GIORNALE THE ARISTEO JOURNAL FALL 2020

Aristeo has kicked off nearly 30 projects for 13 separate customers since the start of 2020 at the new Manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

CONTINUING BUILDOUT AT MAZDA TOYOTA MANUFACTURING FACILITY

Over the last few months, Aristeo has made Prior to the most recent projects, Aristeo was progress on multiple projects at the new Mazda onsite as the general contractor for the entire Toyota Manufacturing (MTM) facility in Huntsville, facility’s foundations package and as the Alabama. Since began in 2018, general contractor for one of the three main Aristeo has kicked off nearly 30 projects for buildings, the stamping press and weld building. 13 separate customers at the facility – and As one of the first contractors onsite in late 2018, approximately half of the projects were started in 2020. Continued on Page 6

Management Corner 2 Aristeo Welcomes Lars Luedeman 9 Recent Project Awards 4 In-House Steel Fabrication 10 2019 Toyota Excellent Supplier Award 5 AISC Safety Awards & ENR Rankings 14 MTM Facility, cont. 6 Aristeo poured 2,250 cubic yards of concrete and placed 40,000 square feet of wall formwork for the new Wayne State University Basketball Arena in Detroit, MI.

020 has been a year full of changes and unexpected circumstances. However, thanks to our strong customer partnerships and the hard work of our employees, Aristeo is healthy and in a 2 strong position for the rest of the year and into 2021. Over the last few months, we’ve remained focused on prioritizing the health and safety of our employees, while executing our work safely, meeting our high quality standards, and following all additional COVID-19 safety requirements. We’ve done an incredible job following all of the new internal and external safety protocols that protect our employees, partners, and customers at our offices and jobsites. We have proven to be a proactive, flexible, and safety-focused construction partner on our projects.

Looking back at when the COVID-19 pandemic began to accelerate in the U.S., I’m proud of the rapid response of our team as we immediately implemented a series of safety and quality control processes at our offices and jobsites across the nation. In just a short time, Aristeo made a series of people-centric decisions that ensured safety while maintaining business continuity. The policies that we put into place were focused on keeping our team of employees whole, happy, and healthy - as well as preserving the health of the business. This included, but is not limited to, implementing new disinfecting and hygiene procedures, adding daily health screenings across locations, sourcing and distributing sanitation stations and personal protective equipment across jobsites and offices, implementing new social distancing protocols for daily activities, and adjusting work schedules as needed to ensure proper social distancing while still maintaining jobsite timelines.

In addition to our own processes, we were also called upon to develop proactive and comprehensive policies for specific customer sites, acting as a collaborative partner for our customers to help them strengthen their safety policies during this pandemic. Many of these policies were such a success that they have been expanded upon and used by our customers in their broader organizations. Thanks to our proactive work, we ensured that ongoing construction projects were as productive and safe as possible – while still meeting our high quality standards and rigorous schedules.

As we look forward to the rest of 2020 and to 2021, we are planning for the future and celebrating our recent successes. We are winning and kicking off new projects, as well as accepting exciting new awards from our customers, including the 2019 Toyota Excellent Supplier Award (read more about this award on page 5). In the meantime, we are continuing to live up to our core values of safety, integrity, and excellence, and working to ensure our business will be thriving long into the future.

