Wind Tower Manufacturing Plant To Be World's Largest.

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Pueblo, CO- PCL Construction Services Inc. has been awarded the contract to build the Vestas Wind Turbine Tower Manufacturing Campus in Pueblo.

Once complete in mid-2009, the tower manufacturing campus will be the largest of its kind in the world, occupying more than 600,000 square feet in its entirety and representing one of the largest single investments in Vestas history, the company said. When combined with its existing facilities in Windsor and the newly planned facilities in Brighton, Vestas will add a total of 2,500 new jobs to Colorado.

"We are thrilled to participate in a project of such complexity and scale," said Kevin Welch, PCL's senior project manager for the Vestas Towers' project. "We look forward to working closely with Vestas in making Colorado a leader in renewable energy."

The new campus on the southern edge of Pueblo will include an approximately 400,000-square-foot production facility where the tower sections will be made, an approximately 140,000-square-foot surface treatment plant where the finishes will be ...