HOK Acquires 360 Architecture

HOK on Jan. 13 announced it had completed its acquisition of Kansas City-based 360 Architecture, a 200-person firm that specializes in sports, recreation and entertainment facilities. The acquisition will help to expand HOK's capabilities in Kansas City, Columbus and San Francisco.

AECOM-Led Team Axed as Huge UK Nuke-Site Contractor

The U.S.-led team managing decommissioning of U.K.-based Sellafield, Europe's most complex civil nuclear-energy site, will have its contract ended less than one year into its second five-year term due to the 4-kilometer complex's technical difficulties and lack of progress, as determined by the U.K.'s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. NDA will retake, over the next 15 months, control of the site license company, Sellafield Ltd., now owned by the consortium. It is led by AECOM, which took over after buying URS Corp. this year and includes team members AREVA N.C. and Amec Foster Wheeler plc. The team "brought stability to the site … and delivered important progress," said a U.K. energy official, but NDA will implement a different approach.