Foundations September 2015 - MWH Constructors Quarterly Newsletter

September, 2015

Foundations

MWH CONSTRUCTORS QUARTERLY

Waste to Energy Bringing Power to Communities

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IN THIS ISSUE A Few Words from Blair MWH Constructors President, Blair Lavoie provides an update from around the globe.

U.S. District News Highlights and happenings from the U.S. districts.

UK District News Highlights and happenings from the U.K. districts.

Awards & Recognition

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We are proud to be acknowledged and recognized by industry organizations from around the globe.

Community Outreach Contributing to the communities where we live and work and delivering on our purpose of Building a Better World.

Employee Spotlight Meet Todd Kerschbaum, MWH Constructors Vice President and Director of Global Energy.

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ON THE COVER Waste to Energy in the UK Waste to Energy plants are taking unusable waste and turning it into power for local communities.

These plants are also adding the local economy by creating job security for residents.

First Bio Power Plant in the UK, Birmingham, England

A FEW WORDS FROM BLAIR We have many great things happening around the globe.

Our energy group is gaining momentum with Todd Kerschbaum leading the way.

The current growth in the energy group is being driven by renewable biomass projects in the U.K. As we move ahead, we remain dedicated to growing our company with a strategic plan that will round out our CMAR and hard bid only revenues with a larger share of designbuild work. We are currently pursuing and have won some very significant progressive designbuild and lump sum design-build prospects so far this year.

Our employees continue to be our greatest asset, and we want to encourage all of you to be the healthiest version of yourselves. With that in mind, we launched a wellness program in the U.S. – Building a Better You (pg. 21).

All of our success today is a result of your continued hard work and dedication to your jobs and our clients.

Job well done and I hope to see you soon on the jobsite!

Blair Lavoie, PE President, MWH Constructors

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U.S. Operations

DISTRICT 1

Fremont Approaches Finish Line as Ballville Enters New Approval Stage The Fremont Water Pollution Control Center Expansion Project is approaching liquids start-up this fall, as the structural concrete phase is coming to a close. Backfill, yard piping, process mechanical and electrical work are all well under way.

The administration building is taking shape with great progress on the exterior work, and the interior finishes are scheduled to begin shortly. The recommendation to engage MWHC for commissioning and startup is currently going through the approval process with the City Council.

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Work on the Ballville Dam Project will include the construction of the Ice Control Structure downstream of the existing dam and the notching of the dam to begin the process of lowering the upstream pool and silt migration downstream. The ice control structure is a total of 15 six foot in diameter concrete filled pipe piers anchored 25 feet into the existing river rock bed.

Environmental considerations are limiting when work can be performed, and there is a need to allow the dam notching to take effect.

In 2016, the existing carbon feed equipment will be relocated to the new building. The balance of the dam will then be removed, and the site will be restored as well as environmental equilibrium. We are proud to welcome Holly Henn as a Project Engineer to work on the Ballville project.

Successful Headway at Fort Polk Fort Polk, LA – North and South Fort Wastewater Treatment Plants are progressing with the south plant. Concrete pouring is expected by early August. Masonry has already begun on the critical process building and will be followed immediately by the process building mechanical. The south plant is scheduled to go online next February, allowing Phase II of construction to commence.

The north plant construction is progressing heavily into the concrete portion of the work. Construction of the aeration basin, headworks, clarifier #3, and the process building are currently the main priorities.

Foundation work at Fremont, Ohio.

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Cary/Apex Water Treatment Plant APEX, NORTH CAROLINA Construction Underway at Cary/Apex WTP The construction has picked up at Cary/Apex Water Treatment Plant as weather has improved. This has allowed the project team to add staff including craft workers. The concrete portion of the pre-ozone structure is rapidly coming to an end.

The under-slab filter piping is moving forward, as well as the sludge blanket clarifier. Other ongoing work includes a major addition to the administration building and a new finished water chemical building. Yard piping and electrical work are continuing as the construction around them increases.

