PURIS Connections Issue 1 (2022 Q3)

CONTENTS

CONNECTIONS

03 We are PURIS

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Spotlight

In the Field

Social Media Recap

Updates

In the Industry

Monthly Content Contest

Key Project Wins

Senior Leader

CONNECTIONS

We are stronger together. We are on our pathway to success. We are PURIS!

What an exciting time of year it is! Just as the fall season ushers in some exciting events such as cheering for your favorite football team, enjoying cooler temperatures or preparing for the upcoming holidays, I’m equally excited about the progress we are making as an organization!

As many of you are aware, merging three of the industry’s leading trenchless providers into a single entity over the past 6 months has not been a challenge-free endeavor! However, as we enter the final quarter of 2022, we should all be proud about our progress to date and excited about the possibilities that are ahead of us. Teams around the country across all business units have been working relentlessly to enhance our business and make us stronger as one entity. These improvements and operational enhancements will position us for greater success in the New Year ahead!

At the forefront of this success is Safety. Getting our teams around the country through their day injury free will always be our top priority. As we continue to roll out our company-wide safety program aimed at reducing job-site hazards, I’m happy to report that we are on track to beat last year’s TRIR rating and total safety incident recordables! Don’t forget, safety starts with you and each team member is empowered with stop work authority to address safety concerns anywhere or anytime.

Along with improved Safety, we are steadily making progress towards strengthening our financial performance. We are closing out troubled projects, eliminating wasteful spending, increasing project execution focus, minimizing quality defects and booking higher calorie business. These are a few of the many initiatives that are yielding positive results. I’m confident this enhanced focus on performance across all regions and

Mick Fegan CEO

departments will result in healthier financial results that support our incentive programs to benefit all our valued employees.

Lastly, as CEO, my goal is to create a company culture that we can all be proud of! Considering this, I’m very excited about the recent announcement of our new parent company name, PURIS! As this new name suggests, we have a “fresh start” to reposition ourselves as the leading trenchless solutions provider in North America! When you couple our expansive, experienced teams with our proven product solutions we are destined to win!

Thanks to all of you for your hard work and dedication to put PURIS on the pathway to success and let’s continue to push together for a strong 2022 finish! Take care of yourselves and each other.

OUR LEADERS

Mick Fegan - Chief Executive Officer

Michael “Mick” Fegan joined the company as Chief Executive Officer in February 2022. Prior to joining PURIS, Mick was the Chief Operating Officer for Synagro Technologies, a Baltimore-based biosolids management firm, which helps more than 800 municipal and industrial water and wastewater facilities in North America recycle organic byproducts. While at Synagro, Mick had complete financial responsibility for its $450M business, specifically Health and Safety, Operations, Supply Chain, Fleet and Logistics, Process Engineering, Capital Expenditures, Services Sales, Sales, and Operational Planning, and Human Resources. In December 2020, Mick was part of the deal team that took Synagro through the successful sale to Goldman Sachs.

Prior to Synagro, Mick was the Vice-President of Global Operations for GSE Environmental, where he was responsible for seven facilities on three continents. Prior to GSE, as Vice President of European Operations for WireCo World Group, he was responsible for leading more than 1,100 engineering, finance, logistics, procurement, production, and quality colleagues. Additionally, Mick has held various operations and management positions, both nationally and globally, across the energy, environmental, and manufacturing industries throughout his 20+ year career.

Mick holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Queen’s University of Belfast, and a master’s degree in Computing and Information Systems from the University of Ulster. Mick is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Master.

Mike Pisch - Chief Financial Officer

Mike is a seasoned financial executive that comes to us from Synagro Technologies, bringing with him more than 30 years of financial management experience with a track record of leading private-equity owned companies to successful exits.

Mike brings an ideal combination of skillsets to support our next chapter of growth. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from LaSalle University and an Executive MBA from the Whart on School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Thomas Gottsegen - Chief Legal Officer

Thomas joined PURIS as Chief Legal Officer in 2020. He previously served as General Counsel for NRCG, an environmental services firm. Prior to that, Thomas spent a combined 12 years in the corporate law departments of Chevron and Equinor. Thomas is a 1997 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. His corporate practice focuses on regulatory and environmental compliance, M&A, litigation, general corporate advice, and human resources counseling, including providing leadership for the Human Resources Department and serving as a thought partner for our HR Department on people strategy.

