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HIGHLIGHTS P3 Great visibility with FLIR P4 Getting it all squared away

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P7 Technology calls for proactivity VOLUME 3 | QTR 4 | 2015

A healthy new relationship :+: BY AMY JOHNSON

In April 2015, MacDonald-Miller was awarded an exciting new project with a well-established general contractor breaking into the Seattle market. Ryan Companies USA, based out of Phoenix, Arizona, chose Steve Amann and the MacMiller team to partner with on their development and construction of the Group Health Longacres Business Center shell and core project.

The new facility in Renton consists of two buildings that will house Group Health’s general office space, call center, warehouse, pharmacy fulfillment, and lab space. Design OWNER | Group Health

SIZE |

BUILDING A

140,000 SF BUILDING B

100,000 SF

work for the shell and core, led by the team of Ben Gezon and Jared Sheeks, began in April with a scheduled design completion date of June 2015. The shell and core work comprises multiple rooftop variable air volume air conditioning units with duct risers, duct taps for future tie in, central exhaust, VAVs for freeze protection, roof drainage, plumbing risers and core restrooms on each floor.

ARCHITECT | Collins Woerman

DEVELOPER & GENERAL CONTRACTOR | Ryan Companies USA

Ryan Companies broke ground in July with a scheduled completion date of October 2016.

Plumbing foundation work managed by SPTI plumbing foreman, Kevin Ruch, started shortly after and was completed in September. Building rough in will begin this month, with roof top units scheduled to be set in December.

Thanks to the performance and dedication of the project team, Ryan Companies awarded MacMiller the tenant improvement contract as well. This scope of work will begin in December 2015 and will include full build-out of both buildings, including the extensive lab space that will contain complex plumbing and exhaust systems to accommodate the processing of specimens.

SHOUT OUT! TO JOHN PAULSON “We had some critical functional testing to complete on the project and had an issue with some of our damper actuators.

John Paulson came in at 2 AM, fixed the actuators by 4 AM for testing and stayed until 4 PM to make sure the life safety testing went smoothly. John went above and beyond this weekend.”

Greg Siefferman Sound Transit Owner’s Rep on the Sound Transit Capitol Hill Light Rail Station project

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Gus Simonds President

Making giving back more personal Here at MacDonald-Miller, we believe it’s everyone’s responsibility to build healthy and viable communities.

The MacMiller Giving Fund exists to help our employees make a real impact in the communities they care about.

Wheels and Deals There’s no greater compliment than someone entrusting their most valued assets to your care.

Recently, MacDonald-Miller was selected as the Mechanical Contractor for the Swedish Medical Center First Hill Transformation Project, joining Sellen Construction’s team on this massive project. This award is a testament to the confidence that both the Swedish Team and Sellen Construction have in our ability to execute and deliver on our promises. Many years of great service by Ruben Cañas and his Campus Healthcare Team were a key component in the decision to bring MacMiller on board.

And this September, MacMiller was awarded the HVAC contract for The Washington State Convention Center Expansion as part of the Skanska/Hunt team for this monumental project. Previous experience with MacMiller by both Skanska and the developer, Pine Street Group (Via 6), were critical in our being selected for this job.

Corporately, we give approximately $150,000 every year to a range of charitable organizations. Some of these include: KCL Literary Lions, American Heart Association, Safe Crossings, Muscular Dystrophy, and many more. Indeed, our company will continue to support these great causes, yet at this level our employees aren’t always involved personally. This giving effort is intended to be different; our purpose is to support our employees in their specific charitable work. For that reason, we created a few simple ground rules: Employees need to have worked here 6 months Employees must be personally involved in the charity. If they are not already actively giving back personally to the charity they want support for, then this fund does not apply.

Recently selected as a Giving Fund recipient, Oleg Stepanyuk took an annual trip with a team of people to Tijuana, Mexico to build homes for families in dire need of a place to live. Oleg partners with an organization called Youth with a Mission (YWAM), and shared these thoughts with us: “What I've been doing on this trip is buying shoes for kids. Because this area is impoverished, kids who are running around and playing in the dirt usually wear less than adequate shoes, most likely worn-out hand me downs,” says Oleg.

“In past years, with the help of friends and family I was able to buy 40-50 pairs of shoes. And, as the area has no government run schools, YWAM base has a school style program for kids. Therefore, I've been donating all the shoes to the staff and they distribute them as needed.”

Meanwhile, we kicked off our new website refresh: DESIGN – BUILD – OPTIMIZE. Hats off to Nicole Martin and Meg Landies for their creativity and hard work in bringing this effort to life. The site truly captures the spirit, mission, culture and capabilities that make MacMiller the best in the industry!

