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TRANSMISSION LINEAN M. J. ELECTRIC PUBLICATION

FALL 2015

I N T E G R I T Y ● I N S P I R E D ● I N V E S T E DI N T E G R I T Y ● I N S P I R E D ● I N V E S T E DI N T E G R I T Y ● I N S P I R E D ● I N V E S T E DI N T E G R I T Y ● I N S P I R E D ● I N V E S T E D

WHAT’S INSIDE

BP WHITING REFINERY

GRAND PRAIRIE PROJECT

BEST PRACTICES VIDEO

FLINT CREEK PLANT PROJECT

SENDERO WIND FARM

MIOSHA PARTNERSHIP

COLBY SUBSTATION

Every year MJE participates in the El Valor Reach for the Future Golf Outing. Monies raised at this event fund El Valor programs that support early childhood education, inclusion of persons with disabilities, and leadership through education in the greater Chicago area.

El Valor is the second largest provider of early childhood education programs in Chicago, and was nominated by Illinois State Governor Pat Quinn as a National Center for Excellence.

El Valor believes that individuals with disabilities are vital members of the community and is committed to assisting and supporting people with disabilities through programs that emphasize personal choice, employment, inclusion, enrichment, and leadership. They work with more

than 1,000 individuals with disabilities and their families from diverse communities.

El Valor also established university partnership programs to address the increasing demand for qualified, culturally and linguistically skilled personnel for the fields of education, rehabilitation, health, business, and government. More than 650 working adults, 90% Latino, have graduated with Master and Doctorate degrees from El Valor’s community-based university partnerships. Statistics show that 120 working adults, 98% Latino, 2% African American, have enrolled in Masters in Business Administration, Masters in Social Work, Doctorate in Education Leadership, and Doctorate in Community Psychology in partnership with area universities.

Read more about El Valor at elvalor.org

QUANTA COMMITMENT COIN At M. J. Electric, as well as our parent company Quanta Services, safety is a priority and outstanding safety efforts are recognized. The Quanta Safety Commitment Coin, Belt Buckle, and a congratulatory letter from Quanta’s executive management are awarded to show appreciation for a resolute commitment to safety. John Holtz, Vice President Central Region, has demonstrated constant safety leadership in his region and has provided support for the safety staff. Due to his dedication for setting the standard for safety in our industry, John recently received the Quanta’s Commitment Coin. The Central Region as a whole was awarded Quanta’s CEO Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award. They are currently working with the National Safety Council to identify leading indicators that will improve their overall safety program.

The Central Region has also been accepted into the OSHA Challenge Program. The criteria for acceptance include being an employer (private or public sector) under OSHA jurisdiction that meets all eligibility requirements, an employer committed to workplace safety and health and developing an effective safety and health management program, and once accepted into the Program, ensure necessary actions will be taken to meet each stage's requirements, including regularly submitting progress reports to their Challenge Administrator.

Congratulations to John and the Central Region! They know the most successful job is one done with safety implemented every step of the way.

EL VALOR REACH FORTHE FUTURE GOLF OUTING

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M. J. Electric’s Relay for Life team has received the Team Excellence Award for the Lakeshore Division five years in a row! This year the MJE team also achieved All-Star Team status which required 1) $1,000 in total sponsorship and tribute signs, 2) three survivors on the team, 3) ten ACS Cancer Action Network memberships, 4) $500 in online donations, 5) an average of at least $100 per team member in total raised, and finally 6) provide a mission-related table sit or mission moment at a meeting. MJE is committed to find a cure.

TEAM EXCELLENCE AWARD

COVERT-SEGRETO TRANSMISSION LINE MJE installed a new 345 kV transmission power line for ITC to connect the Covert Generating Plant to American Electric Power’s Segreto Substation. Wire strung for the transmission line included 1431 KCMIL ACSR conductor, OPGW, and shield wire. Construction was complete July 2015.

COVERT GENERATING STATION Crews are still working on the Covert Generating Plant including updates on the existing 345 kV switchyard in Van Buren County (MI). MJE Drilling installed pier foundations with MJE crews updating four switches, six breakers, ten CCVTs, and twelve CTs. Over the duration of the project, MJE crews are working through scheduled outages to keep the power plant online. These improvements are scheduled for completion in October 2015.

GRAND PRAIRIE PROJECT AWARDED TO MJEMJE was awarded Commonwealth Edison’s Grand Prairie Gateway project. Grand Prairie Gateway is a new 345 kV transmission line that will extend 60 miles across Ogle, DeKalb, Kane, and DuPage Counties. The double and triple circuit structures with one 345 kV circuit and two OPGW will connect the existing ComEd Byron and Wayne substations. The new line will create immediate customer savings by reducing grid congestion, increasing customers’ access to lower-cost generation, including wind power, and will reduce carbon emissions by 473,000 tons over 15 years.

