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  • Operator

  • Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the second quarter 2012 Tutor Perini Corporation's earnings conference call. My name is Sonja, and I will be your operator for today. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session.

  • (Operator Instructions)

  • I would now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Mr. Mike Kershaw, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Please proceed.

  • - EVP & CFO

  • Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us on Tutor Perini's second quarter 2012 conference call. With us today are Ronald Tutor, our Chairman and CEO; and our President, Robert Band.

  • Before we start, I'd like to remind our listeners that our comments today will contain certain forward-looking statements, including statements about future guidance. Management may also make additional forward-looking statements in response to your questions. These types of written and oral disclosures are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provision contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

  • Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated results. The Company cautions that any such forward-looking statements are based upon assumptions that the Company believes are reasonable but that are subject to a wide range of risks, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are discussed in detail in our filings with the SEC, including Tutor Perini's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, a definitive proxy statement filed on April 19, 2012 as well as in today's news release. Statements on this call are made as of today, August 6, 2012, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements contained in the call, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in an expectations or otherwise.

  • Having said that, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to our Chairman and CEO, Ron Tutor.

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us on the call.

  • As you saw on our earnings press release, we were required to take a non-cash goodwill and intangible asset impairment charge in the second quarter, triggered by sustained decrease in our stock price and impacted by the overall economic environment in which we operate continuous negative outlook in equity markets in general and the timing of the award and start of new work. These accounting rules require we consider each of these factors in determining the timing and magnitude of a potential impairment. These circumstances and the analysis are simply beyond our control, and while the impairment is significant in size, it's not always logical to the principles of the Company.

  • It is not a result of our contract execution in the past or future or in any way indicating of our outlook for the business. I am disappointed with our having to take the impairment, but I'm as positive about the future of our businesses as I have ever been. We are competitive and financially strong. The impairment has no effect on our cash position or our cash flows or certainly our ability to execute our existing work or compete for future opportunities.

  • The second quarter diluted earnings per share, excluding the impairment charge, was $0.16, down $0.25 from the second quarter. With the exception of our building group, our operating results for the first half of the year approximate our expectations based on the backlog that we started with. Overall, our execution remains strong and our longer-term outlook remains positive, although we continue to suffer from the pressures of our building business, the diminished amount of work available and the intense pressure on margins in the building group.

  • However, we have had a number of recent large awards and low bids, those being the $239 million Chinatown station in San Francisco and the $235 million Verrazano Bridge upper deck replacement in New York, as well as our Fort Lauderdale group was awarded the $178 million Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Just last week, we were awarded a $94 million contract for a faculty office building and informed we were awarded a $102 million dormitory in Philadelphia to our Keating group. These recently announced awards, we are starting to see significant increases to our backlog, and frankly, the product of the extensive bidding we are doing on a national scale. In addition, we have seen some of our longer-term bending awards being converted in the backlog.

  • While all of this provides an excellent foundation for earnings in 2013 and beyond, continued delays in our building performance has led us to lower our guidance for the balance of the year. Mr. Kershaw will discuss the details later in the financial performance overview.

  • Operating losses in the building group are a result of lower than expected backlog, revenue and margin pressures caused by a marketplace in which we have been forced to reduce our fee in order to be competitive. We are proceeding on schedule at the Hudson Yards development in Midtown Manhattan. Work continues to progress at the residential tower 500 West 30th Street, and we expect in October or thereabouts to break ground on the Tower C development, which is an $800 million office building for Related. That contract we expect to sign during the month of August.

  • We have specifically identified and are tracking approximately $20 billion of targeted projects in our Building group, a number of which related to existing customer and a significant dollar volume with Genting, who we built the Aqueduct Casino for, as you know, last year. These projects will be proposed upon in the next 12 months, 60% of which are in the private sector, and 40% in the public sector.

  • Our Civil group continues to be a significant area of growth. The large volume of significant infrastructure projects, the limited bid lists, and the qualifications for this project remains high and we do not expect this to tail off for the rest of the year. We intent on pursuing these large transportation jobs that have been federally funded we believe to stimulate the company -- economy.

  • As a matter of fact, over a period from August 1 through the end of October, we expect to propose on over $9 billion worth of civil work during that 90 day period, all of which will be limited pre qualified bidders and hopefully a significant amount of which will fall on to our plate. The $5 billion Tappan Zee bids replacement has been bit, the $1.5 billion East End D3 crossing for the Indiana Finance Authority will be proposed upon by the end of October, and the first phase of the $5 billion cap California high speed rail project remains on schedule for bidding in the fourth quarter. Recently, the first phase of the California high-speed rail project was signed by the governor providing, approximately $13 billion in funding through bond, federal and local.

