Ssustaining Service Excellence

HIGHLIGHTS

P3 Safety plays a starring role

P4 Continuing to take great care

P6 Poised for a rewarding retrofit

VOLUME 2 | QTR 4 | 2014 Sustaining service excellence :+ : BY MARK DEWEIRDT Truitt has been in business in Oregon for over Chad and John Van Camp from the Oregon Bryan Nix collaborated with Transformative 40 years, growing from their cannery roots to BPG energy team met with Bill to strategize a Wave to engineer the wireless, VFD, Tridium operating multiple USDA and FDA approved long term plan that would deliver efficiency based BMS software solution and managed food production facilities. Truitt has maintained measures while having a positive impact on the installation. After six months of operation, a solid commitment to sustainability, as they plant productivity. the energy savings are strong and the client consistently identify ways to use less energy in is looking forward to MacMiller focusing The first phase of that plan was to add their plants and distribution methods, and then our energy expertise on other plants in the Catalyst fan speed control to the (6) Trane put those plans into action. company network. S 20 ton constant volume Intelipak rooftop As it is the hallmark of how we do business, units (RTUs) serving the production floor. Bill MacDonald-Miller’s relationship with Truitt felt using Catalyst to control the RTUs would Brothers is grounded by a superior service help keep his people more comfortable and relationship. Bill Herring, the Maintenance significantly lower his utility spend. The project Manager, is a big fan of Chad Hollmeyer. Bill had a 1.7-year simple payback after BPA/ FACES says, “Chad does a great job of identifying and Energy Trust incentive funding, and allowed IN THE communicating issues and solutions for us.” the units to be reset remotely – thus it was a huge win. A percentage of the energy savings will be invested in engineering and mechanical FIELD modifications in phase two of the energy plan. They do whatever it takes to make a difference :+ : BY KELLY JOHNSON

Hard working and steadfast, MacDonald- Miller Maintenance Technicians provide the essential day-to-day service to customers, keeping them comfortable and happy 24/7, 365 days a year. Through preventative maintenance and repair of HVAC systems, these diligent employees serve as the face of the company and are truly why buildings run better with MacMiller. In each issue, we’ll highlight a different “face in the field” to help you get to know the person in the van a little better. In this issue you’ll meet Glenn Venera, a 26-year veteran of MacMiller.

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PAGE 1 Gus Simonds Helping the community President always comes first :+ : BY GRANT GUMMOW

In January of 2014, “One Night Count” counted over 3,100 men, women and children living on streets of King County without shelter, a 14% increase over 2013. In an effort to help reverse this unfortunate trend, Plymouth Housing Group created “Housing First”, a program that addresses this growing homeless problem.

Founded in 1980, Plymouth helps people who have been homeless for years by providing them with a safe, affordable place to live, accompanied by one-on-one case management and supportive services, mental health counseling, treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, 24-hour building security, referral to job opportunities, and social activities in the community.

MacDonald-Miller recently partnered with Plymouth to help make their buildings run better, and we’re dedicating a spot to educate people about the great work Plymouth Housing does for our local community.

We are impressed with the Plymouth mission and admire their great efforts to demonstrate the affordability of sustainable building designs for low-income Climbing Higher Still housing. In 2013, the Plymouth’s Pat Williams Apartment received the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Homes Mid-Rise Platinum certification. Here, Plymouth The construction recession for the Northwest is clearly provides safe, supportive living for 81 of the 1,000 formerly homeless adults over, as tower cranes return in full force to the horizon! served every day in 13 of their buildings.

At $180 million this year, MacDonald-Miller will surpass The tremendous work of Plymouth not only supports individuals who need such our previous all-time high water mark for company assistance, but also saves the taxpayers millions of dollars a year – a fact revenue. Compared to last year, 2014 illustrates an derived from the American Journal of Public Health in 2013. increase of New Construction work of over 50%! To learn more or to find out how you can support Special projects are up 10%, and Service is up 11%. Plymouth Housing Group, please visit I’m very proud of the company we've built – and www.plymouthhousing.org. doggedly improved – through the long recession. The results of our efforts around LEAN and silo busting can be seen by how gracefully MacMiller is ramping up while delivering on time, safely, and on budget, project after project, large and small.

For 2015 we expect to exceed $200 million revenue. While this may seem like a big number, we’re actually already operating at that rate now. And our backlog is building for a strong 2016 as well!

