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BUSINESS NEWS GATEWAY ARCH MUSEUM EXPANSION OPENS A 47,000-square-foot subterranean expansion and renovation of the Museum of the Gateway Arch is the final component of a $380 million redevelopment of the iconic monument in downtown St. Louis. The renovated museum and visitors center, which opened to the public in July, will enhance the overall experience for the 4 million individuals who visit the 630-foot-tall structure, on average, each year. A dramatic new circular entrance and upper-level lobby facing downtown St. Louis replaces the previous underground entrances at the base of each Arch leg. Visitors will now enter the monument at street level, through a custom-built glass and stainless-steel entry enclosure system. The expanded museum’s reinforced roof deck features 2,400 cubic yards of post-tensioned concrete slabs, as well as 189,000 cubic feet of GeoFoam blocks, an innovative solution to eliminate additional excessive weight on the roof deck. Constraints on all four sides limited access points and the ability to transport materials to the monument, which is situated at the center of a 70-acre site. To the east is the Mississippi River, the region’s foremost waterway (and the source of two flood events that significantly impacted construction activities). And to the west is a major interstate highway that bisects the Arch from the densely occupied downtown area. Further complicating this scenario, the Gateway Arch had to remain open, accessible, and fully operational throughout the three-year construction project.

The museum’s grand mezzanine features a colorful terrazzo floor with a giant U.S. map illustrating the westward migration from St. Louis and other cities. It leads to several new galleries that trace St. Louis’ role in westward expansion from the mid-1600s to the present. A 100-foot video wall inside the tram lobby projects scenes from the original construction of the Gateway Arch and other examples of American innovation. The entrance, building, and exhibits are designed to meet universal design standards so the museum can be accessible by all individuals regardless of age, size, ability, or disability. Designed and constructed to pursue LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, the expansion is the facility’s first renovation since the original Museum of Westward Expansion opened in 1976. The museum expansion was designed by Cooper Robertson and James Carpenter Associates , both of New York, with Trivers Associates, St. Louis. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, New York, oversaw the landscape design. Gateway Arch Park Foundation and the National Park Service led the Gateway Arch Park redevelopment projects. JACOBS SECURES ROLES ON ENGINEERING PANELS FOR LEADING AUSTRALIAN ENERGY UTILITY Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. was appointed to AusNet Services’ Regulated Energy Services panel for a three-year contract, with two single-year extensions, that involves undertaking engineering and design work for its regulated transmission

and distribution assets. This includes both greenfield and brownfield asset upgrades, infrastructure replacements and the delivery of new energy infrastructure in a rapidly changing and innovative sector. A second panel agreement has also been signed by Jacobs to provide engineering and design services to AusNet Services’ Commercial Energy Services unregulated business, which includes renewable energy connections. Subject to performance, this panel will cover the same length of time as the RES Panel. AusNet Services recenly embarked on the implementation of a new corporate strategy, known as Focus 2021, intended to grow its contracted energy infrastructure asset base to $1 billion and to operate all three core networks in the top quartile of efficiency benchmarks. The support that Jacobs will provide to AusNet under the recently signed panel agreements aims to help them achieve these goals. “Jacobs is one of our trusted partners in delivering new unregulated infrastructure projects,” said AusNet Services Executive General Manager of CES Chad Hymas. “Our teams complement one another, and together we have moved well beyond the traditional service provider/principal relationship.” As the largest energy delivery service business in the Australian state of Victoria, AusNet Services owns and operates approximately $8.3 billion of electricity and gas distribution assets that connect into more than one million customers.

It is key to instill in your employees that a breach of any magnitude has the potential to jeopardize clients, harm the company and damage the company’s reputation long- term, and could cost employees their jobs if workload is negatively affected. IT security is not glamorous, and if IT intrusions are minimal or not noticed by your staff, it means your IT department is doing a great job behind the scenes to keep systems safe and secure! ADNAN YASIN is IT director, North America at RPS. He can be reached at adnan.yasin@rpsgroup.com. “No matter how diligent and careful you are, there will no doubt be times when a break in your security occurs. Because these threats are ever-increasing and evolving, it is imperative to develop a playbook in advance for dealing with a breach after the fact.”

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yet informative way to familiarize employees with the look and feel of these types of attacks. Our own IT department also plays the “bad actor” to test our system and employee awareness; we generate emails that could be malicious communication to evaluate the vigilance of our staff. The artificial malicious email contains an attachment that the receiver is instructed to open. Employees who recognize the threat and follow procedure by sending it to IT are thanked for their efforts and alerted that this was a test email. For employees who open the attachment, we use this as a learning experience to educate on what to look for. This has been an incredibly valuable exercise. WHEN DISASTER STRIKES. No matter how diligent and careful your IT team and employees are, there will no doubt be times when a break in your security occurs. Because these threats are ever-increasing and evolving, it is imperative to develop a playbook in advance for dealing with a breach after the fact. Our IT department works closely with our national and international staff to educate them on steps to take should they be compromised.

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