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420 N. Wabash Ave., Suite 200Chicago, IL 60611

Phone: 312.787.0707 Fax: 312.787.7322

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COMPANY OVERVIEW

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

d’Escoto, Inc. is a Chicago-based, minority owned firm providing professional construction services with concentrations in Construction Management, Program Management, Owner Representation, and Civil Design Engineering Services. d’Escoto, Inc. has over 40 years of experience in the A/E/C industry and has developed a reputation for providing superior quality oversight, inspection, estimating, and budget and schedule control.

d’Escoto, Inc. is “where vision meets implementation,” turning client requirements, needs, standards and goals into tangible objectives and plans; to bring client visions into reality. In order to fully understand our client’s vision of standards, needs and goals, our firm works to cultivate a solid, professional relationship with each business partner and client.

• Construction Management• Program Management• Engineering /Architectural Services• Scheduling• Budgeting• Cost Estimates• Facility Assessments• Document Control

OUR SERVICES

PROFESSIONAL STAFF

• Engineers• Architects• PMP Project Managers• Cost Estimators• LEED Accredited Professionals

• Project Management• Planning• Inspection• Quality Control• Sustainability• Permit Review• Database Systems• Contract Administration

• Project Schedulers• Construction Inspectors• Contract Administrators• Project Control Staff• Safety Professionals

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Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)

Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)

CERTIFICATIONS

As Construction Managers, d’Escoto’s versatile staff works closely with Owners to achieve budget, quality and schedule objectives and to minimize any disruptions to operations. Budget objectives are met through detailed cost estimating, value engineering, and bid solicitations from reliable and competitive organizations.

Our project controls team pays particular attention to all phasing, required deadlines, procurement of long-lead items and meeting any phased requirements of the Owner. We also review and monitor contractor’s schedules to confirm projects are headed to on-time completion.

d’Escoto, Inc.’s construction management expertise has been the driving force behind cost savings, schedule reductions, and scope enhancements for a number of clients.

Our Program Management Team is a unique group of problem solving, results-oriented experts and executives whose sole focus is achieving the Owner’s goals and meeting their every need. These projects and programs are often multi-year and extremely complex management and engineering challenges in design and implementation.

Operating in either prime contractor, subcontractor or joint venture partner roles, d’Escoto has attained program management success for a number or public and private clients. In every role, the project or programs success is attributable to developing an understanding of client needs, vision and goals and determining the strategy to achieve those feats.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT /PHASE III CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING

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Setting a New Standard

d’Escoto, Inc. serves the Chicago Department of Aviation’s Capital Improvement Program as a joint venture partner to the Program Management Team, Chicago Airports Resource Enterprise Plus (CARE+).

We provide the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) complete project development, scope definition and support from planning and pre-design, through design phases to project inspection and completion.

Our Program Management Team is a major component in the repair, maintenance, upgrade and expansion of the existing infrastructure conditions at both O’Hare and Midway International Airports.

d’Escoto, Inc. has been instrumental in developing policies and procedures in the areas of project development, design review, construction safety, QA/QC, vendor evaluations, and program controls.

CARE+ Airport projects include the following: • New consolidated car rental facilities• Maintenance and demolition of facilities• Runway and taxiway demolition, development and

rehabilitation• Terminal construction and rehabilitation• Security systems• Aircraft facilities• Access roads and bridges and tunnel rehabilitation• Storm water management system and utilities• Communications systems• Parking structures

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Efficiency & Upkeep

The CARE+ Team along with the CDA, has replaced conventional incandescent taxiway airfield lighting with new LED fixtures. They consume less electricity and also have a significantly longer lifespan, reducing the amount of maintenance hours.

The CARE+ Team, in cooperation with the CDA, implement these upgrades after significant testing and piloting. Mock-up testing allows the CDA to optimize a replacement strategy for both illumination quality and maintenance costs on a small scale before widespread implementation.

The CARE+ team will also be involved in the CDA’s future development of consolidated rental car facilities at O’Hare, once the current Midway rental car building is complete. Each facility will attain LEED Certification by including green roofs, energy efficient designs, stormwater treatment and recycling.

Capital Improvement Program ReferenceFrank Grimaldi - Chicago Department of AviationDeputy CommissionerP.O. Box 66142 Chicago, IL 60666(773) 686-6478

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O’Hare Runway Reconfiguration

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d’Escoto, Inc. provides construction management and project control services as part of the O’Hare Modernization Program (OMP) Construction Management Team led by Parsons Brinckerhoff Construction Services.

The City of Chicago has committed to a $6 billion capital investment plan for the expansion and renovation of O’Hare International Airport. The plan will increase O’Hare’s capacity by 60% and decrease delays by an estimated 79%. The plan includes the addition of four runways, the lengthening of two existing runways, the decommissioning of two existing runways with additional terminal space and two new air traffic control towers. When the OMP is complete, O’Hare will have eight runways: six east-west parallel runways and two crosswind runways.