  • We estimate the size of prospective opportunities that we intend to propose for in our civil infrastructure market to be in excess of $15 billion for projects bid over the next 12 months. Specialty contractors group has an active pipeline of $6.5 billion in targeted projects bidding within the next 12 months in their markets only. Building and Civil groups continue to utilize our specialty contractors in our integrated approach to building and executing large-scale work. This collectric was recently awarded $151 million in new sub-contract work for several projects, including the SR 99 Bored Tunnel project in Seattle, Washington as well as the Marriott Hotel in Las Vegas and other work performed for Tutor Perini's companies. This is evidence of our vertical capabilities and integrated approach to executing large-scale work.

  • We ended the quarter with $5.9 billion of backlog, the mix being 37% building, 33% civil, 25% specialty and the balance management services. New contract awards and adjustments to contract during the second quarter added approximately $900 million to backlog. Currently, we have approximately $4.8 billion in pending awards including $2.5 billion in mixed-use, $885 million in hospitality and gaming, $419 million in education, $296 million in highways and transportation, $236 million in bridges, and $202 million in healthcare. These awards are expected to enter our backlog over the next two quarters.

  • In relation to the MGM Center litigation, during the second quarter, the court determined that MGM can demolish the Harmon tower as a business decision, but doing so would not in any way be the result of any actions by Tutor Perini Building Corporation or their reinforcing steel subcontractors during the construction of the project. And that the court's decision is not a determination as to whether any design defects exist or any noncompliance with code exist. Tutor Perini remains confident we will prevail when the issues of safety, repairability and responsibility are dealt with on the Harmon.

  • John A. Martin, a nationally known and renowned structural engineering firm that has the most experience in designing high rise towers on the Las Vegas strip, testified at the hearing, finding the Harmon tower suffers from substantial defects that are MGM's design engineers' responsibility. The evidence at the hearing established that the Harmon tower can be fully repaired for approximately $21 million with more than $15 million of which due to design defects that are MGM's responsibility. We feel stronger than ever that this evidence will support our prevailing in the case.

  • Now I would like Bob Band to share details of management services.

  • - President, CEO, Management Services Group

  • In the management services segment, we are currently continuing to participate in nine multi year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts to several US government agencies. The aggregate program value for these IDIQ contracts is in excess of $15 billion for all participants. These programs include the U.S. Navy Mac program for the relocation of the US Marines from Okinawa to Guam, US Department of State worldwide construction project contract for containerized housing and offices, two USAID contracts, one for vertical structures and another for water and energy contracts both in Afghanistan, the central command MATOC program for the US Army Corps of Engineers Middle East district, the US Coast Guard Department of Homeland Security, Mac for agencies such as FEMA in ICE and the Fish and Wildlife Service Mac for the Department of the Interior and the SATOC and HERC contracts with the US Air Force.

  • We are working under these contracts currently and actively pursuing new projects under all of these programs, which provide us with greater visibility into our new work pipeline in 2012, 2013 and beyond. We estimate the size of prospective opportunities in our management services group target market be approximately $3 billion for projects that could be bid over the next 12 months. We continue to seek additional social multiple award contracts from US government agencies both overseas and domestically as well as pursue major full and open competitions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti and other countries from various US agencies.

  • We are currently in backlog continues to produce solid results on target the $115 million task order under the State Department's containerized housing and office facilities in southern Iraq is achieving good progress, and the $75 million task order under the Navy Mac for a Nacraft parking apron at Anderson is well under way. In Iraq, we have been awarded a $55 million overhead cover project by the US Army Corps of Engineers. And in Haiti, we have been awarded $12.7 million electrification project by USAID.

  • And in Afghanistan, we were recently awarded a $94 million contract for the upgrade to the southern electric power system consisting of upgrades to an existing electrical overhead transmission system and the construction of electrical substations in Afghanistan. In the US, we have been awarded over $17 million of contract completion work by a surety clients, and we anticipate increased activity in Haiti, Afghanistan and Guam as well as increased assignments from our US surety clients.

  • Now Mike will give you the financial details for the quarter.