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Austin Water Treatment Plant No.4 AUSTIN, TEXAS “With the recent completion of Water Treatment Plant #4 , I wanted to take a moment and express the appreciation of the citizens of Austin to MWH Constructors for its role in delivering a major infrastructure asset that will serve the City for many generations to come. Since its substantial completion in December of last year, the plant has delivered over 4 billion gallons of water efficiently, with a decreased energy footprint and improvements to water pressure throughout a growing service area.”

– Howard S.Lazarus, PE, Director, Public Works Department, City of Austin

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U.S. Operations

DISTRICT 2

Journey through Austin Water Treatment Plant No. 4 MWHC and the City of Austin teamed up to host a tour of the new 50 mgd Water Treatment Plant No. 4 in Texas. The tour was held during the Texas Public Works Association’s annual conference, which allowed Texas public works officials to see the effort dedicated to providing a clean and reliable water supply for the Austin community.

The tour was a huge success with great attendance.

View a brief video of the tour highlights: https://youtu.be/Mzzd4Qmbx9Y

Progress Being Made at the Bachman Water Treatment Plant The Bachman Water Treatment Plant is one of Dallas Water Utilities’ primary sources of drinking water.

Construction at the plant began August 18, 2014 and is scheduled to finish in February 2017. The Bachman WTP has been operational since 1930, but would only treat 30 mgd at the time. Since then, there have been many major updates that have increased the capacity of treated water to 150 mgd.

Bachman Water Treatment Plant, Dallas, TX

The project now consists of new meter vaults, a new rapid mix pump facility, rapid mix, flocculation, primary sedimentation, and secondary sedimentation basin improvements, the replacement of existing Clearwell No. 1, Clearwell No. 2 improvements, a new washwater pump station, solids handling facilities improvements, chlorine and ammonia facilities improvements, liquid chemical facility improvements, a new hydrated lime facility, HeadHouse improvements, yard piping, paving and grading, trench/excavation safety system, masonry restoration, concrete rehabilitation, and trench cover replacement.

MWHC is self-performing all excavation, concrete, yard and process piping and all major equipment installation. Train 3 is scheduled to be complete by mid-August. Unanticipated utility conflicts have delayed the installation of the sludge drain line.

Another major milestone is the completion of the total plant shutdown, and restarting of the plant which is scheduled for the end of April 2016.

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U.S. Operations

DISTRICT 3

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See What’s Happening in Edwards, CO!

Construction Begins in Louisville, CO

MWHC has begun work in Edwards, CO for the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District. The $22 million Edwards Solids Handling Improvements Project represents our first hard-bid construction work in Colorado. It will serve as a foundation project in our mission to establish MWHC as a premier water and wastewater contractor in ‘our own backyard’.

Construction will soon be underway on the Louisville Wastewater Treatment Plant in Louisville, Colorado.

The contract for the project was accepted on June 15, 2015 and excavation began in July. The project, being only about five minutes from the MWHC Broomfield office, will be used to support the Louisville community.

A new headworks facility, influent pump station and two channel UV disinfection system are just a few of the many upgrades for the existing plant.

MWHC will self-perform significant work on this complex wastewater retro-fit project, including all process mechanical work. Project scope includes improvements to the existing Headworks facility, construction of three new autothermal thermophilic aeraobic digestion (ATAD) reactors, a new gravity thickener (GVT), odor control improvements including new biofilters and photoionization (P.I.) systems, dewatering system improvements and other site and utility improvements as needed.

Check out this project video update! https://youtu.be/NcPrYOAbAdM

However, we anticipate many difficulties during this project, such as tying in the existing system with the updates. Also, the foundation for the new plant is five feet below the water table, so a dewatering well point system will need to be installed. Completion of the project is scheduled for June 13, 2017. The plant is currently estimated to be about 65 percent self-performed between the concrete, yard piping, equipment and more. Some of the key personnel are Kirk Sepulveda, Garrett Hanson and Cory Hock. Cory is a new hire with 35 years of experience and will be working as the superintendent.

