Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that its project team,
including the concessionaire 95 Express Lanes, LLC, reached project
completion ahead of schedule for the new 95 Express Lanes located in
Northern Virginia along Interstate 95. This milestone was celebrated
with a ceremony led by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, United States
Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Virginia
Secretary of Transportation Aubrey Layne, which was attended by numerous
federal, state and local elected officials along with project leaders
and other dignitaries.
“Delivering two megaprojects within the span of seven years to Northern
Virginia has been a tremendous accomplishment for Fluor,” said Terry
Towle, president of Fluor’s Infrastructure business. “We are pleased
to have been the design-builder on both the 495 and 95 Express Lanes
Projects and to have been a contributor to the traffic congestion relief
and connectivity solutions that are now a reality for Virginia
motorists.”
Over the life cycle of the project, the 95 Express Lanes supported
nearly 12,600 jobs in Virginia and generated approximately $1.5 billion
in economic activity. The project put more than 500 businesses to work
and infused more than $200 million into disadvantaged, small, women and
minority-owned business enterprises.
“Fluor has created a culture of inclusion and established a positive
legacy for DBE and small, women, and minority-owned businesses in the
Commonwealth of Virginia,” Towle said. “Working with our colleagues at
the Virginia Department of Transportation and 95 Express Lanes, LLC has
been an outstanding partnership and allowed for the successful delivery
of this innovative public-private partnership project.”
The 95 Express Lanes span 29 miles from just north of the Capital
Beltway located outside the nation’s capital and travel along Interstate
95 through three counties to Garrisonville Road in Stafford. The project
was built in just 29 months and brings the most significant changes to
the I-95 corridor in a generation.
Construction began on August 1, 2012, when the Fluor-led joint venture,
Fluor-Lane 95, LLC, broke ground and started heavy civil work including:
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Performing structural bridge work including building five new bridges,
four new fly over ramps, three widened bridges and 15 bridge/ramp
repairs
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Building a new 9-mile roadway extension consisting of major clearing,
earthwork, drainage improvements and bridge fly overs
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Installing more than 700 miles of cable and wire and more than 1,000
tolling and traffic management devices
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Placing more than 1 million square feet of sound walls
“We are thrilled with the hard work and dedication from our workforce
that enabled this project to be a success,” said Walter J. Lewis,
Fluor’s project director. “Our crews worked alongside one of the most
congested interstates in the country and were able to maintain an
industry-leading safety record.”
During the construction of the 95 Express Lanes, the Fluor-led joint
venture, Fluor-Lane 95, LLC, was able to achieve more than 3.8 million
safe work hours without a lost time incident. The team maintained an
OSHA recordable rate of 0.41, substantially below the industry national
average of 3.6. This rating makes the project one of the safest ever in
the U.S.
For more information about the project, visit www.95expresslanes.com.
About Fluor Corporation
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) is a global engineering and construction
firm that designs and builds some of the world's most complex projects.
The company creates and delivers innovative solutions for its clients in
engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, maintenance and
project management on a global basis. For more than a century, Fluor has
served clients in the energy, chemicals, government, industrial,
infrastructure, mining and power market sectors. Headquartered in
Irving, Texas, Fluor ranks 109 on the FORTUNE 500 list. With more than
40,000 employees worldwide, the company's revenue for 2013 was $27.4
billion. Visit Fluor at www.fluor.com
and follow on Twitter @FluorCorp.
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