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Overview
URS Corporation is a fully integrated engineering, construction and technical services organization with the capabilities to support the full project life cycle-from inception through start-up and operation to decommissioning and closure. We offer planning, engineering and architectural design, environmental, construction, program and construction management, operations and maintenance, and management services. We also are a top-tier contractor to the U.S. federal government in the areas of systems engineering, technical assistance, operations and maintenance, and environmental management services.
URS operates through three divisions: the URS Division, the EG&G Division and the Washington Division. With an established presence in major cities in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, our comprehensive skills and expertise are a valued resource to clients around the world.
Key Facts
More than 47,000 employees
Operations in more than 30 countries
A professional staff of engineers and technical specialists with expertise in the full spectrum of engineering and environmental disciplines, as well as planners, scientists, information management specialists, architects, program and construction managers, and construction contractors
Serves U.S. state and local agencies, and governments in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East on infrastructure projects involving surface, air, mass transit and rail transportation; ports and harbors; public buildings; and water/wastewater facilities
Provides complete services from front-end studies through engineering, procurement and construction to facility management and production maintenance for industrial clients worldwide
Serves industrial clients in the automotive, chemical, consumer products, food and beverage, forest products, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, power and property development industries
A leading contractor to the U.S. Department of Defense, providing a range of engineering, technical assistance, operations and maintenance, and management services
Provides expertise in the management of threat reduction and chemical weapons demilitarization programs
A major environmental contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy, serving on the management teams of four of the largest U.S. national research laboratories, as well as managing and disposing of nuclear waste from former Cold War weapons facilities
Designs, builds, operates and maintains fossil fuel, hydropower, nuclear and alternative/renewable power generation facilities
Serves as a leading mining contractor, operating industrial, energy, minerals and metals mines
Clients
U.S. federal, state and local government agencies
Government agencies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific
Private corporations, including FORTUNE 500 companies worldwide
Business Sectors
Power
Nuclear
Fossil Fuels
Hydroelectric
Alternative and Renewable
Emissions Controls
Transmission and Distribution
Infrastructure
Air Transportation
Surface Transportation
Rail and Mass Transit
Ports and Maritime
Water Resources
Facilities
Federal
Operations and Maintenance
Installations Management and Base Operations
Military Training
Threat Reduction
Homeland Security and Disaster Response
Military and Government Facilities
Technical Services
Environmental and Nuclear Management
International Aid Programs
Industrial and Commercial
Oil and Gas
Pipelines
Chemical and Pharmaceutical
Commercial
Manufacturing
Mining
Services
Planning
Engineering
Architectural
Design
Program
and Construction Management
Procurement
Construction
Contracting
Facilities
Start-up and Management
Operations
and Maintenance
Decommissioning
and Closure
Specialty
Construction Services
Installations
Management
Logistics
Management
Environmental
Assessment and Remediation
Hazardous
and Nuclear Waste Management
Systems
Engineering
Technical
Assistance
Rankings
#264 on the FORTUNE 500 list
#3 on Engineering News-Record's (ENR) list of the Top 500 Design Firms
#5 on Building Design & Construction's Giants 300 list of Engineer/Architects
#4 on Building Design & Construction's Giants 300 list of Construction Managers
#18 on ENR's list of the Top 400 Contractors
#4 on ENR's list of the Top 200 Environmental Firms
#2 on ENR's list of the Top 150 Global Design Firms
#12 on ENR's list of the Top 100 Design-Build Firms
#32 on Defense News' list of the Top Defense Companies
Washington Division named to list of America's Safest Companies by Occupational Hazards magazine
Signature Projects
Part of consortium that built the Hoover Dam in the 1930s-the largest dam of its time, now a National Historic Landmark and rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of America's Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders
Served as program manager for the design and construction of the $2.7 billion Denver International Airport
Built the Ilijan Power Plant-a 1,200-megawatt gas turbine combined-cycle plant that is a major component of a historic program to bring the natural gas industry to the Philippines
Completed the first design-build-operate-maintain transit contract ever in the U.S. for New Jersey Transit's Hudson-Bergen Line
Constructed the most challenging section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline-153 miles north from the Port of Valdez
Provided engineering design services for major NASA space projects, including the Mars Rover and the New Horizons spacecraft designed to cross the solar system and study Pluto
Serving as program manager supporting 11 district facilities teams for the Los Angeles Unified School District's $14.4 billion school repair and reconstruction program
Serving as construction manager for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in New York City
Provided full engineering design and architectural services for the renovation of the historic, 1.4 million-square-foot National Archives Building in Washington, DC
Designed the Fred Hartman Bridge over the Houston Ship Channel in Texas-one of the most well-know cable-stayed bridges of the world
Participated on the team that completed the largest design-build highway project in U.S. history-the $1.4 billion reconstruction of Interstate 15 in Utah
Completed the $1.9 billion Cerrejon Coal Project in Colombia-at the time, one of the largest design, procurement and construction projects ever undertaken by a single contractor
Serving as the U.S. Navy's primary outside contractor for professional engineering and technical support services in support of the Virginia Class Submarine program
Serving as the flight training instructor for most U.S. Army student helicopter pilots
Gross Revenues
FY 2008 Revenues: $10.09 billion
New York Stock Exchange Symbol
URS
Corporate Headquarters
600 Montgomery Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-2728
Tel: 415.774.2700
Fax: 415.398.1905
www.urscorp.com
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