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	Meeting Information
CHICAGO BRIDGE & IRON COMPANY N.V.	Meeting Type:	Annual Meeting
CHICAGO BRIDGE & IRON COMPANY N.V.	For holders as of:	March 9, 2017
CHICAGO BRIDGE & IRON COMPANY N.V. C/O CB&I 2103 RESEARCH FOREST DRIVE THE WOODLANDS, TX 77380	Date: May 3, 2017	Time: 2:00 p.m., Local Time
	Location:	InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam, Professor Tulpplein 1 1018 GX Amsterdam The Netherlands
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			NOTICE OF AND AGENDA FOR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD MAY 3, 2017
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	To the shareholders of: Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. You are hereby notified that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the "Annual Meeting") of Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. (the "Company") will be held at the InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam, Professor Tulpplein 1, 1018 GX Amsterdam, The Netherlands at 2:00 p.m., local time, on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, for the following purposes:



	1.	To elect one member of our Supervisory Board to serve until the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2019. Our Supervisory Board recommends the election of Forbes I.J. Alexander to fill this position;
	2.	To elect three members of our Supervisory Board to serve until the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2020. Our Supervisory Board recommends the election of James R. Bolch, Larry D. McVay, and Marsha C. Williams to fill these positions;
	3.	To approve, by non-binding vote, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers;
	4.	To authorize the preparation of our Dutch statutory annual accounts and the annual report of our Management Board in the English language, to discuss our annual report of the Management Board for the year ended December 31, 2016, and to adopt our Dutch statutory annual accounts for the year ended December 31, 2016;
	5.	To approve the final distribution to shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2016, in an amount of $0.28 per share, which has previously been paid to shareholders in the form of interim distributions;
	6.	To discharge the sole member of our Management Board from liability in respect of the exercise of its duties during the year ended December 31, 2016;
	7.	To discharge the members of our Supervisory Board from liability in respect of the exercise of their duties during the year ended December 31, 2016;
	8.	To appoint Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm, who will audit our accounts for the year ending December 31, 2017;
	9.	To approve the extension of the authority of our Management Board, acting with the approval of our Supervisory Board, to repurchase up to 10% of our issued share capital until November 3, 2018, on the open market, through privately negotiated transactions or in one or more self-tender offers for a price per share not less than the nominal value of a share and not higher than 110% of the most recent available (as of the time of repurchase) price of a share on any securities exchange where our shares are traded; and
	10.	To approve the extension of the authority of our Supervisory Board to issue shares and/or grant rights to acquire our shares (including options to subscribe for shares), never to exceed the number of authorized but unissued shares, and to limit or exclude the preemptive rights of shareholders with respect to the issuance of shares and/or the grant of rights to acquire shares, until May 3, 2022.



	Other Agenda Item
	To discuss our dividend policy.
	Our Dutch statutory annual accounts and the annual report of the Management Board, our Annual Report on Form 10-K, the charters of each of our Audit, Nominating, Organization and Compensation, Corporate Governance and Strategic Initiatives Committees, our Corporate Governance Guidelines and our Code of Ethics can be accessed through our website, www.cbi.com, and, along with directions to attend the Annual Meeting, may be obtained free of charge by request to our principal executive offices at Prinses Beatrixlaan 35, 2595 AK The Hague, The Netherlands, and at our administrative offices c/o CB&I, 2103 Research Forest Drive, The Woodlands, TX 77380-2624, Attn: Investor Relations. Copies of the documents listed above are also available for inspection by shareholders free of charge at our offices in The Hague listed above.
		Walter G. Browning
		Secretary