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URS <br />June 13, 2012 <br />i <br />Ms. Jane Hines, CIVIC <br />City Clerk <br />Sunny Isles Beach Government Center <br />18070 Collins Avenue, 4`" Floor <br />Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160 <br />RE: RFQ #12 -06 -01 — Construction Management Services for Gateway Park <br />Dear Ms. Hines and Members of the Selection Committee: <br />On behalf of URS Corporation ( "URS "), I am pleased to submit our qualifications to provide Construction <br />Management Services to the City of Sunny Isles Beach. Our construction program /project management <br />(CM /PM) group specializes in representing the interest of public agencies in the management of design <br />and construction of capital improvement projects and programs. Our construction management <br />professionals have completed numerous assignments for Florida parks and parking structures; our <br />experience includes similar projects for the cities of Miami Beach and Miami, the counties of Miami -Dade <br />and Broward, and the U.S. National Parks Service. <br />Our proposed team consists of a lead Construction Manager with extensive experience with similar <br />projects in South Florida. Mr. Steve Baumal is currently URS' program manager for the Marlin's Ballpark, <br />now in the completion stages (URS is Miami -Dade County's Owner's Representative for this project). <br />The Ballpark has four five -story parking garages and six surface parking lots. Mr. Baumal also served as <br />URS' construction project manager for the City of Miami Beach's $33M Multi- purpose Municipal Parking <br />Facility, which is a seven -story structure with 650 parking spaces. <br />(> URS is a national leader in Construction Management. Our staff has delivered some of the nation's <br />t most demanding and complex projects for public- and private- sector clients. Engineering News- Record <br />Magazine (ENR) consistently ranks us among the industry's top firms in both the Construction <br />Management and Design categories. Our skills have also been recognized by numerous industry awards <br />! as well as acknowledgements from clients associated with our highly successful Florida construction <br />! ` projects. <br />URS has a long history of providing our clients with unsurpassed service in program, project and <br />j construction management; quality and cost control; and construction supervision and inspections. We <br />4 ) employ a large staff of engineers and architects around the world; our CM /PM group, which has <br />submitted this Statement of Qualifications, specializes in the services you are seeking. Our other specific <br />construction services expertise includes cost estimating, scheduling, value engineering, claims <br />avoidance, and dispute resolution. <br />We are Florida Construction Management experts. URS has worked successfully and repeatedly for <br />many municipalities in Florida, completing projects aggregately valued in the billions of dollars. Within our <br />Florida offices, we will have more than adequate resources to address any of the City's needs. Our <br />construction services staff has successfully completed high - profile Florida programs such as the Orange <br />- County Convention Center Phase V Expansion, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of <br />Miami -Dade County, and the Palm Beach County School District Capital Improvement Program. Today <br />URS Corporation <br />7650 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 400 <br />Miami, FL 33126 <br />Tel: 305.262.7466 <br />Fax: 407.481.8834 <br />www.urs.com <br />