Press Releases

A Colas/AECOM joint venture has been successful in securing a place on all tendered lots of the Manchester City Council Highways and Infrastructure Construction Works Framework. The four-year contract, valued at £200m, is available for use by all 10 of the Manchester Metropolitan Boroughs and TfGM.   The framework is divided into multiple Lots that...

Following the successful first year, AECOM kicks off second year of employee innovation program LOS ANGELES (Oct. 19, 2017) — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today the launch of its second annual Global Challenge. The employee competition leverages gamification to encourage and incentivize all employees to anticipate clients’ most complex challenges...

LOS ANGELES (Oct. 17, 2017) — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it has named Sergio Bazarevitsch senior vice president, water design-build and Quirien Muylwyk, MASc., P.Eng. vice president, water quality, both within the Americas Design and Consulting Services group. Mr. Bazarevitsch will oversee the design build practice, a critical...

AECOM has been appointed by the Jordanian Armed Forces and the Directorate for Establishment of Housing and Military Works to provide lead design consultancy services for phase one of the expansion of the King Hussein Medical City (KHMC) in Amman. The first phase comprises the delivery of a new general hospital to replace the existing...

LOS ANGELES (Oct. 16, 2017) — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that the Palm Beach County School Board has approved the contract for AECOM to provide program management services for its US$1.2 billion capital improvement program. The program encompasses the design and construction of five new schools as well as...

The COWI-designed Mersey Gateway Bridge opened to traffic this morning. The three-pylon cable-stayed bridge is a landmark structure recognisable throughout the North West and beyond, providing a much-needed new crossing of the river and acting as a catalyst for growth in the region. As well as the bridge, the project includes new highways and junctions....

The proposed framework marries existing projects to create a robust and integrated plan LOS ANGELES (Oct. 11, 2017) – AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, released today its LA River Gateway revitalization proposal, an integrated framework that, if fully implemented, can create benefits for communities along the river’s banks while helping generate new...

‘Designing the Public Realm’ at PAM Centre Exploring new ideas to realize Kuala Lumpur’s great potential The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), the premier design school in the world, in collaboration with AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, today opened the “Kuala Lumpur, Designing the Public Realm,” exhibition. The exhibition, a...

LOS ANGELES — October 9, 2017 — AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, today announced executive leadership appointments for Fred Werner, Steve Morriss and Lara Poloni, effective immediately. The promotions create a strengthened Executive Leadership Team with diverse expertise in place to best achieve the Company’s goals and strategic priorities. With nearly...

AECOM has helped Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, achieve planning permission in principle by Westminster City Council to build a new eight-storey outpatients building at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington.  This is the first phase of a major development, master-planned by Feilden Clegg Bradley and AECOM, forming part of the Trust’s wider estates strategy...

October 5, 2017 – In response to increased demand from clients responding to the rapidly changing energy market landscape, AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, has made three key appointments to its growing power industry team in Australia & New Zealand. Rob Hills has been appointed the new leader of the AECOM power...

28th September 2017 – Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) have huge potential to shake up the manufacturing industry, argued AECOM’s Lars Skogmo today at an Automotive Circle conference focused on electrification. AGVs, the independently operated battery powered vehicles, can rationalise manufacturing processes such as conveyance between processes, parts supply to production lines and cellular manufacturing lines....

AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, has been appointed to provide Project Management, Cost Management, Programmer and NEC3 Supervisor services on the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) £130m+ building programme at the Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. The services will be provided by AECOM’s specialist science team based in Abingdon. This includes the...

AIKEN, S.C. (Sept. 26, 2017) — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that Nuclear Waste Partnership, LLC (NWP), an AECOM led joint venture, has been awarded a contract extension by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to manage and operate the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico. NWP...

AECOM Capital and Olympian Homes have formed a joint venture to enable the £150m development of two iconic multifamily towers in Manchester city centre. The joint venture, which marks AECOM Capital’s first investment in Europe, will be constructed by AECOM utilising the expertise of AECOM Tishman in New York and comprises two separate towers, accommodating...

Due to popular demand, it’s been announced that the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion will now remain open for an additional six weeks, until 19th November. For the fifth year running, AECOM, in collaboration with David Glover, delivered technical advisory services for the Pavilion, including structural and civil engineering, fire engineering, electrical engineering and lighting design. Diébédo Francis...

