General EMCOR Group, Inc. ("EMCOR") is the largest mechanical and electrical construction and facilities services firm in the United States and Canada and one of the largest in the United Kingdom and the world. In 1999 EMCOR had revenues of more than $2.89 billion. EMCOR provides services to a broad range of commercial, industrial, utility, and institutional customers through approximately 40 principal operating subsidiaries. Its subsidiaries have offices in 21 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, seven provinces in Canada and ten primary locations in the United Kingdom. In the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and South Africa, EMCOR carries on business through subsidiaries and joint ventures. EMCOR's executive offices are located at 101 Merritt Seven Corporate Park, Norwalk, Connecticut 06851-1060, and its telephone number at those offices is (203) 849-7800.

EMCOR specializes in the design, installation, integration, start-up, operation and maintenance of:
Distribution systems for electrical power;
Lighting systems;
Low-voltage systems, such as fire alarm, security, communications and process control systems;
Voice and data communications systems;
Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration and clean-room process ventilation systems; and
Plumbing, process and high-purity piping systems.

EMCOR also provides services needed to support the operation of customers' facilities, which services are not related to customers' construction programs. These services, frequently referred to as facilities services, include site-based operations and maintenance, mobile maintenance and service, small modification and retrofit projects, consulting, program development and management for energy systems, and maintenance of facilities. Facilities services are provided to a wide range of commercial, industrial, utility and institutional facilities, including those at which EMCOR provided construction services and others at which construction services were provided by other contractors. EMCOR's varied facilities services are frequently combined to provide integrated service packages which include mechanical and electrical services.

EMCOR provides mechanical and electrical construction services and facilities services directly to corporations, municipalities and other governmental entities, owners/ developers and tenants of buildings. It also provides these services indirectly by acting as a subcontractor to construction managers, general contractors, systems suppliers and other subcontractors. Worldwide, EMCOR employs approximately 20,000 people.

EMCOR's revenues are derived from many different customers in numerous industries with operations in several different geographical areas. Of EMCOR's 1999 revenues, approximately 74% was generated in the United States and approximately 26% was generated internationally. In 1999, approximately 46% of revenues was derived from new construction projects and approximately 54% of revenues was derived from renovation and retrofit of customers' existing facilities and from EMCOR's facilities services operations. (Renovation and retrofit work and facilities services operations are sometimes referred to by stock analysts as maintenance, repair and replacement or "MRR.")

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