“Recognizing that a single unethical act could jeopardize our reputation and bottom line, we maintain a comprehensive compliance and ethics program,” the company continues. “This program develops and coordinates compliance activities in our business lines and functional groups. Such activities include risk assessments to determine needs, establish codes and policies, provide training and conduct investigations.”

Although Fluor is concerned first and foremost with the behavior of its own employees, that hasn’t stopped it from working to improve the behavior of the corporate world as a whole. The company says that Boeckmann “has played a major role in developing a proactive global anti-corruption initiative that is gathering increasing momentum.”

All Together Now
Recognizing that it is a global entity working in a world that seems to be shrinking by the minute, Fluor says it is devoted to diversity and inclusion in its work force and supplier base.

“Our comprehensive and systemic efforts to foster diversity and inclusion enable us to:

• attract, develop, support and retain a world-class work force that is well-equipped to meet the challenges of the future;
• “offer our employees an engaging work environment that allows each person opportunities to attain his or her full potential;
• “generate global, cross-cultural understanding and innovative thinking that can be relied upon by our worldwide client base;
• “establish effective relationships with business and joint-venture partners and consortia, as well as facilitate the successful integration of mergers and acquisitions;
• “expand opportunities for a broad range of businesses in an extensive network of suppliers; [and]
• “have a positive effect on the quality of life in the communities in which we operate through our support of education and health and human services programs,” the company says.

History of Expansion
The history of Fluor begins in 1912, when it was founded to perform engineering and construction work for the petroleum industry. Throughout the 1920s, the company developed process construction experience in the oil and gas sectors. Fluor built refineries throughout Texas, Indiana, Missouri and Illinois during the 1930s, and by the onset of World War II it had contracts to build refineries and natural gas plants in Venezuela, Canada and Saudi Arabia.

The end of the war brought with it the dawn of the nuclear age, and Fluor began taking on nuclear power contracts for the U.S. government. This was in addition to numerous energy and petrochemical projects around the world, and by the end of the 1950s, Fluor had offices around the globe. Offshore drilling and mining were added to the company’s expertise during the 1960s, and Fluor’s portfolio includes the Alaskan pipeline and the world’s largest offshore facility. The company also built the first oil refinery in South Korea during this period. International natural resource management became one of Fluor’s chief interests during the 1970s.

Design/build construction was added to the company’s capabilities in the 1980s with the acquisition of Daniel International Corp. The company recently relocated its world headquarters from Southern California to the Dallas/Fort Worth area.