In this issue Keith Wayne P.1-2 Project Updates P.5-6 WBI in the News P.10

Precon Updates P.3 Grading & Site Work P. 7 Announcements P.11

Safety & Fleet, P.4 HR Updates P.8-9 Kudos P.11

Super of the Year!. P.5 Community P.8 Career Opportunities P.12

The LEADING EDGE

VOLUME 3 | WINTER 2011

A PUBLICATION OF WAYNE BROTHERS INCORPORATED | SITE DEVELOPEMENT & CONCRETE

Creating Value in our World  By: Keith Wayne, President As we enter the New Year, it seems only natural to reflect on our company’s mission statement and measure it against our progress over the past year. Looking back on our projects for 2011, it is evident we have performed quite well. As the Wayne Brothers’ Mission Statement states, “Our mission is to make improvements to our world's landscapes, buildings, facilities and infrastruc‐tures.” We accomplish this through our quality of construction, and the value we create each day at our clients’ construction sites throughout the southeast.  This value is of much greater impor‐tance than we may realize.  To explain this, we must stop and understand how what we do each day contributes to the larger scheme of the overall economy. (Continues on page 2) 

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Creating Value Continued Recently, I was privileged to hear John Allison, former CEO and Chairman of BB&T, speak to a group of business and community leaders. He promotes the importance of purposeful living, and a key part of our purpose, according to John, is for our daily work to add value to the system. He went on to explain how too much of today’s workforce efforts do not add real value to our society. He used the example of the enormous number of tax accountants in the world who use all of their talent just to interpret the complex US tax code.  Wouldn't that talent be better used to add real tangible value in some way to the business or human environment?  I agree with his observations and I am happily reminded that here at Wayne Brothers we do add real value to our world with the site development and concrete services we perform each day for our clients.   This value extends beyond that which we are paid for as each day we are improving literally thousands of lives through the places we create for them to reside, work, play and worship.  Our work creates true value!  This year our Mission Statement has driven us to contribute value to numerous facilities including edu‐cation, industrial, energy and technology.  This includes Virginia Tech, where we are building a new   performing arts center.  Think of the thousands of people who will enjoy the performances in this       facility once it is complete.   We have put in place some rather remarkable concrete foundations that serve to support heavy machining tools for a variety of industries including energy, heavy mining and metals.  These equipment foundations will have machines that produce parts and create jobs for our neighbors.  In turn, these manufacturers will add their value to our economy in the products they pro‐duce.  Wayne Brothers has also added value with our site work team through our public utility work by installing the infrastructure for three natural gas transfer stations.  In a not so small way, many homes throughout our region will be warm this winter in part because of the value we delivered.  As further evidence, our value is intertwined with technology through the numerous data centers we continue to build out across our region.  Everyone at Wayne Brothers is adding real  property value while simultaneously expanding the internet infrastructure.  Additionally, Wayne Brothers is benefiting from our data center projects, improving our technology by upgrading our smart devices and by moving our software services to the cloud.  There is no question we are engaged in a part of our      economy that does indeed add value to American lives.   Statistics say the total value of US construction contributes around 4.5% of our country’s GDP.  This means that nearly one out of every $25 of value created in the economy    originates from the efforts of folks just like us, who end each day looking back on their work with much deserved pride.  We can all be very proud that our purpose is being fulfilled as each day we build value in everything we do. 

WBI was ranked No. 520 on the  Engineering News Record’s 2011 Top 600 Specialty   Contractors list!  This award is based on data analysis of the top specialty contractors’ previous year’s ranking, reve‐nue, and percentage of revenue by markets. 

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Preconstruction Developments

Thank you for another great year!

By: Shannon Sapp In the final quarter of 2011, I both reflect and give thanks for all of our new business. The Preconstruction team continued our pursuit of quality opportunities and “value based” clients this quarter.

In concrete, Wayne Brothers (WBI) sustained our success in the data center market by securing a second expansion opportunity at Facebook and a new data center in Charlotte. Our industrial work continues at the Caterpillar Plant in Winston-Salem in supporting their new machines. We entered the Lumber market with work at Weyerhaeuser and New South Lumber. Lastly, WBI returns to the multifamily sector with nice con-crete scopes at Talison Row Apartments near Charleston, SC, and in site develop-ment, with Highland Creek Apartments in Charlotte. Additional success was secured by our grading division with another project with Piedmont Natural Gas. Currently operating in three states, our backlog stands strong. I’d like to thank all of our customers & clients for allowing WBI to add value to your projects and our company’s history. On the Marketing front, our new look and feel is taking shape. Newly designed Business Cards should be here shortly. The new Website is entering the final stages of design and will be rolling out the beginning of 2012. You should also be reading this newsletter in its new format. Renee and I continue to search and embrace new technologies and mediums to make our company stand out above others. Please stay tuned for much more in 2012.

