Founder Arthur Gray Website www.beca.com CEO Greg Lowe (1 Apr 2012–) Number of employees 3,000 Number of locations 17 | Area served Oceania and Asia Revenue 419 million NZD (2014) Founded 1920, New Zealand Type of business Private | |
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Industry multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Key people Richard Aitken (Executive Chairman) Profiles | ||
Beca Group Limited (generally known as Beca) is an employee-owned engineering and related consultancy service company in the Asia-Pacific. While it is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, Beca operates from three main hubs: Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Beca has almost 3,000 employees in total, in its 17 offices around the world. Beca has alliances, joint ventures or cooperative arrangements with Amec, CH2M Hill and Parsons Brinckerhoff.
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History
Beca was founded in 1920s by Arthur Gray on his return to New Zealand after World War I, where he purchased an engineering practice that would later become Gray Watts & Beca and eventually Beca Group Ltd.
Beca has had several name changes following amalgamations. Beca Steven existed from 1989 to 2001 after amalgamation of Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner with Steven Fitzmaurice & Partners. In 2001, CH2M Hill merged with Beca Steven to form CH2M Beca Ltd.
Services
The company specializes in a large array of consultancy services including cost management, project management, planning, architecture, surveying, GIS, land information, valuations and software development. Beca supplies engineering and related consultancy services to four key markets: industrial, buildings, infrastructure and the Public Sector.
Major projects
According to its website, Beca has completed 156 projects (2014) in multiple countries across the Asia Pacific region. Amongst its major projects is the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand. It is also involved in transportation projects such as the Manukau Harbour Crossing, and has provided engineering design services to the Victorian Desalination Project in Australia.
Revenue
Beca posted annual revenues for the year ending 31 March 2014 of $419 million NZD.
Subsidiaries
The company lists the following subsidiaries operating under the Beca Group Limited name:
Awards
Beca has received recognition for its work. In 2010 alone, it won eight awards from the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand (ACENZ), three awards at the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards (NZEE), and won the Education and Healthcare category at the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) for NZi3, an information and communications technology (ICT) Innovation Institute based at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
In September 2010, Beca was rated the fourth most reputable organisation in New Zealand in a study commissioned by consultancy group Hay Group and NZ Management Magazine.
In December 2010, Beca was named Company of the Year at the 2010 New Zealand Deloitte/Management Magazine Top 200 Awards.
In the Engineering News Records Magazine in 2013, Beca was ranked 76th in the Top 200 international design firms, with international design revenues of 139.1 million.
In 2011, Hay Group named Beca as New Zealand's Most Reputable Organisation.