URS Corporation News

Last week's blog post got a nice response from people excited to bring in their citrus in exchange for dessert or oysters at Waterbar.

The company is into providing professional planning, design and engineering, system engineering and technical assistance, construction and construction management, operations and maintenance, and decommissioning and closure services.

An antique steam shovel that was once used to build Idaho canals and railroads will be placed on display at the Idaho Transportation Department in Boise.

Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts , FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud . We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.

The construction department for Orange County Public Schools, which has been criticized in numerous audits over the past several years for lax management controls, is revamping the cadre of consultants that help keep the the projects in the $1.5 billion capital budget rolling smoothly.

A New York law approved last month may speed infrastructure projects such as a new $5.2 billion Tappan Zee Bridge, a priority of Governor Andrew Cuomo , by giving control of design and construction to one consortium.

Aviat Networks announced that it has been selected to work with URS Corporation to upgrade and expand the Ameren Illinois private communications network.

A Rio Grande Valley group is pushing for a strong plan to hire local businesses and workers to repair hurricane -damaged houses using federal disaster recovery money.

Chief Executive Jim Rogers turned an idea into a regional economic force. It began with an inaugural meeting in April 2009 of industry leaders, the Charlotte Regional Partnership .

In January 2012, Scott Wilson officially changed its name to URS. To learn more about this change, we talked to URS Poland & Lithuania Country Director, Tomasz Krawczyk.

Owners of the Midlands property on Brownsboro Road at the Watterson Expressway say a new traffic report they commissioned suggests that a new veterans hospital there would create slightly less traffic than a mixed-use commercial development that's already been approved for the site.

S&P 500 component Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. will unveil its latest earnings on Wednesday, January 25, 2012.

Weapons technicians discovered 48 practice rockets in the Little Patuxent River during an annual sweep of an area once used as a bazooka range.

Igloo storage mounds at the Deseret Depot, that once housed chemical agents, are mostly empty, having been destroyed at the TOCDF , Wednesday, Jan.

January 18, 2011 - Vancouver, Canada - Urastar Gold Corp is pleased to announce that it is starting a drill program to test its two gold properties located in the Mulatos Gold Belt in Sonora State, Mexico.

Global engineering consultancy URS Scott Wilson, which has a flagship office at Scott House, in Alencon Link, which is based to around 400 local employees, is now just known as URS.

San Francisco, CA, January 16, 2012 - URS Corporation announced that it has been awarded a contract by DTE Energy to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for the installation of a selective catalytic reduction system at its Monroe Power Plant in Michigan.