  • - EVP & CFO

  • Revenues for the quarter were $985 million, a 20% increase from $820 million reported in the second quarter a year ago. Our revenue growth in the second quarter is primarily driven by acquisitions, offset by the substantial completion of several successful large building and civil public works projects in 2011. Total gross profit was $87 million, unchanged from the second quarter of 2011. Overall gross profit margins decreased from 10.6% in the second quarter of 2011 to 8.8%, reflecting the favorable close out of projects in 2011 and a decrease in the new work margin mix.

  • General and administrative expenses were $65 million, up from $50 million from the second quarter of 2011. The increase reflecting companies acquired that were not included in the second quarter of 2011.

  • As Ron mentioned, results for the second quarter included in the impairment charge. We will discuss income from construction operations, net income and EPS on a pre impairment charge basis in order to enable users of the information to better compare normal operating results of each segment between the two periods. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to income from construction operations, net income and earnings per share prepared on a GAAP basis is provided in our earnings press release.

  • We had income from construction operation of $22 million, a 40% decrease from $37 million in the second quarter of 2011. Operating margins were 2.3% down from 4.5% a year ago. Net income was $7.5 million compared to net income of $19.7 million in the second quarter of 2011. Diluted earnings per share was $0.16 compared to $0.41 for the second quarter of 2011.

  • Revenues from our Building group were $330 million, a 37% decrease in the second quarter of 2011. The Building group experienced a decline in volume, primarily due to the substantial completion of a large, successful public works project in Las Vegas and the completion of large hospitality and gaming projects in New York and Las Vegas. The building group reported a loss from construction operations of $14.5 million, down from income of $23.6 million in the second quarter of 2011, due primarily to the decline in volume previously mentioned.

  • Favorable close out of certain projects in 2011 and the current absorption of our G&A expenses as we anticipate the start of high quality pending awards and prospect projects led by the Hudson Yards development in New York. The margins have also been impacted by the change in the mix of work to the more competitive private market.

  • Revenues from our civil group were $324 million, an increase of 121% from $146 million reported second-quarter of 2011. The increase is primarily due to the acquisition of Frontier-Kemper and Lunda and the ramp up of infrastructure projects on the West Coast in 2012. Civil group income from construction operations was $25.7 million in the quarter, a 73% increase from $14.9 million in the second quarter of 2011. Operating margins were 8% compared to 10.2% in the second quarter of 2011. A decrease in margins is primarily due to favorable margins achieved in the close out of public works projects on the East Coast in 2011.

  • Revenues from our specialty contractors group were $276 million, and income from construction operations was $19.9 million, the majority of which was generated by our recent acquisitions. Operating margins of 7.2% for the quarter reflected the strong performance on some of our New York area projects during the period.

  • Revenues from management services were $56 million, a decrease of 9% from $61 million reported in the second quarter of 2011. The decrease is due primarily to the timing of progress on a task order contract for containerized housing in southern Iraq, offset by the ramp up of recent awards. Management services income from construction operations was $1.9 million, a decrease of 72% from $6.5 million in the second quarter of 2011. Operating margins decreased to 3.3% compared to 10.7% in the second quarter of 2011, primarily due to the favorable close out on certain projects in Iraq in 2011 and the timing of progress on the task order previously mentioned.

  • Interest expense increased $10.6 million from $7.3 million in the second quarter of 2011, due primarily to increased interest expense on our term loan which was entered into in August 2011. We had an income tax benefit of $15 million for the quarter compared to a provision of $11 million in the second quarter of 2011. The benefit for the period includes the tax effect of the impairment charge based on the estimated annual effective tax rate of 3.9% resulting in a reduction of our provision for income taxes by approximately $21 million during the period. Excluding the impact of the impairment charge, our effective tax rate for the year is estimated to approximate 39.5%.

  • Our previous guidance was weighted towards the back end of the year and was predicated on certain assumptions around the award of work in the first half of the year. That would create improved financial result in Q3 and especially in Q4. As Ron mentioned earlier, the timing of new awards has impacted our results, extending the down cycle we have been experiencing and leading to a negative impact on our short term financial outlook. As a result, we are lowering guidance for 2012 to estimated revenues in the range of $4 billion to $4.5 billion. And excluding the impairment charge and nonrecurring items disclosed in the first quarter, diluted earnings to estimated range of $1.50 to $1.70 per share.

