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URS Corp. (URS) is in the Business Services Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 28 2007
- $5.3B
- Profit
- Dec 28 2007
- $132.2M
- Market Cap
- Oct 14 2008
- $2.3B
Latest News and Analysis
URS Joint Venture Awarded Contract by Entergy Operations
Contract Has Approximate Value of $120 Million to Joint Venture SAN FRANCISCO -- URS Corporation (NYSE: URS) today announced that SGT LLC, a 50-50 joint venture between URS' Washington Division and AREVA NP Inc., has been awarded a contract by Entergy Operations, Inc. to provide project management, engineering...
EnergySolutions Washington River Protection Solutions, LLC (WRPS) Officially Takes Control of Hanford's Tank Operations Contract
EnergySolutions, Inc. (NYSE: ES), amember of the WRPS team with URS' Washington Division, officially tookcontrol of the Tank Operations Contract at Hanford this week after a3-month transition period. DOE values the ten-year contract (a five-yearbase period with options to extend up to an additional five years) at $7.1billion. ...
Oliver Stone: the director's surprising new biopic of America's outgoing president provides a searing look into the psyches of not one but two polarizing, complicated men: George W. Bush and Oliver Stone
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] For many years, Oliver Stone tried to make a movie of The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand's epic novel about the arrogant ur-capitalist and architect Howard Roark. Stone's version would have reinvented Roark as a visionary designer of public buildings--maybe a guy like Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez,...
Zacks Analyst Interview Highlights: Boeing, Fluor, KBR and URS Corp
CHICAGO -- Zacks.com releases the latest Analyst Interview. Today's interview is with senior analyst John Nelson Simon, who talks about Boeing (NYSE: BA), Fluor (NYSE: FLR), KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) and URS Corp. (NYSE: URS). A synopsis of today's Analyst Interview is presented below. The full article can...
Sixth scents
As the weather gets crisper and the leaves begin to change, so should your fragrances. Replace your breezy summer smells with one of these six knockouts for fall. PRADA INFUSION D'HOMME, $100 Smells like: cedar and incense with a hint of irises. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
The Ur-Text of a Tabloid Age
It’s high season for the National Enquirer, one of the strangest and most dangerous creatures in the American media menagerie. Generoso Pope Jr., the MIT-educated founding father of America’s guiltiest pleasure, was stuck behind a long line of rubberneckers gawking at the scene of an auto accident when...
U2009 Global Uranium Symposium Announced
The U2009 Global Uranium Symposium will be held May 9-13, 2009 at the Keystone, Colorado Resort & Conference located in the scenic Rocky Mountains, a two-hour drive from Denver International Airport and near several other ski resorts, lakes and snowcapped mountains. The symposium will bring together uranium industry professionals and...
POP
Katy Perry One of the Boys VIRGIN When I say that Katy Perry is having it both ways, it isn't a reference to her pantomime bisexuality. On her second album - the first being a Christian gospel effort - Perry reinforces cliches about what it is...
URS Awarded Contract with Intelligence Community Agency
Contract Has Potential Maximum Ceiling Value of $879 Million to URS SAN FRANCISCO -- URS Corporation (NYSE: URS) today announced that it has been awarded a contract with an intelligence community agency for a program to replace and modernize the power and cooling infrastructure across the agency's facilities....
Switzerland Announces Winners of Significant Investment Projects for 2007
Merck & Company, Albany International, Intuitive Surgical, and Johnson & Johnson to receive 'Tell Awards' During the Swiss Embassy's 7th Alumni Garden Party WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Merck & Company, Albany International, Intuitive Surgical, and Johnson & Johnson on September 24 will receive Tell Awards for...
P!nk's 'So What' #1 Single in the Country
NEW YORK, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, singer/songwriter P!nk ascends to the No.1 position on the U.S. singles chart with her smash hit, "So What." The irresistible rocking single tops Billboard's "Hot 100 Singles," "Hot Digital Songs" and "Hot Digital Tracks" charts, and is the No. 1 radio...
