URS Corporation News

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 .

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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