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Clark employees (left to right) Lincoln Lawrence, Jeanna Wallace, and Matt Haas with One City • One Hire award for efforts to hire D.C. residents

CLARK RECOGNIZED FOR HIRING EFFORTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL COLLEGES HEADQUARTERS

CITYMARKET AT ONATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

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Clark is proud to have hired over 340 DC residents since the program’s inception.

ticipants received customer service training, attended workshops, and spoke to representatives from numer-ous D.C.-based companies. Clark employees Matt Haas, Doug Howell, Erika Jermusyk, and Jeanna Wal-lace met with job seekers to discuss Clark’s employment opportunities.

Clark continues efforts to hire quali-fied D.C. residents through the use of the Field Application Center located

In August, Clark was recognized as a One City • One Hire partner by the Washington, D.C. Depart-ment of Employment Services (DOES). DOES acknowledged the company for its efforts to hire Washington, D.C. residents and for its positive impact on the District’s economy. Clark Vice President, Lin-coln Lawrence, attended the awards ceremony and accepted, on behalf of the company, a certificate and medal from Mayor Vincent Gray and Lisa Mallory, Director of DOES.

Prior to the ceremony, DOES hosted an employer exhibition and career fair for District residents. Par-

Clark Recognized for Hiring Efforts in Washington, D.C.at the CityCenterDC project. Each week, the company accepts applications, meets with potential candidates, and provides on-the-spot employment screening. Similar efforts are being conducted at the Field Application Center at the National Mu-seum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).

One City • One Hire is a government-initiated program that connects employ-ers with DOES services. The program is designed to create opportunities for D.C. residents and stimulate the local economy. Since the inception of the program, over 4,000 Washington, D.C. residents have found employment through the One City • One Hire program.

With just eight months remaining on the schedule, the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters team is gear-ing up for the final stages of con-struction, including final cleaning. D.C. business, We Clean, Inc., was recently awarded the contract for fi-nal cleaning of the parking garage.

We Clean, a small, disadvan-taged business located in Ward 8, has been working alongside the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters

team since 2009, when they were awarded a contract to maintain the on-site trailers. As a part of the fi-nal cleaning contract, which begins in October 2012, the company will clean the project’s 800,000 square-foot parking garage.

In 2011, Joei Jennings, Owner of We Clean, participated in Clark’s Strategic Partnership Program, a nine-month program designed to enhance small business owners’

construction management and business skills. Through the program, Joei has gained a greater knowledge of reading drawings, estimating, and budgeting.

“Clark offers a sense of community to our employees.” We are excited about this latest opportunity and look forward to future partnerships.”

Joei Jennings

SMALL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHTWe Clean Continues Three-Year Partnership with Clark

Pictured Left to Right: Nick Perrotta (Clark), Donnell Williams (We Clean), James Lee (We Clean), Joei Jennings (We Clean), and Josh Zeisloft (Clark)

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Living Classrooms Helps Local Residents Get Back to WorkRoadside Development, the de-veloper for the CityMarket at O project, and Clark recently spon-sored a development program to help local residents return to

the workforce. The program, run by the National Capital Region's Living Classrooms, had 13 par-ticipants.

Students attended a four-week

training program, which includ-ed life skills seminars, presenta-tions by various members of the team, a tour of the CityMarket at O jobsite, and OSHA training. The program concluded with a graduation ceremony held at Gibson Plaza.

Ten of the 13 graduates re-turned to the workforce, four of whom are currently working for a Clark subsidiary company.

Living Classroom’s mission is to strengthen communities and inspire young people to achieve their potential through hands-on education and job training, us-ing urban, natural, and maritime resources as “living classrooms.”

“I’ve known for a while that I wanted to have a career in Construction Management.

My experience this summer at the CityCenterDC project has reinforced that

decision for me, and provided me with baseline skills for my field of interest.”

-- Blake Garrett

“We have extremely busy weeks. On Monday we prepare and review the week’s

activities. We work Tuesday through Thursday at our respective jobsites,

and Friday is spent in Reston, Va., at a tutoring facility for English and Math.”

-- Osman Adam

Two recent high school graduates are gaining real-life construction experi-ence. Osman Adam and Blake Garrett, both recent graduates of the Booker T. Washington Public Charter School, spent their summer learning the ins and outs of construction management at Clark’s CityCenterDC project. The internship was made possible through Clark’s partnership with True High School Real Life Vocational Experience (T.H.R.I.V.E).

T.H.R.I.V.E. identifies and prepares high school students who have a desire to enter an electrician’s apprenticeship or other technical position within a company. The non-profit foundation offers a paid sum-mer internship experience to selected high school students from Washington, D.C.

