Recruiting and retaining staff remains a high priority, however, we continue to workshare and access alternate resource pools to increase productivity and meet customer demands.
The acquisition of INTEC Engineering, Polestar and UniField this year has continued to expand our regional presence and capability. The addition of INTEC Engineering, a leading international offshore deepwater engineering and project services company, has complemented our existing hydrocarbons capability at a time when this sector is seeing increased activity. Our increased capability has been well received in the marketplace, and improves our position to respond to the increasing levels of activity. Polestar provides services to the nuclear industries, and UniField focuses on Improve services in the Hydrocarbons, Power and Minerals & Metals sectors.
Demand for our Select services has steadily increased across the US, with Select teams currently working on Arctic as well as power assignments. There is also a high degree of interest in our EcoNomics™ services. We expect to see an increased demand for EcoNomics™ assignments as we proceed into fiscal year 2009, in particular in the area of renewable energy.
Reorganization along geographic lines has helped to create more local attention across all customer sector groups and assist with preserving and increasing the value of our recent acquisitions, by committing our management resources to lead their integration and growth. Under this new organization, no operational center will focus on a single customer sector group; instead, all will take a multi‑sector approach.
We are well positioned to take advantage of the trends in our marketplace and have the know‑how and resources to meet our customers’ goals.