As you can see in this issue of Perspective, the wheels of progress are churning nicely toward 2016 in all of our departments. I anticipate another record year in 2016 – much like this year.

Thank you to all MacMillians for entrusting your most valued asset to our MacMiller team – YOU and your can-do spirit of excellence!!!

“This time, with MacMiller's help, we were able to buy 88 pairs of shoes, which is amazing! I want to thank MacMiller for being a part of this.”

For more information about the giving fund contact Robert Gibson at Robert.gibson@macmiller.com.

Great visibility with FLIR :+: BY MARK DE WEIRDT

FLIR is the home of warriors, sportsmen and adventurers. When you step into the FLIR lobby, it’s like stepping into macho heaven – there you’ll witness Special Forces using thermal night scopes, sportsmen on the hunt using FLIR rifle scopes, attack helicopters with FLIR target imaging gear, fisherman using Raymarine imagers and, of course, field techs scanning electrical gear and mechanical equipment. This is indeed one of the coolest companies on the planet and a perfect partner for our stable of MacStallions!

Thermal imaging tool tested by MacMiller techs Years ago after Gus Simonds – now MM president – graduated from WSU, he sold maintenance agreements with the promise of “infrared scanning technology that will improve the lifespan of your equipment.”

Well, that technology was scarce, hyper-expensive and remained that way until FLIR created the C2, a remarkable hand held thermal energy scanner the size of a cell phone that cost less then $800. FLIR reached out to us to demo the C2 after they were a client. The C2 allows infrared service to be in the hands of more service people and they can be more creative with the things they diagnose with the tool. Not only is it fun to demo, the C2 is a definite game changer, keeping our service, chiller and electrical teams ahead of the competition.

FLIR is the world leader in making the unseen seen. Their cutting edge visual imaging technology enhances our battle heroes’ fighting capabilities and helps our homeland’s chillers run longer, our motors run more efficiently and makes our electrical panels much safer.

This Energy Trust of Oregon project was originally envisioned by Mike Smith. Mike works for Energy 350, an outfit contracted by the industrial arm of the Energy Trust to ensure utility clients have easy access to quality energy consulting. Mike introduced the concept of Catalyst rooftop optimization to FLIR, and that led to the discovery of additional efficiency measures in the VAV system. The Honeywell DDC retrofit project provided new energy efficient VAV control sequences and Catalyst Lite fan speed control for the plant’s constant volume fan systems. Don Billings, head of facilities for FLIR production plants in the U.S., was in charge of the project. “Everything is running so smoothly.

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but we are having fewer failures so it’s like the equipment is running less. Bryan Nix, the PM, and Doug Harmon were a pleasure to work with.” Later, Don added a significant maintenance agreement with Sam Watson and now has a cooling tower project in his sights. “The overall level of attention of all your people (controls and mechanical) is higher than that of (competitor).”

There are several advantages of MacMiller techs possessing such a tool.

A few include: Checking sub cooling in a refrigeration circuit at a glance.

Checking for restricted driers and piping in refrigeration systems.

Checking for slugging in a compressor and if compressor is running excessively hot.

Checking electrical hot spots and contactor-ware.

Motor and bearing heat can also be detected at a glance, saving technicians time, saving the company money, and ultimately elevating customer satisfaction.

CATALYST LITE + ENERGY EFFICIENCY SEQUENCES = SMOOTH OPERATION PAGE 3

Photo by Tom Booth

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NEW CONSTRUCTION | DESIGN-BUILD BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON

Getting it all squared away | Lincoln Square Expansion Update :+: BY JASON SCHAAT

The new 1.5 million square feet mixed-use development in the heart of downtown Bellevue will provide visitors Class A offices, including 6 floors of well-designed underground parking, luxury residences, new hotel, upscale retail-driven restaurants and 16 cinemas.

The Lincoln Square project has a unique and demanding deliverable – design the project in REVIT, at the highest level of detail LOD-500, while enabling our goals of fabrication and estimating from the same model to be met.

This may be the first project ever performed under these multiple objective requirements.

“The Lincoln Square Expansion is a substantial BIM project for MacDonald-Miller. The sheer

size of the project demands a great deal of computing power which we’ve been able to meet and exceed. The project has nearly 25 linked trade models totaling approximately 3.56 GB of file size,” says Jason Schaat, BIM Manager.

Throughout the project we’ve been able to export out MAJ file formats of the pipe, duct and fittings along with equipment and accessories to give to our Estimating department. This has allowed us to create a more accurate estimate related to our design and shorten the estimating duration. We’ve also harnessed these design models in our Detailing department to help with initial constructability and installation drawings.

The goal of the final deliverable is to be LOD (Level of Development) 500 ready. This requires a great deal of effort that could

only be achieved using REVIT. We foresee fewer as-built modifications and have had substantially fewer RFI’s as compared to other projects of the same size. This can be attributed to the advantages of utilizing 3D during the Design Development Phase and into the Construction Document Phase.