As 2011 comes to an end, we would like to thank all of those who made our

year successful.

Balfour Beatty Construction Barton Malow

Bi-Con Services, Inc. Lend Lease

The Bowers Group Carocon

City of Kannapolis Davie Construction

DPR Construction/Fortis D.R. Reynolds

Gray Construction Hightower Construction Co.

Holder Construction KBR (BE&K)

M.B. Kahn Construction Co., Inc. McLeod Health Morgan Corp

Ordner Construction Piedmont Natural Gas

Rentenbach Rodgers

Samet Corporation Sugartop Resort

US Trust The Whiting-Turner

Construction Company

WBI Safety Concern Drawing Winners

June 2011: Tony Davis & Troy Valenti July 2011: Nelson Lowers, Tony Davis & Troy Valenti August 2011: Allan Johnson, Brandon Childers, David Adams, Josh Vasquez, Leon Jordan, Nathan Perry, Nelson Lowers September 2011: Alberto Belman, Billy Hodge, Bryan Belk, Clint Fisher, Daniel Mancera, Doug Hundt, Josh Vasquez, Lisa Turner, Roger Carroll, Troy Huff October 2011: Allan Johnson, Darren Wright, Henry Gould, Josh Vasquez, Leon Jordan, Seth Hartzell, Steve Meredith, Todd Wilson

Since December 14, 2010 WBI has worked 551,337 hours and 12 months without a Lost Time accident! I would like to congratulate all of you for a job well done! It has taken every one of you to achieve this success. We cannot become complacent in our day to day safety activities such as PTP’s and STRETCHING or our incident rate will continue to rise. I encourage all of you to con-tinue watching out for and correcting any unsafe act(s), unsafe behavior(s), and/or un-safe condition(s) in order to maintain a safe work area. Thanks to everyone for your support in our effort to Safely Exceed Expectations. - Jason Sisk, Safety Director

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WBI Expands Its Fleet!   This past year WBI has added (2) Skid Steers, (3) Excavators, (2) 6x12 Trailers and (5) Trucks to our fleet!   “These additions will help our men in the field perform their jobs more easily, and will help with hauling large equipment supplies to the job sites.  We are very grateful for our new equipment, and we look forward to    several more purchases in the coming year.”   ‐Alan Goodman, Asset Manager 

Facebook Data Center, Forest City, NC General Contractor: DPR Fortis Project Manager: Adam Weisner Superintendent: Jason Thompson

WBI has been awarded the contract by DPR/Fortis for a second building for Facebook. This makes the third contract we have received for work on this site. While we still have some items to complete on the first building we are going strong on the next. Foundations were started mid October and will be completed in December. After the foun-dations, we will move into slab on metal deck and slab on grade. The scope of work is similar to the first building including foundations, slab on metal deck, slab on grade, walls, equipment foundations and paving.

Project Updates

WBI Construction Team at the Facebook Data Center

Aerial view of Facebook Data Center November 2011

Congratulations to Gary Akers for winning Gray Construction’s Subcontractor Of The Year Award! This is awarded annually to a company or individual employee of a company who exemplifies the commitment and dedication to the overall project success & works with Gray's Construction Management Team & other subcontractors to achieve the project goals. Great job, Gary! (Picture left, Andy Allen, Gray Manager; right, Gary Akers, WBI Superintendent)

Project Updates

VC Summer Nuclear Operations Building Jenkinsville, SC General Contractor: MB Kahn Project Manager: Daniel Wayne Superintendent: Brent Hildreth

WBI crews are completing the basement walls this month for the VC Summer Nuclear Operations Building Project in Jenkinsville, SC. Once complete, more than 30,000 SFCA of cast-in-place wall ranging from 21’ to 26’ tall will have been installed in a 2 months timeframe. Upon completion of the basement walls, WBI will place more than 18,000 CY of dirt to backfill the walls. Foundations will be complete this month as WBI prepares for the steel erector to begin erection in early December. WBI’s total scope of work consist of foundations, foundation walls, basement walls, waterproofing, foundation drainage, backfilling, slab-on-grade and elevated slabs on metal deck. The scheduled finish date for this scope of work is February 2012.