Three major OMP runway projects have already been completed. In 2008, the OMP opened a 3,000-foot extension to O’Hare’s busiest runway, a 7,500-foot long runway and a new

air traffic control tower. All three projects opened on or ahead of schedule, and nearly $40 million under budget. This was due to the diligent Construction Management services provided and clear communication between all parties. O’Hare remains an active airport while construction activities are taking place, requiring detailed coordination of all activities with several entities, both public and private.

An additional runway, built to accommodate new, heavier aircrafts such as the Boeing 747-8 and Airbus A-380, is under construction and nearing completion. That runway is scheduled to be commissioned in late 2013 and will further reduce delays.

While this work takes place, design and planning work is underway for an additional runway and control tower. The remaining OMP completion phase projects include another new east-west runway and an extension to existing runway, both located on O’Hare’s north airfield.

Rethinking Airport Construction

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The OMP Team played an instrumental role in helping the CDA develop the Sustainable Design Manual(SDM) in 2003. The SDM was the first guidance manual in the aviation industry to apply sustainability across an entire program, develop a project rating system, and award the efforts of its design and construction teams.

In 2009, the OMP Team aided the CDA in updating the SDM to form the Sustainable Airport Manual (SAM). The update identified lessons learned, airport case studies, and the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) 2009 Green Building Rating System Reference Manual. SAM is constantly being expanded and revised and continues to be an increasingly adopted manual for airport operations worldwide.

Following the Sustainable Airports Manual, the OMP Team managed the construction of O’Hare Airport’s North airfield traffic control tower, the first in the U.S. to earn LEED Silver Certification. The use of high efficiency low-flow bathroom fixtures create an estimated annual savings of 7,000 gallons of water. The tower also includes plans to involve renewable energy opportunities throughout the next two years.

The tower’s base building incorporates a 8,910 square foot vegetated green roof, along with a 917 square foot vegetated roof on the Electrical Building, making it the first on-airport FAA facility in the nation to feature a vegetated roof.

O’Hare Airport’s “Environmental Footprint”

O’Hare Modernization Program Reference

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The combined area of green roofs at O’Hare now totals over 8 acres, all of which were coordinated, overseen, and inspected by d’Escoto, Inc. The installation of these low maintenance vegetated roofs allows for increased stormwater retention, filtration and evaporation, providing a substantial decrease in the amount of stormwater management infrastructure needed.

The OMP Team also led the replacement of small, isolated wetlands, each of which provided poor ecological value, with the expansion of other regional wetland areas that were restored and enhanced to nearly three times the size of the original areas, totaling 447 acres.

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Ms. Rosemarie AndolinoCommissioner - Chicago Department of AviationP.O. Box 66142 Chicago, IL 60666(312) 744-4464

One of d’Escoto, Inc.’s major focuses and contributions has been the coordination of the CDA’s construction and demolition waste diversion plan, operating at the astounding rate of 98% collection and recyclability. That includes over 575, 000 tons of concrete and asphalt and 18 million cubic yards of on-site soil recycled, for a cost savings of over $ 140 million dollars to date.

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The DuPage Airport Authority added a 1,343 foot extension to runway 2R-20L, which now is a total runway length of 6,443 feet. This provides sufficient runway length for many of the larger corporate jet aircrafts when the main runway, 2L/20R, is closed for maintenance (e.g., mowing or snow removal), aircraft incidents, or construction. d’Escoto, Inc. provided design support services including cost estimating and project scheduling in Microsoft Project.

“The Airport currently has the second longest runway in Chicagoland after O’Hare, and the lengthened secondary runway will give us further operational flexibility and added safety,” says Executive Airport Director David Bird.

A seperate runway, Runway 10-28 is approaching the end of its useful life and is in need of rehabilitation to prevent further deterioration. The current design is a “porous friction course” surface and the new pavement will be “grooved asphalt”.

The CH2M Hill team that d’Escoto, Inc. is a part of, will provide the plans, specifications and bid documents for the project. d’Escoto, Inc. serves as the Construction Managers and Field Inspectors for the rehabilitation. Field inspection services are being provided by highly experienced personnel during the construction phases of runway rehabilitation.

Mr. Michael VonicSenior Project Manager, Aviation - CH2M Hill, Inc.8735 West Higgins Road, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60631(773) 693-3809

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420 N. Wabash Ave., Suite 200Chicago, IL 60611

Phone: 312.787.0707 Fax: 312.787.7322

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City of Chicagohttp://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/doa.html Mayor Rahm Emanuel Commissioner Rosemarie S. Andolino © 2010 - 2013 City of Chicago

Chicago Department of Aviation“A Sustainable Path 2012” available www.flychicago.comCommissioner Rosemarie S. Andolino Special Contributions From: Michael Boland, First Deputy Commissioner Khaled Naja, Chief Operating Officer Amy Malick, Deputy Commissioner, Sustainability Paul Brown, Deputy Commissioner, Facilities Prepared by: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture PositivEnergy Practice Contributors: Ricondo and Associates Landrum & Brown © 2012 City of Chicago

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