POWER OF ATTORNEY
BY
SECTION 16 REPORTING PERSON OF
THE SHAW GROUP INC.

______________________________________________________________________________

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

STATE OF LOUISIANA

PARISH/COUNTY OF EAST BATON ROUGE


BE IT KNOWN, that effective as of October 20, 2011;

BEFORE ME, the undersigned Notary Public, duly commissioned and qualified in and
for the aforementioned Parish/County and State, and in the presence of the
competent witnesses hereinafter named and undersigned;

PERSONALLY CAME AND APPEARED:  Stephen R. Tritch, the undersigned competent
individual, who is an officer and/or a director of The Shaw Group Inc., a
Louisiana corporation whose stock is publicly traded on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol "SHAW," (the "Company"),

WHO DECLARED, that the undersigned does hereby constitute and appoint each JOHN
DONOFRIO, REGINA N. HAMILTON, DEBRA J. ROBERSON, and THERESA MEYERS, each acting
individually, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full
power and authority as hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned to:

(1)	prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file for and on behalf of the
undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of the
Company, Forms 3, 4, and 5 (including any amendments thereto) with respect to
the securities of the Company with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission ("SEC"), any national securities exchanges or similar authority, as
considered necessary or advisable under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended
from time to time (the "Exchange Act"); and
(2)	seek or obtain, from any third party, as the undersigned's representative
and on the undersigned's behalf, current and historical information on direct
and indirect holdings and transactions in the Company's securities or other
rights with respect to the Company's securities, whether the Company awarded the
securities or rights to the undersigned or the undersigned obtained the Company
securities from a source other than the Company; such information sources may
include, but are not limited to, brokers, employee benefit plan administrators
and trustees;  the undersigned hereby authorizes any such party to release the
information to any the individuals designated herein as the undersigned's
attorney-in-fact, but only for the purpose of reporting to the SEC or other
regulatory body as required by law; and the undersigned and approves and
ratifies any such release of information; and
(3)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that in
the discretion of such attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable in connection
with the foregoing; and
(4)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's sole and absolute discretion.

The undersigned acknowledges that:

(1)	this Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, each such
attorney-in-fact to act in their discretion on information provided to such
attorney-in-fact without independent verification of such information;

(2)	any documents prepared and/or executed by any such attorney-in-fact on
behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney will be in such
form and will contain such information and disclosure as such attorney-in-fact,
in his sole and absolute discretion, deems necessary, desirable or beneficial;

(3)	neither the Company nor any of the attorneys-in-fact assumes (i) any
liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the requirement of
the Exchange Act; (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to
comply with such requirements; or (iii) any obligation or liability of the
undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and


(4)	this Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility
for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under the Exchange Act,
including but not limited to the reporting requirements under Section 16 of the
Exchange Act.

The undersigned hereby gives and grants to each of the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform all and every act
and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, proper or appropriate to be done in
and about the foregoing matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that each such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's
substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of
this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until revoked by
the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to each of such attorney-in-fact.
All previous Powers of Attorney appointing officers of the Company for the
purposes described in this Power of Attorney are hereby revoked.

THUS DONE AND PASSED, in the City of Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, effective
as of the day, month and year herein first above written, in the presence of the
undersigned competent witnesses who have hereunto signed their names with the
undersigned officer and/or and me, Notary.



/s/ Stephen R. Tritch
Stephen R. Tritch



WITNESSES:

/s/Donna J. Cooper
Name:  Donna J. Cooper

/s/ Grace N. Frantz
Name:  Grace N. Frantz



/s/ Regina N. Hamilton
NOTARY PUBLIC
Name: Regina N. Hamilton
Bar Roll Number: 22791
My Commission Expires: At Death


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