Citadel performs 46,000 s/f renovation for LIC college
Citadel Construction has been selected as general contractor for a multi-phased, 46,000 s/f renovation spanning several floors in the massive C-Building or "Center 3" on the main campus of LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, New York. The project, which will create new classroom space and administrative/...
Love blossoms
Love Blossoms: Dr. Mark Anthony Griffiths wed Lauren Nicole Brooks at the Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church in Woodlawn, OH. The bride is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati She is a civil engineer for URS Corporation The groom is a graduate of Yale University and the University of...
DC Power Entry Module
A snap-in version has been added to the Series 5003 DC Power Entry Module for 48-V telecom and other DC-powered equipment. The new DC module features the AMP Universal MATE-N-LOK and Molex HCS-125 connector styles. The connectors are encased with a single-stage filter rated up to 15 A at 125...
Denton County Transit Authority has appointed URS Corporation, United States, to carry out final design services for the $US 310 million commuter rail line from Denton and Lewisville to an interchange with Dallas light rail network at Carrolton
Denton County Transit Authority has appointed URS Corporation, United States, to carry out final design services for the $US 310 million commuter rail line from Denton and Lewisville to an interchange with Dallas light rail network at Carrolton. The 33.8km line will use the alignment of a dismantled railway, and...
International Philosophical Quarterly: Vol. 48, No. 2, June 2008
The Overlooked Work of Art in "The Origin of the Work of Art," K. GOVER This essay calls attention to the fact that there is a work of art in Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art," and yet almost no one talks about it: the C....
BLOGGING BY MAIL
The web may be instantaneous, but Rob Giampietro decided to shut down his design blog for a week in favor of snail mail. "Design is something between a gift and a good," says the principal at New York design firm Giampietro+Smith. "I talk about this a lot on {my blog}...
NAME THAT BRAND
Brand X blasts bacterial invaders The subject of these sci-fi looking journal ads, oddly reminiscent of both roach spray spots and ur-first person shooter Doom, is a treatment for some ugly alien invaders-of the bacterial variety. Approved by FDA in 2007, the twice-daily drug treats a nasty skin infection...
Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Anglo American Plc., URS Corp., CBS Corp., Companhia Siderurgica Nacional and Double Eagle Petroleum Co
CHICAGO -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Anglo American Plc. (Nasdaq: AAUK), URS Corp. (NYSE: URS), CBS Corp....
URS Acquires Tryck Nyman Hayes Inc
Transaction Expands Presence in Alaskan Infrastructure Markets SAN FRANCISCO -- URS Corporation (NYSE:URS) today announced that it has acquired most of the assets of Tryck Nyman Hayes, Inc. ("TNH"), an engineering firm headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska. TNH has a staff of approximately 60 engineers, landscape architects and surveyors...
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- Incorporated: 1957
- CEO: Mr. Martin M. Koffel
URS is a provider of engineering, construction and technical services. Co. provides a range of program management, planning, design, engineering, construction and construction management, operations and maintenance, and decommissioning and closure services to public agencies and private sector clients. Co. is also a U.S. federal government contractor in the areas of systems engineering and technical assistance, and operations and maintenance. As of Dec 31 2007, Co. provided its services through three operating divisions: the URS Division, the EG&G Division and the Washington Division. Also, as of Dec 31 2007, Co. had contract specific job sites in more than 30 countries.
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URS Corp. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. Martin M. Koffel
Chairman
Mr. William D. Walsh
Mr. H. Jesse Arnelle
Mr. Armen Der Marderosian
Mr. Mickey P. Foret
Ms. Lydia H. Kennard
General Joseph W. Ralston
Mr. John D. Roach
Mr. Douglas W. Stotlar
Mr. William P. Sullivan
Contact Information
600 Montgomery Street
26th Floor
San Francisco, CA
415 774-2700