Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Sep. 27, 2013

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Information

Segment Information

We provide a broad range of technical, professional, and construction services including engineering, design, and architectural services; construction and construction management services; operations and maintenance services; and process, scientific, and systems consulting services. We provide our services through offices and subsidiaries located primarily in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, India, Australia, Africa, and Asia. We provide our services under cost-reimbursable and fixed-price contracts.

All of our operations share similar economic characteristics. For example, all of our operations are highly influenced by the general availability of qualified engineers and other technical professional staff. They also provide similar services as well as share similar processes for delivering our services. There is also a high degree of similarity of the workforces employed among the various categories of services we provide. For example, engineering and design services (i.e., services provided by persons who are degreed, and in certain circumstances licensed, professionals such as engineers, architects, scientists, and economists) exist in all four service categories. In addition, there is a high degree of similarity among a significant component of the workforces we employ to perform construction and operations and maintenance projects. In providing construction and operations and maintenance services, we employ a large number of skilled craft labor personnel. These include welders, pipe fitters, electricians, crane operators, and other personnel who work on very large capital projects (in the case of projects classified within the construction services category) or on smaller capital projects (in the case of maintenance projects classified within the operations and maintenance services category). In addition, the use of technology is highly similar and consistent throughout our organization, as is our client base (with the exception of our operations outside the U.S., which perform very little work for the U.S. federal government), and our quality assurance and safety programs. Furthermore, the types of information and internal reports used by the Company’s chief operating decision maker and other members of management to monitor performance, evaluate results of operations, allocate resources, and otherwise manage the business support a single reportable segment. Accordingly, based on these operational similarities and the way management monitors the Company’s results of operations, we have concluded that our operations may be aggregated into one reportable segment for purposes of this disclosure.

The following table presents certain financial information by geographic area for fiscal 2013, 2012, and 2011 (in thousands):

	2013		2012		2011
Revenues:
United States	$	6,993,594	$	6,749,583	$	6,435,078
Europe	2,148,504		1,681,421		1,649,678
Canada	1,652,386		1,564,883		1,656,487
Asia	204,203		156,748		102,272
India	158,908		124,362		103,842
Australia	141,507		253,932		194,560
South America and Mexico	241,590		158,141		109,520
Middle East and Africa	277,684		204,708		130,227
Total	$	11,818,376	$	10,893,778	$	10,381,664
Long-Lived Assets:
United States	$	230,281	$	203,746	$	169,914
Europe	47,128		46,763		49,372
Canada	61,122		47,539		42,496
Asia	4,272		3,580		1,653
India	15,049		17,094		16,831
Australia	8,329		7,859		1,040
South America and Mexico	6,159		2,400		1,533
Middle East and Africa	6,956		2,150		1,794
Total	$	379,296	$	331,131	$	284,633

Revenues were earned from unaffiliated clients located primarily within the various and respective geographic areas shown. Long-lived assets consist of property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization.

The following table presents the revenues earned directly or indirectly from the U.S. federal government and its agencies, expressed as a percentage of total revenues, for fiscal 2013, 2012, and 2011:

2013	2012	2011
19.9	22.1	24.4