Program participants listen as Clark’s Safety Manager, Andy Alexander, leads an OSHA Training Course.

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CLARK INTERNSHIP PROVIDES STUDENTS WITH HANDS-ON CONSTRUCTION EXPERIENCE

Not many elementary school students are thinking about their career paths, but for 100 area children, working in construction seems appealing.

Several members of the Clark/Smoot/Russell team building the National Museum of African American History and Culture attended Ardmore Elementary School’s Career Day event and talked to students about the museum project and working in construction.

Clark’s Project Manager, Jason Louis, explained the overall construction process while other team members showed anima-

tion of the building’s tiered exterior. The team also described some of the museum’s future exhibits featuring musicians, athletes, and civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., and Louis Armstrong.

After the presentation, students grilled the project team with questions about working on a large construction site.

“This museum will not only educate Americans about the part African-Ameri-cans have played in this country’s history, but we hope it inspires young people to be the next Rosa Parks or Muhammad Ali,” said Chrystal Stowe, Smoot’s direc-

D.C. RESIDENT SPOTLIGHT: SAMUEL PRICE

Samuel Price, Labor Fore-man for Clark Foundations, has more than 30 years of construction experience. Though he has worked on his share of projects over the last three decades, in his mind, nothing has been as important as the National Museum of African Ameri-can History and Culture.

Clark Foundations is install-

ing the support of excavation system for the museum. Be-fore the project bottoms out at 65 feet below grade, the company will have installed 962 tiebacks over five tiers.

“I’m a part of history,” boasts Samuel. An employee since 1984, he is one of a dozen Washington, D.C. res-idents performing excavation and support of excavation

work for the new museum.Samuel prides himself on

training the next generation of construction workers—something from which he gets an enormous amount of satisfaction. “With train-ing and the right attitude, you can make a lifelong career of construction. I certainly have.”

tor of business development and commu-nity relations. “All of that is possible.”

Julian Thomas, a third-grade student, said he is excited to visit the museum when it opens in 2015 to see the exhibits on athletes including baseball player Jackie Robinson and basketball legend Michael Jordan.

“[The museum] talks about our history,” said Julian. “Even though something is really old, it can be fun.”

Ardmore Elementary students will take a field trip to the museum in about three years, said Rachelle Jackson, the school counselor who helped to organize the career day.

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Julian Thomas, a third-grade student at Ardmore Elementary, poses with the Clark/Smoot/Russell team. Julian donated the proceeds from his lemonade stand business to the museum.

Samuel Price

nmaahc team makes an impression at career day event

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Construction is looking up at CityMarket at O as four tower cranes now dot the skyline over the project site. Recently, concrete floor pours began in both the east and west towers. The west tower’s ground-level pour included the reconstruction of 8th Street.

On 7th Street, restoration efforts continue on the historic market. Construction activities include removing exterior paint, cutting back existing mortar joints, repointing brick, and restoring wood jambs. This work is in preparation for the installation of replacement steel trusses.

City Market at O’s first phase includes two nine-story apartment towers, a 72,000 square-foot Giant supermarket (the largest in the city), a two-story below-grade parking garage, 300 indoor bicycle parking spaces, a 270 linear-foot rooftop dog park, and market retail space.

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE:CITYMARKET AT O

CityMarket at O progress photo

Samuel Price

CityCenterDC’s two office build-ings total 515,000 square feet, including 40,000 square feet of retail. The eleven-story structures, scheduled to be complete in sum-mer 2013, are designed to achieve LEED® Gold certification. To earn this certification, the design

focused heavily on glass curtain-wall, which allows for maximum light penetration while preventing heat transfer. To control heat trans-fer, fixed sunshades are built into the system, eliminating any mechan-ical operating requirements for the windows, thus saving energy.The roofs’ surfaces are covered

with vegetation, reflective pavers, and light colored wood, reducing the heat island effect and increas-ing reflectivity. Low roof surfaces feature pavers wrapped in stainless steel, while high roofs utilize white pavers. Additional green features include bike racks and low-flow bathroom fixtures.Walkway bridges connect the two

office towers at alternating floors, including the roof. The bridges are

constructed on the ground and hoisted into place by cranes for final connection to the buildings. Glass curtainwall units are delivered at night and stored for daytime instal-lation, at a rate of one floor per

week. In mid-October, the bridges were delivered to the site and will undergo additional fabrication before being hoisted into place in November.

CityCenterDC office buildings progress photo

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CityMarket at O Project Team Gives BackGiving to the local community is important to the CityMarket

at O project team, and they’ve found unique ways to help local organizations.

