POWER OF ATTORNEY
        Know all by these presents, that the undersigned (the "Reporting Person") hereby constitutes and appoints 
each of Kerry J. Chauvin and Deborah Kern-Knoblock, signing individually, as the Reporting Person's true and lawful 
attorney-in-fact to:
       (1) execute for and on behalf of the Reporting Person, in the Reporting Person's capacity as an officer or
director of Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;
       (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the Reporting Person that may be necessary or 
desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and timely file such form with the United States 
Securities and Exchange Commission, and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
       (3) 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, and in the best interest of, or legally required by, the Reporting 
Person, 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 items and conditions as such 
attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.
        The Reporting Person hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform 
any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the 
rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the Reporting Person might or could do if 
personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such 
attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by 
the virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The Reporting Person acknowledges 
that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the Reporting Person, are not 
assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the Reporting Person's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of 
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
        This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the Reporting Person is no longer required to 
file Forms 3, 4 or 5 with respect to the Reporting Person's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by 
the Company, unless earlier revoked by the Reporting Person in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing 
attorneys-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Reporting Person has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed 
this 9th day of February, 2012.
/s/Roy F. Breerwood, III
Roy F. Breerwood, III