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BUSINESS NEWS BOEING AND DASSAULT SYSTÈMES ANNOUNCE EXTENDED PARTNERSHIP Boeing will expand its deployment of Dassault Systèmes’ products across its commercial aviation, space, and defense programs to include the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This decision follows a competitive process that included the rigorous analysis of technical and functional capabilities, cost, and business benefits across the value chain. Boeing will deploy the 3DEXPERIENCE platform in phases and rely on Winning Program, Co-Design to Target, Ready for Rate, Build to Operate, and License to Fly industry solution experiences for aerospace and defense to deepen its end to end digital collaboration, design, engineering, analysis, manufacturing planning, and shop floor execution capabilities throughout the enterprise. “Dassault Systèmes is proud to collaborate with Boeing as it embarks on another century of innovation with a partner it trusts. Boeing not only leads the way in its own industry, but influences the progress of all industries across modern society,” said Bernard Charlès, vice chairman and CEO, Dassault Systèmes. “We are at the turning point of the industrial era, where we are shattering another industry paradigm. The parallel exchange of data between virtual and real operations will transform the value-adding chain into a value creation chain. The entire ‘extended’ enterprise can continuously measure and control business processes for maximum efficiency and potential top line growth. This is ‘Business in the Age of Experience.’” The 3DEXPERIENCE platform can reduce integration and support costs, improve productivity, foster new innovation, and aid in the introduction of best practice processes to deliver standard work across the value chain. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform can not only simulate products and processes, but also find and eliminate potential risks and quality issues before production. The platform’s single source of data across all applications will provide reliable and actionable real-time information and seamless communication throughout the entire enterprise and supply chain as well as across product generations. This digital continuity will improve data and analytics capabilities. “The decision to adopt Dassault Systèmes’

3DEXPERIENCE platform is a key milestone in our digital transformation. This digital enabler provides global design and manufacturing capabilities that will fuel our second century,” said Ted Colbert, chief information officer and senior vice president of IT and data analytics, Boeing. “The value of this extended strategic partnership is a mutual desire to transform how Boeing connects, protects, explores and inspires the world.” INDEPENDENCE UTILITIES CENTER EARNS LEED PLATINUM DESIGNATION The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the new Independence Utilities Center with a highly coveted LEED Platinum certification. The City of Independence facility earned the highest LEED designation for exceptional energy and water conservation, site connectivity and development, sustainable construction techniques, and a number of indoor, health, safety and user comfort features. Burns & McDonnell provided a full range of architectural, engineering and construction services for a full-scale renovation of the former medical building on a larger 14-acre site. The 47,500-square foot, three-story building was a medical building located on a larger campus that included the Medical Center of Independence. Though the hospital had been razed, the medical building was left standing. Completed in October 2016, the new Independence Utilities Center houses administrative and customer service offices for Independence Power & Light along with offices for the Independence Water Department and some large training spaces. The project was recently recognized by the Kansas City Business Journal as a winner of a Capstone Award in the green design category. “We are extremely proud to have achieved LEED Platinum certification for a building that dramatically improves the surrounding community,” says Mayor Eileen Weir of the City of Independence. “This is a real achievement that will become a model for developers looking for proof of how sustainable design can have a meaningful impact on our built environment.” “The City of Independence now has a showcase facility that demonstrates how renovated buildings can surpass the energy and environmental performance of even

newly constructed buildings,” says Joe Williams, who served as lead project architect for Burns & McDonnell. “Reinvestment in a repurposed facility like this takes creativity and teamwork. But it’s worth it. During the course of this project, we heard countless stories from people who spent time in the building when it was home to the many medical practices associated with MCI hospital. It has been an honor and privilege to return this building to a place where it is once again a vibrant part of the Independence community.” The project preserved more than 95 percent of the existing structure. Key additions greatly improved aesthetics and energy efficiency of the building envelope, including new wall and roof insulation, thermal windows, aluminum exterior panels and sun shades and a “cool” white roof to reduce heat gain. Almost 98 percent of construction waste was recycled or reused and diverted from landfill. The interior was gutted and built-out with high efficiency HVAC and new LED lighting. A large amount of reclaimed white oak sourced from a thoroughbred horse farm in Kentucky was reused in public areas of the building and over 97 percent of new wood purchased was FSC- certified for sustainable forestry practices. The facility features a variety of energy conservation and renewable energy features, including a rooftop solar array and wind turbine capable of providing 15 percent of the building’s annual energy needs. The building is ventilated using a dedicated outside air unit that has an energy recovery wheel to capture heating or cooling from the building exhaust air to pre-condition the ventilation air, minimizing the need for mechanical cooling or electric heating. A variable refrigerant volume heat pump system allows units in different zones of the building to modulate to match the load in each zone with high part-load efficiencies to simultaneously heat and cool, as needed. The combination of systems makes the building 51 percent more efficient than a comparable baseline building. In addition, ultra-high efficiency plumbing fixtures reduce water use within the building by 40 percent. Exterior landscaping features a number of native and adapted plant species that thrive without the need for permanent irrigation and help slow and infiltrate stormwater runoff from the site.

also growing our performance contracting. We still expect to make some acquisitions. Things are looking good. “I don’t just want leaders to be entrepreneurs, I want engineers to think like entrepreneurs too. We want to avoid being a commodity engineering firm.”

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TZL: What’s your prediction for 2017 and for the next five years? KS: Strong growth for our firm and overall good years for the economy. We’ve had anywhere from 40 to 90 per- cent growth over the past few years. We need to catch our breath. We are positioned to succeed. We should exceed our 2020 goal by 2018. We’ve got more service lines and are

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