Construction will be led by Project Manager Karen Tower and is scheduled to begin in the second quarter 2016 with expected in service in 2017. Project information found online at www.comed.com.

LORE-TURKEY RIVER REBUILDITC’s Lore to Turkey River 161 kV Rebuild project in Dubuque and Clayton Counties (IA) is complete. This 19.7-mile rebuild included replacing existing wood H-frames and guyed 3-pole structures with steel H-frames and un-guyed self supported angle structures. MJE Drilling crews installed foundations. Construction was conducted on public and private right-of-ways.

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GEORGE S. SULLIVAN POWER PLANT EXPANSIONAnchorage Municipality Light & Power (ML&P) awarded Quanta Power Generation (QPG) a 30-month EPC contract for the Power Plant 2 Expansion Project at the George S. Sullivan Power Plant in Anchorage, Alaska. MJE was subcontracted by QPG for all electrical work including temporary power, underground, above ground, GIS substation, instrumentation, and assisting with commissioning and startup. MJE’s Industrial Power & Controls Division has been in Alaska since May 2014 with PCI joining the project in August 2015.

Currently MJE, PCI, and IBEW LU 1547 craftsmen are on site. MJE’s Utility Division will be constructing the plant’s GIS substation and mobilized this September.

The George S. Sullivan Power Plant is a 2 X 1 combined cycle 120 MW natural gas-fired plant, utilizing two GE LM6000 gas turbines, two IST Once Through Steam Generators (OSTG), and one Siemens SST-400 steam turbine. The project is scheduled to finish and be turned over to ML&P June 2016.

Both M. J. Electric and PCI were recently awarded work at the Holland Energy Park in Holland, Michigan. MJE has joined a MIOSHA partnership at the site which serves to create a cooperative relationship between the building trades, the contractors, and MIOSHA. All parties are committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace, and to demonstrate leadership, responsibility, and accountability in furthering worker health and safety on all levels.

The Holland Energy Park is a 2x1 combined-cycle natural gas-fired generation facility consisting of two Siemens SGT-800 combustion turbines, two Vogt HRSGs, and one Siemens steam turbine. The completed project will provide electrical power for the community and produce a by-product of hot water that will be used for snow melt in the city streets and sidewalks.

BP WHITING REFINERYMJE was recently awarded a major turnaround event at the BP Whiting Refinery with a scope of work which includes furnace work on all eight heaters, rebuild of a power distribution center, and the replacement of six vessels and installation of the Flare Gas Recovery Project.

MIOSHA PARTNERSHIP

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INDUSTRIAL, POWER & CONTROLS

PALISADES TRANSMISSION LINE AND FOUNDATIONSMJE Drilling was contracted to dig foundations on approximately one mile of single-circuit 345 kV line leading into the new Segreto Substation. The Segreto Substation is tied into the double-circuit 345 kV Palisades - Cook transmission line being constructed by MJE.

Project Managers Ben Kessler (M. J. Electric) and Jason Kreider (MJE Drilling) are working together to complete these projects in Van Buren County in a safe and timely manner for American Electric Power.

Missouri Valley Line Constructors (MVLC) recently contracted MJE Drilling and M. J. Electric to secure foundations and erect a lattice tower at their outdoor pole yard training facility in Warren County (IA). The MJE Drilling crew used its mini Lo-Drill to drill and pour four 3’ x 16’ foundations on which the tower legs would sit. MJE erected the new tower which is located behind the training center at the school. This structure will give students valuable experience training in field-like conditions. The top section of the training tower was donated by International Transmission Company.

The MVLC Apprenticeship Training Program was established in 1964 as a not-for-profit entity to ensure that the electrical industry of a steady supply of qualified workers. This program trains thousands of apprentice linemen, traffic signal technicians and substation technicians each year. Because local unions are often not in a position to offer the diversity of work required, or reasonably continuous employment of apprentices, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) signed a permission agreement with Missouri Valley Line Constructors Apprenticeship Training Program to govern all matters of apprenticeship and training. Read more at www.movalleyjatc.org

APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM TRAINING TOWER

MJE DRILLING

The scope of work includes nine monopole structures, ranging from 160 to 195 feet, on pier foundations with full length anchor bolts. The foundations range from 7.5 to 10 feet in diameter, and as deep as 38 feet.

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SPREADER BEAM ADDS SAFETYIn efforts to work as safely as possible, MJE Drilling began utilizing a Liftpro International spreader beam with evener system on a substation foundation job in Michigan. This equipment was needed to pick up four full length anchor bolt cages.

