GHD Pty Ltd is an engineering, architecture and environmental consulting firm.

Established in 1928, GHD employs more than 6000 people across five continents and serves clients in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation.

The company employs engineers, architects, planners, scientists, project managers and economists to deliver sustainable outcomes to clients and communities around the world.

GHD is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and operates under a Practice Quality Management System, ISO 9001: 2008 and an Environmental Management System, ISO 14001:2004 which are certified by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance.

History

GHD grew out of the business of Alan Gordon Gutteridge

Gordon Gutteridge

Alan Gordon Gutteridge was an Australian civil engineer and a founder of Gutteridge Haskins & Davey .-Early life:...

, who set up a consulting engineering practice in Melbourne

Melbourne

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 in 1928. The partnership of Geoffrey Davey

Geoffrey Davey

Geoffrey Innes Davey CBE was an Australian civil engineer and priest.Davey was born at Double Bay in Sydney to English-born law clerk Joseph Innes Davey and Caroline, née Hurley. He attended Marist Brothers' High School in Darlinghurst and then the University of Sydney, receiving a Bachelor of...

  and Gerald Haskins joined with Gutteridge's firm in 1939, establishing the formal partnership of Gutteridge Haskins and Davey.

Services

• Architecture and Buildings
• Defence
• Energy, Oil and Gas
• Environment
• Geotechnical
• Innovation in Infrastructure
• International Development Assistance
• Management
• Manufacturing
• Mining and Metals
• Risk Management
• Security
• Sustainability
• Telecommunications
• Transportation
• Urban Development
• Water

Significant projects and achievements

Significant projects undertaken by the company include the design of the Sydney Opera House facade, land-use and infrastructure master plans of the Palm Islands in Dubai, and event overlays for the Sydney and Beijing Summer Olympics.

More recently, GHD was engaged as the independent verification and testing agency (IVTA) to provide technical advice on concrete, steel and other specialist building materials for the world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

GHD was ranked 42nd in Engineering News Record (ENR)'s 2009 Top 150 Global Design Firms (Based on Total Firm Design Revenue) .

GHD was ranked 53rd in Engineering News Record (ENR)'s 2009 Top 200 International Design Firms (Based on Design Revenue from Projects Outside Home Country) .

Carlsbad desalination plant

Carlsbad desalination plant

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