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BUSINESS NEWS WORLD’S LONGEST FLOATING BRIDGE BECOMES THIRD HDR PROJECT TO WIN AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES’ HIGHEST AWARD The State Route 520 floating bridge earned the American Council of Engineering Companies’ Grand Conceptor Award, given annually to the nation’s best overall engineering achievement. The award marks the third Grand Conceptor Award for an HDR project in the company’s 100-year history. The Grand Conceptor presentation highlighted ACEC’s 50th anniversary Engineering Excellence A panel of nearly 30 judges selected the year’s most outstanding engineering accomplishments from among 162 entries, including 13 HDR projects. In addition to the award for SR 520, HDR’s Kansas City Streetcar project received one of ACEC’s 16 Grand Awards, while the firm’s U.S. 36/Boulder Turnpike Express Lanes project in Colorado earned one of 20 Honor Awards. HDR also shared honors on two other awards, with partner GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. leading the nomination for the foundation design for the New NY Bridge, which won a Grand Award, and WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff nominating the Cincinnati Bell Connector, winner of an Honor Award. The new SR 520 floating bridge enables multiple modes of land-based transportation to simultaneously cross the state’s second- largest natural lake. The project included replacing the existing, 53-year-old floating bridge and reconstructing the rest of the SR 520 corridor, from Interstate 5 on the west side of the lake to Interstate 405 on the east side. The result is a bridge that, at 7,708 feet, has earned a place in the Guinness World Records as the longest floating bridge in the world. It is 130 feet longer, has a bridge deck 56 feet

wider and uses 44 more pontoons than its predecessor. When the entire SR 520 corridor project is complete, the bridge will carry about 10 percent more vehicles and 17 percent more people during peak traffic hours, while reducing rush-hour, cross-lake commutes between Seattle and Bellevue by about half an hour. With depths as great as 214 feet, Lake Washington can not be traversed using traditional bridge design, creating the need for innovative design. In 2006, the Washington State Department of Transportation selected HDR to serve as general engineering consultant on this multi-phase project. HDR and WSDOT staff co-located to a central project office, and from this location, led efforts related to all aspects of design and construction collaborating with 120 subconsultants. Key team members include: ❚ ❚ Kiewit/General/Manson: Construction ❚ ❚ KPFF Consulting Engineers: Civil, structural and mechanical engineering ❚ ❚ BergerABAM: Civil and structural engineering, roadway design ❚ ❚ WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff: Project Management, tolling and finance, and environmental engineering ❚ ❚ Parametrix, Inc.: Environmental engineering ❚ ❚ EnviroIssues, Inc.: Public outreach and planning ❚ ❚ Shannon & Wilson, Inc.: Geotechnical engineering Other HDR projects receiving ACEC National Recognition Awards included: ❚ ❚ Bluffton Parkway Phase 5A, Bluffton, South Carolina ❚ ❚ Bridge Creek Surface Water Treatment

Plant, Bend, Oregon ❚ ❚ Council Bluffs Interstate System Railroad Relocation, Council Bluffs, Iowa ❚ ❚ Government Center Station Reconstruction, Boston, Massachusetts ❚ ❚ Iowa Premium Water Treatment Plant, Tama, Iowa ❚ ❚ Jackrabbit-Big Sky Transmission Line, Big Sky, Montana ❚ ❚ South Platte Interceptor, Denver, Colorado ❚ ❚ U.S. 190 Copperas Cove Reliever, Copperas Cove, Texas LUBRIZOL SELECTS JACOBS FOR ENGINEERING, PROCUREMENT AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been selected by Lubrizol to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for Lubrizol’s new Polyisobutylene unit in Deer Park, Texas. Executives from both companies, including Eric Schnur, Lubrizol Chairman, President and CEO, and Steve Demetriou, Jacobs Chairman and CEO, as well as dignitaries from the city, county and school board attended the ground breaking ceremony in March. The project is part of Lubrizol’s plan to upgrade and enhance the company’s global capabilities. The new unit is expected to be fully operational in the first half of 2019. “Jacobs is honored to partner and support Lubrizol’s goal of renewing its infrastructure,” said Jacobs Petroleum and Chemicals President Gary Mandel. “Jacobs will leverage its global chemical industry knowledge to engineer, procure and construct Lubrizol’s Deer Park plant. This project enables us to further demonstrate our proven EPC project delivery skills and expand our strong position in the Gulf Coast.”

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not put half-eaten cakes, inside jokes, or bad low-quality im- ages of your staff doing stupid things on the company social media page. Any kind of internal announcements (donuts in the break room anyone?) should be kept off public pages. 4)Use low-quality images, bad fonts, bad colors, or bad lighting. There are a lot of resources out there to help people learn how to use colors that complement each other, ap- propriate fonts, and other basic principles of graphic design. Cursive is generally bad. Comic Sans is always bad. Instagram, photo filters, and even the editing programs available on an iPhone can help “clean up” an image. Equally as important, don’t take bad pictures in the first place, things like the backs of peoples’ heads, a trash can in the middle of the photo, a toilet with the seat up, and generally unflattering pictures of your firm’s staff. Take the time to stage pictures if necessary. 5)Strange sentence structure and typos. It’s distracting. It makes your company look sloppy and unprofessional. Proof- read your stuff.

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