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Another notable win with an eco-friendly objective Work has been strong in the United Arab Emirates,
is a $400 million contract with Renewable Energy punctuated by two projects with the Mubadala
Corporation (REC) for a solar panel manufacturing Development Company. We’re performing
complex in Singapore. Our manufacturing and life construction management for the Cleveland Clinic
sciences business line will handle engineering, Hospital in Abu Dhabi, a cutting-edge medical
procurement, construction and commissioning services facility that represents our entry into the healthcare
for utilities, infrastructure, facilities and roadways. Upon market on a significant scale. We’re also the
completion, the plant will produce wafers, cells and construction manager for the new stock exchange
modules to support the global market for solar energy. nearby — the Abu Dhabi Financial Center.
Other Global Highlights We marked successful completion of several
In the United States, Fluor was awarded the Mid-City/ major projects in mining and metals, including a
Expo Light Rail project for the Los Angeles County copper mine in Chile for Codelco, the Yanacocha
Metropolitan Authority, and we financially closed and gold mill in Peru, the KNS furnace rebuild in
broke ground on the Capital Beltway High Occupancy Western Australia, the San Bartolomé silver mine
Toll Lanes project on Interstate 495 in northern Virginia. in Bolivia and a copper project in Arizona.
Mining and metals projects were supported by the
Santiago, Melbourne, San Francisco, Vancouver
and Johannesburg offices in 2008. We also
leveraged Fluor offices in Abu Dhabi, Manila,
Shanghai, Camberley and Mexico to support the
execution of our projects.
Left Image: The QMM Ilmenite project in Madagascar for Rio Tinto is
designed to facilitate recovery of titanium minerals for further processing
into a high-grade chloride slag. Right: Fluor’s design innovations as program
manager for Baylor’s new biomedical research facility in Houston, Texas, led
to a new functional program that increased the facility’s useable space by one
floor while adhering to budget constraints. Below: Completed in a record 22
months by Fluor Chile, the Gabriela Mistral (Gaby) mining project produces
150,000 metric tons of cathode copper per year.
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