Fayetteville State University Science and Technology Building Fayetteville, NC General Contractor: Rentenbach Constructors Project Manager: Daniel Wayne Superintendent: Jim Forbes

WBI’s scope of work on this project consists of foundations, foundation walls and exposed architectural shear walls. Foundations began in early November and are scheduled for a December finish. WBI will begin working on the architectural shear walls in late November. The architectural shear walls consist of 6 separate shear walls, all of which have unique geometry. The shear walls will be cast utilizing a crane climbed formwork system that will allow for the forms to stay on the wall after each lift and will not require any formwork component to be removed until the walls are topped out at a height of 85+ feet. Watch the progress of this project at:

www.oxblue.com/pro/open/waynebrothers/fsu

By: Jim Rhodes, Grading Project Manager WBI’s Grading Group prides itself on installation and maintenance of highly efficient and effective erosion control Best Management Practices (BMP). BMP’s such as skimmer basins, matted ditches and outlet checks are some of the tools that engineers use to make sure all surface run off is treated prior to leaving the site. WBI begins every project with an onsite meeting consisting of the client, WBI and the onsite erosion control inspector. These meetings are some of the most important that WBI will have at any point during the projects.

Throughout the project WBI works with the client and inspector to ensure that onsite erosion is minimized and no offsite erosion occurs. All Grading Group superintendents and project managers are trained and certified through the NCDOT EC&S Storm Water Program. This training provides the knowl-edge and authority to install, inspect, docu-ment and maintain all project BMP’s.

Grading & Site Work Erosion Control

Skimmer pond with a riser pipe and

coir fiber baffles

“WBI took a proactive approach to the management of erosion control on this site and I look forward to working with them again in the future” - CharMeck Inspector

Grass mat lined ditch with a rock ring inlet protection

Rip Rap outlet protection

401K Plan Open Enrollment The next open enrollment for our 401k plan will be the month of December with a January 1 entry date. This is the time to submit any changes you wish to make to your 401k deferral percentage. If you have been eligible in the past and are not cur-rently contributing or wish to change the percentage of your wages that you are deferring you can call Fidelity or go online and make these changes. Our plan has an automatic enrollment service. When you have completed one year of service and are eligible to participate in the plan you will be enrolled automatically at the next open enrollment (January 1 and July 1). The default deferral percentage is es-tablished at 3% but you may change the percentage or elect to opt out of the plan if you do not wish to contribute. The phone number for Fidelity is 800-835-5097 and the website is www.401k.com. Remember - all contributions are pre-taxed. So in addition to saving for your fu-ture you are also saving by paying less in taxes. Take advantage of this benefit and start saving for your retirement now. All changes must be completed before the end of December.

Prescription Safety Eyewear Program We are pleased to announce the revision of our safety eyewear program that is a benefit to all WBI employees after 90 days of employment. The new program will allow employees to obtain a pair of prescription safety glasses every two years with no out of pocket expenses incurred (no co-pay), provided you have a current prescription. The enhanced program also includes all prescription powers, single vision, lined bifocal/trifocals, no-line progressive lenses and polycarbonate and plastic lenses. Attached side shields will be manda-tory for all prescription safety eyewear. We are also pleased to announce the addition of a regular (non-safety) prescription eyewear benefit that is available to all employees immediately. This will allow employees and their families an al-ternative option to purchase prescription eyewear. By using this program and going to one of the par-ticipating providers you will have the benefit of re-ceiving discounted group rates. The employee will be responsible for paying for all non-safety eye-wear and any other cost associated with the exam or purchase of regular prescription eyewear. Anyone interested in prescription safety glasses or prescription (non-safety) glasses should contact the HR department. Bonnie Raper will provide the necessary forms and loca-tions of participating providers.

Bonnie’s HR Updates

The boulders look great and the children are amazed. THANK YOU!!!! I am very thrilled to have met you and thank you for your effort to make this happen. Thank you! Andrea, Davidson Montessori School

WBI in the Community! Thanks to the efforts of Wayne Brothers and Vulcan Materials, we were able to help the Davidson Mon-tessori School with their new playground! Vulcan donated two boulders and three tons of #57 stone, and WBI’s employees, Alan, Todd and Nelson, coor-dinated, delivered and placed the materials.

PLEASE WELCOME Jodi Heater, WBI’s new Accounts Payable Clerk! Jodi is originally from West Virginia but has called Kannapolis, NC her home for the past twenty years. She has been married to her husband Chuck for 21 years, and they have two children (Jill 17, and Brant, 23, who is currently serving in the US Air Force). Jodi’s favorite quote is "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference" -Winston Churchill

Please Welcome Keith Stanis, WBI’s newest Safety Supervisor! Keith resides in Waxhaw, NC with his wife and daughter. He moved to the area from Connecticut in 1996. He retired as Captain after 14 years in the fire service. He has always been committed to safety throughout his working career. Keith started in construction in 2005 as a Safety Director for a public utility and grading company and in 2010 joined a mechanical contrac-tor as a Site Safety Manager. He has received OSHA 10 and 30 hour training as well as completed the OSHA 500 Outreach Trainer course. He recently attending the OSHA 502 update for Outreach Trainers course. He is an authorized First Aid, CPR, and AED Instructor. He also earned the Manager of Environmental Safety and Health (M.E.S.H.) certification through the National Safety Council. In his spare time, Keith enjoys baseball and softball after coaching softball for 16 years. He is the former Softball Commissioner for Waxhaw, having developed the program from 22 participants to over 110 current players. He is a huge New York Yankee fan as well as a Minnesota Viking fan. He also enjoys teaching our employees and helping them learn to help create a totally safe work environment.