A full-lengthanchor bolt cage is 10’ x 39’ and weighs approximately 40,000 pounds; the largest MJE Drilling has ever installed.After testing the equipment in-house, MJE Drilling now utilizes this apparatus on an ITC jobsite in Van Buren County (MI).

BEST PRACTICES:“ DRILLED HOLES” VIDEO“

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In July, MJE Drilling developed a training video entitled, “Best Practices: Drilled Holes – Pier or Direct Embed Foundations” using a mimicked field environment in Iron Mountain. An MJE Drilling crew prepared the location by digging and securing a hole similar to what crews

would encounter in the field. The video demonstrates retrieving a person from the hole with a rescue stick by using a dummy. Below are some behind the scenes pictures taken while shooting the video.

Site grading, erosion controls, drainage installations and driveway construction for ITC’s 161/345 kV Killdeer Substation has begun.

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KILLDEER SUBSTATIONM. J. Electric crews have mobilized and begun site grading, erosion controls, drainage installations and driveway construction for ITC’s 161/345 kV Killdeer Substation. An MJE Drilling crew will mobilize and install foundations, and a substation crew will begin below grade grounding, raceway, and Trenwa installation. Subsequently crews will erect steel structures and install equipment including the control building, bussing, jumpers, above grade grounding, raceway, control cable and terminations.

This project is a part of the “multi-value projects” (MVP) work that is being constructed over an 11-state region. Projects are contributing to improve reliability, access to generation sources, system efficiency, and economic investment. Read more about ITC’s MVP projects at www.itc-holdings.com.

Construction has started on the Oregon Clean Energy Switchyard near Toledo, Ohio. MJE was awarded the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract at the end of 2014. M. J. Electric is providing complete engineering and design, supply, inspection, delivery, installation, testing, and commissioning. MJE Drilling was awarded the foundation portion of the switchyard.

The switchyard will consist of a new 345 kV five-breaker ring bus substation, including breakers, bus, steel structures, disconnect switches, control enclosure, relays, meters, RTU, SCADA, and other miscellaneous supporting equipment. It will be an interconnection point to transfer energy from the proposed 800 MW combined cycle natural gas power

plant referred to as the Oregon Clean Energy Center. The interconnection to the power plant will be an overhead bus. Completion date is set for Spring 2016.

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OREGON CLEAN ENERGYAPV SWITCHYARD

SUBSTATION

COLBY SUBSTATIONThe Colby 345 kV Substation is the second half of the 161/345 kV yard. The scope of work included site grading, drainage installations, drilled pier foundations, below grade grounding and raceway, erection of steel structures, installation of above grade grounding and raceway, installation of equipment and associated bus and jumpers, installation and termination of control cabling, setting of the new control building, final grading, final rocking, and commissioning support. MJE began this project in May 2014, and will be completing it by the end of September 2015.

Colby 345 kV Substation, located northwest of Mason City (IA), is a component of MISO’s Multi-Value Projects being constructed over an 11-state region. Projects are contributing to improve reliability, access to generation sources, system efficiency, and economic investment.

Read more about MVP projects at www.itc-holdings.com

HICKORY CREEK SUBSTATIONITC’s Hickory Creek Substation located on 40-acres in Dubuque County (IA) is nearly complete. For site preparation, crews received 7,622 loads of engineered fill and miscellaneous stone weighing 187,658 tons, and moved roughly 184,500 tons of unsuitable soils and spoils. The trucks drove 327,294 miles delivering and removing soil and rock; 149,426 miles of which were on gravel roads. The total mileage driven is equivalent to circling the earth thirteen times, or traveling to the moon and a third of the way back!

After preparing the site, the crews placed 2,000 cubic yards of concrete and constructed a 345/161 kV substation. MJE Drilling finished below grade installation, including the substation foundations in April. The above grade build-out, two controls buildings, and transformer relocation are in their finishing phases. Final rocking and commissioning support will be the last stage of this project.

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Exelon Generation’s 78 MW Sendero Wind Farm project is currently underway in Jim Hogg and Zapata counties in Texas. MJE crews are currently installing 155,000 feet of 34.5 kV underground collection system. MJE has contracted two Quanta Services’ companies, Can-Fer Utility Service and North Houston Pole Line, to construct the 34.5 kV / 138 kV collector substation, and the 6.2 mile 138 kV transmission line. The wind farm will feature 39 GE 2.0 MW wind turbines in addition to its extensive underground collection system, collector substation, and transmission line. The wind farm is scheduled to be energized late October.

