $10 million HVAC replacement job at Tarpon Springs Middle School. A number of projects the group has completed for Pinellas County over the years have been renovations and additions. But the Florida Group has also built a number of brand new schools for the district, including Bayside High School, Lealman Elementary School and Dunedin Middle School.

For Pasco County Schools, Walbridge built Paul R. Smith Middle School, Oakstead Elementary School and Crews Lake Middle School. In Hillsborough County, some of the Florida Group’s more notable projects include the renovation of Ben Hill Middle School in 2011, the historical reconstruction of

Orange Grove Middle Magnet School in 2008, the renovation of Brewster Technical High School in 2010 and the High Stakes Labs Project in 2010, which involved converting classrooms into laboratories at 47 schools.

“Hillsborough County Schools has come to recognize that Walbridge can handle its hardest, most complex projects,” said Sewell. “We do not shy away from these difficult jobs, and there’s no doubt we deliver on schedule and within budget.”

Members of the Florida Group have also participated in local educational opportunities. Walbridge’s Nelson Etienne, Kevin Speiss, Bo Dring, Brian Hoyt and Lisa Houston volunteered at last year’s Great American Teach-In, put on by Hillsborough and Pasco counties school districts. There, they talked with students about careers in construction and shared details on some of the company’s projects in the area.

K-12 clients in the Tampa Bay region require a contractor that fulfills commitments from start to finish. Walbridge’s Florida Group has delivered on this standard every step of the way.

Renovated and historically restored Orange Grove Middle Magnet School

Gymnasium and auditorium at Lealman Elementary School

Good work bringsback customersTRUST IS GOOD.

Upgraded chilled water system installed at Brewster Technical High School

Tim Sewell

CMH designed a facility whose northwest corner would be built into a hillside. While building into existing topography is not a new construction technique, using it to address the unique building constraints was a first for any NAVFAC project. WBG was able to optimize land usage by doing so while also creating an infinity effect for neighbors concerned about aesthetics, as the NEX’s 53,000-square-foot green roof helps blend the facility into the surrounding landscape. The massive vegetative roof works in unison with a state-of-the-art storm-water management system installed at the site of the new NEX. The system is actually a first-of-its-kind for federal construction projects in the state of Maryland, providing 11,200 cubic feet of rainwater harvesting. It functions through two underground tanks that together hold 84,000 gallons of storm water, a gabion-lined reservoir built onsite, and the green roof, which retains 1.7 inches of

The new Navy Exchange at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., is more than a souped-

up shopping center. It’s a modern, centralized location where Navy personnel, rehabilitating veterans, military families and retired soldiers can pick up prescriptions, get their hair done, dine and buy stamps in one outing. With its eco-friendly design and sustainability features, it’s a place where employees and shoppers can feel good about spending their time. Nestled into a hillside and surrounded by trees, the setting lends a sense of tranquilly amid the bustle of an otherwise congested installation. The Walbridge Brasfield & Gorrie Joint Venture (WBG), with design partner CMH Architects, was hired by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) to design-build the installation’s new one-stop retail facility. For the $44 million job, WBG built a 12,000-square-foot temporary shopping center, demolished a 40,000-square-foot facility, and constructed the new 151,450-square-foot NEX and adjoining 196,400-square-foot parking structure. Unlike the former Exchange, management, administration and sales operations now function under one roof. The new Navy Exchange (NEX) is the first NAVFAC project that’s designed and constructed to meet LEED® Gold certification through the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. Its sustainability features alone make the new NEX one of a kind.

Sustaining convenienceBETTER IS GOOD.

Dining area in food court

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Clearstory sheds natrual light onto shopping area

Main entrance of the new Bethesda Navy Exchange

rainwater and naturally treats runoff. That’s not all. Unlike conventional shopping centers or department stores, the new NEX sheds abundant natural light onto its shoppers and employees, thanks to a "Clearstory" cap (or a windowed level) incorporated into the design of the main shopping area. It’s also adorned with highly efficient plumbing and electrical fixtures. And native plantings were used throughout the entire site of the new NEX, eliminating the need for a site-wide irrigation system. All vegetation planted for the project – the landscaping, green roof and trellises throughout the site – will thrive under the natural conditions of the region. Limited land at the site created logistical challenges in determining lay-down area for materials and equipment. In addition, above-ground space was restricted due to the flight path of the medical center’s adjacent helipad. The jobsite of the NEX was so tight that just-in-time deliveries of 10-foot-by-35-foot pre-cast panels were literally erected from truck beds. But thanks to spot-on scheduling and a synergy among all parties of the project team, the new structure fits comfortably into the same confined space that held the former Exchange while providing better accommodations and greater efficiency. More than triple the size of its predecessor, the new NEX and adjacent 500-space parking structure are each two stories high but still low enough to clear the flight path and not obstruct views from the neighboring subdivision.

