Hyder Consulting
| Hyder Consulting plc | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1857 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| Reason for dissolution | takeover |
| Seat |
London , UK
|
| Branch | Consulting engineers |
Hyder Consulting was an engineering company based in London with activities in 25 countries, which was primarily concerned with the advice and planning of larger construction and infrastructure projects. The company had sales averaging around £ 300 million and employed just under 4,000 people. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange . In 2014 it was taken over by Arcadis .
Hyder Consulting goes back to the engineering firms Freeman Fox & Partners and John Taylor & Sons , who had built a reputation for themselves in the 19th and 20th centuries with various large bridges, railroad and water supply projects.
Freeman Fox & Partners
Sir Charles Fox & Sons
Freeman Fox & Partners goes back to Sir Charles Fox , who founded the engineering office Sir Charles Fox & Son with his eldest son Douglas Fox in 1857 , which a few years later after the admission of the second son Francis as Sir Charles Fox & Sons mainly through the planning of narrow-gauge railways in southern Africa and Canada, but also through the expansion of the Grosvenor Bridge (Vicoria Station Bridge) in London, including the complex access tracks.
Douglas Fox & Partners
After their father's death in 1874, the sons continued the office as Douglas Fox & Partners . The most important project of this phase was the Mersey Tunnel near Liverpool , for which Douglas Fox was knighted in 1886.
Sir Douglas & Francis Fox
Under accordingly adapted names, the brothers and their office planned, among other things, the Liverpool Overhead Railway , the Snowdon Mountain Railway , underground and railway lines in and around London, but above all long railway lines in southern Africa. This also included the planning of the Victoria Falls Bridge over the Zambezi , in which the young Ralph Freeman (engineer, 1880) , who had recently been hired , helped. In 1912 Ralph Freemann was promoted to partner; after Douglas Fox's death in 1921, he became a senior partner. During this time he created the detailed draft of the Sydney Harbor Bridge and the Birchenough Bridge .
Freeman Fox & Partners
In 1938 the company was renamed Freeman Fox & Partners. In 1939, the son of senior partner Ralph Freeman (engineer, 1911) began working in the company, which u. a. the plans for the Auckland Harbor Bridge in New Zealand and for the Adomi Bridge in Ghana , for the Forth Road Bridge , the Severn Bridge , the Erskine Bridge , the Humber Bridge as well as the first Bosphorus Bridge and the second, the Fatih Bridge Sultan Mehmet Bridge .
Freeman Fox & Partners were also active in a variety of other fields, such as: B. in the planning of power plants and motorways , studies and planning for local public transport in England, Hong Kong and Taiwan, various railway projects and last but not least in the construction of radio telescopes .
John Taylor & Co.
John Taylor & Co. was an engineering company specializing in water supply and sewage systems. It goes back to John Taylor, who was working in London at the same time as you were Charles Fox. They must have known each other as they both put forward contributions to the extension of Victoria Station Bridge at a meeting in 1867. Over time, John Taylor had grown to a size similar to Freeman Fox and Partners.
Acer Consultants Limited
Both offices came to the conclusion that pooling the different skills would improve market opportunities. As a result, in 1987, the activities of both offices were merged into a joint company under the name Acer.
In 1993 the company was taken over by Welsh Water , the private water company active in Wales and parts of western England, together with another engineering company, and in 1996 it was merged under the new name Hyder Consulting.
Hyder Consulting
After a takeover by Western Power Distribution , an electricity supplier, the company was taken over by the partners through a management buyout in 2001 and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2002 .
Arcadis
Hyder Consulting in turn was taken over by Arcadis in 2014 , which did not continue the name.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Hyder Consulting: Footprints on a global landscape - 150 years of improving the built environment ( Memento from November 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.2 MB)
- ^ Company History on the Arcadis NV website