Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Segment Information

Segment Information

14. Segment Information

As discussed above, we provide a broad range of technical, professional, and construction 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.

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 may 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 United States, 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 (the "CODM") 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 2011, 2010, and 2009 (in thousands):

	2011		2010		2009
Revenues:
United States	$	6,435,078	$	6,969,264	$	7,362,752
Europe		1,649,678		1,666,325		2,204,503
Canada		1,656,487		989,298		1,597,568
Asia		102,272		98,259		117,164
India		103,842		54,413		64,929
Australia		194,560		28,589		36,716
South America and Mexico		109,520		10,149		12,173
Middle East and Africa		130,227		99,220		71,571
Total	$	10,381,664	$	9,915,517	$	11,467,376
Long-Lived Assets:
United States	$	169,914	$	122,551	$	159,451
Europe		49,372		53,586		40,840
Canada		42,496		21,859		23,564
Asia		1,653		809		1,308
India		16,831		13,372		11,821
Australia		1,040		356		441
South America and Mexico		1,533		821		1,063
Middle East and Africa		1,794		1,678		1,862
Total	$	284,633	$	215,032	$	240,350

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 2011, 2010, and 2009:

	2011			2010			2009
Percentage of revenue earned from the U.S. federal government and its agencies		24.4	%		25.4	%		20.3	%

For the fiscal year ended October 2, 2009 revenues earned from Motiva Enterprises LLC accounted for 12.2% of total revenues (revenues earned from this customer in prior fiscal years constituted less than 10% of total revenues).