“Our nation demands a great deal from its men and women in uniform. In return, it promises to provide high-quality services for both active-duty and retired military families,” said Col. (ret.) Keith Landry, Walbridge Director of Federal Business Development. “Exchanges do just that. And we consider it our duty to build outstanding facilities for these exceptional people. ”

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That’s a wrap:the last of the overhauls in

U-M’s Hill neighborhoodMODERNIZING IS GOOD.

New common space inside the University ofMichigan’s Alice Lloyd Residence Hall

The renovationscontinueWalbridge is managing major renovations currently underway at the University of Michigan’s 300,000-square-foot East Quadrangle Residence Hall and the Lawyers Club residence facilities.

With private residential management companies

bringing a new kind of competition to the nation’s top universities, keeping campuses attractive has never been more important.

Living and studying under the same roof is one impetus behind the University of Michigan’s Residential Life Initiatives (RLI). The program aims to modernize dormitories on the Ann Arbor, Mich., campus with new infrastructure and mechanical equipment while putting student living spaces close to areas that cultivate learning and social interaction.

Walbridge has played an integral role in fulfilling the university’s RLI, which began in 2004. In 2008, the firm carried out the $54 million renovation of Mosher Jordan Residence Hall, originally built in 1931, and construction of the adjacent Hill Dining Center. In 2009, Walbridge completed the $27 million renovation of Stockwell Hall, which the company originally built in 1940. And in 2011, Walbridge carried out the $39 million overhaul of Couzens Hall, the oldest of four student residence facilities located in U-M’s Hill neighborhood. Couzens was originally

built in 1925 to house female nursing students at the university.

Last fall, Walbridge wrapped up the $44.5 million reconstruction of the youngest of the four residences halls on the Hill: Alice Lloyd, a 168,000 square-foot dormitory built in 1949. But while it was built nearly a quarter-century after the oldest of the four, its overhaul was the most involved.

The project called for complete demolition of the lower level and first floor of the building, which was surrounded by other occupied dormitories at the time of construction; as well as selective demolition on floors two through six. As construction manager-at-risk, Walbridge was tasked with creating additional spaces and increasing floor-to-ceiling heights in certain areas. To accomplish this, the team had to remove columns and span tunnels, which required implementing temporary shoring techniques, reinforcing existing beams and adding extra structural elements. All of this was done without impacting the historic Detroit Observatory next door.

In addition to opening up the lower levels of the interior and creating

new community-focused areas with high-end finishes and other accommodations, the scope also included the restoration of exterior masonry and glazing. The project brought improvements to plaster and new flooring in all student dorm rooms, as well as all new bathrooms. The team integrated individualized climate control systems in each dorm room, improved information technology infrastructure throughout the building and installed all new mechanical systems.

As with all of the work Walbridge does for higher education clients, schedule plays a very important role. The team first arrived at Alice Lloyd in May 2011, just as resident students were leaving the building for the summer. By July the following year, the first occupants of the newly designed and modernized Alice Lloyd began moving in.

Alice Lloyd is the last of four residence halls in U-M’s Hill neighborhood to be renovated

Sitting nook in new common space

Revitalized entrance

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With an original completion date planned for December 2012, the Walbridge | Dugan & Meyers Joint Venture

(WDM) embarked on construction of a small but intricate water reclamation complex to service Boone and Kenton counties in northern Kentucky. Construction of the 150-acre Western Regional Water Reclamation Facility in Petersburg, Ky., began in March 2009. By May 2012 – six months ahead of schedule – it was completed. But that didn’t happen by accident. It took regional familiarity, experience in building waste-water treatment facilities, teamwork and safe practices to make the quick turn-around possible. The new facility adds an average capacity of 20 million

gallons per day to the nationally-recognized storm-water management program of Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky. While it’s a not a huge reclamation facility (by comparison, the metropolitan Detroit and Chicago facilities average 1 billion and 4 billion gallons per day, respectfully), the Petersburg facility does pack a punch. Built on a greenfield site off State Route 20 in western Boone County, the $69 million reclamation site is made up of several multifaceted components. In addition to the construction of seven structures, WDM built four cast-in-place aeration basins, each divided into three 120-foot-long, 41-foot-wide, 16-foot-deep chambers; and installed three giant clarifiers, each measuring 135 feet in diameter.

Watertight executionPROCESS IS GOOD.

