Despite appearances, San Francisco-...

Despite appearances, San Francisco--based UR Corp.'s absence upon last month's annual listing of our GIANTS Design/Construct 300 GIANTS was part oversight onward our part, but mostly our desire to honor the firm's wishes.

Indeed, the 15000-person multi-disciplinary firm--which last year placed #1 onward our Engineers/Architects ranking and #5 in succession our Construction Managers list--specifically supplicationed this year that it not be ranked forward our engineering lists, unruffled though it employs some 5000 engineers.

Instead, UR Chief Financial Officer Kent P Ainsworth asked us to categorize his