Austrian construction company Strabag SE (STR.VI) Friday said it received a contract to design and build the majority of a tunneling and civil works at a power plant in Chile, southeast of Santiago.

MAIN FACTS:

-The contract is worth around $490 million and involves work on the Alto Maipo Hydroelectrical Power Plant.

-The client is a subsidiary of Chile based AES Gener (AESGENER.SN), which is owned by the AES Corporation (AES) in the U.S..

-The works include the detail design engineering and construction of underground and civil works of the two hydroelectric plants Alfalfal II and Las Lajas.

-The design and construction period starts in Nov 2012 and will last for about four and a half years.

-The hydroelectric complex will have a total capacity of around 531 megawatt.

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