NII Holdings, Inc. Reston, VA

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Description NII Holdings, Inc., formerly known as Nextel International, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, is one of the world’s leading providers of fully integrated mobile communication services designed to meet the needs of businesses and individual customers in selected

Latin American markets. NII offers its 5 million subscribers a fully integrated wireless communications tool with digital cellular voice services, data services, wireless Internet access and Nextel Direct Connect® and International Direct Connect®, a digital two-way radio feature. NII required an experienced manager of tenant design, construction, vendor

and relocation services with the expertise to streamline processes and to make decisions that best met the needs of the organization. The project started as a 50,000 SF tenant build-out on two floors at the new NII Virginia headquarters. The project expanded to include a third floor with 25,000 additional SF. The project again expanded to add a 2,000 SF data center on a fourth floor of the same building with a roof-mounted back-up generator system. PSG was further assigned management of the Verizon communications backbone procurement. The initial plan provided more than ample time to design and construct the space in the projected time frame, but the added scope of the project made the deadline a challenge. When at a late date NII changed the location of people, the Relocation Team met the challenge by reconfiguring the layout plan rather than NII incurring the additional costs associated with a change order from the Design Team and a delay to NII’s relocation. Despite the multiple expansions of the PSG scope and numerous construction change orders, PSG directed the construction and relocation to the targeted dates. The PSG team was able to meet the NII goals while saving NII in excess of $1,000,000 on the project. At its corporate ribbon-cutting ceremony in NII’s new headquarters, NII management declared to its employees that its best decision in the two year process was the hiring of Project Solutions Group without whose team expertise the project would not have been successful. Completion 2008

Nextel Communications Data Center McLean, Virginia

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Description Nextel Communications hired Project Solutions Group to manage, coordinate and oversee the execution of a 12,500 SF data center build out within 120 days. Several goals were identified by Nextel as part of this assignment:

Completing the project on time and on budget

Completing construction that had already started prior to PSG coming on board

Providing a high level of communication to the client representative, and minimizing the impact of project decisions on the client representative’s daily schedule

Coordinating the base building design through the developer, with Nextel’s requirements to make certain the tenant improvements could be easily and quickly implemented

Nextel took over the data center site from another company. The previous owner was already in the process of developing a critical facility center. When PSG joined the project, 25% of the project was already under construction. PSG was hired to take over the day to day management of the project and redesign management, including construction oversight services. Our project management group oversaw:

• Wire management system • Under floor light safety systems • Overhead cable tray • Raised access flooring • Total renovation of building electrical switchgear • Total renovation of building electrical distribution • Fully integrated CTC security system • integration of data room systems furniture • FM 200 fire suppression

The newly renovated data center was delivered to Nextel in the required time period of 120 days. In addition, PSG delivered the project 7.2% lower than expected. Since operation of this facility was critical for Nextel, all business functions remained operable through the entire construction period. The interaction of the design team and PSG’s national vendors (carpeting, lighting and ceiling manufacturers) all contributed towards providing a finished space that exceeded the client’s requirements. Completion 2004

VISA Data Super Center McLean, Virginia

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Description Project Solutions Group personnel, in previous capacities, managed the planning, design and construction of a 72,000 SF data super center in McLean, Virginia. The project required a unique combination of skill sets, including advanced structural engineering. VISA

required that the superstructure be built to California earthquake standards. Work also included specialized security knowledge (a bulletproof and intrusion proof structure was required) and exceptional management skills, which integrated the interests of a technical end user, land developer, and a design-build mission critical infrastructure integrator. The final challenge on the assignment involved the project schedule, because the data center needed to be on-line and fully operational prior to the start of the Christmas buying season. Our team undertook several activities to meet the unique challenges of this assignment:

Including specialty consultants such as California licensed structural engineers, advanced security design consultants, and even cabling infrastructure specialists to manage the proposed cabling network

Hosting and facilitating an offsite meeting to unify client goals with teammate project objectives, establish project expectations, confirm roles, responsibilities and lines of communication

Creating a specific process to implement base building modifications during construction that supported changes to the data center environment and updated by the mission critical facility integrator

This project was delivered to VISA on time to provide full operational capabilities prior to the onset of the Christmas buying season. The facility was fully survivable and redundant up to full N+1 capabilities, including paralleling UPS’s and switchgear, multiple backup generators, diverse and redundant connections to private telecom utilities, and a remote cooling tower farm. The unique physical requirements of the facility were fully incorporated into the final deliverable, including earthquake protection, intrusion resistance, and a bullet-proof environment. Completion 2002