BATON ROUGE, La.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 2, 2005–The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) today announced that its Shaw Stone & Webster unit has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to retrofit the coal-fired generating Unit 6 at Dominion’s Chesterfield Station in Chester, Virginia with pollution control equipment. The retrofit will include the installation of Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD) equipment, also known as “scrubbers,” which are designed to remove over 95 percent of the unit’s sulfur dioxide emissions thereby significantly improving the air quality surrounding the facility. Engineering is already in progress and construction is expected to begin in 2006. Completion for the Chesterfield location is expected in summer 2008.

J.M. Bernhard, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Shaw, said, “This latest scrubber award furthers our leadership position in the scrubber market both logistically and in terms of a demonstrated and broad range of successful relationships in this industry. We look forward to expanding our project portfolio in the FGD market and to continuing to identify creative, effective solutions that benefit our clients and our communities.”

The Shaw Group Inc. is a leading global provider of technology, engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, fabrication, manufacturing, consulting, remediation, and facilities management services for government and private sector clients in the energy, chemical, environmental, infrastructure and emergency response markets. Headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with over $3 billion in annual revenues, Shaw employs approximately 20,000 people at its offices and operations in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. The Company was recently named to Fortune magazine’s annual list of “America’s Most Admired Companies” for the second consecutive year. For further information, please visit Shaw’s website at www.shawgrp.com.

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CONTACT: The Shaw Group Inc.
Chris D. Sammons, 225-932-2500

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