Leading the way on our construction side is a dedicated team of project managers and general foremen, including three of our most experienced field supervisors – Michael Wiley, Joel Pearson and Mike Kunkel. To date we've used: 28,278 Engineering hours 225,000 Field labor hours 44,000 Shop hours At the height of our construction activities, we’ll have more than 130 employees working across the entire campus!

FACeS OF SuCCeSS

It takes people from a wide range of professional skills to make MacDonald-Miller the industry leader that it is today. It’s the diverse personalities and backgrounds that seamlessly come together to create smart, successful project teams here at MacMiller. That’s why in each issue of Perspective we take the time to highlight three members of MacMiller who’ve made invaluable contributions. It’s a way to give you a little more insight into those that proudly represent us, and a way to further illustrate how three different individuals can make one team greatly successful.

MEMORABLE

POWERFUL

COMMITTED

Jon Sigmund

Joe Kuhr

Mike Kunkel

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

DETAILING SUPERINTENDENT

PLUMBING SUPERINTENDENT

Years with MacMiller: 19.5 years (on the official payroll)

Years with MacMiller: 5 years

Years with MacMiller: Almost 15 years

My team is tops: The current LSE team I work with is 110% committed to making sure every customer is completely satisfied with our performance and end product. This trait in my team members will make this project one of the best and most memorable projects for everyone involved (inside and out of the company). I’m honored to be a part of this great team.

My source of pride: I am very proud of the detailing team. With 34 people in the detailing department, we are larger and more powerful than any other contractor around – we honestly have the best of the best. I am honored to be the Detailing Superintendent to such an amazing and talented group of individuals.

I’ll never forget: One of my most memorable days at MacMiller was the Nisqually earthquake. My wife and I purchased our first house the night before the earthquake. That day I was working as an apprentice for Kevin Vincent at the Civica project in Bellevue. I was working on a ladder in the parking garage when I felt the garage moving and saw everyone running outside.

I went to the rally point looking for my foreman. After looking for a few minutes, I saw he was waving and smiling at me from one of the upper floors. My wife and I carried earthquake insurance on that house until we recently sold it. Just in case.

A star was born: Some people may not know that my music video debut was made in the “MacMiller Style” video.

FUN FACT

My name, really: When my name is said quickly, it sounds like “Joker.” My debit card was once refused at a local restaurant because, as the waitress put it, “No one would legally name their child ‘Joker’

– that is just silly.” The

woman was convinced

I was using a fake card and

nearly called the police.

Only after showing her

multiple pieces of ID did

she believe me.

Ready, aim, clean: Something that my co-workers do not know about me is that I have a love-hate relationship with guns after serving in the Marine Corps.

Every weapon that we shot had to be cleaned endlessly. As much as I love shooting, I hate cleaning guns.

The three MacMiller folks featured above work together on the Lincoln Square Expansion project, detailed in the article on the left.

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Getting into space :+: BY ROB PAINTER

Project type: This project is an upgrade to B/E Aerospace’s newly built facility, which serves to accommodate the move of their FSI Group to their existing facility (completed in 2013) at Commando Road in Everett.

Scope: Design-Build partnership to provide HVAC, plumbing and pipe fitting required to relocate FSI group from their location in Marysville to Everett.

This project is being awarded as a negotiated, design-build teaming opportunity. The space at Commando was originally design-built by a competitor, and was completed in 2013. During the closeout phase and pricing of service, the client voiced significant disappointment with their mechanical contractor and proceeded to award MacDonald-Miller the maintenance scope.

“We have been performing strongly here in service, and completed significant project work to date as well,” says Rob Painter. “They have always treated us like a team member and decided to bring us to the table as a design partner on this new opportunity.”

Challenges associated with this new opportunity include a very tight design and construction schedule. We were released for engineering

at the start of September and must have all construction activities in their occupied space in Everett completed and equipped to relocate their FSI group between Christmas and New Year’s. Once the project is complete it will house 600+ personnel.

We highly value this partnership, as B/E Aerospace is the world’s leading manufacturer of aircraft cabin interior products. The company designs, develops and manufactures a broad range of products for both commercial aircraft and business jets.

