Stock Report: URS Corp. (URS) Report Updated: May 20, 2013 | Print This Page

URS Corporation provides engineering, construction, and technical services to public agencies and private sector clients worldwide. The company plans, designs, engineers, constructs, retrofits, and maintains a range of power-generating facilities; and systems that transmit and distribute electricity, as well as develops and installs clean air technologies. It also offers services to build, expand, and modernize infrastructure, such as surface, air, and rail transportation networks; ports and harbors; and water supply, treatment, and conveyance systems, as well as provides operations and maintenance services for completed projects. In addition, the company offers program management; planning, design, and engineering; systems engineering and technical assistance; and IT services to construction and construction management, as well as operations and maintenance, and decommissioning and closure services to various government departments and agencies. Further, it modernizes weapons systems; refurbishes military vehicles and aircrafts, and train pilots; and manages military and government installations, as well as offers logistics support for military operations and supports the decommissioning of former military bases. Additionally, it supports programs to eliminate nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. The company also provides engineering, procurement, and construction services for new industrial and commercial infrastructure, and process facilities; and for the expansion, modification, and up gradation of existing facilities. In addition, its services include front-end studies, engineering and process design, procurement, construction and construction management, facility management, and operations and maintenance services, as well as due diligence, permission, compliance, environmental management, pollution control, health and safety, and waste management and remediation services. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.