Edwards Wastewater Treatment Facility, Edwards, CO

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Breaking Ground on WWTP

BERNALILLO, NEW MEXICO

Culturally Unique Project Breaks Ground in New Mexico MWHC recently co-hosted a groundbreaking ceremony kicking off the upgrades on an existing wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) on tribal land in New Mexico. The current WWTP is operating at 90 percent capacity, restricting further expansion in the area, and causing significant commercial and residential development to be put on hold. More than 800 tribal members call the 79,000- acres home.

The plant is currently designed to treat an average daily dry weather flow of .20 million gallons per day (mgd). The upgrade of this facility will increase the capacity to an initial .40 mgd expandable to .80 mgd. MWHC is contracted as the design-builder on this project. The new facility will utilize Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) technology, which will provide an extremely high-quality discharge for reuse and be capable of meeting New Mexico Class 1A Reclaimed Water requirements.. 速

U.S. Operations

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Working Around the Globe – Todd Larson Lands in Israel Vice President and Director of Engineering and Quality, Todd Larson recently relocated to Israel to lead the design on the new design-build industrial wastewater treatment facility project. Todd was assigned to lead the design phase due to his extensive expertise in design management, and experience in international fast-track design-build delivery.

MWHC began delivering design-build projects back in the 1990s and has an impressive resume of designbuild projects. MWHC President Blair Lavoie continues to grow our company with a strategic plan that will round out our CMAR and hard bid C-only revenues with a larger share of design-build work.

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Todd’s role in Israel is to organize, plan, resource, and execute the complete design of the project. He coordinates on a daily basis with the client, in-country staff, resources back in the U.S. and U.K., and the Israeli design partners. Throughout his career, Todd has never turned away from these type of challenges and they have proven to be both professionally and personally the most valuable experiences of his life.

He has learned some excellent things from the client and in seeing how the Israeli design partners accomplish work.

Todd has taken a number of international assignments in his design-build career, which has allowed him to provide leadership on projects in Chile, Australia, and Singapore. Taking expatriate assignments provide very exciting life opportunities and also challenges –but Todd enjoys finding solutions to challenges and believes it makes him a better and worldlier person.

When asked about his current international assignment, Todd said “I am learning to use key phrases in the Hebrew language and adjusting to a very aggressive driving and communication style in Israel. I have an apartment in the ancient City of Jaffa, which allows me a very short walk to the Mediterranean Sea, and the old City of Jaffa where I’ve had the privilege of visiting some very significant historical and biblical locations.”

Todd has really enjoyed his work and encourages others to jump at unique opportunities like these.

Palatial Fortress of Masada – an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel.

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Industrial Wastewater Reuse Facility

ISRAEL

Industrial Wastewater Treatment Facility Ramps up in Israel MWHC has been contracted as a design-builder by an international industrial client to develop, design, and construct an industrial wastewater reuse scheme in Israel. Technological improvements in the fabrication process are changing the way this wastewater is handled. MWHC won the Israel-based project on a competitive and qualifications based procurement, working through a project conceptual development.

As of July, we are 50 percent closer towards the goal of mobilization in October. This is a particularly interesting project as it employs ozone pretreatment, membrane bio-reactors, and reverse osmosis technologies to produce extremely high quality reuse water. All of this is challenged by industrial wastewater containing constituents that is rarely seen in typical municipal wastewater.

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UK Operations

DISTRICT 1

Waste to Energy – Bringing Power to Communities Waste to Energy plants are becoming a way to take waste that is unusable and turns it into power for local communities around the world.

These plants work by taking the heat from the incinerated waste wood to power a boiler. The boiler superheats the water, which creates a high pressure steam. The steam powers a turbine which then powers a generator to bring energy back to the grid to power a community. This process is great innovation to create a renewable energy source while decreasing the amount of waste that would otherwise sit in a landfill and have no other use. These plants also create job security for the local economy and community.

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Welland Bio Power Plant, Northamptonshire MWH Treatment has secured their second gasification EPC contract for an innovative £51.6 million waste wood gasification project, The Welland Bio Power Plant in Northamptonshire.

The plant’s design, construction, operation and maintenance will be fully delivered by MWH Treatment in order to provide the equivalent of 17,000 homes with electricity by March 2017.