Jeff Johnson - Chief Information Officer

Jeff Johnson has recently joined the company as Chief Information Officer in June 2022. Prior to joining, Jeff was the Chief Information Officer/Director of IT for Axip Energy Services, a Houston based natural gas compression services to upstream and midstream customers in all major producing basins in the United States and offshore Gulf of Mexico. During his time at Axip, Jeff transformed IT services to cloud computing, while decreasing budget and increasing efficiency for marketability to sell. Jeff has held various IT leadership roles with 20 years in the Oil and Gas industry and 10 years in manufacturing, along with years of experience in M&A activities.

Rylan Ardoin - Chief Commercial Officer

Rylan joins us with over 20 years of experience in business development and strategic marketing and sales experience, covering all key facets of marketing, including global strategy, branding, research, and communications. Over the course of Rylan’s career, he has had the privilege of working in both small and Fortune 500 companies, gaining critical knowledge and experience to bring to this team to successfully oversee the development and commercial strategies of the company.

Denise McClanahan - Executive Vice President (CIPP)

A Purdue graduate and accomplished civil engineer and respected industry leader throughout a three-decade career, Denise is a visionary leader who inspires professionalism and teamwork and loves and believes in what we do, and especially appreciates the people who make us successful. Denise started in the infrastructure industry immediately upon graduation in 1994. She joined the Inliner team as their Director of Engineering in 2002 and helped Inliner grow and evolve from 40M to where we are today.

Aaron Carr - Executive Vice President (Fleet, Pipe Bursting, Geopolymer)

Aaron has been with Inliner for 28 years and brings an arsenal of experience to the table. Whatever he is tasked with, he takes the bull by the horns and delivers results. Aaron’s expertise will expand across several areas within the company, with his main strategic focus being on our fleet company-wide, our pipe bursting business and our geopolymer applications.

Andy Mayer - President, Murphy Pipeline

Andy started Murphy Pipeline Contractors in August 2000 in Florida and was responsible for the approval of prechlorinated pipe-bursting in Florida by the AWWA & DEP. Andy developed the compression fit technology for large diameter rehabilitation, with both methods using high-density polyethylene. Andy, an engineering distribution craftsmen graduate, served with British Gas where he was involved with HDPE & MDPE in both gas and water industries and brought his experience in these two fields and developed the process to suite the US marketplace.

Bill Luck - Vice President of Manufacturing, Wetout & Procurement

Bill Comes to us from Davis-Standard LLC a global leader in the design, development and distribution of extrusion and converting technology where he has spent the last 9+years. Bill held various roles including Director of Materials and Planning, Director of Operations, and Director of Supply Chain North America. Bill had responsibility for the full order management from receipt of specifications to acceptance by the customer. Bill holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Science and Engineering –Materials Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Fil Borroni - Executive Vice President (Sales & Marketing)

Since joining the company in 2010, Fil successfully converted standardized practical sales strategies into engineeringdriven project solutions. In 2015, he was promoted to head of sales where he led the sales and marketing functions to ensure effective client relationships while developing strategic partnerships across the organization. Today, with over 15 years of business experience, Fil oversees the estimating, marketing and contracts departments across the entire company while continuing to focus on the organization’s profitability, systems & controls.

Jim Michaud - Executive Vice President (Finance)

Jim joined the company in March 2021. Previously, Jim was the Vice President of Finance and Global Environmental Services and Standby for NRC Group, where he led financial operations, financial planning and analytics, as well as corporate development. Today, Jim’s primary focus is managing excess cash flow to accurately estimate the company’s growth and acquisition capabilities, as well as analyzing potential synergies and growth strategies and determine how the company can financially meld, adopt a common set of processes and systems to be successful.

Tyson Crandall - Vice President of Quality

Tyson began his career with Inliner in 1996 as a summer intern with full time employment beginning in 2000 after he secured his degree in Business Administration from Hanover College. Tyson has held roles from Project Manager to District Leader. Tyson is detail oriented and his understanding of projects from inception through management and execution to ultimate close out is unmatched making him a vital contributor to our continued go forward success.

Harvey Parker - Vice President of Human Resources

Harvey joined the company in September 2020 and has over 20+ years of experience in the field of Human Resources, with extensive experience stimulating culture change and leading global business operations in both Union and Non-Union environments. Harvey holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, is SCRM certified, and completed his military career as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy.

