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FEMA Contracts to Provide Housing Relief for Displaced Hurricane Victims

The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency has contracted with five of the nation’s major corporations to speed emergency housing relief to Gulf Coast families displaced by Hurricane Katrina...

The corporations contracted for support include:

* The Shaw Group Inc., of Baton Rouge, La. will stay close to home and will provide design, construction, transportation, utilities and facilities management. The company is also providing support to hospitals and other public buildings.
* Fluor Corp. of Aliso Viejo, Calif. heads up operations for the Housing Area Command. An engineering and construction firm, it is now in Louisiana beginning construction on temporary housing units that will provide electricity, potable water and sanitary sewage facilities.
* Bechtel National Inc. of San Francisco, an engineering and construction firm that is now on the scene in Gulf states to provide emergency housing relief.
* CH2M Hill of Denver specializes in sewerage design, hazardous-waste cleanup and transportation projects such as highways and bridges. It will be working on providing housing in Alabama.
* Dewberry Technologies, Fairfax, Va., an advanced technologies company, will be providing planning and reporting tools...

An interesting group. Bechtel certainly has a long interesting history with the Bush administration. Fluor Corp. has also helped rebuild Iraq. Dewberry has a long history of Pentagon and FEMA contracting being rather well connected to both sides of the aisle in Congress.

It's a small world, after all.