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MEMbERS IN ThE NEwS Welcome New ACEC Firms ACEC/Colorado Civil Arts–Drexel Group, Inc., Longmont Coin Street, Inc., Windsor Rader Engineering, Inc., DESIGN + CONSULTING ENGINEERS ACEC/Tennessee Ahler & young, LLC, Gray ACEC/Massachusetts Gill Engineering Associates, Inc., Needham ACEC/Wisconsin Ourston Roundabout Engineering, Inc., Madison ACEC/Michigan Tyme Engineering, Inc., Ranked as one of the top ten “Best Structural Engineering Firm to Work For” by Structural Engineer Magazine Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH) is a national design and consulting engineering firm that applies advanced engineering to buildings. We are always looking for talented engineering candidates for all of our offices. To learn more about these opportunities and to apply, please visit our website at www.sgh. com/EmploymentOpportunities. SGH is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in our work force. We offer excellent compensation and benefits in a corporate culture based on learning and growth. Avon Tsiouvaras Simmons Holderness, Greenwood Southfield ACEC/Missouri Engineering Solutions, PC, ACEC/Wyoming Wilbert Engineering, Village ACEC/Florida CCEI, Titusville Rock Springs CEC/Texas Kerr networking Services, LLC, Ingram The Ratliff Group, LLC, Saint Louis Jones & Associates Structural Engineers, LLC, ACEC/Illinois Claassen, White & Associates, PC, Joliet Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, Chicago Springfield ACEC/new Jersey Malick & Scherer, PC, Coppell CELSOC/California BM Associates, Inc., Whitehouse Station ACEC/new york A.G. Consulting Engineering, PC, New York ACEC/Iowa Arcadian Engineering & Surveying, Inc., Solon Monterey Park Carlton Engineering, Inc., Shingle Springs Carr Consultants, Inc., ACEC/Kansas McAfee, Henderson & Strick, Inc., Olathe ACEC/north Carolina Dean & Associates, Inc., Weaverville Cleary Consultants, Inc., Mills River Troy Doby and Associates, PA, Raleigh Los Altos Joyce Clark Turner Associates, ACEC/Louisiana Raley and Associates, Inc., Bossier City R. James Tatum, Inc., ACEC/Pennsylvania Envirosure, Inc., West Mammoth Lakes PQM, Inc., Huntington Beach WM Group West Engineers, PC, Los Angeles Baton Rouge Chester VE Engineering, Inc., New Cumberland Mergers & Acquisitions U RS Corporation and Washington Group International, Inc., have signed an agreement for the acquisition of Washington Group by URS in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $2.6 billion. The companies’ combined 2006 revenues would have been $7.6 billion, the fourth highest among U.S. publicly traded engineering and construction companies. The combined company would have projects in more than 50 countries with some 54,000 employees. Martin M. Koffel, chairman and CEO of URS, said, “URS has a history of anticipating change in the industry, and this transaction is the next logical step in building for future growth.” Said Stephen G. Hanks, CEO of Washington Group: “This transaction will create a new leader in the engineering and construction industry that will deliver superior value to our stockholders, customers and employees over the long term.” The combined company will offer a full range of engineering, construction, operations and maintenance services for both fossil fuel and nuclear power plants globally. The combined company also will have one of the largest teams of nuclear scientists and engineers in the industry, as well as a leading nuclear decommissioning and remediation business, enabling it to meet the anticipated resurgence in the nuclear energy market. Photos pictured clockwise from upper left: Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; John Hancock Tower, Boston, MA; Exeter Street Theater, Boston, MA; Macallen Building, Boston, MA. Boston • Los Angeles • New York • San Francisco • Washington, DC JULY / AUGUST 2007 ENGINEERING INC. 45 http://www.sgh.com/careers

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