Harding ESE Awarded $50 Million in Contracts to Tackle Michigan Environmental Projects.

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LANSING, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2001

Harding ESE, Inc. has been awarded two, five-year contracts totaling $50 million by the state of Michigan to provide project management services to address environmental contamination at sites across the state.

Harding ESE will manage projects on behalf of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), with the ultimate goal to restore each site to a condition suitable for redevelopment and/or to eliminate acute risk to human health and the environment. Harding ESE has provided environmental engineering and consulting services to the state of Michigan for over 18 years, investigating and restoring hundreds of contaminated sites.

Under the $40 million contract with MDEQ's Environmental Response Division, and the $10 million contract with the Storage Tank Division, Harding ESE will procure professional service and trade contractors to provide a range of services to address environmental contamination.

"We are extremely pleased to continue our successful partnership with the state of Michigan managing state-wide site cleanup activities," said Harding ESE President, Dr. Perry Campbell. "This is important work that fits well with our company's mission. We are honored to once again be selected to provide services that can lead to the redevelopment and productive use of these contaminated sites in Michigan."

The contracted services will include site investigations and assessments, structural surveys, asbestos surveys, pre-demolition inspections, risk assessment, feasibility studies, engineering evaluations, remedial designs, construction management, demolition services, and operation and maintenance services.

Harding ESE is a wholly owned subsidiary of MACTEC, Inc., based in Golden, Colorado. In November 2000, the former Harding Lawson Associates, Inc. (HLA) and Environmental Science & Engineering, Inc. (ESE) merged, and the surviving company is Harding ESE, Inc. The MACTEC family of companies also includes various MACTEC entities and Pacific Environmental Services, Inc.

With more than 1,800 employees and $200 million in annual gross revenue, Harding ESE serves as the consulting engineering and sciences division of the company. The company's revenue comes from a fully integrated set of infrastructure development services.

Privately held MACTEC provides integrated services for the planning, permitting, design, development, construction management, operation and maintenance, management, demolition, remediation, and redevelopment of the nation's infrastructure.

With revenues of $325 million, the collective MACTEC companies offer their multiple government and private sector clients a network of 74 offices and 2,300 employees nationwide. Based on a 2000 Engineering News-Record industry survey, MACTEC is currently ranked 16th among the nation's largest environmental engineering firms and fourth in the all-environmental firm category.