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Sunday | Burlington Times News

Group wants resolution to support public transportation

An advocacy group is asking local agencies to support a resolution that reinforces the need to develop a fixed-route public transportation system in Burlington .

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Related Topix: Alamance County, NC, Construction, Architecture, Non-Profit

Sunday | The Times-Tribune

It's not just depot workers working at depot

Military facilities use contract workers during peak periods, and their employment helps protect depot full-timers from layoffs when business declines.

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Related Topix: Tobyhanna, PA, Construction, Architecture

Thu May 24, 2012

Deseret News

Search & destroy mission under way in Utah desert for dangerous munitions

CLIVE, Utah - Clean-up crews are on a search-and-destroy mission in the West Desert to get rid of large numbers of old artillery shells and land mines.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture, US Military, US Air Force, Hill Air Force Base

Freshnews

NASA Awards Architecture and Engineering Contract For Bridges

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA selected URS Corporation of Orlando, Fla., to perform architecture and engineering studies and provide designs and other professional services to replace and restore bridges at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Cape Canaveral, FL, Construction, Architecture, Orlando, FL, US Military, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, US Air Force

Tue May 22, 2012

Star Tribune

Dayton, URS to discuss light-rail bid

Gov. Mark Dayton criticized URS during the 2010 campaign, saying he was "outraged" by company memos about the I-35W bridge.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture, Mark Dayton, US Governors, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat

ENR-Engineering News-Record

High Court May Take Designer Lawsuit Against I-35 Collapse Payout

The U.S. Supreme Court may decide as early as May 24 whether to hear a challenge by Jacobs Engineering Group to overturn Minnesota's attempt to collect millions of dollars from the company to fund payouts made to victims of the 2007 I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture

AmericanBankingNews.com

URS Price Target Increased to $49.00 by Analysts at JPMorgan Chase

The analysts wrote, "Following last week's closing of the acquisition of Flint Energy Services, we're adjusting our estimates to include the transaction, which increases URS's exposure to growth in the North American energy markets.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture, Oppenheimer Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services

Sun May 20, 2012

The Galveston County Daily News

TCEQ: BPa s data was right

Eighteen months after the state's environmental regulatory agency cast doubts on data provided by the company that monitors air quality in Texas City during a 40-day air emissions event from the BP refinery in 2010, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality acknowledges it was comfortable with the data after all.

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Related Topix: Texas City, TX, Environmental, Environmental Quality, Waste Management, Construction, Architecture

Fri May 18, 2012

WHNT-TV Huntsville

Pricing Manager, URS Corporation

URS Corporation is a fully integrated engineering, construction and technical services organization with the capabilities to support every stage of the project life cycle.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture, Technical Services, Huntsville, AL

Thu May 17, 2012

Cleveland.com

Berea moves forward to solve flooding issues

A committee will help implement a program to eradicate flooding issues after a report showed 83 percent of tested homes in the Fair Street area had infiltration problems on their properties.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture

Crosscut.com

Ring the alarm: Hanford's lack of a nuclear safety culture

Three employees have filed complaints against the nuclear waste storage facility in the last seven months, highlighting an alarming trend as Hanford moves forward with a new project to convert nuclear waste into radioactive glass tubes.

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy, Law, Employment / Labor Law, Construction, Architecture

Wed May 16, 2012

Inside Bay Area

Biz buzz

It lost $74,000 on sales of $214.6 million, the specialty retailer reported. In the year-ago quarter, Cost Plus lost $3.4 million.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture, Pacific Gas and Electric, Energy

Business Journal

URS Corp. wins $130M pipeline project in Alberta

URS' new division was chosen as the pipeline construction contractor for a project in Alberta's oil sands near Fort McMurray.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture

Cleveland.com

North Ridgeville hires URS to inspect sewer line

The city will pay URS Corp. about $122,000 to use cameras to inspect about 40,000 linear feet of sewer line running to the French Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Sheffield Village.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture, North Ridgeville, OH

Tue May 15, 2012

KVIA-TV El Paso

City Council Approves $1.25 Million For Assessment Of Streetcar System

El Paso City Council voted six to two Tuesday to approve $1.25 million for an engineering and environmental assessment for a streetcar system.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture

The Hartford Courant

Urs Ceo anticipates U.S. manufacturing renaissance

Martin Koffel, head of engineering company URS Corp , feels the United States is poised for a manufacturing renaissance, driven at least in part by demand among the developing world's burgeoning consumer class.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture, Ansonia, CT

Reuters

Urs Ceo anticipates U.S. manufacturing renaissance

"There is once again a cachet about American-made products," the CEO said in an interview on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture

Canada NewsWire

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

The shareholders of Flint Energy Services Ltd. have accepted the $CDN25.00 cash per share offer from URS Corporation .

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Related Topix: Energy, Flint Energy Services, Oil & Gas, Construction, Architecture, Housing

The Galveston County Daily News

Emissions still on the decline

According to a report prepared by URS Corp., benzene emissions in Texas City are below the Air Monitoring Comparison Value established by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as safe to the general population's health.

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Related Topix: Construction, Architecture, Texas City, TX, Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental, Environmental Quality, Waste Management

Fri May 11, 2012

Silicon Alley Insider

These Are The Stocks That Hedge Funds Are Buying Up Right Now

We don't get to see their entire portfolio in these filings but we get to see their recent transactions in their large positions.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Apple, Startups, Social Software, Construction, Architecture, Retail, Barnes and Noble, Yelp

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