AECOM

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AECOM or AECOM Technology Corporation is one of the world's largest engineering/architectural design firms, and is based in Los Angeles. It began in 1985 through an employee and management purchase of the company's predecessor, Ashland Technology Corporation, from Ashland, Inc. It became an independent company in 1990 and has rapidly become one of the largest design organizations in the world. ^[1] Among its significant strategic mergers and acquisitions were DMJM Harris, DMJM H&N, EDAW, ENSR, Metcalf & Eddy, HSMM in the United States, Faber Maunsell in the UK/Europe and Maunsell in Australia, Asia and New Zealand, UMA Group in Canada and Cansult in Canada and the Middle East. This expansion has broadened the company's international scope. By October 2006, it employeed 28,000 people worldwide and had approximately 350 offices in 60 countries and in seventeen operating units.^[2]