URS, based in Boise, Idaho, provides the talent, innovation,
and proven performance to deliver integrated engineering, construction, and management
solutions for businesses and governments worldwide. With approximately 27,000 employees at work
in over 40 states and more than 30 countries, the company provides professional, scientific,
management, and development services in more than two dozen major markets.
Included among those markets are:
Power generation, transmission and distribution, and clean air solutions
Environmental remediation
Heavy civil construction
Mining
Nuclear services
Defense, homeland security, and global threat reduction
Industrial, chemical, and pharmaceutical processing
Manufacturing
Facilities operations and management
Transportation
Water resources
URS has a family tree made up of almost 20 heritage companies, some of which date
back to the late 19th century. The company is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ: WGII).
URS is a single company in which resides the best of the knowledge, experience,
processes, successes, pride and integrity of companies that have been solving many of the
world's most daunting challenges for more than 100 years.
Because of this heritage of proven performance, the company has answered the call to resolve
some of the toughest and most rewarding challenges in the world including:
Destroying weapons of mass destruction in Russia and Ukraine
Destroying almost 15,000 tons of chemical weapons stored at U.S. facilities
Helping to rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq
Adding thousands of megawatts of power capacity in the Philippines, Ecuador and other
developing countries
Helping to secure the U.S. homeland from terrorist attacks
Upgrading coal-fired power plants in the country with modern clean-air equipment
The people of the URS are there, improving the safety and quality of life for
people around the world.
Many of the most historic projects of modern times are part of the company's heritage. These
include:
The Hoover Dam
The San Francisco Bay Bridge
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Major features of the Kennedy Space Center
The world's longest power transmission line (1,000 miles across the Republic of Congo)
The first-ever decommissioning of a commercial nuclear power plant - at the Shippingport
Nuclear Power Station in Pennsylvania
