ConDig (6-Apr-17).  Engineering and construction group Fluor Corporation FLR has secured a bid-build contract from Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to expand the U.S. 287 highway in Ellis County, just south of Dallas and Fluor’s corporate headquarters in Irving.

The value of the contract was not disclosed but Fluor said it will book the contract value in first-quarter 2017.

The project will start this spring and involve widening the U.S. 287 highway by about 4.5 miles. It is scheduled to finish in roughly two years.