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Tom Yura

Chief Operating Officer, Cornerstone Chemical Chair, GBRIA Board of Directors

Partnering for a strong industry leads to a stronger community GBRIA’S MISSION IS to “drive solutions to common issues with an emphasis on workforce development and safety performance.” To achieve this mission, we have six strategic objectives: • Achieve injury and incident free workplaces • Ensure access to a competitive and skilled company and contractor workforce • Facilitate operational excellence through networking and exchanges • Build support in the local community for retention and growth of our industries • Maintain a vibrant, successful and involved membership • Provide stewardship to budget and maintain the highest levels of financial integrity As you read on, I hope you will find that our organization made progress in each of these areas over the last year.

The first area I would like to address is our goal to achieve injury and incident-free workplaces.

In April, 2019, GBRIA celebrated its 23rd Annual Safety Excellence Awards.

This event, like others in the past, aims to highlight the excellent achievements made by GBRIA members and contractors over the past year.

This partnership has produced work environments that rival any other industry in the region. When comparing various industries, we find that the retail industry’s recordable rate is around 3.3, manufacturing as a whole is around 3.6, and within the GBRIA membership, the recordable rate has been well below a 1.0 for the past 15 years.

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tee, who strive to share best practices with both GBRIA membership and the contractor community to keep our employees safe.

Next, I would like to acknowledge the efforts of the Workforce Development Committee to ensure access to a competitive and skilled company and contractor workforce. This committee has focused on encouraging craft training to high school students in the Greater Baton Rouge Area with more outreach, especially through GBRIA’s Annual Craft Workforce Development Awards Program.

In addition, GBRIA voices industry needs in post-secondary institutions through cooperation with the Louisiana Community and Technical Colleges System and advisory boards for programs such as Non-Destructive Testing and Process Technology.

GBRIA also plays a part in workforce development by working with the ABC Pelican Chapter through a quarterly joint taskforce. GBRIA’s annual Craft Workforce Development Awards banquet continues to grow, recognizing more contractors, post-secondary institutions and high schools for their achievements in workforce development or craft training each year.

GBRIA’s Membership and Public Affairs committee continues to build support and engagement in the local community for retention and growth of our industries. GBRIA now uses its social media platforms to educate the public of industry operations. Large events such as the annual Craft Workforce Development Awards, Safety Excellence Awards and Annual Meeting are broadcast through GBRIA’s YouTube channel

and the Louisiana Hometown Network on cable channel 21 for four weeks after each event. Our increasing Public Affairs outreach program will focus on “the value proposition” to our Capital Area community.

From the small business owner who supplies our industry and employees to the schools we support with our tax dollars, externship programs, and resources, we have such a great story to tell. It’s time for us to raise our voice and be proud of our industry.

Through relationships with traditional media platforms, GBRIA promotes facts and positive news stories. The Advocate and The Baton Rouge Business Report continue to feature articles of GBRIA sharing results of our regular surveys including our Plant Managers’ Economic Outlook quarterly survey and our Bi-Annual Labor Forecast survey.

GBRIA also contributes to the 10/12 Industry Report each quarter.

For further engagement with membership and community, GBRIA hosts several large events each year.

For the first time in 2019, GBRIA hosted a Clay Shoot at Bridgeview Gun Club in Port Allen as a kickoff to the 2019 Safety Excellence Awards. The Safety Excellence Awards Banquet, held on April 4 had more than 600 in attendance. The Annual Meeting and first Annual Gala took place on January 25 with around 200 attendees.

The Contractor Workforce Development Awards Banquet is on September 19th and GBRIA will host a Top Golf Social as a kickoff prior to the banquet.

The Golf Tournament & Gumbo Cookoff will take place in November. Mark your calendars!

Lastly, GBRIA’s coalition with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and the Center for Planning Excellence, the Capital Region Industry for Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions, or CRISIS, continues to make a difference in our transportation infrastructure.

CRISIS has developed a multiyear strategy to support the region’s needs through the use of smart transportation technology, improvements to the planning process, alternative transportation funding mechanisms, and an expansive outreach program with local, state and Federal officials to implement solutions to traffic and infrastructure. In 2018, Governor Edwards announced a new project to widen I-10 from the bridge to the split. CRISIS continues to work with the legislature to implement sustainable solutions to execute major infrastructure projects in the region.

