The new center, to include the 2,000-seat Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and the 500-seat Samueli Theater, will be designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates of New York City and constructed by Fluor. It will be built under a lump-sum contract that will provide a corporate guarantee that the project will be built within budget, according to a statement from the performing arts center.

Paul F. Folino, chairman of the board of directors of the center, noted that Fluor has already been providing pre-construction services like development strategies and construction cost estimates in connection with the planned expansion. Fluor was one of the founding members of the center in the 1970s, noted J. Robert Fluor II, president of the Fluor Foundation.

No specific date has been set for the beginning of construction, but a center spokesperson tells GlobeSt.com that construction will probably begin before summer and that the project is scheduled to take 36 months to build. The existing performing arts center, near the South Coast Plaza shopping center, includes a 3,000-seat opera house and 250-seat theater on a six-acre site. The expansion, also on a six-acre site, will include rehearsal halls, full-service restaurant and space for corporate and organizational receptions, meetings or banquets.

Pelli has designed prominent structures throughout the world, including the World Financial Center and the Carnegie Hall Tower, both in Manhattan, and the world's tallest buildings, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Fluor is a Fortune 500 company with revenues of $10 billion in fiscal year 2002. It provides services on a global basis in the fields of engineering, procurement, construction, operations, maintenance and project management.

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