FLUOR.

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FLUOR — NORTHEAST REGIONAL OFFICE

One growth area for the Northeast

office in 2009 will be the development of
a multi-projects group (MPG) that will
specialize in the execution of small- and
medium-sized projects. These projects
are usually in the $1 million to $20 mil-
lion range. The MPG organization will
enable the office to better support clients
in their requirements to execute work
that is cost-driven.
The Fluor Northeast regional office
recently completed a number of proj-
ects that either increased production
and safety or improved emissions for
local refinery clients.

“EXECUTE
WE’RE SET UP TO
WORK ... THE
SAME WHEREVER YOU
GO. WE HAVE CLIENTS
THAT DO WORK IN
MULTIPLE OFFICES,
AND IT MAKES IT VERY
Northeast Regional Office General Manager Steve Alley (above right, pictured with Al Wujciak, execu-
tive director of sales) says the office has a great depth of services. Rande Funkhauser (below left) and
lead piping engineer Joe Hauser (below right) work at a CAD station.
EASY FOR THEM.
”
On most of these projects, Fluor was
responsible for the engineering, design
and procurement, in addition to con-
struction engineering support for con-
struction work packages. These projects
included significant additions of new
equipment and piping, as well as demoli-
tion and modification of existing equip-
ment. To facilitate the design process on
one project, the main area in the existing
unit was laser-mapped to provide views
of the unit and to serve as a basis for a
3-D CAD model of the new work. The
project was “workshared” between three
Fluor offices: Northeast regional; Long
Beach, Calif.; and New Delhi, India.

Strong Network
A networking database program called
Knowledge Online (KOL) allows Fluor
employees around the globe to commu-
nicate with ease.
“One of the things that Fluor brings to
the table is the ability to network between
a small office like ours and a large office
like Houston [with 4,000 employees],”
Alley says. “If we have an engineer [any-
where] in the world that has a question,

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