SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is gearing up for a major push to land more U.S. infrastructure work, but the Montreal engineering and construction giant is facing scrutiny over potential delays to a major project in its home country and negative 2020 results from cost impacts on remaining fixed-price transit projects.

媒体报道称，该公司在一月份告诉渥太华的城市官员，其13亿美元的项目延长了Trillium Light Rail Line的范围差不多四个月。这将延迟将为卡尔顿大学服务的扩展线重新开放，直到2022年计划的2023年开始。

Ottawa city officials have responded to potential delays by launching an independent review, while also scrambling to keep the project on track and minimize any further schedule issues.

That review points to a significantly smaller delay estimated at 40 days, but with “many qualifications,” said Michael Morgan, director of Ottawa’s rail construction program, in a statement to ENR.

摩根引用了许多“压力点”，包括在两个路线位置建造新的等级分离，从而通过线列车越过了延伸线的线。

SNC-Lavalin通信总监Mandy Downes在一封电子邮件中说，潜在的延迟与“制造业和供应链”有关。“我们仍在评估影响的损失，同时减轻时间表的延迟，无论我们可能在哪里。”

他告诉分析师，该公司在3月9日宣布该公司的年度业绩时告诉分析师，该公司在大渥太华项目中面临的挑战是在扩大美国市场业务的重大努力。

Targeting U.S. Infrastructure

The company said it plans to expand its infrastructure business in the U.S., with plans to focus on southern states, the Northeast, the Pacific Northwest and California.

爱德华兹（Edwards）表示，该公司拥有5,000名美国员工，他还希望在美国能源部（Energy Dept）建立“非常强大的”核环境管理业务，同时也寻求潜在的竞技管理基础设施大型企业。

他告诉分析师，在2020年，SNC-Lavalin的70亿美元收入中约有20％来自美国，“我们从联邦政府投资中看到了巨大的潜力”。

自2019年以来，该公司一直在对加拿大引起高级政治动荡的贿赂指控的多年争议，并导致了行政套房的变化。

SNC-Lavalin现在正在制定计划，以提高其更有利可图的工程运营，同时退出有风险的固定价格建设。

爱德华兹（Edwards）在2月份指出，将该公司的石油和天然气业务出售给肯特技术公司的持股。他说，Trillium Project，多伦多的Eglinton轻轨项目和蒙特利尔的REM Transit项目，SNC-Lavalin是财团的负责人，是剩下的四个固定价格项目中的三个可以完成，约为18亿美元的收入。18luck官网

Edwards said the three Canada jobs "are in good shape for us as we move through this year and obviously move to close them out.”

SNC-Lavalin still seeks to negotiate with owners through midyear to recover losses it attributes to the COVID-19 pandemic, "which we think we're contractually entitled to," said CFO Jeff Bell. Noting the projects' complex contracts, Edwards said "I wouldn't want to get into a commitment as to when we're going to see those recoveries, but we are in good positive dialogue with our customers."

The company reported a fourth-quarter 2020 loss of $702 million on revenue of $1.7 billion, with the revenue total down 14% from 2019 and about $200 million less than analysts' prediction, but the loss was more than double that of the same quarter in 2019.

SNC-Lavalin总计2020年收入下降了8.25％，至70亿美元。净亏损为9.65亿美元，而2019年的利润为3.28亿美元。

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But Edwards also noted new efforts with clients "to develop new risk-capped contracting models," noting one such approach in its award of a $1.3-billion contract to design and build Phase 2 of the U.K. East-West Rail project, one of the country's largest.

"This project features a new alliance contracting model in which all partners work as an integrated team and the risks are shared and capped," he said. "It signals a new collaborative way of working with partners and clients and it's the model that we hope to replicate for other projects in other countries."

爱德华兹（Edwards）说：“这正是我们想要将未来提供主要项目的能力定位的地方。这是我们的责任合同...不是[笨蛋，交钥匙]。我们根据18luck官网联盟，一种目标成本基础。我们与其他两家合资公司合作。”

He said, that "by repositioning ourselves into this kind of project, we can fill the space that's been left by exiting LSTK [contractong] and use our capability."

爱德华兹补充说：“实际上，我们看到这种合作的风险限制方法在许多其他国家以及许多其他客户和政府中都采用了主要的基础设施，尤其是加拿大，澳大利亚，其中一些地方，美国和整个英国。”