The facility will be supplied with approximately 60,000 dry tons of wood waste by local company Welland Waste Management Limited. Welland Bio Power plant will make a positive contribution to the local community and the environment, not only securing sustainable electricity source but also helping to save over half a million tons of CO2 over the course of the project’s lifetime. This is the MWH Treatment’s second waste wood gasification project in the UK, following the MWH Treatment EPC contract for the Birmingham Bio Power plant in Tyseley. MWH Treatment will install state-of-theart equipment with the core gasification technology provided by Nexterra Systems Inc. of Canada.

Waste to Energy facility in the UK.

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Birmingham Bio Power Plant

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND

Treatment’s Bio Power Plant in Tyseley, Birmingham The Bio Power Plant in Tyseley, Birmingham is the first of its kind in the UK and will be supplied with approximately 67,000 tons of wood waste by a local supplier. It is forecast to save around 107,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year and produce enough electricity to supply more than 17,000 homes. The project has also secured jobs for local residents in the process.

President of MWH Constructors Blair Lavoie said, “The Tyseley Biomass plant is a testament to the spirit of genuine collaboration where investors, planners, government and our design and build team have delivered on a vision that highlights the UK as a market leader in energy from waste. With the right investment, we see huge potential in developing these projects into the international marketplace where first of its kind technology will continue to open up the sector.” ®

UK Operations

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4D Planning a Success at Frankley On Friday, July 3, the Frankley project hit a major milestone with the installation of the Lime Manifold. This complicated pipework fabrication began as a vision for off-site fabrication following a presentation by MEPS showcasing their installation at the Diageo Guinness brewery in Dublin.

Through an integrated design between MWH Treatment and MEPS, the vision turned to concept and then reality. With restricted space and existing building constraints the design utilized 3D scanning to ensure the lime manifold was designed to avoid clashes with installation in mind. Leaving nothing to chance the team recognized the significance of a correct first time installation. The team utilized 4D programming to digitally rehearse the installation.

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Driven by Tony Davies, the 4D programming enabled designers, supply chains and the site team to fully rehearse the installation before any equipment arrived on site. The use of this software was the first of its kind for MWH Treatment. The MEPS fabrication was an immediate success. The lime manifold was completely erected at the MEPS factory in Mallow before shipping to site. This also gave the team the opportunity to witness a dismantle ahead of the install at site.

The end result allowed the lime manifold to be installed in three days. With a traditional approach, this installation would have taken up to three months.

The whole process from design to manufacture highlights the benefits of early involvement of a supply chain. Everyone from MWH Treatment, MEPS and our installation partners Beck and Politzer should be extremely proud of what they have achieved.

Frankley project utilized 4D programming to digitally rehearse the installation

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Frankley Water Treatment Works

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND

Re-use of Existing Designs at Postwick Proves Effective and Efficient The Postwick project is a response to the dry winters of the local environment. It’s meant to prepare for the shortfalls in raw water supplies from the Wensum River.

The works is designed to feed into the Norwich system at 7.5ML/day. An existing borehole in Postwick required a new headworks, power supply and commissioning.

The unique facet of this particular facility is in its delivery. The treatment works had 90 percent of the equipment provided, all built offsite. As a result, construction took half the time it originally would to deliver a traditional pant. Active site construction began in the first week of September 2014 and commissioning started in April 2015. This project represents the essence of what we are trying to achieve.

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UK Operations

DISTRICT 3

AMP5 Success For GBM The GBM joint venture is an unincorporated joint venture formed by Galliford Try, MWH Treatment and Mott McDonald working with Thames Water. It was created in 2009 as an integrated design and build entity to deliver the AMP 5 Process Program for Thames Water. In the first year, GBM delivered more than £80 million in projects. Since then they have continued with their success over the last five year program delivering over 350 schemes with a total value of exceeding £350 million.

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With safety as the number one priority, the GBM team is proud of their exemplary safety record with nearly two million hours worked since the last RIDDOR despite employing more than 1,000 staff members. GBM pioneered health and safety standdown days, wellbeing initiatives and introduced a ground breaking behavioral safety program, “Challenging Beliefs Affecting Behaviors”. This team has won 4 consecutive ROSPA Gold Awards since 2011 and have recently also been awarded the MWH Presidents Award for outstanding management.

