Hyder Consulting

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Hyder Consulting plc

Type	Public limited company
Founded	As Freeman Fox, 1857
Headquarters	London United Kingdom Offices Worldwide
Key people	Tim Wade, CEO
Industry	Engineering, Environmental, Planning & Management consultancy
Employees	around 4,000
Website	Hyder Consulting

Hyder Consulting is a planning, engineering, environmental and management consultancy that works in the public and private sectors to develop complex buildings and infrastructure. The firm employs over 2,500 people and was listed on the London Stock Exchange in October 2002. The word Hyder is Welsh for Confidence.^[1].

1 History
2 Recent acquisitions
3 Recent landmark projects
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

Through the 20th century, Freeman Fox & Partners built an international reputation in the field of bridges and highways. Founded by Sir Ralph Freeman, and joined by Sir Gilbert Roberts, the firm was responsible for the design of projects such as the Victoria Falls Bridge (1905), the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932), the Forth Road Bridge (1964), the Severn Bridge (1966), the Bosporus Bridge (1974), the Humber Bridge (1981), and the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge (1988). Other notable projects included the Parkes radio telescope (1961) and Melbourne's West Gate Bridge (1978), in which the company's structural design was held partly responsible for a collapse in 1970 that killed 35 workers.

Over the same period John Taylor & Sons built its reputation in water and wastewater engineering with projects such as the Shanghai water supply project and major water and sewerage projects in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) and Tehran.

The two firms merged in 1987 to form Acer Consultants. Over the next few years, several smaller specialist firms were incorporated to form a worldwide infrastructure consultancy.

The company was acquired by Welsh Water in 1993 and renamed Hyder Consulting in 1996. When Hyder Consulting was bought by Western Power Distribution, the senior management of Hyder Consulting instigated a management buy-out, completed in January 2001. The firm then listed on the London Stock Exchange in October 2002. They now employ almost 4,000 staff worldwide.

To celebrate it's 150 year history, Hyder published 'Footprints on a global landscape'.^[2], Available for download from the Hyder Web Site.

[edit] Recent acquisitions

Since 2002, Hyder has acquired a number of UK based companies to widen its capabilities and service base. These include:

Ashact - Environmental and Process Engineering Consultancy
Bettridge Turner & Partners - Transportation, Environmental and Land Development Consultants
Cresswell Associates - Ecologists
Marcus Hodges Environmental - Environmental and Ecology Consultants
RPA Quantity Surveyors - Construction, Cost and Project management

[edit] Recent landmark projects

More recent landmark projects include Taiwan High Speed Rail, the Melbourne City Link, Ski Dubai and the Burj Dubai .^[3]) and the Cairo Wastewater Project.