Company also honored with Golden Hammer Award for outstanding service

HOUSTON -- AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, today announced that Houston-based subsidiary AMEC Paragon's employee volunteers helped repair the 5,000th home to benefit from Rebuilding

Company also honored with Golden Hammer Award for outstanding service

HOUSTON -- AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, today announced that Houston-based subsidiary AMEC Paragon's employee volunteers

helped repair the 5,000th home to benefit from Rebuilding Together Houston's (RTH) volunteer program.

AMEC Paragon has been active in RTH - an initiative that provides home repair services for low-income elderly and disabled homeowners located in Houston - for more than 10 years, completing 22 assignments through the program.

"We at AMEC Paragon are extremely proud of our long association with RTH and of the confidence placed with us in the delivery of the 5000th RTH home. Community volunteerism is a cause that AMEC Paragon employees have embraced throughout our 27-year history," said Terrance Ivers, AMEC Paragon's president. "This program does an excellent job of bringing together corporate-sponsored repair crews for the worthy cause of repairing and improving the homes of people in need."

The recipient of the organization's 5,000th home repair is Dorothy Goffney, a 73-year-old disabled resident of Houston's historic Fifth Ward. AMEC Paragon's manager of Expediting and Logistics, Mike Pierce, led the team of 30 AMEC Paragon and nine Boeing volunteers who painted, replaced siding and installed new front and side decks, a front door, a 20-foot wheel chair ramp and window screens for Goffney's home over the course of three Saturdays in October.

"The volunteers did a beautiful job, and they went about their work so faithfully and intensively -- as though they were doing it for their own home," said Goffney. "It was truly a job well done and means a lot to me."

Pierce recently received RTH's Golden Hammer Award at its fall kickoff luncheon for his exceptional commitment to the repair program and guidance as crew leader on home repair assignments completed by AMEC Paragon volunteers over the course of several years.

"We always look forward to working on this community project because it is very fulfilling, and we are proud to lend our engineering and project management expertise where it will help improve someone's quality of life," said Pierce.

According to Pierce, AMEC Paragon's teams often add to the initial scope of work provided by RTH. For example, in addition to the ramp and exterior repairs, the company put the finishing touches on Goffney's property by adding landscaping for further beautification.

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AMEC Paragon has been active in RTH - an initiative that provides home repair services for low-income elderly and disabled homeowners located in Houston - for more than 10 years, completing 22 assignments through the program.

"We at AMEC Paragon are extremely proud of our long association with RTH and of the confidence placed with us in the delivery of the 5000th RTH home. Community volunteerism is a cause that AMEC Paragon employees have embraced throughout our 27-year history," said Terrance Ivers, AMEC Paragon's president. "This program does an excellent job of bringing together corporate-sponsored repair crews for the worthy cause of repairing and improving the homes of people in need."

The recipient of the organization's 5,000th home repair is Dorothy Goffney, a 73-year-old disabled resident of Houston's historic Fifth Ward. AMEC Paragon's manager of Expediting and Logistics, Mike Pierce, led the team of 30 AMEC Paragon and nine Boeing volunteers who painted, replaced siding and installed new front and side decks, a front door, a 20-foot wheel chair ramp and window screens for Goffney's home over the course of three Saturdays in October.

"The volunteers did a beautiful job, and they went about their work so faithfully and intensively -- as though they were doing it for their own home," said Goffney. "It was truly a job well done and means a lot to me."

Pierce recently received RTH's Golden Hammer Award at its fall kickoff luncheon for his exceptional commitment to the repair program and guidance as crew leader on home repair assignments completed by AMEC Paragon volunteers over the course of several years.

"We always look forward to working on this community project because it is very fulfilling, and we are proud to lend our engineering and project management expertise where it will help improve someone's quality of life," said Pierce.

According to Pierce, AMEC Paragon's teams often add to the initial scope of work provided by RTH. For example, in addition to the ramp and exterior repairs, the company put the finishing touches on Goffney's property by adding landscaping for further beautification.

Robert Conklin, RTH executive director, said, "We thank AMEC Paragon for stepping up to the plate to help enhance Ms. Goffney's quality of life through the sacrificial, skilled restoration they performed on her home. It's because of the great work contributed by companies like AMEC Paragon that citizens like Ms. Goffney can continue to live independently and gain a new sense of hope."

Established in 1985, the VHRP delivers exterior restoration of homes by volunteer crews, rebuilding pride in ownership, a cornerstone of a sound neighborhood. The VHRP is the only non-profit, volunteer-based effort in the Houston area that provides a significant volume of exterior home restorations to low-income, elderly or disabled homeowners.

Editor's Note: A variety of photo options from AMEC Paragon's work on RTH's 5,000(th) home are available upon request.

AMEC plc is a focused supplier of high-value consultancy, engineering, and project management services to the world's energy, power and process industries. With annual revenues of over US$4.4 billion, AMEC designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers. AMEC's Natural Resources, Power and Process and Earth and Environmental businesses employ approximately 19,000 people in more than 25 countries globally. AMEC shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange where the company is listed in the Support Services Sector (LSE:AMEC). www.amec.com.

AMEC's Natural Resources business is a leading provider of total life-of-asset services to customers in the upstream and downstream oil and gas sectors, petrochemicals, pipelines and mining industries, with a strong reputation for balancing global excellence with local delivery.

AMEC Paragon is AMEC's hub for oil and gas operations based in Houston, Texas, providing engineering, materials management, and construction management services to the oil and gas, pipeline, and midstream industries. Specialties include onshore and offshore production facilities, onshore and offshore pipelines, floating production and subsea systems, LPG and LNG facilities, alternative fuels facilities, stranded gas applications and heavy oil treatment facilities. AMEC Paragon has completed more than 4,000 projects in 30 countries for over 260 clients. www.amecparagon.com