Innovation is a cultural mind set within GBM and employees are encouraged to utilize innovative solutions to secure long term asset performance.

The GBM team pioneered the adoption of BIM in the program for two reservoir projects in London and utilized offsite manufacturing where possible.

Outstanding Results for the Hulland Ward Project Team Proving the value of having a great project team is easy if you are working at Hulland Ward. From their recent audit scores, the team is consistently performing above and beyond the call of duty.

The team has been audited onsite twice in three months: first by the Considerate Constructors Scheme and then by the Achilles Verify audit team.

The Considerate Constructors audit awarded the team “Performance Beyond Compliance” after focusing on raising the standards of construction.

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Armed Forces Corporate Covenant

HEYWOOD, ENGLAND

MWH Constructors has signed the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant MWHC is now one of a group of companies, including Tesco, Amazon, Airbus, Kier, Laing O’Rourke and Anglian Water Services, that to sign the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant.

The covenant was signed by Blair Lavoie, President of MWH Constructors, on April 30, 2015. By signing the covenant, MWH Treatment shows that it recognizes the contributions that military personnel, reservists,

veterans and their families bring to the world’s security and to our business. The aim of the covenant is to ensure that the Armed Forces community can engage with businesses and develop beneficial relationships.

This year Armed Forces Day was held on Saturday, June 27 to commemorate the services of the men and women of the Armed Forces past and present. We are proud to support such dedicated individuals and look forward to a prosperous future. ®

Awards &

RECOGNITION

Austin Water Treatment Plant No. 4 Wins TPWA 2015 Project of the Year Award

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Along with the City of Austin, MWHC is proud to announce that the Water Treatment Plant No. 4 was selected as the Texas Public Works Association (TPWA) Project of the Year for 2015. The Project of the Year Award was established to promote excellence in the management and administration of public works projects by recognizing the alliance between the managing agency, the consultant/ architect/engineer, and the contractor who, working together, complete successful public works projects.

As the project’s construction manager-at-risk, MWHC was invited to receive the award at the TPWA Annual Conference in Austin. The new 50-mgd facility will serve the needs of the City of Austin for many years to come by providing a clean and reliable water supply. The award shows the positive impact that MWHC has on communities and how hard we are all working towards Build a Better World.

This incredibly talented project team worked tirelessly to minimize the environmental impact on the community. Of the 208 hired subcontractors on the project, 88 percent were based in the local and regional area.

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The team’s diligent focus on safety resulted in exceeding one million work hours without a lost-time accident.

Award Success for Youth Unemployment Training Program United Utilities Business Services in conjunction with Energy & Efficiency Industrial Partnership (EEIP), has been named as Institute of Water Northern Area innovation Awards winners for their Youth Employment Training Program. MWH Treatment was proud to take part in the pilot scheme, working with other companies in the Northwest region.

MWH Treatment was one of a group of firms, which included Scottish Power, Amey, EON and Siemens, to work with United Utilities to create an Employability Program to help 16-24 year-olds who are Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET), to give them career advice, training support and work placement. The pilot program commenced on September 29, 2014, and MWH Treatment sponsored Robert Pickles for an eight week work experience placement. Thanks to his attitude, capability and ambition to work MWH Treatment gave him a full-time job as an Assistant Advisor in the SHEQ department.

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TEAM MEMBERS

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Jose S. Garcia Donna D. Maness Oscar Castaneda Felix Daniel Ramirez Torres James A. Fuller Blaine J. Bullock Timothy A. Garrity Josue Ayala Lopez Moises Rodriguez Yamil Arizarry Lucca Edwin Rafael Lugo Santiago Lloyd T. Evans Jose R. Marquez Heladio Vega Ali Lara Jose Santos Gomez Ramirez Traci M. Guenther H. Cory Hock Leslie A. Judd Cheryl A. Maley Fernando Espinoza Timothy S. Cornelius Basilio C. Perez Noe G. Garcia Ramiro Aguilar Luis F. Cabello Ludivina Contreras Steven S. Ratliff Horacio M. Barrios Cirilo Aguilar Stephen B. Chan Benzie E. Lane