All of these efforts would not be possible without the GBRIA staff led by our executive director, Connie Fabre.

The team continues to do an excellent job moving our agenda forward by providing the energy to garner support for these initiatives from our members.

I want to acknowledge the leadership provided by the Board of Directors, and last but not least, I want to thank the member companies who support GBRIA. These achievements would not have been possible without the sweat equity our companies provide.

We still have many challenges facing our industry. We have a demonstrated record of success when we work together as GBRIA, and I look forward to meeting these challenges head-on.

Together, we are the Greater Baton Rouge Industrial Alliance.

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Connie Fabre

Executive Director, GBRIA

Making a mark around the globe THE GREATER BATON ROUGE Industry Alliance (GBRIA) was established as a “Local User Council” (LUC) affiliated with The Business Roundtable to better represent the interests of Baton Rouge’s regional industrial sector and bring a voice to its most pressing needs and concerns.

Since those early days, The Business Roundtable’s construction efforts became The Construction Users Roundtable, or CURT, and GBRIA continues to be affiliated with this national organization.

In the late 1960s, Louisiana was experiencing new investment and construction and the owners of the construction projects—mainly petrochemical plants— were searching for a way to improve industry’s influence through a common voice.

GBRIA was formed in 1970 and embarked upon improving relations with union crafts and helping members deal with concerns that stemmed from the formation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Today, GBRIA’s activities still center on safety and workforce development and include efforts to better community relationships and promote public awareness about the important role industry plays to the economy of both the region and the state of Louisiana.

GBRIA’s members look to the association for solutions to common issues in areas where they do not compete, and over the years the association has helped develop several standard solutions that help industry members and their contractors operate more efficiently.

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GBRIA hosted its Annual Meeting and 1st Annual Gala at the Country Club of Louisiana on Jan. 25, 2019.

Simply put, GBRIA helps its members remain globally competitive.

A few examples of GBRIA’s history of accomplishments include standardized contractor safety awareness training through the Alliance Safety Council.

This promotes the standard training curriculum of the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER), which is used in high schools, community colleges, union trade schools and at the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC).

In 2007, GBRIA played an important part in changing the regional craft training model from one that was almost 100% privately funded by membership to a public-private partnership, helping to spread craft training to all state community and technical colleges, as well as into high schools.

And when members raised concerns over the Baton Rouge area’s inadequate road infrastructure, GBRIA helped bring community and governmental

stakeholders together to form CRISIS, the Capital Region Industry for Infrastructure Solutions.

In the span of four years, the group has helped secure a new Mississippi River ferry and several major new highway construction projects, including the widening of I-10 from the bridge to the I-12 split and widening of I-10 through Ascension parish.

In addition, CRISIS supported and helped promote MOVEBR, the nearly $1 billion proposal that passed and will relieve congestion and provide increased regional connectivity.

By speaking as one voice, decision makers in government gained understanding and were able to prioritize solutions that will benefit the region.

Last year, GBRIA brought stakeholders together to impress upon lawmakers the impact that a change to the economic development incentive used

by the state for 82 years has had.

Investment in the state saw a decline and contractor work hours dropped off significantly, despite the fact that business conditions remain favorable for investment, and neighboring states are seeing continued growth.

GBRIA will continue to address the Industrial Tax Exemption Program (ITEP) to educate and find common solutions.

Attracting more of the local workforce to the high-tech, high-paying jobs in industry is a key focus of GBRIA and in 2019, we will focus on growing skilled craft training at community and technical colleges and high schools in the River Region south of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

More than $130 billion of industrial projects are planned to be built in Louisiana by 2025 and more than $40 billion of that being south of Baton Rouge and south of New Orleans.

GBRIA is poised to welcome new members and grow along with the growth that the industry is experiencing.

Members include industrial manufacturers or “owners” of construction projects. In addition to membership, GBRIA offers a sponsorship program whereby industrial suppliers and contractors can participate in the activities of the association.

Please inquire about membership or sponsorship today if you aren’t already participating and view our website at gbria.org.

