Jacobs Engineering Group leaps to environmental firms' top spot.Jacobs Engineering Group Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC), a publicly traded company with annual revenues approaching $7 billion, provides professional technical services. Headquartered in Pasadena, CA, Jacobs offers support to industrial, commercial, and government clients across multiple Inc., buoyed by awards of numerous lucrative government hazardous waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. clean-up contracts, increased its staff by 42 percent and soared to the top of this week's List of the 50 largest environmental firms in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County. Pasadena-based Jacobs was No. 1 on The List this year with 740 employees working in Los Angeles County. Last year Jacobs was ranked No. 2 with 520 employees in Los Angeles County. This year "has been the best year ever for environmental work" for the 47-year-old company, said Robert Clement, vice president of marketing. Jacobs grabbed headlines and saw its stock price shoot up earlier this year when it teamed with Irvine-based Fluor Corp. and won the $2.2 billion contract to clean up a nuclear weapons facility in Fernald, Ohio. But Clement said that Jacobs' growth is not based just "any single" contract win. "There were a significant number of wins this year," to do clean-up on government military bases as well as work for private industry, said Jacobs marketing chief Clement. Jacobs, with 740 Los Angeles County employees, surpassed James M. Montgomery Consulting Engineers Inc., which was No. 1 last year. James M. Montgomery merged in June with Watson Hawksley, a firm based in the United Kingdom, to become Montgomery-Watson. The newly merged firm, which is also based in Pasadena, has downsized its workforce in Los Angeles County by 65 employees, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. The List. Montgomery-Watson is No. 2 on this year's List with 537 employees. New to The List this year is Parsons Parsons, city (1990 pop. 11,924), Labette co., SE Kans.; inc. 1871. It is a shipping point for dairy products, grain, and livestock. Manufactures include ammunition, wire and paper products, plastics, and appliances. Environmental Services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, , at No. 3 with 480 employees working in Los Angeles County. Parsons Environmental Services was formed in January as a subsidiary of engineering-transportation-environment conglomerate Parsons Corp., said Debra S. Fox, spokeswoman for Parsons. New Parsons Chairman Leonard Pieroni restructured the company in January, and created the environmental services company by combining the environmental staffs of Parsons subsidiaries Engineering Sciences Inc., Ralph M. Parsons Co. and Parsons Main Inc., Fox said. Parsons Los Angeles County environmental engineers are busy working on projects all over the state which involve municipal waste water projects, water reclamation Reclamation A claim for the right to return or the right to demand the return of a security that has been previously accepted as a result of bad delivery or other irregularities in the delivery and settlement process. , air emission testing and environmental studies for refineries and manufacturers, Fox said. Other newcomers to The List include Pacific Environmental Services Management Corp., No. 23; Bryan A. Stirrat & Associates Inc., No. 27; Roy F. Weston Inc., No. 30; Radian ra·di·an n. Abbr. rad A unit of angular measure equal to the angle subtended at the center of a circle by an arc equal in length to the radius of the circle. Corp., No. 34; Leighton & Associates Inc., No. 35; Clean-Up Technology Inc., No. 41; A.Q. Management & Control, No. 46; Environmental Transloading Services, No. 48; and Resha Industries, No. 50. Five environmental firms on last year's List -- Ogden Allied, No. 27; ALT (character) alt - /awlt/ 1. The alt modifier key on many keyboards, including the IBM PC. On some keyboards and operating systems, (but not the IBM PC) the alt key sets bit 7 of the character generated. See bucky bits. 2. Environmental Services, No. 32; Ecology & Environment Inc., No. 43; AMS-NATEC Environmental Services Inc., No. 46; and Anachem Laboratories, No. 50 -- declined to participate and are not on The List this year. |
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