APRIL HIRES: Jamey Sillanpaa Superintendent Joshua Dahlbeck Project Engineer

MAY HIRES: Ryan Barker Field Engineer Technician

JULY HIRES: Roger Carroll Mechanic Alex Hilliard Project Manager in Training Dalton Espaillat Estimator Darren Baucom Mechanic

AUGUST HIRES: James Edwards Estimator SEPTEMBER HIRES: Candace Miller Job Clerk

OCTOBER HIRES: William Mitchell Project Manager William Parrish Superintendent James (Keith) Rossiter Field Engineer

NOVEMBER HIRES: Jodi Heater AP Clerk

DECEMBER HIRES: Jacob Helton Field Engineer Technician

We’re Growing!

WBI in the News!

WBI and the ABC help Injured vets' through the Pur-ple Heart Homes Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/08/20/2540392/injured-vets-purple-heart-homes.html#ixzz1gWUYgFkr

Picture– (Left to Right) Jim Rhodes, WBI Project Manager, Dale Beatty, Cofounder of Purple Heart Homes, Shannon Sapp, WBI Business Development

UNCC Football Stadium

Check out pictures of our first pour at the UNC Charlotte Football Stadium featured in the Charlotte Observer! http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/10/03/2662013/first-concrete-pour-charlotte.html

WBI's Finishing groups get a little publicity in the Winston-Salem Journal. This is a place and finish job we are completing for Davie Con-struction. http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/aug/21/wssunbiz03-junkyard-rebuilding-after-fire-destroys-ar-1315870/

Thank you to the entire Grading Group for  working long hours, out of town and away from your families to make sure that all our projects were completed with a focus on safety and an eye towards quality.  It is the great work in the field that keeps our cli‐ents happily returning with more work to per‐

form. ‐Jim Rhodes,  Project Manager,  Grading Division 

I want to thank Adam & Terrie for their support with the project.  We couldn’t do this project with out your help.   I also want to thank  

Nathan” Peri Beam” and Oscar “Shrek”  for the long nights of planning, and for taking that plan to the field and applying it.     Without your leadership we wouldn’t have made it this far.  Thank you!   Thank you, Ryan “Ronco” and Roy “Chicken Little” for coming and helping us! The team you all brought has been a great help.  It is not too often that you bring two groups     together and within a day or so work like we have been working together for years.  Thank you!  We have a  great team here!  I want to thank everyone that has been here to help! 

‐ Jason Thompson, Superintendent of Facebook Data Center 

I would like to give a special thanks to Bob McMahand, Luis Frayre, Julian Davila, Terry Davis, Jamey Sillanpaa, Jesse Green, Edgar Jaquez, Emillio Atherly, and Troy Huff for their hard work, long hours and   dedicated efforts for the work done at the Siemens Gas Turbine Facility over the summer.  We couldn't have pulled it off without help from all 

of these guys. ‐ Gary Akers, Superintendent at Siemens 

KUDOS!

Our second granddaughter, Eliya Louise Martinez, is finally here. Both Eliya and her mother, Brittany, are doing well. She was

born on September 28,2011 at 4:45 PM . At 32 weeks she weighted 3 pounds 12 ounces, and was 17 and 1/4 inches long. Thank s to all for your prayers! --Jose Martinez, Recruiting & Training Specialist

Special Announcements

At 4:14 PM on August 11, 2011 Jim Elder’s daughter gave birth to Caroline Hannah Cavacos. Both mother and daughter are doing fine. Congratulations, Jamie, Mike and Jim!!

Not just a job, but a new career. Wayne Brothers Incorporated is NOW HIRING for the following locations:

North Carolina: Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Hickory, Concord, Huntersville, Greensboro, Forest City, Fayetteville & Lenoir South Carolina: Columbia, Conway, Charleston Virginia: Blacksburg

Positions available: 10 Experienced Wall Forming Carpenters 10 Carpenter’s Helpers 10 Civil Workers/Laborers 1 Experienced Concrete Finishing Superintendent 6 Experienced Concrete Finishers 5 Finishing Technicians 5 Finishing Laborers 3 Core Operators 4 Grading Operator 2 Welders Go to www.waynebrothers.com for more details and employment requirements.

Application Process Complete the Wayne Brothers Inc. em-

ployment application and submit your re-sume online at: www.waynebrothers.com

(Only completed applications will be considered for employment)

E-Verify- Employment Verification EEO/ AAP Employer

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