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Segment Information
 12 Months Ended
Oct. 02, 2015
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment Information
Segment Information
We provide a broad range of technical, professional, and construction services including engineering, design, and architectural services; construction and construction management services; operations and maintenance services; and process, scientific, and systems consulting services. We provide our services through offices and subsidiaries located primarily in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, India, Australia, Africa, and Asia. We provide our services under cost-reimbursable and fixed-price contracts.
All of our operations share similar economic characteristics. For example, all of our operations are highly influenced by the general availability of qualified engineers and other technical professional staff. They also provide similar services as well as share similar processes for delivering our services. There is also a high degree of similarity of the workforces employed among the various categories of services we provide. For example, engineering and design services (i.e., services provided by persons who are degreed, and in certain circumstances licensed, professionals such as engineers, architects, scientists, and economists) exist in all four service categories. In addition, there is a high degree of similarity among a significant component of the workforces we employ to perform construction and operations and maintenance projects. In providing construction and operations and maintenance services, we employ a large number of skilled craft labor personnel. These include welders, pipe fitters, electricians, crane operators, and other personnel who work on very large capital projects (in the case of projects classified within the construction services category) or on smaller capital projects (in the case of maintenance projects classified within the operations and maintenance services category). In addition, the use of technology is highly similar and consistent throughout our organization, as is our client base (with the exception of our operations outside the U.S., which perform very little work for the U.S. federal government), and our project delivery and safety protocols and programs. Furthermore, the types of information and internal reports used by the Company’s chief operating decision maker and other members of management to monitor performance, evaluate results of operations, allocate resources, and otherwise manage the business support a single reportable segment. Accordingly, based on these operational similarities and the way management monitors the Company’s results of operations, we have concluded that our operations may be aggregated into one reportable segment for purposes of this disclosure.
The following table presents certain financial information by geographic area for fiscal 2015, 2014, and 2013 (in thousands):
 
 
2015
 
2014
 
2013
Revenues:
 
 
 
 
 
 
United States
 
$
7,154,433

 
$
7,078,366

 
$
6,993,594

Europe
 
2,074,837

 
2,402,399

 
2,148,504

Canada
 
1,065,651

 
1,344,632

 
1,652,386

Asia
 
304,393

 
299,086

 
204,203

India
 
163,871

 
148,453

 
158,908

Australia and New Zealand
 
611,271

 
709,379

 
141,507

South America and Mexico
 
143,014

 
271,213

 
241,590

Middle East and Africa
 
597,362

 
441,629

 
277,684

Total
 
$
12,114,832

 
$
12,695,157

 
$
11,818,376

Long-Lived Assets:
 
 
 
 
 
 
United States
 
$
208,155

 
$
240,501

 
$
230,281

Europe
 
55,713

 
58,562

 
47,128

Canada
 
36,647

 
51,622

 
61,122

Asia
 
3,859

 
4,063

 
4,272

India
 
16,264

 
17,960

 
15,049

Australia
 
24,460

 
49,436

 
8,329

South America and Mexico
 
9,127

 
11,084

 
6,159

Middle East and Africa
 
27,013

 
23,569

 
6,956

Total
 
$
381,238

 
$
456,797

 
$
379,296


Revenues were earned from unaffiliated clients located primarily within the various and respective geographic areas shown. Long-lived assets consist of property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization.
The following table presents the revenues earned directly or indirectly from the U.S. federal government and its agencies, expressed as a percentage of total revenues, for fiscal 2015, 2014, and 2013:

2015
 
2014
 
2013
21.7
%
 
17.8
%
 
19.9
%


During the first quarter of fiscal 2016, we announced a reorganization of our operations around four global lines of business. This reorganization is intended to better serve our global clients, leverage our workforce, help streamline operations, and provide enhanced growth opportunities. The four global lines of business are: Petroleum & Chemicals, Buildings & Infrastructure, Aerospace & Technology, and Industrial. We are in the process of modifying our systems and work processes to report the results of these business units accurately and timely. We are also developing processes for accurately eliminating inter-unit revenue and profit. We expect to complete our system and other process changes so that we may accurately report operating results by line of business to the Company's President & CEO no later than the second quarter of fiscal 2016.