Recent Awards

BE&K Building Group Makes National Spotlight for its Sustainable Design

Just a few weeks after the BE&K Building Group completed a US$19.5 million expansion/renovation at Park Ridge Hospital in Fletcher, N.C., the resulting "new" facility received national recognition in the September 2009 issue of Healthcare Facilities Management magazine for its sustainable design. Read more...

BE&K Ranked #1 by Business Alabama Magazine

BE&K was ranked as the #1 Top Engineering Firm and #2 on the General Contractors list. Companies were ranked by dollar value of construction contracts and total design fees in 2008. Read more...

KBR Legal Team Awarded Best Corporate Counsel Award

The Houston Business Journal awarded KBR's Andrew Farley, Jeff King and Mark Lowes the award for "Best Team Effort by a Corporate Legal Department on a Project".

In addition, Mark Lowes was also honored as a finalist in the Outstanding Associate or Assistant Corporate Counsel category. Read more...

KBR Named One of Alberta's Top Employers

KBR was named of one Alberta's Top 50 Employers in an annual competition that recognizes leading companies offering exceptional places to work. Winners were selected on criteria such as work atmosphere; health and family benefits; training and development; and community involvement. Read more...

Soldiers' Angels Receives $10,000 Grant from KBR

PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Defense contractor KBR has stepped up to support the troops with a $10,000 grant to nonprofit Soldiers' Angels, awarded through their Corporate Giving Program. The money will help fund Soldiers' Angels activities in support of military personnel and their families in KBR's home state of Texas, through projects such as First Response Backpacks for the wounded, Hero Flights, Living Legends, Tank Support, Valour-IT, and more. Read more...

KBR Recognized by the Restore Americas Estuaries Organization

KBR was recently featured as a Corporate Partner in Restore Americas Estuaries quarterly publication. KBR's history in global water resource management and coastal engineering projects began in 1936. From the Marshall Ford Dam in central Texas to currently building the world's longest marine crossing between Qatar and Bahrain, KBR has been a pioneer in performing wetlands restoration engineering studies, environmental impact analyses, coastal habitat and wetland assessments, hydrodynamic modeling, hydraulic analyses, and preliminary designs of restoration solutions. Read more...

KBR Awarded Safety Excellence Awards

KBR was recently awarded two safety excellence awards during the Greater New Orleans Industrial Educational Council (GNOIEC) Contractor's Safety Excellence Awards event. KBR's Chalmette Refining site won the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Heavy Construction Award, which recognizes large jobsites that worked over 100,000 hours in 2008. KBR also received an award for its injury-free performance at this site in 2008. Read more...

KBR Named to Fortune's Top 500 U.S. Corporations

KBR has been ranked 234 overall and second in the Engineering/Construction industry by Fortune magazine in its annual "Top 500 U.S. Corporations" edition, published on May 4. KBR received its ranking based on approximately $11.6 billion in revenue in 2008. Read more...

KBR Ranked #19 in the Houston Chronicle's Top 100 Companies

KBR was ranked 19th in the Houston Chronicle's list of the top 100 publicly traded companies located in Houston. KBR was also ranked 45th in market value, 19th in largest company (by revenue) and 31st in earnings per share growth. The list is based on several factors including total revenue, annual revenue growth and one-year total return. The list was published in the May 17 edition of the Houston Chronicle. Read more...

KBR Ranked as Sixth Largest Healthcare Builder in the U.S.

BE&K Building Group, a division of KBR, has been ranked as the sixth largest healthcare builder in the United States by Modern Healthcare magazine. Read more...

KBR Ranked #6 on Washington Technology's Top Contractors List

KBR was ranked as the 6th largest government contractor by Washington Technology. Rankings are determined by contracting revenue in government fiscal year 2008. Data is collected on government expenditures related to information technology products and services, systems integration, telecommunications, professional services and engineering services. Read more...

KBR Ranks Twelfth in the Houston Business Journal's Listing of "Largest Business Sector Employers" in Harris County

KBR employs just over 5,000 full time employees in the greater Houston area. The list, which was published in the March 20 edition, will be included in the 2009 Houston Business Journal's Book of Lists to be published later this year. Read more...

