The business designs, delivers, enhances and maintains infrastructure for a broad range of customers in the public and private sectors.
- Revenues of over £1 billion
- Employing around 7,385 people (average, 2008)
- Backlog/Order book £1.28 billion (as at 31 Dec 2008)
- EBITA margin* 2008: 5.8 per cent
- Operations focused largely in North and South America, the UK and the rest of Europe
- Our major core competence centres are located in Atlanta (US); Toronto and Vancouver (Canada); Knutsford and Darlington (UK); and more recently in Chile, in Santiago, with the acquisition of AMEC – CADE
- Key markets include nuclear, power, process and renewables
- Key customers include: AWE, Arauco, British Energy, Bruce Power, EDF Energy, Enbridge, Eskom, Ignalina NPP, Lafarge, Milford Energy, National Grid, Ontario Power Generation, Procter & Gamble, RWE, SABIC, Scottish Power, Sellafield, Southern Company, TXI, Verenium, Wales and West Utilities
Significant contracts include:
- National Grid - long-term contracts for the replacement of gas infrastructure and upgrading of electricity networks, including National Grid’s first long-term contract in the US
- Sellafield – management and decommissioning on the UK’s main nuclear reprocessing complex
- Southern Company and Dominion Virginia Power - installation of clean-air systems on coal-fired power plants in the US Wales and West Utilities - a major gas mains replacement programme
- EDF Energy - mechanical, electrical and instrumentation installation at a new Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power station and a major study for a gas storage project at Hole House Farm, both in the UK
*Profit for continuing operations before corporate costs and net financing costs/income, exceptional items, intangible amortisation and joint venture tax, but including joint venture profit before tax, as a percentage of revenues.