28 BASIC RESOURCES This was a challenging year for Basic Resources. In a fiercely competitive global market, our clients continued consolidating their businesses, diversifying products, and increasing efficiency to improve profit margins. The Western metals mining industry showed minimal facility investment, with low commodity prices and stringent environmental regulations sending new work overseas. Our total project delivery work continues for PCS Phosphate’s $80 million Purified Acid Facility in North Carolina. With 32 barge-shipped process units, we combined modular and single point delivery approaches to shave six months off the project schedule, helping PCS gain competitive market share. Using modules also mitigated local labor shortages and improved construction safety. PCS’s confidence shows in client satisfaction survey scores averaging 94 percent for this project. For Newmont, the world's largest gold mining company, we follow our design with procurement and construction support services for a new conveying and stacking system, infrastructure expansion, and other support. This upgrade will handle 2500 metric tons per hour, and help extend the mine's life by a decade. The cost-efficient design exceeded throughput requirements and facilitated an estimated 12 percent budget underrun. We continue our relationship with Group Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP), a global leader in phosphatic production, at their two sites in Morocco. For Jorf Lasfar, we are providing basic engineering services on a diammonium phosphate (DAP) granulation debottlenecking and expansion project. This work boosts our client’s DAP capacity 50 percent, increases plant reliability, reduces operating costs, and improves air quality. At their Safi site, we provide detailed engineering on an environmental sulfur dioxide emissions project for one of their sulfuric acid plants. Ahead we expect continued product diversification in basic resources, with phosphate mining replacement capacity emerging long-term. Metals opportunities will likely remain flat in the Western markets, with more activity in areas such as South America, Australia, and Africa. Combining our technical expertise with innovative project delivery approaches such as modular fabrication, we help our basic resources clients optimize new product lines with better safety, lower costs, and improved speed to market. “We had the opportunity to expand our purified acid business but needed to  expedite the project to meet market demands. Jacobs  suggested a modular approach that allowed us to permit, design, and construct a new plant in a timely, cost-efficient manner. Jacobs provided strong technical support  during the design phase  and has shown excellent construction management skills during the construction phase aided by an exemplary safety program. Jacobs’  suggestion and implemen- tation has been the key to an ongoing successful project.” BRAD PEACOCK,  Director, Industrial Phosphates  PCS Phosphate, Aurora, North Carolina 2 1