URS Corporation is an engineering, design and construction firm and a U.S. federal government contractor. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, URS is a full-service, global organization with offices located in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
As of March 2012, the firm had more than 46,000 employees worldwide, in nearly 50 countries.
With the acquisition of Washington Group International, URS was able to obtain Fortune 500 st...
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URS Corporation is an engineering, design and construction firm and a U.S. federal government contractor. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, URS is a full-service, global organization with offices located in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
As of March 2012, the firm had more than 46,000 employees worldwide, in nearly 50 countries.
With the acquisition of Washington Group International, URS was able to obtain Fortune 500 status for the first time in 2008 with a rank of 449, up from 505 the previous year. Since appearing on the Fortune 500 list URS has continued to climb, in 2009 URS climbed 185 places to 264, and to 252 in 2010.
In 1996, URS acquired Greiner Engineering for $73.5 million. Greiner Engineering had been established in 1908 by John E. Greiner. Greiner was a former engineer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and worked at one time for Gustav Lindenthal, including on the Seventh Street Bridge.
The Woodward-Clyde Group joined URS in 1997, bringing...
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