Derek Christopher Brockwell Andrew Denis Gardham Paul Linney Vivien McKnight Stephen Brown Amit Helaoo Paul Marsden Dominic McGough Gillian Wallington Daniel Kenny Rebecca Vallender Susan Pearson Chelsea Farrer Mehtaab Hussain Emadeddin Gejam Jane Bryant Gara Martin Simon Shaw David Kwame Boatin Jamie Lindsay Sam Gale Jonathan Pollard Lucy Jackson Heather Gilbert Pascal Harper Tony Sixsmith Zoe Kevanhu John Whelan Graham Tinson David Parker

Holly L. Henn Theodoros Michaelidis Abraham Ramirez Eduardo Lara David B. Owen James Adam Schaffner Angelo Rosario William S. Halloran Troy L. Gillett Eric M. Lopez Mark W. Green James H. Schock Cesar Ladron de Guevara Criztian A. Mendoza Palacios Randy C. Dominguez James R. Taylor Sheb Yardley Gary D. Goff Michael P. Youngs William R. Morgan Robert C. Dobson Johnny F. Williams Alfredo Flores Timothy W. Hyatt Gregory A. Kandefer Joshua K. Nelson Christopher D. Hiatt Gustavo Leon Christopher B. Raper Matthew S. Walker Robert C. Thompson Adan Leal

Chris Harrison Michael Connolly Ashley Meadows Patrick Churm Gregory King Damian Davey Neil Moore Jared Brewster Helen Hooke Perrie Rodgers Kris Barnard Jack Green Ryan Moore William Salmon Gary Mabbot Matthew Ramsey Chris Hurt David Leonard Christopher Maughan Chris Wilson Claudio Sergio Caprin Rachel Kkama Gary Kennedy Peter Hunt Mark Wealthy Maureen Roy Robin Smith Charles Roe Jane Johnson James Daniels

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Presidents

Awards

Join us in congratulating the 2014 President Awards Recipients!

MWH Constructors U.S. Sales Team The U.S. Operations and Business Development Team were notified of awards of close to $0.5 billion and established a strong 2015 project A-list in excess of $1 billion in amazing opportunities. A special thank you goes to Richard Lewis, Quentin Williams, Mike Haarmann, Greg Dills, Brian Klauka, Dean Breaux and Dan Hembree for their dedication.

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MWH Constructors U.S. District Managers, Regional Managers and Project Managers The U.S. District, Regional and Project Managers’ Teams have had outstanding 2014 financial results.

CNS U.S. Operations exceeded the budget by 12 percent. The result was due to attention to risk management, estimating, contracting, procurement, scheduling, cost control, document control and field execution.

MWH Constructors Commercial and Risk Team The Commercial and Risk Team had tremendous success and provided outstanding leadership this year and we anticipate great closeouts for the AMP-5, Austin and other projects both in the U.S. and U.K. in 2015. A special thank you goes to Philip Croessmann, Brian Furniss, Mike Pavlovich, John Hayes, Colin Irving, and Carl Hudson.

Outstanding Technical/Quality MWH Constructors/E&I Teamwork The Set-up and Project Delivery Team had a very successful set-up for the Roy Hill Mine Services Water Project. In the first quarter of 2014, MWH was awarded the $26 million project in the remote Pilbara Region of Western Australia via an E&I client relationship. Steve Garson, Nate Peoples and Roy Fazio successfully established in-country back office support with incountry action by Erik Peters and employed Richard Trapp, ANZ Operations Manager whom brought on an additional 10 staff in the initial 60 days of award.

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Outstanding Management MWH Treatment GBMI Leadership Team

MWH Treatment @One Alliance Water Non Infrastructure Team

The GBM Leadership Team has successfully secured and substantially delivered nearly 300 projects with a value of around $530 million under the leadership of Kerry Morgan. The team has significantly improved the tendered margin, continues to meet the clients regulatory outputs and above all has reached over 700,000 hours of work without a reportable accident - receiving a Royal Society for the Prevention of accidents GOLD award in recognition of health and safety performance.

