Excellence is not an act, but a habit. aristotle. When the Best Need the Best. Current and Recently Completed Projects Include:

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2 Excellence is not an act, but a habit. aristotle Project Dynamics has made a habit of repeatedly achieving success for world-class hotels. We provide comprehensive professional FF&E and OS&E procurement, expediting and consulting services, maintaining the highest ethical business practices in the industry. When the Best Need the Best Current and Recently Completed Projects Include: Aliante Resort & Casino The Beverly Hilton Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino T h e F o u r S e a s o n s Westlake Village The Grand Del Mar H a r d R o c k H o t e l & C a s i n o Las Vegas Hilton Los Cabos Hotel La Jolla Indiana Live The Ivy JW Marriott LA Live Las Vegas Hilton L e M e r i d i e n B e v e r ly H i l l s (SLS Hotel) Le Meridien Dallas Miramar Beach Resort & Bungalows M o n d r i a n D e l a n o R e s o r t Las Vegas Montage Beverly Hills Peninsula Beverly Hills Red Rock Resort & Casino Ritz Carlton Boston Common Ritz Carlton LA Live San Ysidro Ranch The Setai Miami Beach Silverton Resort & Casino St. Regis Bal Harbour St. Regis Deer Crest St. Regis San Francisco Viceroy Anguilla Resort Viceroy Icon Brickell Wa l d o r f A s t o r i a Beverly Hills PROJECT D Y N A M I C S vegas: L.A.: Pillars of the Industry

3 PROJECT d y n a m i c s Project Dynamics is proud to introduce the latest addition to our management team Steve Luce director of operations Captain Steve Luce joins the Project Dynamics team after serving his nation for 31 years in the U.S. Navy, most recently in the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada as Naval Attaché. H A seasoned operator, leader and executive, Steve brings a wealth of experience and wisdom to help guide Project Dynamics towards an ever increasing level of service and quality for our valuable clientele. adding depth gaining new ground continuing the quest for perfection PROJECT DYNAMICS vegas n L.A. n c e b u Michael Shapiro has over 15 years of experience in hospitality and retail sourcing, procurement and brand development. Most recently the Senior Director of Sourcing and Design Development for Starwood Hotel and Resorts, Mr. Shapiro now brings his superior team leadership to Project Dynamics Asia. Project Dynamics is proud to announce our newest office in cebu, philippines, headed by michael shapiro principal, project dynamics asia

4 LA Live's shifts are choreographed around lifts Hundreds of construction workers finishing their work and crews fitting out the project's 1,001 rooms must carefully calibrate their work with the tower's three elevators. Michael Roth, vice president for communications for AEG, visits the 10th floor of the J.W. Marriott hotel, which, with the Ritz-Carlton hotel, is scheduled to open September 3) By Cara Mia DiMassa September 9, 2009 Opening day at the Ritz-Carlton and J.W. Marriott hotels at LA Live is still five months away. But Room 1055 is a beehive of activity. One worker attaches metal pins to the door of what will become the room's closet, his drill a quick, metallic syncopated whir. Another grunts away as he carefully attaches a mirror to the wardrobe's door. When this two-man crew started installing wardrobes in the hotels, on the 52-story building's fifth floor, it took them 60 minutes to assemble the piece. Now, at the 10th floor, they can do it in under 45. And they are not even halfway through. "It's like building the same puzzle over and over again," said crew chief Dave Shulman as he watched their work, an iphone in one hand, a walkie-talkie in the other. The word "puzzle" is one that Shulman, a principal in Project Dynamics, uses a lot. His firm is responsible for purchasing and installing pretty much every item that a hotel room might need: headboards, mattresses and linens; sconces and lightbulbs; mirrors and art; even the throw pillows. At LA Live, which has 1,001 hotel rooms, each with 100 items and only three elevators to share among the hundreds of construction workers still finishing up the site, it will take Shulman and his crew nearly six months to complete their work, which began in August, on the two hotels. Each day has been cataloged with the precision of a military operation, a color-coded spreadsheet listing items, room types and shifts. About a third of the Marriott's furniture -- the Ritz's still hasn't arrived -- is stored in a squat Los Angeles warehouse tucked under the Glendale Freeway, where stacks of cardboard boxes containing nightstands, desk chairs and lamps reach up to the ceiling. A carpenter's shop is set up at one end of the warehouse, allowing Shulman and his crew to make last-minute touch-ups to pieces before they move downtown, where a wellchoreographed dance is underway to unload them. Because of city regulations, each item must be unpacked in an underground garage at LA Live and carried by

5 dolly into the tower. Down in the garage, three men in orange shirts and hard hats break the cardboard boxes down, while another wheels carpeting destined for the hotel's hallways toward the elevators. Upstairs, eight teams of two fan out in the hotel rooms, each with a specialty: assembling the wardrobe, attaching a two-piece headboard to the room's wall, wiring metal sconces for each side of the bed. A checklist on the door of each room marks their progress. The schedule is so tight that elevator operators and installers must coordinate their lunch breaks. The workday begins at 5:30 a.m. in order to accommodate testing of the building's fire system, which happens in the late afternoon after construction workers go home. "All of our work depends on the elevators," Shulman said. Before they began working in the hotel tower, he and his partners -- other companies well-versed in the art of installation -- practiced assembling the room's signature components, including a weighty wooden armoire predrilled to house a safe and iron, and an orange cabinet with metal legs that will house the coffee maker and be the last piece installed in each room. Though the LA Live project seems massive, Shulman said it's nothing compared with his biggest job: "3,800 rooms," he said with a bit of bravado, making the LA Live's 1,001-room project seem, well, ordinary.

6 Judy, CONGRATULATIONS on the 2010 NEWH Icon of Industry Award, for the woman with the most energy in the industry! With all our love and admiration, Your friends at Project Dynamics PROJECT D Y N A M I C S Vegas LA Hong Kong

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