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Daniel Tate

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Steve Ledoux

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Tom Yura

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Baton Rouge Chemical Plant Process Manager

Chief Operations Officer Cornerstone Chemical Chair of GBRIA Board of Directors

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30 years of no action.

It’s time to fix our roads.

BUSINESS LEADERS, CHAMBERS of commerce and trade associations from across Louisiana formed the Louisiana Coalition to Fix Our Roads (LCFOR) in October, 2018 to raise awareness of the state’s poor road and bridge condition and to advocate for a funding solution.

Through a statewide social media campaign, LCFOR is encouraging citizens to join them in their efforts to rally lawmakers to pass a comprehensive funding plan to make the state’s roads and bridges safe, improve quality of life and meet the state’s growing transportation needs.

“The campaign is about empowering Louisiana citizens to directly connect with their lawmakers and let them know they are fed up with our state’s terrible roads and bridges,” said LCFOR President Erich Ponti. “2019 must be the year to fix our roads.”

The last time state lawmakers made a serious effort to fix our roads was in 1984 when the fuel tax was increased to its current base level. In 1989, lawmakers funded the TIMED Program, a plan to increase capacity throughout the state but with no funding to maintain the new capacity or other existing transportation infrastructure.

In the 30-plus years since, no new investment has been made, even as the state’s population has grown by half a million residents. Additionally, inflation has outpaced current funding sources. The state continues to fall further behind on needed improvements to roadways and bridges while the costs to complete the necessary projects continues to rise.

A 2017 study from a national transportation research group, TRIP,

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examined the state of Louisiana’s roads and bridges. The data shows the state’s transportation system is in poor shape: • At least 38% of Louisiana’s state roads are in poor or worse condition • 1,821 bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete • 15% of the state’s bridges are “substandard” • At least 15 bridges have closed so far in 2019

• Louisiana was 12th highest in the nation for highway fatalities in 2017 State Representative Steve Carter (R-Baton Rouge) has introduced legislation to address funding the state’s roads and bridges: HB 542. The bill reforms the Louisiana Department of Transportations and Development’s operations by ratcheting down the agency’s current use of the existing 16-cent fuel tax for operating expenses.

The bill simultaneously increases new revenue for road and bridge construction through a fuel tax increase, rededication of existing fuel tax and new registration fees on electric and hybrid vehicles.

A key component of Rep. Carter’s plan is utilizing the new “Construction Sub-Fund” (lockbox) of the Transportation Trust Fund. This “lockbox” ensures dollars deposited in the “lockbox” go directly toward improvement projects.

Voters approved this constitutional amendment in 2017 aimed at protecting highway dollars from being eroded by ever-growing DOTD employee costs.

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increase by two cents every two years through 2031, with no increases beyond that time.

“Providing safe roads and bridges are a vital function of state government and it’s time for us in the legislature to start making our citizens’ safety a priority,” Carter says. “The fuel tax is the time-tested, fair way to raise money for roads and bridges. We are once again one of the last states in the country to raise revenue for roads. Every state in the deep south has raised revenue within the past six months. This bill is the right solution for our legislature and Louisiana.”

Michael J. Olivier, CEO of C100 Louisiana, says the bill has been specifically developed to address every concern that has prevented the legislature from taking action in the past. “This legislation is the product of dozens of businesses in this state coming together to produce a real, long-term solution to Louisiana’s crumbling roads and bridges,” he says.

Several signature capacity infrastructure projects are prioritized in the proposed legislation. Projects included are a new Mississippi River bridge at Baton Rouge, a new I-10 bridge across the Calcasieu River at Lake Charles, the completion of I-49 South from Lafayette to New Orleans, the widening of I-12 from Baton Rouge to the Mississippi state line, the widening of I-20 at Shreveport and Bossier City, widening of I-20 at Monroe and access improvements to Port NOLA. “The current traffic situation in and around Baton Rouge is a supply chain and a workforce issue for Dow,” 1012industryreport.com

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It also adds hours to our employees’ workdays. LCFOR’s gas tax increase proposal would get us a new bridge south of Baton Rouge. The Coalition recognizes the urgency many of us feel is needed to solve our traffic problems sooner rather than later.”