One of three 135-foot-diameter clarifiers

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Aerial view of Western Regional Water Reclamation Facility

Erosion control system at reclamation site

The also project included installation of four $3.5 million turbo blowers, each requiring a 20-month prefabrication period prior to delivery, making flawless scheduling a major contributor to the project’s early turnover. The team was also required to excavate 45 feet below ground for pump pits. The site of Western Regional Water, along the Ohio River, previously held a tobacco field, so its soil was loose and spongy. Due to the sandy consistency of the earth, special measures had to be taken for placement of the aeration tanks – which take up an area the size of two football fields. WDM met the challenge head on with a pre-loading, compaction procedure that vastly improved the plot’s soil-bearing capacity. For certain areas of the site, 16-inch diameter construction friction piles were used to ensure proper support. While logging more than 350,000 hours worked on the job, WDM and its subcontractors completed Western Regional Water without recording a single lost-time incident.

We installed: � A sludge handling system; � Three belt filter presses; � Four turbo blowers that operate at 10,000 revolutions

per minute (not unlike a jet engine); and � Six-plus miles of underground piping, some big

enough for a car to pass through.

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A good wellness program doesn’t just lower insurance costs. It can help save lives and enhance the efforts of a productive workforce, which is the primary reason Walbridge provides an interactive program to help employees achieve personal

fitness goals and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

The Walbridge Wellness Program kicked off in the fall of 2011. Since then, it’s won several awards and expanded in fall 2012 to include employee spouses.

Spanning the globe, Walbridge has more than 600 employees. All employees covered on a Walbridge medical plan have access to the program, which was driven by the company’s Chairman and CEO John Rakolta, Jr., who partakes in the same annual screenings as employees.

The Wellness Program consists of onsite and at-home biometric screenings that test 26 different health measurements; a personal, online Health Risk Assessment; and educational materials on how to improve physical and emotional wellbeing. Incentives are offered to encourage participation; surcharges are implemented for opting out. Everything is confidential.

Additional opportunities for all Walbridge employees include maps of walking paths and daily walking groups, discounted gym memberships, weekly joint-mobility sessions, fitness challenges, a list of local restaurants that offer healthy dining options, and monthly lunch-and-learn seminars. Lunch-and-learn topics have even been developed using the aggregated results of the previous year’s company wellness report, a tool that helps determine whether employees might need more education on a specific health issue or stress reduction through meditation.

“It’s no secret medical insurance is on the rise and that the healthier a workforce is, the lower those costs are to employers,” said Audrey Richie, Walbridge Benefits Administrator. “But we’re doing this for something bigger: to help our employees. We feel a responsibility to give employees the tools they need to stay healthy.”

Walbridge’s Wellness Program garnered the company a 101 Best and Brightest “Wellness Champions Elite Award” last year, as well as a “2012 Michigan’s Healthiest Employers” award from Crain’s Detroit Business. But perhaps the most rewarding return on the program was helping an employee identify and stop a dangerous condition from worsening. Thanks to the annual biometric screening, an employee learned of a potentially life-threatening situation and was able to seek treatment immediately as a result.

That employee’s expressed gratitude for the program, coupled with positive feedback from others in the company provides ample encouragement to continue the Wellness Program for years to come.

After all, healthy employees are what keep us Built for Goodsm.

Be well, work wellFITNESS IS GOOD.

Above: Walbridge Human Resources Specialist Christina Collins shoots hoops at the gym

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CHANGE IS GOOD.

In the corporate world, some of the best improvements happen incrementally. Ide-

as are discussed, challenges are identified and solutions are set in motion.

Five years ago, Walbridge’s Lean Fundamentals and Quality steering committees merged to form the Enterprise Process Improvement Committee, or EPIC, which does just that. A cross-functional committee made up of 38 employee liaisons, EPIC serves as an in-house resource that encourages individual accountability for company-wide improvement.

“The Enterprise has a collective understanding of the need to constantly improve,” said Susan Pogrmich, Senior Manager of Lean, Quality and Sustainability at Walbridge and Committee Chair of EPIC. “If one department wants to make a change, we have to make sure it doesn’t have a negative impact on another

department. Values have to outweigh the risks, and it’s our responsibility to investigate whether that’s achievable.”

By nature, EPIC encourages innovative thinking among peers. It provides a forum for generating ideas and presents employee-driven suggestions for improvement. The purpose of EPIC is not to change the company but, rather, to be the engine for change, Pogrmich explained.

“When we can repeat and constantly apply simple changes, the impact can be exponential,” she said. “EPIC strives to improve our processes and products by identifying what needs to be changed and challenging ourselves to do it. The end result doesn’t just benefit the Enterprise; it benefits our customers.”