BE&K Building Group Wins Award for SYSCO Distribution Center

The BE&K Building has received another award - its fourth win to date - for SYSCO's Operations and Distribution Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Greenville-based project team, which delivered the project five weeks early, accepted the prestigious 2008 National Design-Build Award of Excellence at the Design-Build Institute of America's (DBIA) Annual Conference held earlier this month in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read more...

BE&K's Southern Company Generation Plant wins ABC Excellence Award

BE&K's Southern Company Generation Plant Franklin project (Franklin III), Smiths Station, Ala., has taken top honors this year, winning an ABC Excellence Award at the state level in the Industrial Category for projects in the $25M - $99M range. The contract spanned over 17 months achieving mechanical completion over two weeks ahead of schedule. Read more...

KBR's ROSE™ Technology is the Center of New Indian Refinery Modernization Study

KBR has been selected to perform a refinery modernization study using its proprietary technology, Residuum Oil Supercritical Extraction (ROSE™), at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) refinery in Mumbai, India. Read more...

KBR Subsidiary M.W. Kellogg Awarded RoSPA Order of Distinction in U.K.

KBR today announced that subsidiary M.W. Kellogg Ltd. (MWKL) has been awarded the Order of Distinction by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). Read more...

KBR Awarded FEED Contracts for ExxonMobil's Papua New Guinea LNG Project

KBR announced today that 'Eos', a 50/50 joint venture between KBR and WorleyParsons Services Pty Ltd has been awarded the front end engineering and design (FEED)contract for the upstream portion of the ExxonMobil-led Papua New Guinea (PNG) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project. KBR previously completed a pre-FEED study in Houston on the downstream/LNG Plant portion of the project. Read more...

KBR Services Projects Recognized at National Safety Conference

Two KBR Services Projects - Sterling Chemicals in Texas City, Texas and the Alliance Refinery of ConocoPhillips in Belle Chase, Louisiana - received an Award for Meritorious Safety Performance. The award was presented at the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) Annual National Safety Conference. Read more...

KBR Ranks Ninth in ENR's 2008 Top 500 Design Firms

KBR was recently listed in Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine's annual publication of 2008's top 500 design firms. KBR was listed as ninth in the list of Top 500 Design Firms. Read more...

KBR Receives Multiple Houston Business Roundtable Safety Awards

Two of KBR's Industrial Service jobsites were recently nominated by their clients, Sterling Chemical and Shell, for the Houston Business Roundtable (HBR) Safety Excellence Award. Read more...

KBR Joint Venture Awarded Contract for Pluto LNG Project

KBR recently announced that its Eos joint venture with WorleyParsons has been awarded a contract option worth approximately USD $24 million for the detailed engineering, procurement management and construction management assistance services for Woodside's Pluto Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project offshore production platform north west of Karratha, Western Australia. Read more...

KBR to Conduct Feasibility Study for Trans-Caspian Pipelines

KBR has won the tender to conduct a feasibility study for the construction of trans-Caspian oil and natural gas pipelines announced by the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR). Read more...

KBR Sponsored Reservists Receive Medals for HET Project

Two KBR Sponsored Reservists (SR) recently received Iraq Medals for their dedication to the Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) project, which works with the Ministry of Defence and is based at Bulford Barracks in Salisbury, UK. Read more...

KBR is Nominated as 2007 Marketer of the Year

KBR has been nominated as a finalist for the American Marketing Association (AMA) Houston chapter's 2007 Marketer of the Year award. This prestigious award honors Houston's most innovative companies, organizations, and institutions for exceptional marketing accomplishments in their respective industries. Read more...

KBR Secures Major Water Pipeline Contract

KBR has again proven its capacity as a value-for-money engineering consultant by recently securing the Northern Pipeline Interconnector Stage 2, the next major trunk line in the Queensland's water grid. Read more...

KBR Celebrates Safety Milestone

KBR recently hosted a luncheon at Goodyear's Bayport, Texas facility in recognition of the achievement of a current KBR record for working 27 years without a Lost Time Injury and a milestone of 12 years without an OSHA Recordable Injury. Read more...

KBR Chosen to be Integral Part of London Olympics

KBR has successfully been selected as a framework contractor for two packages to support the Olympic Delivery Authority in the delivery of transport services. Read more...