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Sometimes it begins as notes on the back of an envelope, or a doodle on a paper napkin, or a stick-drawing on a receipt. It's an idea. Straight from the imagination.

Black & Veatch is an engineering construction company that has made its mark in the world by turning ideas into reality . . . concepts into achievements . . . dreams into accomplishments.¹⁾

Black & Veatch has maintained a strong commitment to using formal Value Engineering (VE) for nearly 25 years. In addition to incorporating countless informal VE studies into our design activities, we have performed more than 130 formally structured and fully documented VE studies for our designs and for those of others.

To meet this commitment, we maintain an experienced and well-trained staff of VE Team Leaders, engineers, architects, and other technical professionals. We can custom-assemble for your project a team of specialists who are accustomed to designing facilities similar to your project. Our experienced teams know how to maximize the value of your project by maintaining, or improving, function, quality, and performance while minimizing cost. The savings identified by our studies routinely produce a return on investment of 25:1 and have exceeded 100:1.

We have completed VE studies for the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy, for petro-chemical processing plants, water and wastewater treatment plants, large civil works projects, and institutional and commercial facilities. Recent high profile projects include a series of studies for a $2.0 billion gas plant, a major reconstruction project for the Panama Canal, and a series of studies for a $550 million water supply, storage, and treatment project.

Related to, and complimenting, our VE services are such services as Partnering, Concept Design Development workshops, Conflict Resolution, Financial Feasibility Studies, and Cost Estimating.²⁾

Black & Veatch Telecommunications, Inc. can provide you with unique resources, expertise, and business processes developed from over 40 years of service to the telecommunications industry. Our experience in the deployment of thousands of wireless sites and a variety of fiber and hybrid fiber-coaxial cable networks represents a significant force in the telecommunications industry.³⁾

Black & Veatch is dedicated to serving the special needs of the microelectronics, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing industries. Black & Veatch has assembled a world-class team of industry experienced professionals with the resources to develop projects from conceptual design through construction.⁴⁾

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Our staff has the experience and expertise to assist you in all phases of your project, from identifying the most suitable site to developing a comprehensive environmental compliance plan which maximizes compliance throughout the project's operational life.

Black & Veatch has professionals with expertise in engineering, law, geology, meteorology, biology, botany, and aquatic ecology. This group of specialists also has access to more than 4,000 other Black & Veatch professionals representing all engineering disciplines.⁶⁾

Black & Veatch's experience in serving the nuclear industry dates back to the late 1940s and early 1950s when the firm provided design services to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory associated with nuclear laboratory facilities and nuclear waste disposal facilities.

In the last decade, the firm has completed several nuclear service projects for more than 50 clients. Currently, Black & Veatch maintains a staff actively involved in nuclear service projects and continues to be at the forefront in developing ways to engineer, procure, and construct nuclear plants better.⁷⁾

The Procurement Data Register (PDR) is a WWW-based application that allows vendors to electronically submit information to Black & Veatch.⁸⁾

Each year, fossil retrofit projects comprise nearly 20 percent of Black & Veatch's new project load, and, since 1985, Black & Veatch has completed more than 1,200 retrofit projects. Plant improvements performed by Black & Veatch include air quality control equipment, fuel handling, cooling and disposal, process steam systems, noise control, turbine generator and cycle improvements, control and safety systems, boiler modifications, and security systems. We also have performed major plant conversions for fuel changeovers.⁹⁾

Black & Veatch was also involved in power generation designs to burn low grade fossil fuels. Black & Veatch applies its experience in solid waste and power plant design when considering alternatives and providing clients with a recommendation. ¹⁰⁾

From Singapore to St. Louis, Black & Veatch is ready to be your project partner. We provide quality engineering, procurement and construction on fast track schedules for utilities, commerce, industry, and government agencies in more than 65 countries. We have the capabilities and worldwide presence to perform almost any project, virtually anywhere in the world. And, we strive to provide our clients with the best possible value for their investment. Join the Black & Veatch Partnership. You imagine it and we will build it.¹¹⁾

Black & Veatch LNG Technology Helps Deliver Needed Natural Gas Supplies to Rural China

Overland Park, Kan. (January 26, 2009) – Black & Veatch, a leading global engineering, consulting and construction company, announced today that its patented PRICO® LNG (liquefied natural gas) process is helping bring natural gas supplies to customers in rural China.

“Black & Veatch chose to develop these projects with Chemtex as a strategic partner in China,” Price added. “Our company and Chemtex are providing engineering, procurement and construction services for the LNG facilities.”

The first LNG facility is in Erdos, Inner Mongolia, and attained full production capacity of 200,000 metric tons per year in December 2008. A second facility in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, has also begun commercial operation.

“Following completion of the Erdos and Zhuhai facilities, we were able to start up and achieve full design capacity in just three weeks,” said Wim van der Zande, Chemtex President and CEO. “This demonstrates the reliability, ease of use and precise design of the Black & Veatch technology and has enabled our clients to quickly move LNG supplies to market.”

Four additional plants are planned in central Sichuan Province, central Shaanxi province, northwestern Gansu province and the northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Upon completion, the six facilities will supply a total of approximately 1.2 million tons per year of LNG, resulting in residents being able to use natural gas for heating and cooking.

“These projects demonstrate the viability of providing energy assurance in remote areas around the globe,” said Bob Wojnarowski, Black & Veatch’s Regional General Manager. ¹²⁾