In this issue of Perspective, you'll get a sense of the diversity of the work we're currently doing: an Energy Retrofit Project in Oregon, the UW Medical Center Expansion Project in Seattle, and a Building Control Retrofit in Bellevue. And most belly warming is how our service department and our special projects group teamed up to design and build the mechanical system for a coffee roasting plant.

As in the picture above, there’s still a peak to summit, but we can see clearly the way to the top as we look forward to an even more exhilarating 2015. CONTINUED FROM COVER SAFETY FACES IN THE FIELD

Safety plays a starring role :+ : BY LEE PYFROM One of MacDonald-Miller’s most critical Glenn Venera YEARS safety goals is to encourage all employees 26 to be on the lookout for hazards, correct them, and work safely. Through our new Safety Star and Safety Champion Reward Glenn Venera joined the MacDonald-Miller team 26 years ago Program we‘re confident that we’ll as a third-year apprentice. Since that time, the industry has grown continue to achieve superior levels leaps and bounds, just like Glenn’s knowledge and expertise. of workplace safety. Known for his great customer service and immense capabilities, Glenn To meet the new award criteria, has served as a Foreman in the south sound zone, which covers South nominated employees should: Seattle to Federal Way, for over the past decade. Fully support our safety program G “I’ve learned from a lot of great people over the years and I really enjoy the guys and policies I lead now,” Glenn commented. “As a Foreman, I encourage the crew to use the Have good knowledge of workplace wide-range of resources that exists at MacMiller – what we have available to us hazards here is truly incredible..” Maintain excellent overall safety performance With his high level of proficiency, Glenn is the primary technician for many critical Data Encourage others to work safely Center environments that require him to maintain and repair specialized equipment. He appreciates that as customers run into issues with their building he can not only Assist in the correction of safety hazards provide his assistance but can also recommend other MacMiller resources. The safety department will choose Safety Star award winners on a quarterly basis “As we’ve grown with the electrical, plumbing and controls division we’re not via nominations and direct observations. just out there alone,” Glenn said. “This company never throws you out there Each award winner will receive $100 and to fail – there’s always someone to call and someone to help.” be individually recognized at the Quarterly Operations Meeting. Up to one employee in each department is eligible to win Glenn has seen many changes at MacMiller during his each quarter. years of service. In his early days, he recalls when Consequently, at the October 2015 technician’s used pagers and pay phones to communicate. Operations Meeting, the Safety Star winner from the past year who best represents the above criteria will be designated the Safety Champion for the “The company has advanced so much,” Glenn recalls. year. This outstanding employee will be “Safety is also getting better all the time – the requirements awarded $1,000 for his or her efforts. were not quite as stringent back then.”

Nominations can be made by simply Glenn is the proud dad of two great kids – a daughter emailing Lee Pyfrom a quick note on who who’s in her second year at Central Washington University you are nominating and why you are and a son who’s a high school junior. The family loves to camp doing so. Let the nominations begin! and has recreational property in Cle Elum and near Mt. Rainier where they enjoy riding quads and hiking.

MacMiller is fortunate to have Glenn as an integral member of the team!

Continuing to take great care :+ : BY NICOLE MARTIN

This challenging hospital project provides the requirements. The work will occur in or adjacent individual room will have to be accomplished physical structure for the second phase of to mechanical, electrical and other infrastructure simultaneously. Renovations must be perfectly expansion at the University of Washington that must continue to support patients. Patient orchestrated between the nursing staff and Medical Center (UWMC). MacDonald-Miller and life safety will be of primary importance construction team so that patient care goes completed Phase I in 2011. This second phase and, of course, must be carefully considered. undisrupted. increases safety and quality of service to patients To tackle this complex project, design packages “As the existing hospital is renovated and the in a modern, high-performance environment. were individually broken out, and the 9-month ceilings are opened up, we’re the eyes in the The project allows a more streamlined, integrated design-assist preconstruction process started in field, helping Notkin and NBBJ through the organizational structure for the interventional June of 2013. design process,” says MacMiller Project services including surgery, interventional Executive Michael Burrus. cardiology and radiology, diagnostic radiology, Because this massive project is being executed and peripheral supporting areas. Additional while the hospital is fully occupied, immense “It’s an exciting project”, states Senior PM inpatient beds will also be provided. scheduling and coordination must occur John Solem. “Mortenson and UWMC are throughout the project. Our scope of work implementing lean practices and we’re installing This Phase II project provides the build-out of is literally sandwiched between patients in our prefabricated multi-trade racks which means shelled spaces within the new Montlake Tower, the NICU and cancer care. These two areas less workers on site. It’s safer and quieter with and entails significant amounts of interior reside on different floors yet share common smaller crew sizes and we’re doing as much renovation for both inpatient and outpatient plumbing risers – this means that work in each work off site as possible.” occupancies in the Pacific and Muilenburg Towers. Some of this work includes build-out of the Montlake Tower, renovation of existing ORs, renovation of Prep and Recovery, and renovation the crew of other support and peripheral spaces in older portions of L3 in the UWMC. It also includes the build-out of the shell floors L5, 6, and 7 of the Montlake Tower into nursing bed floors for the Intensive Care Units or Medical Surgery Units.