HB 542 also dedicates 60% of revenues to the preservation of existing roadways and the financing of a robust statewide bridge replacement program aimed at constructing hundreds of new bridges in rural Louisiana along many of the state’s noninterstate highways.

“Our state’s transportation system is creating major challenges for the agriculture and forestry industries,” says Ronnie Anderson, president of Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation. “With thousands of load-posted, comprised bridges, our farmers and foresters have a very difficult time getting their goods to market. Roads and bridges must be a priority for the legislature—we have to do something about this now.”

“The coalition is growing in numbers by the day,” LCFOR’s Ponti says. “It’s common sense. We need quality roads and bridges in our state. It affects us all—our families, our businesses, our state’s economic opportunities. In the 2019 legislative session, Coalition members and the citizens of Louisiana are speaking up and want their legislators to stop ignoring the issue and begin working together and pass HB 542—plan to fix our roads and bridges.”

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2019 GBRIA Safety Excellence Award recipients THE GREATER BATON ROUGE Industry Alliance, Inc. established the Safety Excellence Award program in 1996 under the leadership of Hal G. Ginn, plant manager of DSM Copolymer at the time, in an effort to recognize excellent safety performance by contractors working in industrial facilities.

GBRIA held its 23rd Annual Safety Excellence Awards banquet on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at L’Auberge Resort in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

GBRIA members that nominated their highest performing contractors in 2019 included Air Liquide, Air Products, Americas Styrenics, BASF, CF Industries, Delek US, Eastman Chemical, Eco Services, ExxonMobil Baton Rouge, ExxonMobil Polyolefins, Formosa Plastics, Honeywell, Honeywell UOP, INEOS Oxide, Methanex, Mexichem, Nova Chemicals, Nucor Steel, Nutrien, Olin Plaquemine, Olin St. Gabriel, Occidental Chemical Convent, Occidental Chemical Geismar, Placid Refining, Renewable Energy Group (REG), Rubicon, Shell Catalyst and Technologies, Shell Chemical, Shell Convent Refinery, Solvay, Syngenta, The Dow Chemical Company, Total Petrochemical, W. R. Grace, Westlake Chemical Plaquemine, Westlake Chemical Geismar and Veolia.

The winning contract companies each year demonstrated a level of safety excellence that includes thousands and millions of hours worked without injury, a commitment by management to educate workers, and a fostered zero-incident culture.

The 2019 GBRIA Contractor Safety Excellence Awards were presented in four service categories, with companies being further subdivided in each category by either Division I, Division II or Division III based on company size.

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Petrochem Field Services PALA Interstate Industrial Specialist LLC

Division I: 1st Place: 2nd Place:

Coating Services Inc. Petrin

Division II: 1st Place: 2nd Place:

3rd Place:

Cajun Industries LLC Specialty Welding and Turnarounds LLC (SWAT) Repcon Inc.

Division II: 1st Place: 2nd Place:

BrandSafway Excel Modular Scaffolding & Leasing Corp.

Division III: 1st Place: 2nd Place: 3rd Place:

Division III: 1st Place: 2nd Place:

Apache Industrial Services Brock Services

Performance Contractors Inc. Brown & Root Industrial Services LLC Turner Industries Group LLC

Specialty Trade (Hard Craft)

Technical Support Division I: 1st Place: 2nd Place: 3rd Place:

Austin Fire Systems Jacobs Alliance Group Acuren Inspection Inc.

Division I: 1st Place: 2nd Place: 3rd Place:

Westgate LLC Midwest Cooling Towers LLC Cooling Tower Technologies LLC

Division II: 1st Place: 2nd Place: 3rd Place:

Division II: 1st Place: 2nd Place: 3rd Place:

Axion Logistics Ford, Bacon & Davis UP Professional Solutions

ISC Constructors LLC Turner Specialty Services, LLC Universal Plant Services

Division III: 1st Place: 2nd Place:

MMR Constructors Inc. JVIC (A Zachry Group Company)

Division III: 1st Place: 2nd Place:

3rd Place:

Total Safety U.S. Inc. Petroleum Service Corporation, an SGS Company TEAM Industrial Services

Community Service Award: EXCEL Innovative Practice Award: Zachry Group 2019 Hal G. Ginn Safety Excellence Award: Cajun Industries LLC

Cajun Industries was honored with the 2019 Hal G. Ginn Safety Excellence Award at the GBRIA Safety Excellence Awards.