Michelle Aristeo Barton 2 aristeo.com 3 ARISTEO RECEIVES 2019 TOYOTA PROJECT AWARDS EXCELLENT SUPPLIER AWARD Aristeo was recently honored for its performance experience for our customers throughout all across Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America’s phases of our work,” explained President Michelle Devon Industrial Group Hexagon Metrology, Inc. supplier base with the 2019 Toyota Excellent Barton. “This recognition is due to the collective Supplier Award for the Construction, Machine, hard work, dedication, and passion of our Ford Motor Company Conference & Events Center FCA US, LLC Warren Truck Assembly Plant and Equipment category! This award positions team members to make Aristeo one of the top Dearborn, MI Warren, MI Aristeo as the top firm out of all of Toyota’s suppliers construction solutions providers in the country.” Multiple projects include site excavation, utility Installation of two 8 Meter Coordinate Measurement offering construction, machine, and equipment This award was announced by Toyota as part of placement and tie-in, site improvements, Machines, and three BIW surface plates into the services. It represents an important moment of their annual Indirect Supplier Awards, in which of concrete and asphalt pavement, placement new Metrology Quality Lab at FCA US LLC’s Warren recognition by Toyota for Aristeo’s performance, Toyota evaluates supplier performance in safety, of new concrete pavement, decorative concrete Truck Plant. proprietary processes, and dedication to pavement, landscaping, new interior and exterior quality, service, and other categories. Feedback providing high quality customer experiences. foundations, new slab-on-deck and slab-on-grade, is collected from both the end users and purchasing and more. “Winning this award highlights our outstanding teams to identify high performing suppliers. Mazda Toyota Manufacturing performance, from start to finish, on every Toyota Mazda Toyota Manufacturing Facility project and our ability to provide an exceptional Huntsville, AL Ford Motor Company Aristeo fabricated and erected 150 tons of steel for Chicago Assembly Plant Building 500 at the MTM facility, including columns, Aristeo has performed many projects for Toyota Motor Manufacturing over the years, both as a General Contractor and as a self perform contractor, like at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia project below. Chicago, IL joists, decks, door and roof frames, ladders/stairs and Transforming the nine acre trailer marshalling lot for handrails, catwalks, a tank containment pit, a waste 210 in-transit trailers, including grubbing, cutting, and liquid tank pit, and more. balancing the site, asphalt paving, concrete pads for trailer legs, landscaping, ornamental fencing, manual Mazda Toyota Manufacturing Facility gates and gate arms, lighting, power, and more. Huntsville, AL Construction of two Cafeteria and Locker Room combination buildings at the MTM facility, including Gallagher-Kaiser the placement of 750 cubic yards of concrete and 152 tons of steel fabricated and erected. General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant Detroit, MI Installation of 33 foot tall metal “isolation” wall spanning 21 bays, each 45 feet across; wall will separate the new TKS Industrial Company paint shop from the main assembly plant. Mazda Toyota Manufacturing Facility Huntsville, AL Aristeo fabricated and installed 366 tons of miscellaneous steel for oven grillage and decks at the new MTM facility.

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Aristeo has been well established on this project and managed multiple complex projects and coordinated dozens of subcontractors and suppliers.

In addition, Aristeo was recently honored by Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America with the 2019 Toyota Excellent Supplier Award in the Construction, Machine, and Equipment category. (You can read more about this award on Page 5.) We received this award because of our reputation as a safe and high quality contractor across Toyota Motor Manufacturing projects, including at this MTM facility.

Thanks to our award-winning reputation, our strong relationship with Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, and our expertise with the intricacies onsite, Aristeo has been well positioned to safely and efficiently serve in many other capacities across the four square mile jobsite.

OPERATING ACROSS ENTIRETY OF MAZDA TOYOTA MANUFACTURING CAMPUS Since the start of 2020, Aristeo has continued to Top: The central office structure at the MTM facility included more than 600 tons of steel and decking. work both as a general contractor and as a self included the Central Office Building, the perform contractor on projects that both finalize Bottom: Aristeo placed 3,100 cubic yards of concrete for the MTM facility’s Waste Water Treatment Plant’s equipment Green Metals Building, a Supplier Paint Shop, pads, foundations, and pits. the MTM facility’s main buildings and also sluice gates, electrical building, rail access make progress on the many ancillary buildings and marshalling yard, audit building, security onsite. Many of these projects have been directly building, and other miscellaneous structures. with Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, including the facility’s liquid tank farm, the waste water In all, Aristeo’s work on these projects in 2020 has treatment building, and two cafeteria and locker included approximately 32,000 CY of concrete room combination buildings. placed, more than 3,000 tons of steel fabricated in-house, and more than 3,700 tons of steel Aristeo has also partnered with other contractors installed or erected at the facility. to provide services for dozens of other projects across the facility, including but not limited WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT to Aecon Industrial Management, Eutaw At the Waste Water Treatment Plant, Aristeo Construction, Force Construction, TKS Industrial worked directly with Mazda Toyota Manufacturing Company, and more. On these projects, Aristeo to construct this critical building. Aristeo also has provided a variety of self perform services, provided a variety of excavation, concrete, and including excavation, site paving, civil support, steel services. Aristeo excavated foundations concrete foundations, pits, retaining walls, slab- and pits, and placed the building and tank on-grade, slab-on-deck, exterior pavement, farm foundations. Aristeo also placed 3,100 structural and miscellaneous steel fabrication cubic yards of concrete for the building slab-on- and erection, and more. These projects have Continued on Page 8

