URS Joint Venture Selected to Provide Housing Inspection Services for National Disasters and Emergencies

URS Corporation (NYSE: URS) today announced that it has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract by the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as part of a joint venture with Fairfax, VA-based Dewberry, to provide professional, administrative and management services in support of FEMA’s Post-Disaster Housing Inspection Program. Under the terms of the contract, URS will support FEMA’s Response and Recovery Division and will manage and perform housing inspection services in disaster areas nationwide. The four and a half year contract has a maximum value of $750 million to the joint venture.

The joint venture was originally awarded a contract for these services in 2001. Under the previous contract, URS assisted FEMA during 100 disasters including the unprecedented 2005 hurricane season and, at the peak performance period, managed the deployment of more than 2,900 housing inspectors and completed more than one million housing inspections.

URS Corporation offers a comprehensive range of professional planning and design, systems engineering and technical assistance, program and construction management, and operations and maintenance services for transportation, facilities, environmental, water/wastewater, industrial infrastructure and process, homeland security, installations and logistics, and defense systems. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Company operates in more than 20 countries with approximately 29,300 employees providing engineering and technical services to federal, state and local governmental agencies as well as private clients in the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, power, manufacturing, mining and forest products industries (www.urscorp.com).