Freddy Garcia, Jr. - Director of EH&S

Freddy brings to us over 20 years of professional EH&S leadership experience, holding multiple certifications in Safety & Health Management, is an OSHA Authorized Outreach Trainer and is Train the Trainer certified. He brings a proven record of collaborating cross-functionality to implement, assess, and improve safety strategies and procedures. In this role, Freddy will be responsible for creating a best-in-class safety culture through leadership of the company’s safety programs to increase safety excellence, collaboratively working with our Safety Managers in establishing regimented routines and processes.

Brent Buckalew - Director of Manufacturing

Brent has been associated with Inliner manufacturing since 1992. With his accounting and finance background, degrees in business administration and strategic finance and his CPA certification, he plays a vital part in the financial and operations management of our materials business overall and is instrumental to its continued success.

ALL ABOUT OUR FAMILY OF COMPANIES

Inliner Solutions

Inliner is a leading provider of trenchless water and wastewater system renewal services. From our flagship Inliner® Cured-In-Place Pipe (CIPP) to our glass-reinforced Inliner STX® UV-cured liners and technologies, we rehabilitate a broad range of gravity and pressure pipeline systems.

Inland Water Pollution Control (IWPC)

IWPC, a Detroit based company, has been in business since 1973. Over the years, they have provided the City of Detroit with an evolving suite of sanitary services as the needs changed. Today, IWPC offers engineering and design services along with a portfolio of trenchless technologies that provide the City with solutions for sanitary sewers, storm culverts, structures and other facilities.

Murphy Pipeline Contractor (MPC)

MPC is a trenchless utility contractor, established to bring the trenchless technologies of Europe to the United States. The main focus is on pre-chlorinated pipe bursting, sliplining and CompressionFit HDPE pipe lining for water and force main replacement.

LiquiForce

LiquiForce leads the Canadian market in no-dig pipeline rehabilitation. Our state-of-the-art pipeline rehabilitation process significantly reduces pipeline repair time with minimal disruption and decreases repair costs. Our green, no-dig technology helps reduce carbon and water footprints from the repair process.

PM Construction & Rehab (PM)

PM Construction, a Houston based company, performed its first pipe bursting installation for the City of Houston in 1991. Today, it is the largest pipe bursting contractor in the country focused on broadening the portfolio of trenchless wastewater and water services to the southeast Texas market and beyond.

Liner Products

Liner Products provides reliable and high-performance CIPP products to installers throughout the U.S. These products include tubes for inversion and pull-in-place methods for mainline CIPP, calibration hoses, lateral liners, and pre-liners.

OUR REGIONS

Great Lakes - Jim Oban, Regional Vice President North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois

West - Jim Oban, Regional Vice President Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Arizona

South Central - Paul McAuley, Regional Vice President Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi

Midwest - Terry Bell, Regional Vice President Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee

South East - Lee Vernon, Regional Vice President North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida

Northeast - David Ellison, Regional Vice President

Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia

IWPC - Jake Powers, Regional Vice President

IWPC Headquarters: Detroit, Michigan

Canada - Max Gowdy, Regional Vice President

All Canadian providences Headquarters: Kingsville, Ontario

MPC Water - Andy Mayer, Regional Vice President

MPC Headquarters: Jacksonville, Florida

HR UPDATES

Annual Open Enrollment. PTO Carryover. Employee Intranet: OneSource.

ANNUAL OPEN ENROLLMENT

Coming soon!

Open enrollment is your annual opportunity to make changes to your benefit elections, add or remove dependents, and ensure your beneficiary designations are correct. Open enrollment will be in November, and it will be an ACTIVE enrollment. This means that the benefits you were enrolled in this year will NOT automatically rollover to next year. If you wish to be enrolled in benefits, including medical, dental, and vision, you MUST actively participate in open enrollment and elect your benefits.

How do I enroll?

You will enroll electronically through Paycom. Please check your Paycom access now to ensure you remember your username and password and can login during open enrollment. If you need assistance with resetting your password, please send an email to HR@teamipr.com

Will there be any changes to our Benefits?

Yes, there are changes to the benefit offerings for 2023. We have added a few new benefit offerings to our benefits package that we are very excited about. We will host open enrollment webinars to discuss our new benefits package prior to open enrollment in greater detail. Please keep an eye out for your invitation to the webinar. If you cannot attend, that’s ok. We will send out the recording and presentation afterward for you to listen to at your convenience. Please make sure we have your correct email on file to ensure you receive this information.