6 aristeo.com 7 Continued from Page 6 nearly 300 tons of miscellaneous embedded steel, fabricated steel walls and floors for the grade (including required drains) and the tank bunkers, and miscellaneous steel for the office farm thickened slab with piers and tank pads. and bathroom areas. In addition, Aristeo fabricated and erected 150 ARISTEO WELCOMES NEW CFO tons of steel including the tank farm walkway and SUPPLIER PAINT SHOP trestle, the grating, edge angle, channel, stairs, LARS LUEDEMAN and ladders. For a supplier paint shop at the facility, Aristeo is working with TKS Industrial to fabricate and Lars Luedeman was recently hired as Aristeo’s “Lars has been a perfect fit for the Aristeo team,” CENTRAL OFFICE BUILDING install more than 750 tons of steel. We are also new Chief Financial Officer, bringing nearly 25 explained President Michelle Aristeo Barton. closely coordinating with TKS to install the steel Aristeo worked with Kajima Building & Design years of experience and a proven track record “He has demonstrated many of the same equipment within the close confines of the space. Group to erect more than 600 tons of supplied of success in finance. Luedeman will be an values that we hold dear at Aristeo, including The project consists of two paint lines that include steel and deck for a central office structure at the invaluable asset to Aristeo in the coming years. our commitment to integrity, ingenuity, grit, and three levels of mezzanines, an oven grillage, MTM facility. The steel included structural beams, excellence. We’ve appreciated his unique insight working decks, robot decks, miscellaneous columns, and bracing. In addition, Aristeo also Prior to joining Aristeo, Luedeman’s most recent over the last few months and look forward to supports, stairs, platforms, and hoists. fabricated and installed elevator, stairs, rails, and position was Executive Vice President, Chief continue working together in the years to come.” partition wall support steel for the building. These four projects are only a small selection of Financial Officer, and Treasurer at Barton the work that Aristeo is doing at the MTM facility. GREEN METALS BUILDINGS Malow. Luedeman also has extensive advisory From our original foundations and stamping experience in the automotive and steel Partnering with Force Construction, Aristeo is press and weld general contracting projects, industries, as well as a background in investment providing excavation, concrete foundations, to dozens of recent general contracting and banking. His approach to integrating advanced slabs, pits, retaining walls, and steel fabrication self perform projects – Aristeo has proven to be financial strategies, new technologies, and and erection services for two pre-engineered a safe, reliable, and high quality contractor for construction-specific accounting principles will metal recycling buildings at the MTM facility. Mazda Toyota Manufacturing. We look forward directly benefit Aristeo. Since starting at Aristeo, These buildings include bunker areas for the to furthering our excellent partnership with Luedeman has immediately become a critical storage of the scrap metal before it is recycled. Mazda Toyota Manufacturing in the future. asset, working with the rest of the leadership Aristeo’s work includes fabricating and installing team to successfully navigate the company

Aristeo fabricated and erected more than 750 tons of steel for a supplier paint shop at the MTM facility, including three through the current economic environment. levels of mezzanines. “I have really hit the ground running since starting at Aristeo,” Luedeman stated. “This company has built a solid reputation as one of the leading construction solutions providers in the industry and I am honored to be part of the team that will lead the organization forward.”

Alongside his technical qualifications, Luedeman has also integrated well with the Aristeo team and showcases our same commitment to providing excellent service to our customers.