  • Looking at the balance sheet at June 30, 2012, our working capital stood at $592 million, which includes $185 million in cash and cash equivalents up $35 million from $557 million of working capital at December 31, 2011, which included $204 million in cash and cash equivalents. As a result of the impairment charge and our revised short-term outlook, we amended our credit agreement to provide more favorable covenant ratios in the future. We're comfortable the amended credit line provides us sufficient liquidity to support our business. The current ratio increased from 1.4% at December 31, 2011 to 1.45%.

  • During the second quarter of 2011, operating activities used $7 million of cash, cash generated through our civil specialty groups was offset by cash used in building and management services during the period. At June 30, 2012, long-term debt excluding the current portion was at $625 million, which is an increase of $13 million from December 31, 2011.

  • I will now turn the call over to Ron for closing comments.

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • As you can see from Mike's report, our building group sustained a tremendous downturn from a $23.6 million profit in 2012 to a $14.5 million loss. That was almost entirely based on reduce revenue and reduced margins and the inability to absorb their own G&A. It was very disconcerting to us; however, that is the building market we are in. And hopefully with the ramp up at Hudson Yards and some of the other projects we've currently been awarded, we can get our building group back to acceptable levels by the first or second quarter in 2013.

  • Further support for our civil and specialty groups is the fact we were able to absorb these losses in the building group and meet all the rest of our expectations. Notwithstanding those statements, we are facing in our industry which I believe would be supported by all of the major players in civil work, an unprecedented level of very large work opportunity with limited bid lists because of limited capacity in this business, we expect to provide significant profit and cash flow streams for the next four to five years. Virtually every billion dollar and multi billion dollar civil job we are bidding is a four to five-year commitment with the kind of revenues and margins that should be able to make up for some of the many difficulties inherent in our building operations.

  • This concludes our prepared remarks, now we will take questions.

  • Operator

  • (Operator Instructions)

  • Richard Paget, Imperial Capital.

  • - Analyst

  • Good afternoon, everyone. Ron, maybe you could talk a little bit about your expectations for building, I think you said getting back to better profitability in the first quarter next year, does that suggest the second half of this year that you're going to be losing money or just a depressed margin but still making a little bit?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • I think we would do well to break even in the second half because we have been awarded -- we will start the first major phase of Hudson Yards probably in October. It's all about generating revenue, and that should generate revenue in the final quarter. We started the Marriott Hotel in Las Vegas. We started the Graton Casino, we have a number of awards that have started, but I don't think we will see significant enough revenue to offset the G&A that even though it has been pared down, we're probably still looking, at best, to break even in the second half and probably more than likely a small loss in the building group.

  • - Analyst

  • With that G&A, you had to hold that just because of these projects going forward, or was it you were bidding more work out there?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • What it really is, is we have worked hard to trim our G&A back to a minimum operating size. However, we have all these projects with billions of dollars of potential revenue, and even at reduced profits that should take it back into the black, and I can't eliminate groups and then when the contracts are awarded, we got trapped where we cut our G&A to what we thought we could live with, and we simply were not able to absorb it with the revenue that went. Rather than, frankly, cut them back further where we would not be able to execute these large awards, we are basically weathering a poor year in the building business in 2012. You got to remember that business is what helped get us where we were before we took our civil and specialty groups and changed the complexion of the company.

  • - Analyst

  • You mentioned you're bidding on $5 billion in civil over the next 90 days --

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • Actually it was $8 billion or $9 billion.

  • - Analyst

  • Regardless, you had the $1.5 billion East End in October. Any other large projects -- ?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • The Tappan Zee project went in at approximately $5 billion two weeks ago and we're waiting for that result, and then the California high-speed rail, we're pre qualified, there's five jobs. The first one bids, I think it got postponed from the end of September to the first of November, and that is $1.5 billion, and we're turning in a $1 billion bid in New York in August and waiting for an $800 million notice on a job that we have tendered and not have been told. The amount of civil work bidding in the last half of this year is unlike anything our industry has ever seen. We are on a six and seven day engineering at estimating group commitment as we speak.

  • - Analyst

  • Do have any sense and why the Hudson River Bridge dropped out of the Tappan Zee bid?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • You mean the why Dragados did?

  • - Analyst

  • Yes.

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • It's because they shouldn't have been in it in the first place.

  • - Analyst

  • Finally, Mike, with the amendment of the credit agreement, what does that do in terms of your cost?

  • - EVP & CFO

  • It gave us higher covenant ratios and obviously on the pricing grid for those ones, it pushes it up if we end up staying at sustained higher levels than we currently got. Where we were, as you know, the agreement rachets down from 3 to 2.5 previously between now and Q3, and with the work Ron is talking about with the ramp up going on, we needed some relief, so we got higher ratios for the near-term future. The pricing will be dependent on where we are in the use of the line. We have included those updates in essence in our guidance.

