Article: AUST BUILDER LEIGHTON EXPECTS ABOUT US$ 3.7 BLN OF PJTS IN NEAR FUTURE.

SYDNEY, Nov 5 Asia Pulse - Australian construction company Leighton Holdings Ltd (ASX:LEI) expects to be awarded billions of dollars worth of new contract work in the near future on infrastructure projects and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects.

Chief executive Wall King says Leighton is the preferred contractor on a series of bids.

"There is about A$4 billion (US$3.65 billion) worth of contracts that we are sitting there as preferred, and I expect that there will be significant announcements made in the next couple of days," Mr King told journalists on Thursday.

Leighton has won about A$1 billion of contracts as a result of government ...

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