WASHINGTON GROUP INTERNATIONAL AWARDS STAFFING CONTRACT TO EPCGLOBAL

EPCglobal, an international recruiting and staffing-solutions firm focused solely on the engineering and construction industries, announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide temporary labor services, pay rolling and permanent staffing services to the Washington Group International, Inc. Headquartered in Boise, ID, Washington Group provides the talent, innovation, and proven performance to deliver integrated engineering, construction, and management solutions for businesses and governments worldwide.

SAN FRANCISCO -- June 13, 2003: EPCglobal announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide temporary labor services, pay rolling and permanent staffing services to the Washington Group International, Inc. Headquartered in Boise, ID, Washington Group provides the talent, innovation, and proven performance to deliver integrated engineering, construction, and management solutions for businesses and governments worldwide.

Washington Group has approximately 30,000 employees at work in more than 40 countries around the world. Some of the companys famous projects include the Hoover Dam, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and major features of the Kennedy Space Center. Recently, the United States Department of Energy awarded a Washington Group-led team an eight-year contract to provide extensive environmental cleanup at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state. The entire project is valued at approximately $1.05 billion.

EPCglobal is an international recruitment and staffing-solutions company focused solely on the engineering and construction industries. Its state-of-the-art career search website -- EPCjobs.com -- will help it provide Washington Group with a wide array of qualified job candidates. EPCglobal boasts a 15-year history of supplying staffing services to the worlds top 100 E&C companies.

This will be a terrific opportunity for EPCglobal," says Richard Hoare, US Managing Director for EPCglobal. Washington Group is among the top five engineering-and-construction companies in the world, and like all companies in this sector that are highly organized around projects, a significant portion of the workforce is hired on a project-by-project basis. Our background in international engineering-and-construction recruitment, database filled with candidates in a broad spectrum of disciplines, and online service capabilities will help us to capably fulfill Washington Groups needs."

Those seeking jobs with Washington Group should register at www.epcjobs.com.

For media information on this press release, please contact Jill Beaverson at
jill.beaverson@epcglobal.com or 415.546.2055, x 1017.

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Notes for Editors:

EPCglobal provides full-service recruiting and staffing solutions to the international engineering and construction (E&C) industries, with more than 1400 professionals currently on assignment around the world.

EPCglobal is powered by EPCjobs.com, the engineering-specific online staffing solution, developed for the engineering industry.

For more in-depth information about EPCglobal, click the link below:

http://www.epcglobal.com/webtier/html/about_us_overview.htm