SHOUT OUT!

UW embraces multi-trade racks: +: BY BRIAN HICKORY

Every immense project we undertake demands a high level of expertise, no matter the type of service we deliver. To us, this proficiency is really just a “cost-of-entry” requirement. Meaning, we know that we’ll bring major talent to the table. Yet, what’s truly integral to the success of any initiative is leveraging our skills in the context of collaboration – both internally and with external partners – and meticulous planning. On this project for the University of Washington, we embraced this approach on all levels.

A review of the final MEP model for the new lab space under construction at the University of Washington will show over 270,000 LBS of duct and 50,000 LF of pipe packed into two interstitial spaces. Looking at the overhead plan view in the model, it looks like a tangled

spaghetti mess, but in reality it’s a fine-tuned machine that took tremendous effort by the project team to coordinate. This is where the multi-trade rack (MTR) concept provided a major benefit for facility maintenance and overall project schedule. The success of our multi-trade racks on past projects paved the way for our experienced project team to play a lead role in designing, modeling, fabricating and installing the MTRs.

Without a doubt, the challenges we have overcome on this project could not have been met without the experience and dedication from the wide range of MacDonald-Miller professionals in the shop and field. With Skanska, MEP trades and UW-CPD leading the way, the University of Washington will soon

TO JOEL KRUEGER AND BRYAN OLSON

“I just wanted to let you know that Joel (Krueger) and Bryan (Olson) pulled a rabbit out of a hat for us yesterday. We had a drive fail at Merrill that was going to impact a high profile tenant and their board meeting. Joel and Bryan were on site at 4 AM to make sure our RTU was back in operation. Kidder Mathews and our client Hudson Pacific appreciate the effort a great deal.“

Todd Sparrow, Kidder Matthews

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have a state-of-the-art-facility that will further advances in science and medicine and create a more centralized, efficient and flexible facility to address current and future research needs.

“Making the multi-trade racks come together for this project has been a team effort from the beginning and seeing our team execute the plan at such a high level is amazing. The capability we have to detail and install down to 1/8” accuracy, enabled us to take thousands of man-hours off a very congested jobsite and install our work at our shop, in conditions that are the safest and most productive for our employees, and the other trades we work with.”

Rylan MacCay Shop and Detailing Manager for MacDonald-Miller

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PROJECT TYPE | Design-Build GENERAL CONTRACTOR | Skanska

VOLUME 4 | QTR 3 | 2016

HIGHLIGHTS

P3 MacMiller goes to Italy!

P4 Working with surgical precision

P7 On call, on the move

Mid-year fun facts 2016

As our great company continues to enjoy success in 2016, I thought I would share some interesting “Halftime Fun Facts” about the goings on at MacDonald-Miller.

1,045 employees! 220 MacMillians with 10-40 years of tenure! New Moses Lake Office – Look out Apollo! Awarded AGC Safety Award for contractors over

one million man hours. (Third year in a row!) Strong backlog of work – some of which extends into 2021! 1,212,714 lbs of sheet metal through June. Almost twice

last year’s volume at this time! Both our piping and plumbing shops have doubled their

hours from 2015 to 2016. Complete migration to the Cloud of all our email and

Microsoft Office functionality. 152 Centrifugal Chillers under Service Agreement. 441 total vehicles driving 551,000 miles a month!

(Includes 8 Chevy volts and 28 Hybrids) 1,021 mobile phones and tablets to keep us connected.

I am thrilled to see how well our company is working together – how we are able to grow without losing the intimacy we have with our fellow MacMillians and our clients. As you can tell from above, there’s a lot of moving parts to MacMiller, and together we must rely on one another to get any job done. But no matter how good we may be, I am committed to doggedly pursuing innovation and improvement in how we deliver a superior service and make every building we touch better! Check out some of our recent creative efforts in this issue: the almost impossible made possible at the Bellevue Westin, our new Field Service Parts Delivery System and an innovative Energy Saving Retrofit on a Cruise Ship – in Italy!

Have a wonderful, fun and safe summer in our beautiful Pacific Northwest!

Gus Simonds President Special Projects takes Nike by storm

: +: BY CHRIS GRIFFITHS

MORE THAN JUST DOING IT: The project entailed design and replacement of chillers, cooling tower, CRAC units, controls and associated piping and pumps. This system serves Nike’s lone campus data center that supports international corporate data.

ON A SPRINT: This was a very compressed schedule, created to meet Nike’s fiscal year end date of 5/31/16.

CLEARING SOME HURDLES: The complexity of the project was due to the need to maintain climate control for their critical data systems, execute the compressed schedule and minimize equipment downtime.