Our esteemed estimators come through :+ : BY MARIA BOYER

The UWMC Phase II project has provided necessitated the use of all of our estimating “A project of this size and speed has some unique challenges throughout the programs. This included leveraging our Pre-Construction budgeting process. As the conceptual estimating tools for those less taken a high level of collaboration design progressed from conceptual, design defined areas to complete detailed take-off between the design and construction development and construction documents, using our ESTMEP & DUCT 3D integrated teams. This project delivery method is our Estimating Team completed pricing updates software program. that validated the project’s MASC. This was a filled with challenges but will ultimately significant undertaking in both departmental In total, over 130 separate pricing value result in an efficient installation done resources and time due to the complexity of ‘buckets’ had to be established and the multi-phased construction schedule and maintained throughout each of the right the first time. Our success on the uniqueness of each construction area. three budgeting rounds to allow for projects like these is critical as field identification of scope variances and Our Senior Estimator, Jeff Phillips, was the value-added design options. This level installation times are getting shorter project estimating team lead, orchestrating the of detail provided budget transparency and shorter on every project.” efforts of Linda Bucher, Christian Guerrero, and a means to clearly communicate Gene Kuhns, Travis Leyva, Ryan Hunter and mechanical cost driven components with Rory Olson | DETAILING MANAGER Gary Howe in preparing the initial budget. the University of Washington, Mortenson The varying state of the design documents and the Design Team.

Due to an owner request, the detailing team for UWMC Expansion Phase II moved to the jobsite. This was a huge undertaking in moving five detailers to the jobsite. Detailing remotely

PAGE 5 Poised for a rewarding retrofit YOU :+ : BY BRIAN WHEELER ARE HERE Photos by kick spark creative BELLEFIELD-GATEWAY BELLEFIELD OFFICE PARK | Campus-wide Controls Upgrade LOCATION | Bellevue, Washington

Bellefield Office Park is a 16-building, 725,000 SF business park on the southern edge of downtown Bellevue. Recently, Talon Capital Properties selected MacDonald-Miller to complete a $1M retrofit of the building automation and control systems for this eastside urban oasis. This significant project, anchored by replacing the old with the new, is driven by a desire to elevate efficiency and comfort for this portfolio of buildings.

The overall scope of the task is to convert, upgrade, and integrate 16 existing separate buildings into versatile and communicating high tech office space. This will entail implementing new building automation engines, 700 new controllers, and integrating 200 existing controllers into the new system architecture.

The challenge here is not foreign to MacMiller. We are charged with removing legacy control devices and related items from existing equipment, then installing brand new control mechanisms to render existing equipment vastly improved. And we must execute all of this during occupied hours, without interrupting business as usual for the tenants. automation system. The new systems, as they are completed, are electronically connected into the campus supervisor station. From there, all The primary rationale behind this project is to create financial and are communicating over one common network within the business park, operational efficiencies, enhance comfort, and improve property value. and accessible from anywhere in the world. All new building control systems Additionally, meeting Puget Sound Energy’s conservation criteria is also communicate back to the Host Supervisor via the Owner’s XLnet inter-park very critical – the project was approved under a $300,000 PSE grant network so the onsite engineering staff can access from the roof, from the based upon projected energy savings from the advanced load-based tenant suite, or real time from their lounge chair while on vacation. control strategies which could not be implemented with the legacy control systems. This is indeed a project that will deliver improved comfort for the tenant. The site engineering staff has expressed, on numerous occasions, their To summarize the technical aspects, this undertaking involves converting appreciation for the ease and functionality of the new system. And as is and integrating 1970’s era office buildings from old pneumatic and always the case with MacMiller teams, we get great satisfaction in taking electric controls to a 2014 compliant web-based, open platform building on technical challenges and coming through for all our client’s needs.

