URS Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1951 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| Reason for dissolution | takeover |
| Seat |
San Francisco , United States
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| management | Martin Koffel (1989-2014) |
| Number of employees | 50,000 (as of 2014) |
| sales | $ 11 billion (as of 2013) |
| Branch | Engineering services |
| Website | www.urs.com |
URS Corporation was an American service company in the field of development and support for construction and environmental remediation projects.
URS was founded in 1951 as Broadview Research and has been a public company since 1957. In 1968 United Research Incorporated from Cambridge was bought and the name changed from Broadview Research to United Research Services . Over the years, URS grew through various purchases, including a. by Woodward-Clyde Group Inc (1997), Dames and Moore (1999), EG&G (2002), Washington Group International (2007), Scott Wilson (2010) and BP Barber (2011).
In 2014, URS was acquired by AECOM for $ 6 billion .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fact Sheet URS 2014 ( Memento from August 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English; PDF; 3 MB)
- ^ Company Insight: AECOM - 'no prices for second place' , Environment Analyst, April 23, 2015
- ↑ Chris Kirkham: Aecom finalizes $ 6-billion acquisition of engineering design rival URS. In: Los Angeles Times . October 17, 2014, accessed October 25, 2016 .