Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you, sir. (Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from Alex Rygiel – FBR Capital Markets.
Alex Rygiel – FBR Capital Markets
First, a quick clarification, Bob spoke too fast, what did you say your backlog was at the end of the quarter?
Bob Campbell
A billion seven-fifty.
Alex Rygiel – FBR Capital Markets
Perfect. And Jose, you mentioned that you did recently win six wind awards. Can you give us a little bit more color on size or customer type, anything of that nature?
Jose Mas
Yes, I think we said it at our last call that activity had been slow at the beginning of the year. Activity was real slow at the end of last year. So I think we finally started to see activity really break after the stimulus package.
We've bid well over $500 million in wind projects over the course of the last few months which is a great spiked activity and the good thing is we actually expect it to get better. We were awarded six projects. Not all of those projects are included in our backlog as some were awarded right after quarter end.
Just to put it in perspective, it's a little bit over $100 million in those six, but almost half of that 500 is still pending awards. So we don't think we'll get it all but we think we'll get a piece. So we're pretty excited about what's happening in that market.
It's coming a little later than we had hoped. We had hoped that a lot of these projects would have been awarded a little bit earlier and that we would have had a chance to get started on some in the second part of the second quarter. But I think we're seeing a lot of push-off into Q3 and Q4 and are actually already seeing a lot of activity for '10. So there's no question that the industry is getting a lot better.
Alex Rygiel – FBR Capital Markets
And you also mentioned a solar project. Congratulations on getting your first one. But could you also just help us to understand the size and scope of that project, understanding it's your first one probably not very large but could we at least just put some parameters around it?
Jose Mas
Yes, it's a small project. I think we've seen a tremendous amount of activity in the solar space. You're seeing it a lot. You obviously have a couple of leaders in that business from a development perspective and then you've got a lot of smaller companies that are really establishing themselves.
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