Lean construction techniques brought the $100-million Kerry Global Technology & Innovation Centre to life, on budget and four months ahead of the original 24-month schedule.
Believed to be the largest greenfield job in Latin America as well as the biggest private-sector investment in Mexico, the $5.2-billion Etileno XXI petrochemical complex was designed to produce more than 1 million tons per year of polyethylene resins to boost Mexico’s global trade balance and its tax revenue from thermoplastics.
Over the last three years, Baton Rouge-based Performance Contractors has steadily climbed up ENR Texas & Louisiana’s annual Top Contractors ranking, going from 19th in 2014 to 14th in 2015 and now up to No. 8 in 2016.
The 6-MW ground-mount photovoltaic solar array is located on the 50-acre Shaffer landfill site, a former industrial complex and rail yard that once contained high amounts of hazardous materials.
As part of the Solar Act of 2012, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities created a program to encourage solar utility companies and contractors to redevelop existing lands into solar generation facilities.
