amec foster wheeler type public limited company traded as lse amfw nyse amfw industry engineering and project management founded 2014 amec foster wheeler 1982 amec plc 1927 foster wheeler ag 1848 matthew hall headquarters london united kingdom key people john connolly chairman jonathan lewis ceo revenue 5 455 million 2015 1 operating income 334 million 2015 1 net income 257 million 2015 1 number of employees 40 000 2016 2 website www.amecfw.com amec foster wheeler plc is a british multinational consultancy engineering and project management company headquartered in london united kingdom . 3 it is focused on the oil and gas minerals and metals clean energy environment and infrastructure markets and has offices in over 55 countries worldwide . 4 roughly a third of its turnover comes from europe half from north america and 12 % from the rest of the world . 5 amec foster wheeler shares are publicly traded on the london stock exchange and its american depositary shares are traded on the new york stock exchange . both trade under the ticker amfw . amec foster wheeler is a constituent of the ftse 250 index . contents 1 history 2 operations 2.1 current 2.2 former operations 2.3 charity 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit amec was formed from the 1982 amalgamation of leonard fairclough & son founded 1883 and the william press group founded 1913 . in 1988 amec went on to acquire matthew hall group . 6 in 1996 amec took a 40 % stake in spie batignolles from schneider in association with a management buyout . 7 amec launched the amec spie brand for engineering services in europe 8 a rail construction business amec spie rail was created and the remaining construction business was retained as spie batignolles . 9 the company announced that it would seek to sell the construction arm of the business spie batignolles and entered negotiations to secure a management buyout of that division ; 9 10 the management buyout of the construction arm of spie was completed in september 2003 with the aid of barclays private equity finance 11 and later that year amec took full control of the remaining parts of spie . 12 acquisitions in the new millennium included ogden environmental & energy services 13 and agra monenco inc. a north american engineering and services company both in 2000 14 as well as the u.s. operations and equipment of lauren kamtech in 2003 . 15 then in 2004 amec was awarded a contract to assist in the reconstruction effort in iraq as part of a joint venture with fluor corp. 16 in 2005 amec acquired uk based nnc a large nuclear consulting company and its subsidiaries including ontario based nuclear safety solutions nss the nuclear safety division of opg which was spun off when opg was privatised . 17 the european engineering business amec spie was sold to pai partners for 1 040 million in 2006 18 19 20 21 and the european rail business joint venture amec spie rail systems was sold for an estimated 200million in 2007 to colas group . 22 23 24 in 2007 amec sold its uk construction arm to morgan sindall 25 and in 2008 it sold its internal plant hire division to speedy hire 26 before buying project services company rider hunt international 27 north american environmental consulting firm geomatrix consultants inc. and slovakian nuclear services company alldeco . 28 in 2009 amec acquired performance improvement group journeaux bedard & associates and grd limited 29 and in 2010 it continued to expand with the 61.2 m purchase of entec uk one of the uk s largest environmental consultancies . 30 the company also acquired australian based businesses currie and brown australia 31 and burmangriffiths and acquired a majority stake in s2v consulting . 32 in 2011 the company acquired us based bci engineers & scientists inc. 33 mactec a us based engineering consultancy company 34 and zektin group an australian based specialist engineering consultancy for the oil and gas and resources industries . 35 in january 2014 amec provisionally agreed a 1.9 bn takeover of swiss rival foster wheeler . 36 amec completed its purchase of foster wheeler on 13 november 2014 and simultaneously changed its name to amec foster wheeler plc. 37 operations edit head office of amec foster wheeler in london on the right current edit amec foster wheeler employs over 40 000 people in more than 55 countries including afghanistan australia azerbaijan brazil canada chile china india kuwait qatar peru poland and the united states . the company has three geographic business units covering engineering and project delivery operations americas ; northern europe & commonwealth of independent states ; asia middle east africa & southern europe and one power equipment business unit operating worldwide the global power group . 38 former operations edit amec s operations were structured until october 2012 into natural resources power & process and environment & infrastructure . 39 although amec s uk construction business has been discontinued the following construction projects were notable the kielder dam completed in 1982 40 the cumberland infirmary completed in 2001 41 the m6 toll completed in 2003 42 new offices for hm revenue and customs at longbenton completed in 2005 43 the docklands light railway city airport extension completed in 2005 44 the university college london hospital completed in 2005 45 and the new york times building completed in 2007 . 46 charity edit amec foster wheeler has supported children s charity sos children s villages since 2007 funding educational projects in asia . amec foster wheeler also funded a green project in the children s village in gwagwalada nigeria enabling houses to become self sufficient following the installation of solar power and water infrastructure . 47 see also edit companies portal list of oilfield service companies references edit a b c annual report 2015 pdf . amec foster wheeler . retrieved 28 march 2016 . amec foster wheeler at a glance . amec foster wheeler . retrieved 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hawkes 19 february 2007 amec sells out of rail business business.timesonline.co.uk london the times amec to sell stake in rail firm uk.reuters.com reuters 19 february 2007 morgan sindall buys amec s ailing construction business building 4 june 2007 goodman eleanor 9 january 2008 . speedy hire buys amec equipment hire arm . building.co.uk . retrieved 18 april 2011 . amec acquires leading project services company rider hunt international archived 19 february 2013 at the wayback machine . amec buys nuclear firm for 11.1 m . construction news . 22 july 2008 . retrieved 24 february 2013 . amec buys grd builder & engineer amec moves to buy entec planning resource 2 april 2010 harris james . amec buys currie & brown . mandadeals.co.uk . retrieved 18 april 2011 . amec purchases majority shareholding in s2v consulting . realtimetraders.com . retrieved 18 april 2011 . amec buys bci engineers and scientists inc for 20 million cash . advfn.com . retrieved 18 april 2011 . amec completes acquisition 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january 2007 at the wayback machine . new york times project added to national osha partnership with amec americas . osha.gov . 9 november 2005 . archived from the original on 18 october 2011 . retrieved 18 april 2011 . amec foster wheeler partnership with sos children . retrieved 10 july 2015 . external links edit amec foster wheeler corporate website amec foster wheeler companies grouped at opencorporates links to related articles v t e construction industry of the united kingdom construction economy of the united kingdom companies consultancies and support services amec amey arcadis architecture firms arup atkins faithful gould buro happold capita ch2m cundall davis langdon elliott wood expedition engineering flint & neill gifford hoare lea interserve mace mitie mott macdonald mouchel rps scott wilson sweett group wsp housebuilders current barratt bellway berkeley bloor boot bovis countryside properties crest nicholson keepmoat lend lease mccarthy & stone miller muir persimmon 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