LMN Architects RECENT MAJOR PROJECT 500 Fairview, Seattle | 178,000 SF lab/office space consisting of 7 floors with two below grade levels of parking, GLY Construction

9th & Lenora, Seattle | Design-Build, 40 story apartment tower, 405 units, Sellen Construction

Yakima Legends Casino, Yakima | Design-Build, includes a new 250 room

hotel, conference center, gaming area and retrofit of the existing casino, AWARDS Yakima Nation, Swinerton Builders

South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC), Lacey | 50,000 SF, Design-Build, plumbing & mechanical, complete renovation for 1-story building to convert to higher learning, Korsmo Construction

8th & Howell, Seattle | Design-Assist, 1,264-room hotel, includes a 45-story tower, 6 underground parking floors, large convention center space with ballrooms, meeting spaces, retail stores, laundry and kitchen facilities, Sellen Construction

Boeing 2-25, Seattle | 35,421 SF, 5 floors, Plan-Spec, Office TI, Washington Patriot The sweet aroma of success :+ : BY STEVE FLINK

DESIGN-BUILD | Cafe D'arte Coffee Roasting Plant LOCATION | Federal Way, Washington

The recent MacDonald-Miller Cafe D’arte project came to fruition thanks to the lasting impression Scott Gideon and Bill Kegley made on this client with their equipment repair talents. Due to the proficiency and responsiveness they provided this small coffee roasting business, Cafe D’arte tapped MacMiller for design-build services needed for their warehouse/office relocation to Federal Way. "12th mac" This design-build project encompassed the installation of new gas piping, exhaust flues, On blue Fridays you can find many of our and the welding of steel duct to connect roasting equipment components. Nash Patwardhan employees showing their “12th Mac” spirit. became an expert on coffee roasters after designing the mechanical scope for the project. Rick Wolf and Justin Wolff detailed and installed the (3) 30’ high flues as well as the welded steel duct in between the equipment. The challenge of the space was a good one, and the result was pure artwork. It should also be noted that Bill Johns was a one-man crew, installing all the gas piping and devices from the meter to (4) roasters. Tim Felton helped with some last minute emergency modifications, and Scott Gideon wrapped up the project with his start-up assistance. Coffee drinkers across the region can thank this MacMiller team for their morning wake up calls!

Helping Boeing spread their wings :+ : BY JANA RIEDER

PLAN-SPEC OFFICE TI | Boeing Building 2-25 Density Improvement LOCATION | Seattle, Washington

Earlier this year, Washington Patriot awarded MacDonald-Miller the Boeing Building 2-25 the mighty macS Density Improvement project. The task spanned five floors of Plan-Spec office TI work The Mighty Macs, our north end softball team as Boeing desired to open up the existing floor plan to allow for more work-stations, participates in the Co-Ed/Rec league with conference rooms and kitchens. Work commenced in June, and currently MacMiller is the Everett Parks Department. installing new VAV boxes and controls on these floors as well as renovating and adding select plumbing fixtures. Troy McLaughlin, Superintendent with Washington Patriot had this to say about MacMiller’s work on the project:

“MacDonald-Miller has proven to be an excellent choice for HVAC and Plumbing work at Boeing 2-25. Their experience with the building and working with Boeing has helped our team stay on top of the schedule of this multi-phase project, in which work on multiple floors is overlapping. In addition to quality workmanship, they have accomplished their work professionally and have provided all advance notifications required. This has helped our relationship with Boeing and is just another way that Washington Patriot is gaining the confidence of this Boeing team as the project progresses. We look forward to completing the remainder of the project with MacDonald-Miller in the same way it has gone so far.”

MacMiller is looking forward to working with Washington Patriot to complete a third floor by the end of the year and a fourth and fifth floor in Q1 of 2015 for a total of 35,421 SF. ALS iCe BuCket ChALLenGe Seattle staffers chill out while helping to raise funds for ALS with the ice bucket challenge.

PAGE 7 PRSRT FIRST-CLASS IN THIS ISSUE US POSTAGE P1 Sustaining service excellence PAID PO Box 47983 SEATTLE, WA P1 Faces in the field Seattle, WA 98146 PERMIT #1578 P2 Helping the community always comes first

P3 Safety plays a starring role

P4 Continuing to take great care

P5 Our esteemed estimators come through

P6 Poised for a rewarding retrofit

P7 The sweet aroma of success

P7 Helping Boeing spread their wings

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