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River Parishes Community College received a 2018 Post-Secondary Achievement Award.

2018 GBRIA Craft Workforce Development Award recipients GBRIA BEGAN RECOGNIZING contractor companies that invested time and money into workforce development in 2007 through the Craft Workforce Development Awards program.

Nominees present their workforce development programs to GBRIA’s Contractor Workforce Development Committee. Based on the committee’s evaluation, a nominee can receive an Award of Excellence, Merit or Recognition.

Nominees are categorized by the type of work performed and then grouped into division sizes based on the total number of hours worked, grouping similarly-sized companies together. The highest-scoring company in each division also receives the “Best of Division” Award.

GBRIA began recognizing high schools that incorporated craft training programs into their curricula in 2015.

High schools are grouped in division sizes based on student-body size with similarly-sized schools grouped together.

A craft training instructor from each division is also selected as a “High School Craft Educator Champion.” 2018

was the first year that post-secondary institutions also received awards.

Individuals who receive nominations based on their dedication to workforce development are also recognized as Craft Workforce Development Champions. Nominating plants are eligible to receive the Most Valuable Plant Award based on its workforce development efforts and one member of GBRIA’s Contractor Workforce Development Committee is recognized as the Most Valuable Player for his or her efforts on the committee.

GBRIA held its 11th Annual Craft Workforce Development Awards banquet on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2018 at Renaissance Hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

GBRIA members that nominated contractors or schools for their workforce development or craft training programs include: BASF, Dow Chemical Company, Eastman Chemical, ExxonMobil Baton Rouge, Nucor, Olin Blue Cube Operations, Occidental Chemical Convent, Occidental Chemical Geismar, REG, Shell Convent, Shell Geismar and W.R. Grace & Co.

GBRIA Craft Workforce Development High School Awards Division I: Doyle High School – Award of Excellence West Feliciana High School – Award of Excellence Albany High School – Award of Merit Brusly High School – Award of Merit Donaldsonville High School – Award of Merit French Settlement High School – Award of Merit Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences – Award of Merit Livonia High School – Award of Merit Maurepas High School – Award of Recognition Division II: Central High School – Award of Excellence Live Oak High School – Award of Excellence St. James Parish Schools Career Center – Award of Excellence Plaquemine High School – Award of Merit Walker High School – Award of Merit 1012industryreport.com

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Division III: East Ascension High School – Award of Excellence St. Amant High School – Award of Excellence Dutchtown High School – Award of Merit

GBRIA High School Craft Educator Champions Dr. Paul Theriot, West Feliciana High School – High School Craft Educator Champion for Division I Billy Doiron, Live Oak High School – High School Craft Educator Champion for Division II Kiesha Nall, East Ascension High School – High School Craft Educator Champion for Division III

Craft Workforce Development Post-Secondary Achievement Award Recipients Associated Builders and Contractors, Pelican Chapter Baton Rouge Community College River Parishes Community College

Craft Workforce Development Awards General Construction & Maintenance Category Division I: Action Industries, Inc. – Award of Recognition Volks Constructors – Award of Recognition

Turner Specialty Services received the Division II Best of Division Award.

Division II: Excel Modular Scaffold and Leasing – Award of Merit

Specialty Trades (Hard Craft) Category Division I: Bevel Tech Group – Award of Recognition Westgate, LLC – Award of Merit Division II: MMR Constructors – Award of Excellence ISC Constructors – Award of Excellence Pala Interstate – Award of Merit

Technical Support Category Division I: ControlWorx, a John H Carter Company – Award of Merit Division II: Turner Specialty Services – Award of Excellence Premium Inspection and Testing – Capitol Division – Award of Merit HydrochemPSC – Award of Recognition Thermon, Inc. – Award of Recognition Total Safety, US – Award of Recognition

Best of Division Awards Turner Specialty Services – Best of Division II Jacobs – Best of Division III

EXCEL – Award of Excellence

Craft Workforce Development Champions

Jacobs – Award of Excellence Turner Industries Group LLC – Award of Excellence Brown & Root Industrial Services – Award of Merit Zachry Group – Award of Merit

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