RECENT MAJOR PROJECT AWARDS Raytheon Missile Systems ICONICS Smart Building Deployment, Tucson AZ | 3.8 Million SF campus will encompass over 4,200 major pieces of equipment that will be enabled with fault detection

Capital Medical Surgery Expansion, Olympia | Design-Build, 26,000 SF, includes 12,000 SF new and 14,000 SF renovation, 7 new Operating Rooms, Surgery Support area, and New Central Sterile area, BNBuilders

Swedish Medical Center First Hill Transformation, Seattle Design-Assist, new 940,000 SF tower housing new emergency services, cafeteria, operating suites, critical care, support services, underground parking, and new 817,000 SF medical office space with laboratory, café and underground parking, Sellen Construction

Swedish, Reid Family TI, Seattle | Design-Assist, 21,000 SF TI space plus infrastructure for Swedish Cancer Institute: Innovative Therapeutics and Research Unit, Sellen Construction

First Hill Surgery Center, Seattle | Design-Build, 34,000 SF ambulatory surgery center, includes 12 operating rooms and support areas, Sellen Construction

Paccar ITD, Renton | Design-Build, complete retrofit of existing data center, owner direct

King 5 TV Tenant Improvement at Home Plate, Seattle Shell & Core TI for King 5 TV headquarters, 11,000 SF Data/Studio, 38,000 SF office build-out, Turner Construction

Seattle Genetics, Bothell | Design-Build, 5,000 SF Vivarium Expansion, Lease Crutcher Lewis

Woodland Plaza Renovation, Lacey | Plumbing and HVAC Design-Build upgrade to the shell/core systems, MJR Development & Korsmo Construction

Bellevue Square, South Common Shops, Zara TI, Bellevue Plan-spec, 24,303 SF retail TI, Lydig Construction

Group Health TI, Longacres Business Park, Renton Rendering by Perkins+Will

Design-Build TI for Group Health’s new corporate office, HVAC & Plumbing, 240,000 SF including administrative offices, pharmacy fulfillment, call center and lab, Ryan Companies

Microsoft WPA Flrs 21 & 22, Lincoln Square, Bellevue Design-Build TI, 36,000 SF; Engineering: OAC, Construction: GLY Construction

SHOUT OUT!

Technology calls for proactivity :+: BY BRADD BUSICK

At MacDonald-Miller, we have over 600 mobile devices that help run our business.

These tools maintain features that expedite certain tasks throughout the day. Yet, as much as technological progress has enhanced how we do business, these innovations present us with new challenges. Challenges of integration, of compatibility, and of “keeping up to speed.” To overcome these challenges, MacMiller IT is establishing and promoting business management standards and practices that amplify our business.

Enhanced Mobility: IT is striving to provide staff with the ability to seamlessly access any document, anytime, anywhere. This only occurs through a robust, intentionally constructed infrastructure that runs according to business needs.

Relevant ‘Big Data’: IT is enabling the business to leverage deeper data analysis, making it easier to access, aggregate and create models that can be easily consumed.

Increased Agility: MacMiller can enhance its agility when processes and rules can be changed, added and removed. IT will become more of a broker as we evaluate key capabilities throughout the organization and identify opportunities for system and process refinement.

The following demonstrates our shift in strategic mindset: If we have a shared Strategy, IT has a greater probability of ensuring our investments are allocated in way that maximizes our contribution to impact.

MACMILLER IT = STRATEGIC ENABLER

Given our company’s incredible reliance on technology, the realm of IT is moving from being an ‘order taker’ to a business partner. Hence, MacMiller IT is moving towards becoming a strategic enabler, as we begin to refine our process and technology in the following spaces:

TO SEATTLE GENETICS B1 LAB RENOVATION TEAM “I just wanted to extend my sincerest thanks to everyone on our team for making this weekend successful and productive. The professionalism and teamwork I witnessed today was second to none, and I was genuinely proud to be a part of it. We all worked together to formulate a strong plan, and we executed it flawlessly.”

Drew Carlson, Superintendent Lease Crutcher Lewis

The Seattle Genetics B1 Lab Team off loads the old air handling unit to make room for the new.

If we strengthen our Portfolio Management and Architecture processes and tools, we will have greater probability of ensuring that our investments are ‘sound’ and positioned to return desired value.

If we improve our engagement models, and optimize our Service Delivery & Operations processes, tools, and skill-sets, we will improve our predictability, velocity, and quality and reduce costs of our services.

If we focus on outcome investing, and implement processes and rigor to measure our Performance and Value we will be positioned to make predictive/smart investments and demonstrate IT’s contribution to impact.

The last few months have been incredibly enjoyable, and I’m grateful for the warm reception and level of optimism. I look forward to measuring our progress as we continue to introduce new technologies and processes that elevate our business.

SHOUT OUT! TO DOUG BERTSON, CHRISTINA MORELAND AND TINA SCHULTZ “Thank you for taking care of our Morrison branch so quickly. You sent the work order on Thursday afternoon, answered my questions Friday morning, ordered parts and had the job done on Monday. We really appreciate the speed with which you resolved our cooling problem.”

Rex Fox Northwest Community Credit Union

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