8 aristeo.com 9 software, which combine together to allow for steel for the U725 Bronco Wayne North VPC2 ARISTEO’S IN-HOUSE STEEL real-time updates to digital drawings. These Modernization project. This project also utilized real time updates ensure that everyone across 3D models, which ensured absolute accuracy FABRICATION THRIVING IN 2020 multiple locations has the most accurate project while in the fabrication shop, eliminated information at any given time. In addition, we unnecessary field cutting and trimming, and Since the start of 2020, Aristeo’s in-house steel Examples include truss reinforcing, process/platforms also utilize a PythonX Robotic CNC Plasma increased the overall schedule efficiency. fabrication workforce has been working nonstop, and mezzanines, grillage steel, steel embeds, cutting machine to execute the most precise CRESCENT WIND PARK IN HILLSDALE COUNTY, MI providing our customers with fabrication services stairs, handrails, catwalks, press pit steel, process steel cuts, as well as multiple fully automated for their critical infrastructure projects. Our recent steel, specialty steel, and conveyor support steel. angle lines and band saws. More than 700 fabrication hours were performed work has been for customers like Aecon Industrial for embed steel and concrete foundation forms These expansive capabilities, combined with Management, Crescent Wind LLC, FCA US LLC, Some of our notable projects since the start of that were installed at a new, 165 MW wind a team built from the ground up with decades FedEx, Ford Motor Company, Gallagher-Kaiser, the year include: turbine farm that includes 54 2.8 MW turbines of steel fabrication expertise, offer significant Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, TKS Industrial and six 2.3 MW turbines. Thanks to Aristeo’s benefits to our customers. Offering these services MAZDA TOYOTA MANUFACTURING FACILITY IN Company, Washtenaw Community College, project management software, each piece of in-house allows for increased safety, turnkey HUNTSVILLE, AL and more. embed steel and foundation form was checked solutions with built in value engineering, better Aristeo performed more than 23,000 fabrication and double-checked against always-up-to-date Aristeo’s fabrication shops boast a combined 50 control over project scheduling, more efficiency hours to create miscellaneous, support, and drawings, guaranteeing that 100% accurate steel dedicated employees across 63,000 square feet in workflows and logistics planning, and an building steel for multiple projects at the facility, was delivered to the distant jobsite. of facilities, who have recently been working an extraordinary high level of quality control. including ancillary buildings, the Paint Shop, the average of 2,500 manhours per week. This team Liquid Tank Farm, miscellaneous pipe trestle, and Our in-house technology, combined with Many of the above benefits are thanks to our offers high quality steel design, detailing, fabrication, more. For these projects, Aristeo utilized our 3D our wealth of expertise, allows us to exceed team’s use of technology and automated coating, and delivery services to customers around steel detailing models with our PythonX machine. our customers’ expectations on their critical equipment. Our teams utilize a steel fabrication the country, ranging from structural steel to lighter This automated our miscellaneous steel fabrication projects safely, efficiently, and with incredible project management software and 3D modeling steel that requires highly complex and detailed work. and increased accuracy and efficiency. quality control. With nearly thirty years of steel FORD MOTOR COMPANY’S WAYNE ASSEMBLY fabrication experience, Aristeo is proud to PLANT IN WAYNE, MI include steel fabrication and erection as part Aristeo boasts a combined 50 dedicated employees of our comprehensive construction solutions we across both in-house steel fabrication shops. Our teams completed more than 1,200 offer our customers. fabrication hours to create car wash embed

10 aristeo.com 11 Aristeo utilizes 3D steel detailing models alongside Aristeo’s in-house fabrication shops boast a automated equipment, like the PythonX Robotic combined 50 dedicated employees across CNC Plasma cutting machine, to provide the 63,000 square feet of facilities. These shops have highest quality steel to our customers. been working nonstop since the start of 2020.

Aristeo’s steel fabrication crews have been working nonstop on critical infrastructure projects for many different customers, including Aristeo’s steel services range from structural Crescent Wind LLC, FCA US LCC, FedEx, Ford Motor Company, steel to lighter steel that requires highly Gallagher-Kaiser, Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, and more. complex and detailed work.

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Aristeo is excited to accept two American steel fabrication and erection safety record, with Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Safety a DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) Awards for the fourth year in a row. The awards, rate of less than one. A special thank you to our the 2019 Fabricator Merit Award and the 2019 team members who are dedicated to safety Erector Merit Award, reflect Aristeo’s excellent and helped win these awards.

Danny Baumann (Steel Fabrication Shop Supervisor), Jody Henson (Steel Safety Manager), Joe Gluck (Steel Operations Manager), Howard Schoenfeldt (Steel Fabrication Manager), and Jim Townsend (General Superintendent) with Aristeo’s 2019 AISC Safety Erector and Fabricator Merit Awards.

RANKED ON MULTIPLE ENR LISTS

Aristeo is proud to be ranked as a Top Contractor on three different ENR lists. Aristeo is ranked on the national ENR Top 400 Contractors List, the ENR Midwest Top Contractors List, and the ENR Southeast Top Contractors List. These lists all rank companies by 2019 revenue. This is the seventh aristeo.com / 734.427.9111 / [email protected] year in a row that Aristeo has been featured on national Top 400 list, our sixth year on the Midwest list, and our third year on the Southeast list.

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