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:

  • Performing structural bridge work including building five new bridges, four new fly over ramps, three widened bridges and 15 bridge/ramp repairs
  • Building a new 9-mile roadway extension consisting of major clearing, earthwork, drainage improvements and bridge fly overs
  • Installing more than 700 miles of cable and wire and more than 1,000 tolling and traffic management devices
  • 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.