URS Awarded Program Management Contract by San Bernardino City Unified School District; Contract Has Maximum Value To URS Of $17.8 Million.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- URS URS Yours URS Ultimate Roulette System URS Uniform Reporting System URS User Requirement(s) Specification URS Undergraduate Research Symposium URS Unified Registration Statement URS Undergraduate Research Scholars Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : URS) today announced that it has been selected by the San Bernardino City Unified School District The San Bernardino City Unified School District serves the Inland Empire in San Bernardino California. History The district was officially founded July 1st, 1964 when the San Bernardino City School District merged with the San Bernardino High School District. in California to provide program management services for the District's $575 million Facilities Capital Improvement Program (FCIP (Fibre Channel over IP) A protocol for tunneling Fibre Channel data across an IP network. Fibre Channel was designed for local storage area networks (SANs), but FCIP extends the distance to remote locations via any IP network. See Fibre Channel, iFCP and IP storage. ). Under the terms of the contract, URS will conduct an evaluation and assessment of District facilities, develop program management procedures, establish a comprehensive budget and schedule, supervise pre-construction and construction consultants, and implement a District-wide project management information system. The five-year contract has a maximum value to URS of $17.8 million. The San Bernardino City Unified School District is the seventh largest district in California, with 65 schools serving approximately 57,000 students. The FCIP will address the District's urgent facility needs resulting from enrollment growth and aging and insufficient infrastructure by upgrading critical infrastructure systems such as electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling systems cooling systems for housed animals include spraying of roofs with water, evaporative pads with fans, foggers and misters; for pastured animals shelter from the sun by trees or artificial shade devices and cooling ponds are used. , reducing energy costs, increasing information and computer technology capabilities, and providing long-term maintenance planning. Commenting on the contract win, Gary V. Jandegian, President, URS Division, said: "This is another major win for our URS Division, which is a leading provider of program and construction management services to school districts around the country. We look forward to supporting the San Bernardino City Unified School District in its efforts to improve facilities for students in the San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. area." 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, commercial/ industrial, facilities, environmental, water/wastewater, homeland security, installations and logistics, and defense systems. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Company operates in more than 20 countries with approximately 28,000 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). |
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