Professional Design Associates LLC Company Mission Statement Friday, January 1, 2010

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Mission Statement Achieve high performance in building design. Provide integrated and

collaborative sustainable design services inclusive of independent

engineering disciplines. To realize our clients’ vision.

1. PDA Organization PDA is a SBE/MBE that is currently 100% minority owned. PDA is co-founded by two Architects, Edward DeLaPaz and Wayne J. Guskind who have collaborated either in employ of others, as a sub-consultant to either, and for other prime contracts in private practice. This is illustrated in our resumes and project summaries. The experience denoted is collaborative. The company was formed when Edward DeLaPaz became a displaced worker due to current economic crisis and the lack of work in the industry. In this past year, since founding the company, the trend of collaborative work has continued and the two Architects have collaborated on several projects, including residences and commercial rehabilitation projects. As such, PDA regularly contracts additional independent staff support and engineers for projects undertaken. PDA is a small group of affiliated professional associates that offer a breadth of experience from large and small top Architectural/Engineering firms alike whose exposure in innovative technologies is unrivaled. Services are in all markets including residential, commercial, industrial and government sector work. Expertise in mission critical facilities has fostered an in bred familiarity with application of sustainable design or green technologies and PDA offers that service in striving to achieve high performance in building design.

IBB Botswana Indigenous Building Design Jersey City Historic Preservation

Organization

Edward DeLaPaz AIA, ncarb,

LEED AP

Public Sector

Experience

Federal-GSA/IBB

State-NJ DDC

City-NYC

Construction Types

New

Restoration & Rehabilitation

Planning

Sustainable Design

LEED AP

Leadership in Energy &

Environmental Design

Professional Design Associates LLC Company Mission Statement Friday, January 1, 2010

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New York City – Channel 16 Fire Police integrated communications system

A. Public Sector Project Experience Public sector experience is quite comprehensive and includes following projects;

a. GSA (Federal) – 2 former 5 year term contracts performed for the Newark GSA office that included

numerous facility rehabilitations, analysis and assessment of existing facilities, corrective works and rework of existing space. Additional work included façade and roof restorations.

b. IBB (Federal) – 2 former 5 year IDIQ contracts that included domestic and overseas projects. The range of work included rehabilitations as well as new construction. On overseas work, the project required sustainable design and mission critical facility work. These facilities, in many instances were stand-alone operations with self-supported utility.

c. DDC (NJ State) – Former 5 year IDIQ contracts performing facility restoration work on state owned facilities in Trenton and numerous facilities including vehicle maintenance garage and offices for state trooper administrative offices.

d. NYC (DOITT) – Work performed for City’s Information and Technology department for development of channel 16 (Cooperative Fire and Police emergency radio band) for the City of New York. This work was performed for Motorola in support of their contract with NYC.

e. Housing (State) – Former projects completed in employ of others for numerous housing authorities across the state including Paterson with work completed in the early 90’s.

f. Municipal – Numerous independent work performed by both Architects in the employ of others. Additionally, Edward DeLaPaz was Senior Principal Architect in the employ of the Jersey City Bureau of Architecture for over seven years where rehabilitation, restoration and new construction was undertaken for numerous City facilities including administrative offices, police and fire stations, institutional departments, parks and public spaces. A great deal of this work involved neighborhood planning and community level interaction.

Professional Design Associates LLC Company Mission Statement Friday, January 1, 2010

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B. Experience

a. New Construction Experience includes residential, commercial, industrial and government sector work. The range of building types includes single-family residences from two to fifteen thousand SF and multi story buildings from 20 – 100K SF.

b. Restoration & Rehabilitation Experience includes residential, commercial, industrial and government sector work. As example, restoration includes older turn of the century classical architecture requiring re-roofing in historic preservation and public spaces such as park gazebos requiring authentic clay tile roof works and hard wood carpentry. Rehabilitation consisted of preservation or restoration of shell spaces and re-working of spaces either for existing or new use. The rehabilitation would modernize amenities, utilities and provide for a responsive program space use.

c. Planning-neighborhood and/or community As noted above in municipal public sector work, there were numerous projects, generally involving parks, recreation facilities and public spaces where neighborhood planning and community grass root support was required. Additionally, in private work, presentations in support of variances have been conducted. In addition, in communications work including data centers and broadcast transmitting (Cell/TV/Radio) facilities the variance work would require community outreach to garner local support and gain approvals of certain developments. Often, Variance work or Local presentations would include expert witness testimony and/or attorney assistance.

C. Green (Sustainable Design)

Much of the overseas government sector work, communications facilities, mission critical facility design and fire/police stations require sustainable design features. The breadth of experience in this work is quite extensive and has been employed for over twenty years. Currently, Edward DeLaPaz is a LEED AP (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design – Accredited Professional) and as such is recognized as a professional versed in the process of certifying a project and having a comprehensive knowledge of sustainable design.