  • - Analyst

  • Okay, thanks.

  • Operator

  • Brandon Verblow, UBS.

  • - Analyst

  • Good afternoon. My first question is about guidance. I guess it is implying a bigger ramp up in the second half. You mentioned Hudson Yards is going to ramp up, I was wondering what other things you are expecting to hit those numbers, whether it's additional projects or change orders in civil which I think you talked about last quarter?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • If you look at the jobs we have pending, not only the low bids but pending awards, they're very significant, and we expect those to be executed and actually commence work by no later than the fourth quarter with literally $3 billion or $4 billion worth of work and a great deal of low bids. Those were all in place in June and July and we expect those to go into the ground. The third or fourth quarter has always been our biggest quarters in the past anyway.

  • - Analyst

  • And the pending awards, were those the ones you announced in July?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • Yes.

  • - Analyst

  • Also on Hudson Yards, what hurdles are still left before you get the full go-ahead on the scope of that project?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • We are in negotiations with the owner for the balance of Hudson Yards which is approximately $2 billion of additional work. It will depend on whether they are able to consummate a lease for the remaining tower, which they are working on. We hope to have an answer within the next 60 to 90 days if, in fact, they are fortunate enough to lease that tower. They will proceed with not only the tower but the platform and the retail, which will be in the neighborhood of $2 billion of additional work that should start next summer. However, it will be contingent upon their ability to consummate a lease agreement.

  • - Analyst

  • Okay, so you could receive the booking around the time they consummate that lease agreement?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • Yes. If that gets accomplished, and I say if as well as when, we would get the contract and it would enter into backlog.

  • - Analyst

  • Okay. My last question relates to the government segment. What is the pace of a new project award looking like in Iraq and Afghanistan and Guam? You mentioned a bunch of indefinite-delivery contracts.

  • - President, CEO, Management Services Group

  • Just to respond, the pace is slow and the bidding rate is aggressive, especially as we roll up to the end of the governments fiscal year September 30. The time it is taking to get a job actually awarded is stretching out, and that is the government's attention to detail to try to avoid as many protests as they can. We were just awarded, as you know, that $94 million power transmission project, and there are some additional projects in that same region adjacent to it. That is good news for us. Also, in Haiti there is some activity and the US Embassy is looking at its own housing needs, and we'll rebid that job. Originally that was bid and not awarded and that will come out shortly. There is some work right in Baghdad for the US Embassy, so there is quite a pace but the problem has been, once you bid it, to get the award is taking a little longer than normal.

  • - Analyst

  • Okay, so the timing of some of those awards you talked about, do you see it being slow until after the election?

  • - President, CEO, Management Services Group

  • A lot of the funding is good to through government's fiscal year September 30. In September, there is typically a rush to award projects that have previously been bid. And we are looking forward to that.

  • - Analyst

  • Okay, thanks.

  • Operator

  • John Rogers, D.A. Davidson.

  • - Analyst

  • Good afternoon. In terms of the civil business, with all of this work bidding, can you give a sense of what you think your capacity is to do work? At what point do you start getting to where you have to back off on bids or -- what are you capable of?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • Let's hope I have that issue. We have proposed on Tappan Zee at $5 billion and will propose on California high-speed rail, and Indiana River bridges. The three of those would total over $8 billion.

  • - Analyst

  • Is that Tutor Perini's portion of it or the total value?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • That is the total but we are either co managers or sponsors which means we're responsible for managing, manning, and putting the people on it whether we have 100% or 50%. If you took half of that $8 billion, $4 billion would go into our backlog. Approximately, by the time you average them all, we are about half, but we are either construction manager or managing partner of all of them. We have a huge burden if we get those three projects. I believe we would continue to bid certain major projects, but we would steer it toward areas where we have people available.

  • We have a very large civil organization, particularly on the East Coast but even secondarily on the West Coast, and there are so few of us remaining that frankly can do $1 billion plus civil job, that we just continue to pursue those opportunities and treat the margins accordingly. Are we going to get everything we bid? I hope so, but I doubt it. I think we could handle all three of those if we were that fortunate and I would probably look very candidly at individual jobs and see how they fit. There's no question it would impact how much more we would take or how aggressive we would be.

