March 2004

(Medley, Florida) - ZCC’s 17- month plant expansion contract with Titan Cement is well underway, with more than 650 employees and 150 subcontractors hard at work at the Medley site. ZCC’s mandate is to help increase the plant’s clinker production capacity by 5,000 tons per day, with the additions of a 426- foot preheater tower, refractory, blend silo, rotary kiln, electrical rooms, bag house, clinker cooler and raw mill area.

The job is 55 percent complete, with more than 700,000 work hours and zero lost time incidents, after mobilizing in January 2003. Zachry’s longtime friend and alliance partner AMEC has almost finished the engineering work, all major deliveries have been completed and the action is now at the job site.

“It’s our turn to deliver now,” said Project Manager Ben Sims. “We’re wide open and ready to go with about 150 iron workers, riggers and operators that deal exclusively with structural steel. Aggressive scheduling is always a challenge, but with the workforce, resources and equipment we’ve got here, it’s certainly an achievable goal.”

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