Above: Walbridge’s Susan Pogrmich addresses members at a recent EPIC meeting

FACT: Walbridge’s Lessons Learned database contains 4,290 suggestions for improvement based on actual project experience.

To locate a Walbridge office near you, visit walbridge.com/locations

Walbridge was a winner in the inaugural Michigan’s Healthiest Employers Awards and was recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business as an organization committed to

creating a healthy workplace. Walbridge won for its award-winning Wellness Program, (detailed on page 12).

The Delta Dental of Michigan Headquarters Expansion and Renovation won the designation

of 2012 Best Office Project in Engineering News--Record’s (ENR) national Best Projects of the Year competition. ENR Midwest honored Walbridge for its work as construction manager on the project last fall when Delta Dental won Best Office Project of the Year in the regional competition. The project was later submitted for this national award.

Construction Users Round Table (CURT) awarded Walbridge its 2012 Construction Industry Safety Excellence (CISE) Award for the General

Building Contractors classification in the 500,000 to 2 million hours worked category.

Walbridge is general contractor on a new 24,900-square-foot commercial terminal building at Southwest Georgia Regional Airport in Albany, Ga. The $11 million project includes construction of the new facility and related site improvements. Building dry-in is set for early February. Construction is on track for completion in May 2013.

As construction manager of the new Oakland University Engineering Center in Rochester, Mich., Walbridge is building a five-level, 129,000-square-foot instructional facility. The $75 million project also includes renovation of 15,000 square feet of campus space that’s being vacated by staff moving into the new facility. Construction is scheduled for completion in August 2014.

The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority has selected Walbridge’s Florida Group for the $33.5 million Orlando International Airport Baggage Optimization Program. As general contractor, Walbridge will replace and upgrade two of the airport’s sorting and screening baggage systems. Construction will begin in February 2013 and wrap up within 28 months.

Walbridge is on target for a March 1 substantial completion of the new 985,000-square-foot Body Shop at Chrysler Group’s Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in southeast Michigan. Right now, the team is also wrapping up construction of office space and completing punch-list items at Chrysler’s new three-level Paint Shop, located on the same Sterling Heights, Mich. campus.

What we’re buildingRECENTLY AWARDED GETTING STARTED WRAPPING UPUNDERWAY

We’re honoredPRIDE IS GOOD.

(L-R) Johnson & Johnson’s Art Goehry, Walbridge’s Robert Crane and David Robson, and CURT’s Greg Sizemore

The New Chrysler Wing is a trademark of Chrysler Group LLC.1000 Chrysler Drive Auburn Hills, Mchigan 48326

Filed for registration with the US Patent and Trademark Office, July 2009.First use in commerce, November 2010.

Rendered February 2011 by John Conti <jconti@mediamonitors.com>

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Our peopleWalbridge Assistant Vice President of Project Controls Christine Nowak was recently recognized as the company’s 2012 Mentor of the Year. Her mentee, Contracts Coordinator Angelita Razor, is one of two Walbridge 2012 Protégés of the Year. Walbridge Project Coordinator Allen Marden was also named a Protégé of the Year.

Walbridge Industrial Group Superintendent John Ursu is the company’s newest LEED® Green Associate.

Walbridge Training Coordinator Olivia Patrick and BIM Coordinator Jacob Markut participated in the annual Washtenaw Contractors Association Just Build It! event at Eastern Michigan University Oct. 31, where they gave live demonstrations to eighth- through 12th-grade students on Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Walbridge Industrial Process (WIP) millwrights Frank Duguid and Dale Wilkewitz graduated from the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Superintendent Career Training Program in Las Vegas Oct. 20, earning themselves the competitive designation of Certified Superintendent.

Walbridge is beginning 2013 with two new certified BIM managers. Technical Engineer Mike Pitts and Virtual Design Manager Bill Skene each earned a Certificate of Management in Building Information Modeling, or CM-BIM, from the Associated General Contractors (AGC).

Walbridge’s past is filled with successful projects and momentous occasions. As we near our 100th anniversary as a company (March 1916), Walbridge is embarking on a special project to collect photographs, documents, banners, clothing items and memorabilia related to its history. Employees and former employees, retirees, friends, colleagues, clients and associates are invited to add to the collection. Contact Mark Marymee at mmarymee@walbridge.com with a description of items you’d care to contribute.

Got a piece of Walbridge history?

Olivia Patrick at Just Build It!

Angelita Razor and Chistine Nowak

Bill Skene Mike Pitts

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