  • - Analyst

  • Okay. On the building segment, the loss for the quarter, I guess especially for the quarter, were there any project charges of any significance?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • We took one write-down in one division on the project we hope to recover through litigation, but other than one through the Rudolph and Sletten organization, it was almost entirely their inability to absorb their own G&A, which was really a pathetic situation to be in and hopefully it won't be for long.

  • - Analyst

  • Okay. In terms of your stock sales, any comments there or plans, et cetera?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • No, I'm still trying to sell my movie interests and getting dangerously close, but other than to comment on that -- if I had a sale, it would be 50,000 or 100,000 shares, nothing of significance.

  • - Analyst

  • Thank you very much and good luck with the bid.

  • Operator

  • Richard Paget, Imperial Capital.

  • - Analyst

  • A quick follow-up, I just wanted to get your take on any impact with the highway bill? I realize it's a large project market, those wheels have been in motion for a while, but with a longer term bill and even though the money amounts are the same, I was wondering if you were seeing any change in the demeanor of the DOTs and if the bigger TIFIA loans are helping move things forward?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • They have really been pushing things forward almost to a point, it is like a challenge to the industry's capacity, and their zeal to get work bid and out into the pipelines I'm sure in support of employment, not the least of which is the terrible state of our infrastructure. It's not as if it's not needed, but they are pushing out work on us and the industry that is straining our ability to bid. Tough timelines and bid dates don't move, it has been a hellacious few months, and it promises to be through Thanksgiving.

  • - Analyst

  • It sounds like once that bill went through they did start moving?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • They have started. You won't will talk to anyone in our industry that won't tell you they have overwhelmed the civil industry with major transportation opportunities all over the US.

  • - Analyst

  • Okay. Would you expect to file the Q.

  • - EVP & CFO

  • As soon as we can. Detailed tagging takes a while with XBRL. That's our only hold up. We should be filed no later than first thing tomorrow morning.

  • - Analyst

  • That's all I've got.

  • - EVP & CFO

  • Do we have any more questions?

  • Operator

  • Philip Volpicelli, Deutsche Bank.

  • - Analyst

  • If you could give us the D&A, the current portion of long-term debt and the revolver availability?

  • - EVP & CFO

  • The revolver availability, we will pull up the piece of information we have got, the short-term I think is about $60 million, something like that for the short term debt. The second one, the availability is we have $300 million as our coverage and we have withdrawn $40 million at the quarter close, so we have about $250 million in capacity.

  • - Analyst

  • As you think about the business, how much working capital -- I know this is a hard question, but how much working capital is required every time you guys launch one of these large projects like Hudson Yards or Tappan Zee. Is there a metric we should use?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • No, because the reality is what I try to insist upon is we are not a financier of these owners' projects and Hudson Yards for example is the building job and even if the entire $3 billion went at once, for us to finance it and get it off the ground might be $10 million to $15 million. We get payments and insist on being current and not put in a position of financing. With something like the Tappan Zee bridge, there are payment schedules that give you mobilization. You get payments for your insurances, and most of our big civil owners understand that general contractors don't like the lenders to a project. Although there is generally a capital call, let's say a $5 billion bridge, we are partners with the Bechtel Corporation 50/50, probably our capital call might be $50 million for a period of six months, it could be more but I doubt it. Our theories are that the funding of these projects should allow us to use the owners' money to the extent the documents allow. Most documents allow prepayments, mobilization and payments for the big startups and they are not large cash draws. What we maintain large cash balances and working capital lines are for the unexpected events.

  • - Analyst

  • Great. Mike, is the amendment to the credit facility going to be in this Form 10-Q or do we have to wait for the next one?

  • - EVP & CFO

  • It's going to be in the Form 10-Q and we have full approval, 100% sign off on that last week. It is all done. The first question was about depreciation and amortization, it is $16 million for the quarter. That is about our average.

  • - Analyst

  • Perfect, thanks.

  • Operator

  • John Rogers, D.A. Davidson.

  • - Analyst

  • One follow-up, the goodwill you wrote down on the buildings group, which I guess the bulk of it, was that Rudolph and Sletten as well as Tutor? What was in there?

  • - Chairman and CEO

  • Near as I know, we practically wrote it all off.

  • - EVP & CFO

  • We ended up with some left and it really is R&S-related with the one we didn't write off.

  • - Analyst

  • Okay. Thank you.

  • Operator

  • I show no further questions.

  • - EVP & CFO

  • Thank you everybody.

  • Operator

  • Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's conference. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect. Have a wonderful day.