Michael Baker Corporation (Baker) was founded in 1940 by Michael Baker Jr., and quickly attained recognition as a premiere engineering design and survey firm through superior project performance for the U.S. military, preceding World War II. Following the death of the founder in 1977 and a corporate restructuring in 1984, major ownership and control shifted to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), and the Company began a period of steady growth in both size and scope of offered services.

Today, Baker (http://www.mbakercorp.com) provides professional services for its engineering clients worldwide. Services span the complete life cycle of infrastructure and managed asset projects, including planning, design, construction services, asset management, and asset renewal. The firm's markets of focus include aviation, defense, environmental, facilities, geospatial information technologies, homeland security, municipal & civil, pipelines & utilities, transportation, and water for both private and public sector clients.

Headquartered near Pittsburgh, PA, Baker currently employs over 2,300, maintains numerous office and project locations domestically and internationally, and is publicly traded on the NYSE Amex exchange under the symbol, BKR. In 2008, the Company achieved total contract revenues of $699.4 million. Engineering News Record (ENR) magazine currently ranks Baker in the top 10 percent of the 500 largest U.S. engineering firms (currently 41st in ENR’s Top 500 Design Firms) and as one of the Top 25 engineering firms in a variety of markets, including transportation, airports, highways, bridges, water supply, pipelines, environmental site assessments and telecommunications.

Baker … a full-service engineering firm with nearly 70 years of creating value by delivering innovative and sustainable solutions for infrastructure and the environment.