White Collar Factory, an ambitious new office development in Old Street, London, opened its doors last week. AECOM delivered a range of building services for the new development, a c.293,000 sq/ft building comprising commercial workspace, residential and retail facilities. The office building also features the UK’s first running track for employees to use on-site, located...

SAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 20, 2017) — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that the All Bay Collective was selected as one of 10 teams to participate in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge. The challenge addresses the threats of sea level rise, severe storms, drought, flooding and earthquakes as well...

AECOM has supported two of the winning entries for this year’s Community Links PLUS, a Scotland-based design competition, for the second year running. The company delivered design and planning services for City of Edinburgh Council’s West Edinburgh Active Travel Network and Meadows to George Street. The West Edinburgh project will transform one of Scotland’s most...

HRH The Countess of Wessex has today launched the first all-female team to attempt to cross the Antarctic, with global infrastructure services company AECOM as the headline sponsor.  No team of women, from any nation, has completed this extraordinary challenge before. The launch was held at the iconic Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Camberley.  ...

AECOM, the integrated infrastructure firm, forecasts that water industry inflation will rise at a faster rate than CPIH over the next 5 years, squeezing margins for water companies in Asset Management Period 7 (AMP7). AECOM forecasts the difference between the inflation recorded by water companies’ TOTEX costs and CPIH will be close to 60% over...

Research compiled in a new 2017 report by CDP and AECOM finds cities join companies to lead on water security development following climate change and urban population pressure. August 29, 2017: New research from CDP, the international environmental reporting and data non-profit, today reveals that US$9.5 billion worth of city water projects are now open...

24rd August 2017 – Attracting talent through a variety of different routes will be key to building capacity in the infrastructure sector and industry must do more to capture the imagination of young people, urges global infrastructure provider AECOM. Encouraging more young people to apply for apprenticeships after completing their GCSEs will be crucial to...

LONDON – 17 August 2017   Urgent action is needed to increase the number of young women studying core STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) at A-Level says AECOM, the integrated infrastructure services firm.   Today’s results highlight the continued disparity between young women studying core STEM subjects such as Maths and Physics (a...

HONG KONG (Aug. 7, 2017) — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it signed an agreement with China Communications Construction Company Limited Highway Consultants Co., Ltd. (HPDI), a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Group Limited (CCCC), the fourteenth largest state owned enterprise in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), to...

02 Aug 2017 – The 100th contract under Scape Group’s National Built Environment Consultancy Services (BECS) framework has been signed today. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is the latest organisation to award a contract under the framework. DVSA, which has a significant number of assets across the country, is working with Perfect Circle...

SAN FRANCISCO (July 18, 2017) — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that Julie L. Labonte has been named senior vice-president and senior program manager within its Design and Consulting Services group’s Program and Construction Management (PM/CM) business. In this role, Ms. Labonte will concentrate on growing the firm’s PM/CM business...

LOS ANGELES (July 18, 2017) — AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, will hold a conference call and webcast with analysts and investors on August 8, 2017 at noon Eastern Time, during which management will make a brief presentation focusing on the company’s fiscal third quarter 2017 financial results, strategies and operating...

7 July 2017 – To champion LGBT inclusion in the field, AECOM will be marching alongside networking group InterEngineering tomorrow at the annual London Pride parade. The company will be marching under the banner #BuildingEquality. Joining other leading firms from the engineering and construction industry, AECOM will be showing its solidarity in challenging stereotypes associated within the...

Expands AECOM’s exposure to the highly-attractive California infrastructure market, and further enhances its design, build, finance and operate capabilities. Provides AECOM with leading civil construction capabilities across the Western U.S., which is set to benefit from several years of expected growth from nearly $180 billion of recently-approved ballot measures. Expected to be accretive to AECOM’s...

High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd has awarded the Lot 2 civils design and environmental services contract for Phase 2b of the UK’s new high-speed railway to an AECOM Capita INECO Joint Venture. The contract, which was signed xx, is expected to be worth between £80M and £100M to the AECOM-led Joint Venture over the next...

Global infrastructure services firm AECOM has launched a new asset management training portal this week at the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) Conference in Manchester. The portal allows learners to acquire an Asset Management (AM) Certificate and covers the 39 asset management subject areas that make up the “AM Landscape”. The objective of the course...

LOS ANGELES (June 28, 2017) — AECOM (NYSE: ACM), a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, today announced that Randall A. Wotring has been named chief operating officer, effective July 1, 2017. With more than 30 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry, Mr. Wotring was promoted in September 2016 to group president,...