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-0511eBiamiHeraltl 0 Ullmirmy, ri <br />Craig Woischwill <br />Sr. VP/Circulation and Operations <br />June 19.2013 <br />To: Whom it may concern: <br />The purpose of this letter is to introduce Link Construction Group, the General <br />Contractor for two Miami Herald projects currently underway but nearing completion. <br />The Link team has provided a variety of services during the past two years to our <br />company, as we had two projects underway in a concurrent fashion. They were: <br />Construct a new production facility for the Miami Herald Media Company. <br />The folks at link built a turn key production facility of 119,000 square feet for our <br />company. Experts in forecasting costs, they were able to calculate hard and soft project <br />components even though they were provided with incomplete data to go along with a <br />challenging timeline. Remarkably they hit those numbers. In fact, they will share in a <br />percentage of the savings accred during the building of this facility. During the <br />construction phase we lost 40+ days to tropical storms and general inclement weather. <br />Working with their subcontractors and other vendors, work schedules were reconfigured <br />and the time was made up. We had a drop dead deadline and we unveiled and launched <br />the new production facility a week ahead of schedule. <br />Demolish, reconfigure and construct an existing two -story building for the Miami <br />Herald's new Office Building/Headquarters. <br />A two story office building of approximately 158.000 square feet, adjacent to file new <br />production building was totally demolished on the interior. Rubble, old duct work. <br />flooring, etc., was removed in a systematic and orderly way. Then with considerable <br />accuracy and a sense of urgency. the Link team set about to rebuild all of the office areas <br />and infrastructure that had been redesigned. They paced on time and beat the goal of <br />moving. We realized that we were going to be significantly over budget if we didn't <br />make some changes. Link leaders worked with us to develop options of how to provide <br />quality fixtures and amenities for our staff. That value engineering effort saved <br />significant dollars for our company and still allowed its to provide a modern, clean and <br />bright work area for our employees. <br />one Herold Plaza. MixmiA 33IR -1693 , e .Waaiaeraldxcm • enweaWmwilraldn. <br />244'nWjJJWlh M <br />RFQ No. 13 -08 -01 Gateway Park Pedestrian Access Improvements I Step 1 <br />u <br />avantrax�aam <br />avow <br />