Bread for the CityWhen the project team earned an incentive safety bonus for

maintaining a positive safety record, they decided to donate the $1,000 to Bread for the City.

Bread for the City provides vulnerable District residents with food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.

So Others May EatEvery Friday is “Grillin’ Friday” on the project site. As a fun way

to end a hard work week, Clark provides hot dogs, chips, and drinks to over 250 field employees. Each week, the team donates the extra food to So Others Might Eat (SOME).

SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. SOME pro-vides the people they serve with their daily needs, such as food, clothing, and healthcare.

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CITYCENTERDCQUICK FACTS•$38.2 million paid

to CBE firms•53 percent of new

hires are District residents

•128 contracts with CBE firms

Above statistics noted above are to date.

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CityMarket at O project team members take time out of their busy work day to prepare food for field employees.

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The Center for Education and Medicine, Inc., re-cently awarded Clark a $70 million contract to con-struct the new headquarters for the American Asso-ciation of Medical Colleges. The 11-story, 290,000 square-foot building includes 13,750 square feet of retail space on the ground level and three below-grade parking levels. Based on an agreement with the District of Columbia Preservation League, five of the site’s nine existing building structures will be temporarily relocated during construction and later incorporated back into the final structure. The Clark team will be responsible for coordinating the return of these structures to the site and completing the restoration efforts.

The new building, designed to achieve LEED® Gold certification, will be a concrete structure with a green roof and multiple façades, including curtainwall, ribbon and punched windows and metal and terra cotta panels. The building’s interior includes a three-story atrium with high-end finishes, two fountains, and five ornamental stairways. The mixed-use space will consist of retail, offices, work stations, board-rooms, training centers, learning centers, media rooms, and a library.

Construction began in early August, with pile driving being completed by mid-September. Excava-tion and tieback installation are currently ongoing. Completion is scheduled for March 2014.

SHAPING D.C.’S SKYLINEAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL COLLEGES HEADQUARTERS BUILDING

Construction of the Wardman West Residential project in D.C.’s Woodley Park neighborhood is well underway. Ex-cavation completed in late spring and the first three levels of concrete have been poured for the below-grade parking structure. Concrete operations will continue through 2012 with façade construction starting in early 2013.

In an earlier phase of construction, Clark built a 300 foot-long cast-in-place, underground tunnel to connect the Marri-ott’s entry with a below-grade parking structure. Demolition of an existing parking garage and ballroom followed.

Wardman West Residential, located at the site of the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, is a LEED Silver, eight-sto-ry, luxury apartment building with cast-in-place concrete and a brick, limestone, and cast stone façade. The 212-unit structure will feature an extensive courtyard, pool, indoor common areas, below grade parking, and roof deck. Completion is scheduled for spring 2014.

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American Association of Medical Colleges (rendering courtesy of

Shalom Baranes Associates)

Wardman West Residential construction progress

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CityCenterDC is one of the largest private developments in the nation. Beyond its sheer size, the project has an array of unique and exciting features.

1. Gateway Media Arch: One of CityCenterDC’s most antici-pated features is the Gateway Media Arch. Located in the central plaza, the arch will consist of a modular, frame-less, weatherproof high-definition media screen. Mea-suring two stories high, the screen spans from the south condominium building to the south apartment building and serves as the focal point of the retail entrance.

2. Interactive Fountains: Nestled between the rental and condominium buildings in the central plaza, four interactive fountains will stretch from I Street, NW, to 9th Street, NW. Equipped with twinkling fiber optic lights and arching water jets, the fountains can be pro-grammed to music.

3. Northwest Park: CityCenterDC will boast a 16,000 square-foot park situated in the northwest corner of the site. Complete with landscaping, Italian and Swedish stone, a fountain, and space for outdoor gatherings, the park is a perfect place for lunch or a leisurely stroll.

4. Terracotta-Faced Precast: The rental buildings feature a unique skin comprised of glass and terracotta-faced precast. To create this unique façade, architectural terra-cotta, which is manufactured in Portugal, is cast directly into the precast mold, along with the concrete.

5. Internal Loading Docks: In order to maintain the maxi-mum retail frontage on all six CityCenterDC buildings, loading dock space is located in the underground parking garage. To make room for the delivery trucks, a number of columns were removed in the design and replaced by overhead spanning box girders—a true structural feat. As a result, all four sides of the six build-ings are available for retail use.

BIG AND BEAUTIFULCITYCENTERDC:

Gateway Media Arch(Rendering courtesy of Seventh Art)

Interactive Fountains(Rendering courtesy of Seventh Art)