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AMEC acquires leading US engineering and environmental services company MACTEC

London, United Kingdom (18 May 2011) – AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, announces today that it has agreed to buy MACTEC, a leading US engineering and environmental services company, from its private equity and other individual shareholders for a cash consideration of US$280 million. Completion is subject to regulatory approval and is expected by the end of June 2011. [Editor] Click through for the rest of the press release from AMEC. [/Editor]

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A welder attaches protective shields to one of the two 21-foot-diameter tunnel-boring machines at the north end of the project near Husky Stadium. The entrance to the northbound tunnel is at upper right.
Project Related

Tunnel boring to begin on light-rail link in Seattle

This week, Seattle’s Sound Transit will start drilling a $2 billion, three-mile light-rail tunnel to connect the University of Washington, Capitol Hill and Westlake Center. The first TBM will be christened today near UW’s Husky […]

Bernard Amadei
Comings and Goings

Rock mechanics legend Bernard Amadei honored for involvement in engineers without borders

Bernard Amadei, the founding president of Engineers Without Borders – USA and the co-founder of the Engineers Without Borders-International network, received an honorary doctor of science degree at Clarkson University’s 118th Commencement last weekend. Amadei […]