Fletcher Con begins work

Press, 7 January 1987, Page 29

Fletcher Con begins work

After winning contracts in four Pacific basin countries, Fletcher Construction’s overseas division has begun work on $47.7

million of varied construction activity. In Hawaii, its 80 per cent owned Pacific Construction Company has a $22.2 million contract to add two new wings to the Sheraton Kauai, increasing the number of rooms by 117. At Honolulu International Airport, Pacific has a $16.6 million contract to expand the interisland terminal. The building will include 14 check-in counter spaces and a holding area sufficent for 800 passengers. In Fiji, Reddy Fletcher Contractors (the joint venture between Fletcher

' Construction and Reddy > Construction of Fiji) has

won contracts worth $6.1 million at the Forestry Development Service’s pinewood processing complex at Drasa on the main island of Viti Levu.

Reddy Fletcher is involved in a $3.5 million site preparation, piling and foundations contract for the FDS chip export facility and a $2.5 million structural and mechanical erection programme spread throughout the complex. In Apia, Fletcher Construction is under way with a new Bank of Western Samoa head office at a cost of $4.8 million and, to complete the fournation success, its subsidiary Morobe Constructions has picked up some small commercial projects worth $500,000 around Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.