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AMEC
Plc
A Corporate
Profile
By Corporate Watch
UK
Completed May 2002
Products
& Projects
Products
Projects
AMEC plc started
off as a construction and engineering company. The company's interests
gradually expanded and now involve civil, railway, road, airport,
and power engineering, building and building services and maintenance,
asset management, feasibility studies and environmental consulting.
Market
segmentation[xxiv]:
Energy 25%
Transport 20%
Infrastructure 15%
Process and manufacturing 10%
Environmental 5%
Public sector, other 25%
The company operates
through three sections: Capital Projects (Construction Management
& Construction), Investments (Property Development & Public
Private Partnerships), and Client Support Services (Consulting and
Design & Operations Support). In 2000, Capital Projects accounted
for 41%, Investments for 11% and Client Support Services for 48% of
AMEC's total operating profit (equalling £154.7 million).[xxv]
Capital
Projects
AMEC's Capital
Projects division specializes in construction and construction management
in the following market sectors:
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Commercial - focused on offices and business parks as well as buildings
for manufacturing, retail and leisure;
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Consumer
and Industrial products - including units for the production of
food & beverages, cement, cosmetics & toiletries, automotive,
electrical goods as well as storage warehouses;
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Energy
- the Energy Division has facilities for oil and gas extraction
and refining and the production of energy from nuclear, thermal,
hydro-electric and renewable sources;
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Forestry
- focused on the construction of mills for pulp & paper products;
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Transportation
- focused on the planning, construction, inspection and maintenance
of highways, bridges, tunnels, railways and airports;
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Mining
- AMEC's Mining Division is involved in the construction of facilities
for mining copper, gold, silver, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt and
platinum group metals.
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PharmaChem
- PharmaChem is the Group's arm involved in the building of laboratories
for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and fine chemical industries;
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Public
- AMEC's Public division is dedicated to the construction of waste
disposal facilities, conference centres, hospitals, accommodation,
prisons, roads and other infrastructure;
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Utilities
and Telecoms - The Utilities and Telecoms division offer continuous
support services ranging from asset amelioration programmes and
infrastructure investment programmes as well as data management
and the outsourcing of asset operation and maintenance[xxvi]
A
few examples:
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Yusefeli
Dam, Turkey (see Corporate Crimes)
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Dam
on Belize's Macal River, subcontracted by Fortis (see Corporate
Crimes)
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Reconstruction
at both the Pentagon and World Trade Centre sites
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Pulp
and Paper mills in Indonesia (see Corporate Crimes)
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Major
new International Arrivals Terminal at JFK Airport in New York
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Major
petrochemical plants completed for Sinopec in China (see crime section)
and BP in Grangemouth, UK
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Shearwater
oil and gas facility completed for Shell in the North Sea
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Completed
assignments include the Hong Kong International Airport and the
UK's largest cold store distribution centre in Birmingham, UK[xxvii]
Investments
AMEC's investment division consists mainly of its public-private
partnerships and regeneration schemes in areas such as defence, education,
hospitals, accommodation, prisons, roads and other infrastructure.
The UK government offered AMEC numerous PFI (Private Finance Initiative)
contracts (see 'links with governments' and 'corporate crimes' sections).
A few examples:
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Building
and design of Manchester Airport 2nd Runway, UK
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Birmingham
Northern Relief Road (BNRR) - AMEC is part of the consortium that
is building the road (see Corporate Crimes section)
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Involvement
in a re-housing project at DSS (UK Department of Social Security)
Newcastle Estate, Newcastle; the first major UK accommodation based
PFI project involving a significant element of new build[xxviii]
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AMEC
has won the contract to design, build, finance and operate a major
30-year life maintenance scheme for the UK Highways Agency
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Jubilee
Line Extension Nº 102, Green Park to Waterloo (the London Underground),
UK
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Completed
Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle - the first major PFI district
general hospital to be opened in the UK
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Secured
private finance contracts in consortia for the £200 million
A13 in East London and a £94 million sewage treatment project
in Ayrshire, Scotland
Client
Support Services
AMEC supports clients in a wide rage of industries (defence, transport,
forestry, energy, public utilities, telecom, mining, pharmaceuticals,
biotechnology, etc) with a wide range of services such as design, feasibility
studies, environmental impact assessments, concept development, operational
support services, and risk analyses & management.
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Design,
procurement, fabrication, commission and maintenance of the Shell
Shearwater facility in the UK Continental Shelf
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Provision
of operational support for Malampaya, the most significant offshore
energy project ever undertaken in the Philippines. Contract awarded
by Shell Philippines Exploration (SPEX)[xxix]
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Feasibility
studies for De Beers on a new Canadian diamond mine
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Blyth
Offshore Wind Farm, UK (AMEC provided development expertise, sourced
funding and proudly claimed to be 'the seed that formed the consortium
to build the first offshore wind farm in UK waters')
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Environmental
services in North America for long term clients including Exxon,
Noranda, BASF, Wayerhauser, Ford and the US Airforce
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Long
term pharmaceutical service contracts for Aventis, Novartis, Eli
Lily and BASF (2000)
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'Evergreen'
contract for BP at its UK Coryton Refinery in Essex, UK
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Shutdown
and maintenance activity for repeat clients Du Pont, BP Amoco, Huntsman
and Union Carbide in the UK
Find out more
about AMEC's services, categorized by:
Capability: http://www.amec.com/ourservices/level2servicesbycapability.asp
Market sector: http://www.amec.com/ourservices/level2services.asp?pageid=86
And Geography: http://www.amec.com/ourservices/level2servicesbygeography.asp
Partnerships
On big projects, AMEC often works with other construction/civil engineering
companies, forming so-called consortia. Substantial co-operation with
the UK government takes place through the Private Finance Initiatives.
Government support for AMEC through development aid can also be considered
a partnership, with both parties gaining from business opportunities
in the Third World.
B2B Virtual
Marketplace
AMEC, Bovis Lend Lease, Hochtief and Turner, and Skanska announced
a new global business-to-business venture. The virtual marketplace
is said to be 'neutral, open to the entire industry, and the first
of its kind in the construction industry'.
Read more at: http://www.amec.com/news/MediaRelease.asp?MEDIAID=161
Clients
AMEC's clients include Shell, BP Amoco, Union Carbide, De Beers,
DuPont, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Huntsman, Exxon, BASF,
Noranda, Wayerhauser, Ford, the US Airforce, UK Ministry of Defence
(MoD), Hewlett Packard, Eli Lily, Aventis, BAA, General Electric,
General Mills, Agrium, the BBC, BT, and various governmental bodies
(see links with government section), both in the UK and abroad.
On the AMEC website you can find links 'to obtain further information
about various industries (such as airports, capital projects, oil,
gas & power, Pharmachem, railways, and utilities) the company
serves'.
See: <http://www.amec.com/investis/level2investors.asp?pageid=259>
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