Beca Group
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Beca Group Limited is one of the largest employee-owned engineering and related consultancy services companies 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 over 2,400 employees in total, many of them international recruits. In the Engineering News Records Magazine in 2008, Beca was ranked 74th in the Top 200 international design firms.
Beca has alliances, joint ventures or cooperative arrangements with Amec
, CH2M Hill
and Parsons Brinckerhoff
.
after World War I, where he purchased an engineering practice that would later become Gray Watts & Beca and eventually Beca Group Ltd. Beca offers numerous engineering consultancy services including cost management, project management, planning, architecture, land information, valuations and software development. Beca supplies engineering and related consultancy services to four key markets: industrial, buildings, infrastructure and the Public Sector.
in Auckland
, New Zealand. It is also involved in transportation projects like the Manukau Harbour Crossing (to be completed 2011), and has provided detailed engineering design services to the high-tech Victorian Desalination Project in Australia.
Beca has received significant recognition for its work. In 2010 alone, it scooped eight awards from the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand (ACENZ), three awards at the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards (NZEE), and took out 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. The results were determined by 272 chairs, directors, CEOs and senior executives from 23 industries, who were asked to rate company reputational performance on a range of factors ranging from strong and effective leadership to community participation.
About Beca, the study stated, "Modest about its achievements, Beca is sound, reliable and trustworthy. A long-standing New Zealand company with a solid reputation for not only delivering high quality, but also well known for looking after its staff. It is an all round leader in its field both in New Zealand and internationally."
This was followed up by another major award win in December 2010, when Beca was named Company of the Year at the 2010 New Zealand Deloitte/Management Magazine Top 200 Awards.
2010 was the first time Beca had entered the prestigious awards, which are selected from NZ Management magazine's annual listing of New Zealand’s 200 largest corporations based on revenue. Judges commented that Beca stood out as a “world leader in its field…Beca’s success has been based not on what it produces, but on the exceptional services it provides to customers."
Recent awards (2010) include:
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, Beca operates from three main hubs: Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Beca has over 2,400 employees in total, many of them international recruits. In the Engineering News Records Magazine in 2008, Beca was ranked 74th in the Top 200 international design firms.
Beca has alliances, joint ventures or cooperative arrangements with Amec
AMEC
AMEC plc is a global consultancy, engineering and project management company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is focused on the oil and gas, minerals and metals, renewable energy, environment and infrastructure sectors and has offices in 40 countries worldwide...
, CH2M Hill
CH2M Hill
CH2M Hill is an American-based global provider of engineering, construction, and operations services for corporations, nonprofits, and federal, state, and local governments. The firm is headquartered in Meridian, an unincorporated area of Douglas County, Colorado in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan...
and Parsons Brinckerhoff
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Parsons Brinckerhoff is a professional services firm with 14,000 employees in 150 offices providing construction and operation management, planning, design, engineering, program management, strategic consulting, environmental and sustainability services for clients and communities in the Americas,...
.
History
Beca was founded in 1920s by Arthur Gray on his return to New ZealandNew Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
after World War I, where he purchased an engineering practice that would later become Gray Watts & Beca and eventually Beca Group Ltd. Beca offers numerous engineering consultancy services including cost management, project management, planning, architecture, land information, valuations and software development. Beca supplies engineering and related consultancy services to four key markets: industrial, buildings, infrastructure and the Public Sector.
Awards
In the last five years Beca has completed over 60 award-winning landmark projects around the world (see external links), and has undertaken projects in over 70 countries outside New Zealand, from Belize to Tanzania, working out of 18 global offices. Amongst its major projects is the Sky TowerSky Tower
The Sky Tower is an observation and telecommunications tower located on the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets in the Auckland CBD, Auckland City, New Zealand. It is tall, as measured from ground level to the top of the mast, making it the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern...
in Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, New Zealand. It is also involved in transportation projects like the Manukau Harbour Crossing (to be completed 2011), and has provided detailed engineering design services to the high-tech Victorian Desalination Project in Australia.
Beca has received significant recognition for its work. In 2010 alone, it scooped eight awards from the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand (ACENZ), three awards at the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards (NZEE), and took out 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. The results were determined by 272 chairs, directors, CEOs and senior executives from 23 industries, who were asked to rate company reputational performance on a range of factors ranging from strong and effective leadership to community participation.
About Beca, the study stated, "Modest about its achievements, Beca is sound, reliable and trustworthy. A long-standing New Zealand company with a solid reputation for not only delivering high quality, but also well known for looking after its staff. It is an all round leader in its field both in New Zealand and internationally."
This was followed up by another major award win in December 2010, when Beca was named Company of the Year at the 2010 New Zealand Deloitte/Management Magazine Top 200 Awards.
2010 was the first time Beca had entered the prestigious awards, which are selected from NZ Management magazine's annual listing of New Zealand’s 200 largest corporations based on revenue. Judges commented that Beca stood out as a “world leader in its field…Beca’s success has been based not on what it produces, but on the exceptional services it provides to customers."
Recent awards (2010) include:
- Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards - RCG Retail Property: Excellence Award (Westfield Riccarton, Christchurch)
- Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards – Natural Habitats Landscapes Urban Land Developments Property: Excellence Award (Chews Lane Apartments, Wellington)
- Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards - Special Purpose Property: Excellence Award (Wellington Hospital Newtown Campus)
- Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards - Green Building Property and Education and Arts Property: Excellence Award (NZi3 Innovation Institute at the University of Canterbury)
- Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards - Green Building Property and Commercial Office Property: Merit Award (Aorangi House, Wellington)
- Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Singapore, Built Environment Leadership Award 2010 - Gold Class Award
- New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) Awards - Gold Award, Urban Design (Northcrest Plaza)
- 3M New Zealand Traffic Safety Innovation of the Year Award