August 2005 Renton, Washington – Global Engineering and Construction, LLC (Global) announced that the company has formed a partnership with the Performance Based Studies Research Group (PBSRG) of Arizona State University to perform a complete corporate assessment to learn, document, and benchmark Global’s current processes, organizational structure, objectives, personnel, and other company information, including performance. The firm will document project performance benchmarking that measured the company’s on time rate; on budget rate; change order rate including both owner and contractor initiated; risk level and customer satisfaction.