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BUSINESS NEWS USACE AWARDS TETRA TECH $400 MILLION ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION CONTRACT Tetra Tech, Inc. announced they were one of seven contractors selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, for a multiple- award contract valued at $400 million. Under this five-year contract, Tetra Tech will provide comprehensive environmental remediation services on behalf of the USACE Omaha District to the Department of Defense and other federal agency customers throughout the U.S. and its territories. Tetra Tech will conduct field investigations, groundwater modeling and monitoring, geophysical surveys, and human health and ecological risk assessments to detect and remediate contamination, including military munitions and other environmental hazards. Remediation strategies will include innovative techniques that use both in-situ and ex-situ remedies to address contaminants in soil, groundwater, sediment, and surface water. Treatment technologies may include soil vapor extraction, chemical oxidation, bioremediation, and other media-specific treatment systems.

“Tetra Tech’s technical experts have decades of experience performing remediation work for DOD to address a wide spectrum of environmental contaminants,” said Dan Batrack, Tetra Tech chairman and CEO. “We look forward to continuing our longstanding support to DOD and the Corps of Engineers by providing environmental cleanup services and sustainable solutions at federal facilities throughout the country.” FLUOR COMPLETES MODULE FABRICATION FOR OIL SANDS PROJECT Fluor Corporation announced that all 358 modules have been fabricated and shipped to the site for its portion of the Fort Hills Energy L.P. oil sands mining project in the Athabasca region of Alberta, Canada. Fluor is performing engineering, procurement, fabrication, and construction for the utilities scope of the project. The project applied Fluor’s innovative 3rd Gen Modular ExecutionSM approach, which optimizes process block layouts and provides the capability to fully modularize large-scale industrial facilities. Benefits include improved safety, lower costs, increased productivity, and

schedule predictability through the transfer of a significant amount of traditional site work to fabrication yards. Fluor’s Supreme Modular Fabrication Inc. joint venture fabrication yard in Canada and three other Canadian yards built the modules. Once at site, the modules are set by Fluor’s craft workforce. The site has achieved more than 2.8 million hours without a lost-time incident. “Achieving this milestone is a testament to the collaboration and commitment of our craft professionals at the SMFI fabrication yard, other module yards and at the project site,” said Jim Brittain, president of Fluor’s Energy and Chemicals business. “Leveraging our full range of integrated solutions, including our craft workforce, fabrication yards, global sourcing capabilities, and 3rd Gen Modular Execution approach, we have reduced the project’s capital cost from initial estimates while maintaining schedule.” The Fort Hills Project, an open-pit truck and shovel mine, is owned by Fort Hills Energy LP, a partnership between Suncor Energy, Total E&P Canada Ltd. and Teck Resources Limited.

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procurement services. Client management. Making sure the project has a PM in place with not only the technical capa- bility, but who understands the market’s nuances. All those elements come into play when Hill looks for work. “These services have often been used by our business development team to win contracts.” “These services have often been used by our business devel- opment team to win contracts,” Ogaily says. The strategy is paying off. Hill is approaching its targeted order book of $1 billion. Hill International, with 4,500 professionals in 100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project man- agement, construction management, construction claims, and other consulting services primarily to the buildings, transportation, environmental, energy, and industrial mar- kets. It is one of the largest construction management firms in the United States. Beginning in late 2014, Hill migrated its TCT program – born and bred on the international stage – to Hill’s U.S. Cor- porate Group. The program’s PQMS and PM/CM procedures were tailored for the domestic market, and are supported by a TCT Global base in London. “My goal is to bring the Hill culture to everyone in the com- pany and also develop and share knowledge,” Ogaily says. Hill’s TCT was put to the test in Iraq, where Hill opened an office in Baghdad. The project management program was

instrumental in marketing, creating awareness, deploying staff, recruiting locals, and supporting the business devel- opment team. From 2011 to 2014, Hill won contracts for seven PM/CM projects in Iraq. “My goal is to bring the Hill culture to everyone in the company and also develop and share knowledge.” With 10 years of input from PMs from all across the world, TCT Global is a vast and complex database of institutional knowledge.

But at the end of the day, Hill achieves something simple.

“We jump into the project in the first week with the right people in place,” Ogaily says.

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