PTO CARRYOVER

The current company policy states that all employees have the option to carryover a maximum of 80 hours of unused PTO/ vacation into the next calendar year for 2023.

Want to see more HR updates?

Review the IPR transition summary sent via email October 3rd SUBJECT: PLEASE READ! Important Information About the Transition to IPR - Updated

EMPLOYEE INTRANET Coming Soon!

Employee Safety

IN the Workplace

A safe and healthy workplace not only protects workers from injury and illness, it can also lower injury/illness costs, reduce absenteeism and turnover, increase productivity and quality, and raise employee morale. In other words, safety is good for business.

Eachand every person who leaves for work in the morning should come back to their home in good health. Have you ever imagined that your loved one will never be returning home? Or you could get a call that he/she is in the hospital due to an accident?

health and safety procedures are important for the well-being of both employees and employers because accidents resulting in injury or even death are immeasurable and intolerable.

Work injuries and illnesses can affect every aspect of life for workers and their families. For workers, injuries or illnesses can cause:

• Loss of life

Pain and suffering

Loss of income and financial well-being

Stress on relationships

Loss of job or career

• Health-care costs beyond what is covered by insurance

Workers may also suffer from low self-esteem, loss of independence, mental health problems, other medical problems, and damaged relationships.

Safety Starts with Me! We are all responsible for promoting safety culture on job sites and in the office. When it comes to safety we should never leave a team member behind. It is the responsibility of all that everyone goes home safe to their families.

If you’re working and you see something that you deem unsafe, or if you notice at-risk behavior going on, take the initiative and stop work. Sometimes the most important work you can do is to STOP WORKING.

Stop Work Authority provides employees and contract workers with the responsibility and obligation to stop work when a perceived unsafe condition or behavior may result in an unwanted event. Performing a Stop Work Authority to correct safety hazards and halt potential unsafe actions before they happen is not only responsible, but also effective.

Work safe so that you go home to your family and friends. Make safety a core value!

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF WORKPLACE SAFEY

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KEY PROJECT WINS

With over $78 million in wins in Q3, the integration of the PURIS family of companies has produced a more comprehensive trenchless product offering that our clients are benefiting from.

Project Description Procurement Type Winning Company

Winning Bid or Contract Budget

City of New Orleans Water Busting

RR 105 LNW NW Group C

6,500 LF of water main by OC and appurtenances

Public Low Bid (Prime Bidder)

Murphy Pipeline Contractors

$19,504,555

RR123 Marlyville -Fountainbleau Group H (FRC)

City of New Orleans

RR007 Bayou St John Fairgrounds

City of New Orleans

RR137 Plum Orchard Group d (FRC)- (Re-Bid)

City of New Orleans

Trenchless Stormwater Pipe Rehabilitation on an Annual Contract Extension 3

Gwinnett County Dept. of Financial Services

Lower Northside Interceptor Lining

City of Akron, Ohio

ECUA Carpenter Creek Truck Rehab Phase 3

Emerald Coast Utilities Authority

Fairview Pump Station Outfall Rehabilitation and Improvements

Great Lakes Water Authority

Sanitary Sewer

Rehabilitation Annual Service-Rebid Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Annual Service-Rebid

Fort Bend MUD #25

Project 22-0006-UT 2023

Sewer Point Repair and Improvements Group B City of Clearwater

Project 22-0006-UT 2023

Sewer Point Repair and Improvements Group A City of Clearwater

Pipe Bursting

Furnish and Install approx. 4,600 LF of water main by OC and appurtenances

Pipe Bursting

Install approx. 3000 LF of water main by OC and PB

Pipe Bursting

2,600 LF of water main by OC and sewer and drain work

CIPP; Geopolymer Lining

Second of four contract extensions

Public Low Bid (Prime Bidder)

Murphy Pipeline Contractors

$15,302,063

CIPP

1,100’ - 36" 2,390’ - 39” 2,931’ - 48”

CIPP 445’ - 8" 1,332’ - 24” 1,759’ - 30”

CIPP; Outfall Control Structures

Lining 3 ea 60" dia outfalls with CIPP, Installing 3 ea large flap gates and building a control structure

CIPP; Pipe Bursting

Annual CIPP and PB Contract (rebid)

Public Low Bid (Prime Bidder)