NO PLAN, NO GAIN: As we often do at MacDonald-Miller, we had to strategize outside the box during the design. We were able to use water-side economization to help meet code requirements and maximize energy savings, as well as enable Nike to maximize their incentive dollars for the Energy Trust of Oregon.

SUPER TEAM SPIRIT: This was a tremendous team effort by MacMiller in coordinating and managing Nike’s preferred Electrical (IES) and Controls (Trane) vendors, as well as working with the Energy Trust and their Program Delivery Contractor.

SHOUT OUT! TO JENNIFER CHRISTIANSON & MACK MCCLINTON

“I own a childcare center that can get up to 100 kids and 25 employees. On Saturday, our AC Unit went out and it was starting to get pretty hot. I called Sunday and asked if someone could come out first thing Monday morning. On Monday, when I called at 7:30 AM, I spoke to Jennifer Christianson (who also took my call and helped me on Sunday), and she said she could have someone out in 30 minutes. Well, 15 minutes later the technician Mack (McClinton) arrived and got the problem fixed quickly. If our center gets over 82° we have to shut down, and it was starting to get hot that morning, but it didn’t get to that point because of you guys! In a time when some vendors don’t communicate or sometimes don’t even show up, I really appreciate the responsiveness and communication. Thank you!”

Cory Ginsberg, Owner, Adventure Kids (Wallace Properties)

HALFTIMEREPORT

2016

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MacMiller goes to Italy!: +: BY DON HOOPENGARNER

The cruise industry is constantly searching for ways to find savings amid the unpredictable nature of energy costs – as you would imagine, an immense ship brings about unique energy use scenarios. Historically, fleet fuel savings managers have targeted the HVAC electrical load when it comes to identifying energy savings measures. Those systems are the second largest electrical load on board.

However, for the cruise industry, energy savings from galley fan systems are currently being discovered and explored. There has never been a good way to effectively determine full-load cooking activity until now, as the assumption was that the fans had to operate at high speed while the galley is presumed to be active in order to conform with NFPA-96 Standard and International Mechanical Code – they basically had them all running at 100% speed around the clock.

Yet, the reality is that the actual cooking activity during a typical day is highly variable during any given shift. Energy costs are increasing, therefore it makes sense to take advantage of non-cooking times and correct this over-ventilation and the associated cost of processing excessive volumes of air with a Galley Demand Controlled Ventilation System (GDCV) that can significantly lower energy use with no impact to galley staff or food quality. MacDonald-Miller proposed this solution to Holland America Line in Seattle and teamed up with Melink Corp., a company that pioneered demand-controlled kitchen ventilation systems and set the standard in the industry.

Holland America Line selected one of their cruise ships in dry dock in Palermo, Italy for the project. The partnership of MacMiller and Melink Corp. was the perfect pairing for this solution, as a robust team of galley ventilation experts was required – one comprised of marine electrical experts, energy engineers, best-in-class stainless steel fabrication and

installation technicians, seasoned maritime project management, galley exhaust engineers and technicians, test-adjust-balance engineers and galley ventilation system technicians. In the creation of “MacLink” Marine Galley Solutions, a partnership was born. Melink Corp. has agreed to work exclusively with MacMiller in the cruise industry.

The collaboration between the two companies was indeed impressive. The logistics of getting all of our parts, tools and equipment,

not to mention our crew, on location in another country took months of planning. Success prevailed! The

installation of the Melink Intelli-Hood system and interface wiring was performed in 14 days. Don Hoopengarner, Dave Goff and Scott Haugen, Eduard Gis, Joel Slagg, Jonathon Spencer of MacMiller worked closely with Todd Dostal of Melink Corp. to execute the innovative project. “We decided to have our management guys help out the field technicians to better

understand the project tasks and associated cost,” noted Don Hoopengarner. “Because of industry

interest and demand we’re planning on selling quite a few of these systems to the cruise line industry. Given

the stellar energy savings they offer we need an accurate price combined with spot-on energy calculations.”

On board, the combined team worked closely with Culinary Manager and galley crew members to make sure that our work did not impact their cooking for the 1500 contractors and crew on-board. Together, MacMiller and Melink Corp. are achieving significant energy savings in what have previously been uncharted waters. We’re excited to help our client achieve a savings of 50% of their 250-horsepower fan energy with the first ever Intelli-Hood system installed in a cruise ship!

The logistics

of getting all of our parts,

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in another country took

months of planning.

AN INDUSTRY FIRST | Galley Demand Controlled Ventilation System saves energy aboard cruise ship

FACT

The Polyclinic and Swedish Health Services recently joined forces to construct a state-of-the-art ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in the heart of the First Hill district. Located on the second floor of the existing 1101 Madison building, the new facility covers approximately 37,000 square feet. Complete with ten operating rooms and two eye procedure rooms, this new facility will be the largest ASC in the United States.