SENDERO WIND FARM

RENEWABLES

PROCESS CONTROLS& INSTRUMENTATION

Flint Creek Plant FGD/ACI ProjectPCI is installing instrumentation and tubing at Southwestern Electric Power Company’s 528 MW Flint Creek Generating Station in Gentry, Arkansas. The retrofit project includes controls for a dry flue gas desulfurization system to reduce SO2 emissions, low NOx burners and overfire air to reduce NOx emissions, an activated carbon injection to reduce mercury emissions, and a fabric filter to filter particulate matter at the existing power plant.

In addition to Flint Creek, PCI will also be performing work this fall at:

Wolverine Power’s new Alpine Power Plant in Elmira, MICity of Holland’s new Holland Energy Park in Holland, MITucson Electric Power’s Stacker Reclaimer Project at the Springerville Generating Station in Springerville, AZAnd PNM’s SNCR Reduction Project at the San Juan Generation Station in Waterflow, NM.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALSProject Management Professional (PMP) is a credential offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Organizations employ PMP certified project managers to improve the success rate of projects in all areas of knowledge, by applying a standardized and evolving set of project management principles. To obtain this credential is to obtain a highly esteemed certification in the construction industry because the PMI’s PMP credential is the gold standard certification credential in the industry.

Quanta Services, Inc. offers a PMP Boot Camp to all employees who are interested in obtaining their certification. PMP Boot Camp is an intense course designed to prepare an experienced Project Manager to take the PMP exam and gain a PMP Certification. The PMP certification is a qualification program for project managers, and the exam for it is offered as a computer-based test through the global network of Prometric Testing Centers.

In order to qualify to take the PMP exam an applicant must have 1) a secondary diploma (high school or the global equivalent) with at least 5 years of project management experience, with 7,500 hours leading and directing projects, or 2) a 4-year degree (bachelor’s or the global equivalent) and at least 3 years of project management experience, with 4,500 hours leading and directing projects. Additionally a participant must complete 35 Professional Development Hours of continuing education in Project Management before sitting for the exam.

MJE is privileged to employ PMP certified professionals including:

Andy Gardner North Central Regional Vice PresidentBen Kessler Project ManagerBill Nagy III Vice President Industrial Power & ControlsCasey Kimma Project Manager-EstimatorCory Borchardt Director of Operations Industrial Power & ControlsGreg Rogers Operations Manager Process Controls & InstrumentationJames Maness General ForemanJohn Jamicich Project ManagerMarty Sutinen Vice President Industrial Power & Controls/Business DevelopmentMatua Mendiola Operations ManagerMeredeth Bellmore Project ManagerNate Raiche Project ManagerNick Feira Senior Project ManagerRachel Holtz Project ManagerRichard Maguire Project ManagerRob Grasty Senior Project ManagerTravis Moore Project Manager

NEWLY CERTIFIEDKeith Keeney Manager-Project Management Joey Wade Chief Engineer Industrial Power & ControlsRoger St. John Project Controls Engineer

MJE is proud to have quality staff to continue to set the standard against which all others are measured.

MJE NEWS

M. J. Electric invests in and fosters trusting relationships as we safely deliver electric transmission, substation, distribution, renewable energy, power, industrial, and concrete foundation construction services that increase the security, reliability, and capacity of our nation’s infrastructure. For additional information about our company, or to change your contact information, please visit at www.mjelectric.com or email us at info@mjelectric.com.

MJE’s Eastern Region conducted OSHA 20-Hour and Grounding for the Protection of Employees training in August at the Shoemakersville (PA) office. Quanta Services’ James McGowan used a PowerPoint presentation and workbook for the OSHA 20-Hour to interactively train thirty people, including MJE Safety Management.

He discussed basic electric principles and the effects of electrical current in the human body and just how unforgiving mistakes in our business can be. He used the Hubbell/Chance Grounding Simulator Kit to demonstrate how current can flow across a T&D system that has been de-energized but not tested, grounded, and bonded.

After clearly reinforcing the need for protection and reasons we need to continually improve, Dave Houle

(Vice President - Safety, Health, and Environmental), Paul Randby (Vice President - Western Operations), and Dave Shea (Manager of Safety and Health - Utility Division) explained how the Grounding for the Protection of Employees policy accomplishes that purpose. This policy consolidates and better organizes many previously existing requirements related to grounding into one document. More significantly, it provides additional information on Insulation, Isolation, or Equipotential Zone EPZ approaches for worker safety and includes “how-to” illustrations for frequently encountered situations. Vigilant adherence to this policy supports MJE’s initiative of providing a safe work environment for every employee.

The safety training rollout is continuing across the Eastern Region and M. J. Electric as a whole.

EASTERN REGION SAFETY TRAINING