Murphy Pipeline Contractors

$8,658,565

Public Low Bid (Prime Bidder)

Murphy Pipeline Contractors

$8,358,148

Contract Extension

Inliner Solutions Southeast $7,000,000

Subcontractor

Inliner Solutions Midwest $2,755,379

Public Low Bid (Prime Bidder)

Inliner Solutions Southeast $2,700,119

Subcontractor

Inland Waters Pollution Control $1,390,000

CCTV Clean and CCTV project

CIPP 31,900 LF of 6" to 36" CIPP Lining

Public Low Bid (Prime Bidder)

PM Construction $1,000,000

Public Low Bid (Prime Bidder)

Inliner Solutions Southeast $1,000,000

Public Low Bid (Prime Bidder)

Inliner Solutions Southeast $1,000,000

Project SpotlightDENVER, CO CIPP

This CIPP job for Metro Water Recovery in Denver, CO included two installations. One upstream (reversing under the equipment up the street) and one downstream (same setup but installing going away from the equipment).

The first installation was 70-inch diameter, 25 MM thickness, the second installation was 77-inch diameter, 28 MM thickness with a total length of 2,500 linear feet. Both tubes were manufactured by our very own Liner Products.

The total sewage flow in the line was 75 MGD and of that, 45 MGD was diverted upstream (shifted to another line). The rest was bypassed (30 MGD) using Velocity – A Cogent Company as subcontractor.

The whole site installation (both shots) took two weeks from setup to removal of equipment.

The cityscape shown in the background is the City of Denver framed by the Rocky Mountains and the Platte River.

OTH Metro Water Recovery

Photo by Tony Schieweck

IN THE FIELD WITH MURPHY PIPELINE

- Nelson Mandela

With an emphasis on educating municipalities and engineers on the value of trenchless, Murphy Pipeline Contractors (MPC) hosts public field visits also known as Open Days. MPC hosts about 10-12 Open Days a year to educate owners and promote new technology in the trenchless market. A recent Open Day took place in Omaha, NE showcasing the trenchless process of water main replacement using pre-chlorinated pipe bursting technology.

The pipe burst performed is part of a large urban water main replacement project consisting of over a mile of 6-inch cast iron water main with new 6-inch HDPE, many services, valves, and hydrants. The event showcased the pipe bursting process replacing water main in urban areas of the city.

In total, over 50 attendees watched as the old cast iron was burst and 550 feet of new HDPE pipe was pulled in. The attendees included eight different cities, and five different consulting engineering firms.

Open days such as these have helped MPC build a strong brand in the water industry. While the main focus is for the attendees to watch the technology in person, there are a multitude of additional reasons why the open days are so powerful. Attendees can envision using the technology in their city while driving around areas that look pristine, even though the water main was just replaced the week before. It allows them to talk directly with the residents and clients, both of which are invaluable references. And possibly most important, it allows the Murphy team to start to build a relationship with the potential cities. These aspects in turn support brand credibility and client avidity.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

INDUSTRY NEWS

01Alabama approves $348 million in sewer, water repair projects with more on the way

All told, Alabama is expecting approximately $1 billion in federal funding to address water issues over the next five years from the American Rescue Plan Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, both signed into law by President Joe Biden last year.

ADEM, which is handling the applications and administering the funds, says it has already received $3.2 billion in funding requests from water utilities and municipalities across the state.

Notable funded projects include:

Mobile Area Water and Sewer System, which will receive $41 million for sewer projects and $23 million for drinking water projects

Birmingham Water Works Board: $43.5 million to replace lead pipes in the drinking water system

City of Florence: $15 million for drinking water system improvements

City of Tuscaloosa: $12 million for drinking water projects and $10.8 for sewer projects

City of Dothan: $12.5 million for water main replacement

Selma Water Works Board: $20.8 million for lead pipe replacement and water treatment plant improvements Scottsboro Water, Sewer and Gas Board: $14 million for improvements to the wastewater treatment plant

02Fatbergs: LEGO ‘Sewer Heroes’ idea highlights horror blockages — ‘Think before you flush!’

The “Sewer Heroes: Fighting the Fatberg” concept has been uploaded to LEGO Ideas — the online platform where users can submit their own ideas for construction toy sets. The design stands at just over 3,500 supporters so far.

Click on each article link above to learn more!

LEGO ‘Sewer Heroes’ ‘Think before you flush!’