MacDonald-Miller was fortunate to be chosen to partner with Sellen Construction to provide full design and installation of a complete HVAC, plumbing, medical gas, and Honeywell Tritium open protocol controls system. The design and construction schedule were both fast track, with a total design-start-to-construction-finish duration of seven months.

The HVAC system utilizes one new central rooftop air handling unit with a chilled water system with electric heat. Located on the low roof above the third floor, MacMiller first had to remove the existing air handling unit that served the old space to make way for the new custom unit. Two chillers, associated pumps and humidifiers were included for the centralized cooling and humidification. The non-ASC areas including the waiting room, reception, offices, and shared areas are served by water source heat pump units with piping tie-ins to the existing building condenser water piping system.

Plumbing work required a well-coordinated building shut down to re-route the main four-inch domestic water line to accommodate the space layout, as well as tie-ins to existing systems in the retail spaces below. In addition to the new piping on level two, over fifty new plumbing fixtures, drains and connections were installed.

MacMiller plumbers ran over 6,000 lineal feet of medical gas piping. To accommodate the added medical gas system, a new equipment room was built in the parking garage to house the medical air compressor and vacuum. The medical gas system includes med gas outlets for twelve operating rooms, pre-op, PACU and recovery areas.

Thanks to the dedication and hard work of the entire team, this exciting project was completed early in June, 2016, with the first surgical procedure to take place in July.

STATSWorking with surgical precision : +: BY AMY JOHNSON

PROJECT TYPE | Design-Build TENANT | Polyclinic/Swedish Health Services Joint Venture

GENERAL CONTRACTOR | Sellen Construction ARCHITECT | TGB Architects ELECTRICIAN | H&M Electric

This new facility will be the largest state-of-the-art ASC in the US.

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OPERATING

Amy Johnson SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Years with MacMiller: Approaching 17 years on 1/3/17

My most memorable moment: My most memorable day at MacMiller was in 2006 when I was working on the Washington Square high-rise project in Bellevue. I was riding the man lift up to the 24th floor when it got stuck between level 16 and 17. The lift was packed with people, amplifying two of my biggest fears. Heights and confined spaces. After over an hour of being trapped, the operator let us crawl out the top hatch to get to level 17. For the last 8 months of that job, I took the stairs all the way to the top.

Bring it on! To overcome my fear of heights and tight spaces, I have zip lined, rode the great wheel, and competed in a 5k mud run with height and confined space obstacles – and paragliding is on the list for this year. I still hold my breath on a man lift, but at least I stopped schlepping up 24 flights of stairs to avoid it.

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It takes people from a wide range of professional skills to make MacDonald-Miller the industry

leader that it is today. It’s the diverse personalities and backgrounds that seamlessly come

together to create smart, successful project teams here at MacMiller. That’s why in each issue of

Perspective we take the time to highlight three members of MacMiller who’ve made invaluable

contributions. It’s a way to give you a little more insight

into those that proudly represent us, and a way to

further illustrate how three different individuals

can make one team greatly successful.

FACeS OFSuC CeS S

Michael Curtright PLUMBING ENGINEER

Years with MacMiller: Over 2 years now!

MacMiller is the “A” team! Prior to joining the MacMiller team, I worked with a top 10 mechanical contractor in its national design-build group. Although I was part of one of the most professional companies in the industry, once I joined MacMiller, I realized what the highest level of excellence truly was.

I’m inspired by rainy days... I conceptualized and designed a sustainable and economical rainwater harvesting system for the small island of Tierra Bomba in Colombia, South America. The system design utilizes recycled soft drink syrup drums. Development has involved volunteer travel to the island, Spain, and Iceland to complete project propositions and secure funding for this NGO initiative.

FUN FACTThe three MacMiller folks featured above worked together on the First Hill ASC project, detailed in the article on the left.

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Alex Feskov FOREMAN CONTROLS INSTALLATION TECHNICIAN

Years with MacMiller: Just over 4 years

I can count on anybody… What I value most about being at MacMiller is everyone’s willingness to work together and share experiences to help each other improve, succeed and finish projects on-time — with complete customer satisfaction. It’s amazing to experience this team’s commitment to quality and accuracy.

Meant to be… Some people may not know that I was born and raised in Rivne, Ukraine. I came to the United States in the beginning of 2001, and eventually met and married my beautiful wife here in the U.S. It turns out she’d lived in Ukraine 30 minutes away from where I lived!

“The entire staff of the AGC Safety Department would like

to formally congratulate you on winning your category

of "Subcontractor 1 million-1.5 million worker-hours" in

the 2016 Build Washington Awards for Safety Excellence.

