Fluor
Corporation (NYSE: FLR) reported that its National Roads
Telecommunications Services (NRTS) project has been recognized by
Highways England for achieving 3 million safe working hours while
executing the project across England’s operational motorways and trunk
roads.
The Significant Achievement Award for Safety was presented by David
Brewer, Highways England’s network delivery and development executive
director to Kevin Hamer, Highways England NRTS contract manager and
Simon Morris, Fluor’s project director.
“This award recognizes the commitment to safety by all team members and
our client, Highways England,” said Hans Dekker, president of Fluor’s
Infrastructure business. “It is an achievement they can all be proud of
on a project that is delivered at up to 50 locations across the UK on
operational motorways 24-hours-a-day, every day of the year.”
The special-purpose vehicle set up to execute the project, GeneSYS
Telecommunications Limited, a Fluor, InfraRed Infrastructure Yield
Holdings Limited company, was recently awarded a two-year extension by
Highways England to the original 10.5-year NRTS contract awarded in 2005.
“This safety award is especially meaningful to the GeneSYS team as it is
from our client,” said Simon Morris, NRTS project director. “Highways
England employees were able to vote on the video entries for each
project, which were then shortlisted for final selection by two of
Highways England’s Executive Directors.”
The Fluor-led team is responsible for program management, design,
construction and financing of an integrated communications system, as
well as the upgrade, operations and maintenance of existing
infrastructure throughout England’s 4,000-mile motorway and trunk road
networks. The project has enabled the rollout of smart-road technology
to enhance road safety and to better inform the traveling public.
Key subcontractors to the Fluor project team are Alcatel-Lucent and
Imtech (formerly known as Peek Traffic), as well as a number of civil
installation contractors.
Highways England is a government-owned company responsible for
delivering £11 billion worth of improvements to England’s motorways and
major “A” roads by 2020.
About Fluor
Fluor’s UK operations are headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire, from
where the company serves a wide range of industries including energy,
chemicals, government, industrial, infrastructure, mining and power
market sectors. Fluor Limited is the UK operating arm of Fluor
Corporation (NYSE: FLR), a global engineering and construction firm
that designs and builds some of the world's most complex projects. The
company creates and delivers innovative and integrated 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 136 on the FORTUNE
500 list. With 40,000 employees worldwide, the company's revenue for
2014 was $21.5 billion. Visit Fluor at www.fluor.com
and follow on Twitter @FluorCorp.
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