The @One Alliance Water Non Infrastructure Team delivered over $200 million of design and construction without a reportable accident over a two year period.

This amazing statistic demonstrates the attention to detail, diligence and leadership that this team consistently delivers.

MWH Treatment STW Claymills Project Team

The STW Claymills Project Team had a very successful delivery last year for this $60 million Design and Construct Wastewater Project. Throughout the AMP6 campaign, Claymills provided MWH Treatment’s excellent industry leading references for innovation, quality project and site management, offsite fabrication and precast delivery. These were delivered safely, on time, under budget and to the total satisfaction of the Client. Thanks go out to Richard Thompson and Pat Heffernan.

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Outstanding Support MWH Constructors Finance and Legal The Finance Legal Support Teams had two great successes in 2014. The team was led by Steve Garson and Mike Cavanaugh and included Tom Machinski, Larry Laws and Bruce Howard, supported by Nate Peoples, Richard Lewis, Darin Brown, Carol Jacobson, Lee Schrepple, Dawn Escobar and Barb Randazzo.

Additionally, we were able to set up MWHC’s legal and financial presence in Israel in record time to support the win from an international industrial client.

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Community

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MWHA and MWHC combined forces for a day of educating young girls about the world of Water Engineering. Becky Nagy, Hillary Holmes and Jacob Frankenstein spent a day at Bowling Green State University for their annual Tech Trek week. At Tech Trek, girls are immersed in a world that empowers and encourages them to think about themselves as future scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and computer specialists. Engineering as a career was discussed, followed by a water filtration experiment.

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MWH Constructors Wellness

Building a Better You This past quarter saw the launch of the MWHC new online wellness program – Building a Better You. The program is there to support you as you do things that improve your physical, emotional, financial and mental health. By doing healthy things, you can earn wellness rewards. This year in order to earn a $200 wellness reimbursement, you need to enroll in the online program, take a short online health assessment through our program and then get a biometric screening. All the details are on the new website.

After you get started, you can continue to earn points toward additional wellness rewards. Once you complete the health assessment and biometric screening, you can submit your wellness receipt through Concur. Craft workers can work with Shanda Walburn if they need help getting their wellness reimbursement processed.

To start the new program off strong, Blair has challenged us all to walk/jog/run 26 miles and/or bike 112 miles over a 30 day period. He is well on his way to completing both! Once you enroll, you can join one or both of Blair’s challenges. Get started today at MWH.MYWellmetrics.com.

Employee

SPOTLIGHT

Waste to Energy: Todd Kerschbaum Leads the Charge The MWHC energy group is charging forward and Todd Kerschbaum is leading the way. Todd is the vice president and director for global energy. He has more than 25 years of experience successfully developing, engineering and constructing large capital projects in the power industry.

Under Todd’s leadership, the current growth in the energy group is being driven by renewable biomass projects in the UK. The market in the UK is hot as it is temporarily being subsidized through Renewable Obligation Credits (ROC). Our current projects, Tyseley and Welland are beneficiaries of the ROC program and will produce about 9 Mw of power each.

These two plants will consume 140,000 tons annually of waste wood material and produce power in a state of the art gasification process.

In the U.S., we are partnered with a client on the west coast to construct a waste to energy demonstration plant for. This is a smaller, 700 KW as compared to our

UK projects.These smaller waste to energy plants are gaining interest from other potential clients who want to avoid land filing municipal waste. Currently, new power plants in the U.S. are being dominated by renewable energies like solar and wind.

“The uncertainty with the environmental regulations continue to plague the decision process for most utilities in the U.S.” says Todd. “Just this past few months the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the EPA regulations on mercury emissions controls for coal plants, giving new life to a number of aging coal plants that were slated to be retired.”

Globally, in developed nations, the war on carbon and climate change continues to influence energy decisions.

Our W2E group is well positioned to expand on our success in the UK globally and provide solutions to other clients with power and waste management needs.

“We will continue to position the group for changing markets to ensure we will deliver quality projects for our clients,” says Todd.

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