Your safety program is to be commended and your safety

statistics back that up.” – AGC OF WASHINGTON

MacDonald-Miller received a 2016 AGC Safety Team Audit that was conducted at our Steelwave jobsite in Bothell on March 11th. This is MacMiller’s third year in a row being accepted into the AGC Safety Team and allows us to remain in the AGC Workers Compensation Retro program!

Our culture dictates that first and foremost, employees will work safely regardless of the challenges they face. MacMiller believes that establishing a safety mindset at all times provides a higher-quality product and enables our staff to work more productively.

In the last two years, we have teamed up with another employer and the Sheet Metal and Mechanical Contractors Association of Washington

Safety plays a starring roleCongratulations to Oleg Stepanyuk for being recognized as the Safety Star for 1st Quarter of 2016. Oleg led a team (Brad Sharp, Steve Baker, Mike Kirk and Ron Landberg) which standardized and improved the organization of TAB work carts with an emphasis on the following:

Safety Ease of use Uniformity of tools Improved customer perception Improved portability of tools

The new cart design offers a safer ladder attachment (a ladder support bracket and strap), hardhat holder and an affixed first aid kit.

A special thanks and congratulations to our crews that were audited at the Steelwave jobsite in Bothell:

SHEET METAL: Kyle Wolever (Foreman), Bob Sheldon, Chelsey Kono, Brain Cooper | FITTERS: Rodney Hemmingson (Foreman), Justin Federmeyer, Clayton Goodall

(SMACNA) to create narrated safety presentations. These are provided free of charge to other SMACNA contractors to ensure that smaller sized contractors who cannot afford a full-time safety professional have access to out-of-the-box training classes on subjects like heat stress, asbestos/lead awareness, fall protection and more.

Our primary goal for the coming year is to deliver more arc-flash training to our technicians in order to give them a better understanding of the danger of using RF (radio frequency) equipment. We created a RF class and purchased an RF meter to perform research on our sites to determine specific levels of RF on and around their projects.

1st, 2nd and 3rd years are a charm: +: BY LEE PYFROM

MacMiller wins Build Washington Award for Safety Excellence third year in a row

SAFETY STAR!

On call, on the MOVE: +: BY RORY OLSON

Service Technician Delivery System, Seattle and Bellevue

Service Tech Delivery Driver, David Rellinger, supports the 19 Service Technicians working in Seattle's downtown core. He is in constant motion delivering needed parts and materials, swapping clean uniforms for dirty ones, dropping off mail and tools. He is also relieving technicians of excess materials, dirty filters and other extraneous items. Beyond the prearranged deliveries, he makes himself available to pick up on-demand parts for unplanned repairs.

This Service Tech Delivery System was developed to manage the challenges of traffic and reduce technician travel time. Through the efforts of Darryl West, Downtown Service Operations Manager; Shain Weaver, Pilot Delivery Driver; and the entire downtown crew, this delivery system has been fine-tuned into a system easily replicated. In fact, because of its success, a second delivery driver, Laura Stogin, was deployed in Bellevue this May.

This delivery system allows us to provide more customer value in the same amount of time, as technicians rarely leave their work area to retrieve materials. Over time we plan to expand this service to our Tacoma and Portland field offices. We are redefining what it means to be “at your service”!

Thanks to David Rellinger and this streamlined delivery system, everything that Oleg

Regheta, a downtown Seattle Service Technician, needs for the next 2 days’ scheduled

appointments is pre-stocked and waiting for him in his meticulously arranged service

vehicle — his van is trash free, clean uniforms are neatly hung, and parts are organized.

Historically, service techs like Oleg could spend more than an hour each day

picking up parts and uniforms; this practice has been replaced with the

Service Tech Delivery System.

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SHOUT OUT! TO BELLEVUE WESTIN CHILLER AND SCRUBBER TEAM

“I want to congratulate and recognize the exceptional effort of the MacMiller employees that worked on the Bellevue Westin Chiller and Scrubber replacement over last weekend. This was an extremely tough project. The team had the entire Westin Hotel running on a temp chiller and replaced 6 modular chillers, 1 cooling tower, 4 pumps and 1 pollution control unit in a 96 hour window. These crews worked around the clock to replace these systems and at the end, the property owner, Westin management and general contractor were amazed at how well-orchestrated the effort was – to be able to complete the work with NO down time for the hotel or impact to adjacent businesses. I can’t say enough great things about the team that pulled this off; I’m truly amazed and proud to be able to send this team recognition out. I would name names but I would fail them all if I missed just one name. GREAT JOB! You all should be proud of the work you did, I can’t say thank you enough!!!”

Jon Sigmund, Project Executive, MMFS

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