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Pegasus-Global continues their national and international engagements with current infrastructure and petrochemical projects. Below are several recent engagements that demonstrate their ongoing presence in the consulting and project management fields.

Kansas City Power & Light, Iatan 1 Power Plant, Iatan, Missouri, USA

Pegasus Global was retained by Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) to assist in its rate case regarding Iatan Unit 1 Power Plant environmental upgrades and common facilities before the Missouri Public Service Commission and separately before the Kansas Corporation Commission. Iatan 1 environmental upgrades include emission reducing upgrades that use available technologies to reduce carbon and other emissions on a coal fired generating plant originally completed in the early 1980's. Dr. Kris Nielsen testified in the Missouri PSC and Kansas CC regarding the proper prudence standards, KCP&L's management decision making under that standard, and the applicable in-service criteria. KCP&L reached a settlement with all parties to Missouri rate case that allows costs of the capital project to go into rate base. This rate case is the first docket to consider the prudence of electric power generating facility capital costs in Missouri since the Calloway Nuclear Plant went into service nearly 20 years ago.

Nations Petroleum – Steam Flood Project

Pegasus Global Holdings Inc. provided strategy advisory services to Nations Petroleum regarding the EPC contractor and the services rendered with respect to one of its steam flood projects. The project involved secondary and enhanced recovery efforts by the introduction of heat to the producing zones in the forms of steam flood and/or direct fire flue gas injection. Producing wells were infused with casing vapor recovery used to collect gas from the large number of wells.

City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

The City of Winnipeg, through their City Auditor, engaged Pegasus Global in 2008 to perform an audit of the entire Capital Construction Program by which the City selects, plans, and executes capital construction projects. The Program Audit was executed in two phases, the first of which examined the City Corporate and Department Level policies, procedures and processes under which the individual capital construction projects were to be planned and executed. The second phase examined specific capital construction projects executed within each of the Departments responsible for various construction projects and included a Water Treatment Project, a Sewer Cast-In-Place lining project, an annual street repair program, a major rail-to-vehicle bypass project, a City Department building, a major four lane surface road project and the expansion and renovation of the City library. Pegasus-Global’s first objective was to determine if the City Corporate and Department Level policies, procedures and processes were uniform, transparent, identified a single point of accountability and reflected the best practices in the industry. Pegasus-Global’s second objective was to determine if the individual projects examined practiced the City Corporate and Department Level policies, procedures and processes identified in the first phase of the program management audit during the execution of each of those projects. In instances where Pegasus-Global identified that there was no applicable guidance from the City Corporate or Department Levels or where the project had adopted procedures and practices which did not align with the City and Department Level guidance, Pegasus-Global examined the procedures and practices followed by the particular project to determine if those procedures and practices were uniform, transparent, identified a single point of accountability and reflected the best practices in the industry. In a final phase Pegasus-Global was asked to provide the City of Winnipeg with recommendations to improve its planning, management and execution of capital construction projects. A formal, detailed Program Management Audit Report of findings was prepared for the City Auditor for presentation to the Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Financial Officer and the City Council Capital Project Committee. Pegasus-Global is in current discussions with the City of Winnipeg relative to how the recommendations could be implemented.

Upper Rouge Tunnel, Detroit, Michigan, USA

The Upper Rouge Tunnel project included chlorination facilities, a 300-foot deep tunneling access shaft, two 8-foot diameter access shafts, a building housing dechlorination facilities, and several effluent diffuser shafts in the Detroit River. The project was partially funded by the federal and state government funding and as such had to comply with specific requirements and regulations relative to its execution. Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Galloway were retained by the Preliminary Design Engineer (Parsons Brinkerhoff) in 2005-2007 to participate as a member of a five-person Independent Review Panel (IRP) to review the proposed Project Design, Proposed Deliverables and Risk Management Project Specific Assessments conducted to date on the Upper Rouge Tunnel. The tunnel project consisted of over 23,000 feet of tunnel at both 25 foot and 35 foot diameters in varied soil conditions and varied land use permits and requirements. Issues reviewed included design, regulatory, civil design and construction, public impact and construction of a combined sewer overflow system. During the periodic on-site review team meetings, the IRP made both oral and written recommendations of the work performed to date during the project to both the Preliminary Design Engineer and to the Government Client.

Fish Barrier Project, Washington, USA.

Fish Barrier Project, Washington, USA.Fish Barrier Project, Washington, USA.

Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc. (Pegasus Global) was engaged by the Case Area Tribes to provide an independent Class IV estimate and an analysis and opinion concerning cost estimates developed by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) for the correction of certain road culverts which have been determined to be barriers to fish migration through various water courses within the State of Washington. Specifically, during the construction of various roads, fish bearing water courses were directed through culverts passing under those roads which, for a variety of reasons, have been discovered to represent “barriers” to the migration of those native fish populations. Approximately 1,200 culverts have been identified by the State as barriers to migration of the fish populations to and from their natural inland habitat areas.

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For a complete list of engagements of for more industry specific engagements, please contact Joanne Lytas at j.lytas@pegasus-global.com.

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