Sinclair Knight Merz is an engineering, sciences and project delivery firm. It is based in Australia with offices in Asia, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and New Zealand.

Overview

Sinclair Knight Merz is a leading projects firm, with global capability in strategic consulting, engineering and project delivery. It operates in three regions: Asia Pacific, the Americas and EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa), deploying some 6,500 people from more than 40 offices while serving the Buildings and Infrastructure, Mining and Metals, Power and Energy and Water and Environment sectors. Formed in 1964 in Sydney as a private company, SKM has retained its independence through employee ownership, with fee income now greater than A$1 billion.

Our people come from a diverse range of disciplines including engineers, planners, architects, economists, scientists, project managers, technicians and administrative staff.

We continually strive to help our people reach their full potential, engaging them in challenging and inspiring projects that shape industries and build nations.

Wholly employee-owned, SKM is an organisation with a proud history and we embrace shared values and an open culture. We have a commitment to service and quality, with high standards of safety and business ethics, along with a leading edge approach to delivering a sustainable future.

Major clients

SKM works with public and private sector clients across all its Business Units. Some of its major clients are:

• BHP Billiton
  BHP Billiton
  BHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...
  
  
• Rio Tinto Group
  Rio Tinto Group
  The Rio Tinto Group is a diversified, British-Australian, multinational mining and resources group with headquarters in London and Melbourne. The company was founded in 1873, when a multinational consortium of investors purchased a mine complex on the Rio Tinto river, in Huelva, Spain from the...
  
  
• Boral
  Boral
  Boral is a multinational company dealing in building and construction materials. Founded in Australia, it also has extensive operations in the USA and Asia. Boral was demerged from the 'old' Boral Limited in February 2000. The 'old' Boral Limited, comprising energy assets, was renamed Origin Energy...
  
  
• Multiplex
  Multiplex (company)
  Brookfield Multiplex is a global contracting and development company that designs, builds and maintains property and infrastructure assets.- History :Brookfield Multiplex was founded as Multiplex in 1962 in Perth, Western Australia by John Roberts...
  
  
• Leighton Holdings
  Leighton Holdings
  Leighton Holdings is Australia's largest project development and contracting group. It is active in the telecommunications, engineering and infrastructure, building and property, mining and resources, and environmental services industries...
  
  
• Exxon Mobil
• Australian Agency for International Development
  Australian Agency for International Development
  AusAID is the Australian Government agency responsible for managing Australia's overseas aid program...
  
  
• Australian Department of Defence
  Department of Defence (Australia)
  The Australian Department of Defence is a Federal Government Department. It forms part of the Australian Defence Organisation along with the Australian Defence Force . The Defence mission is to defend Australia and its national interests...
  
  
• Asian Development Bank
  Asian Development Bank
  The Asian Development Bank is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia...
  
  
• The World Bank and other international clients.

• Various state-owned and private water, power, road, rail and transport businesses.

Significant projects

Among many thousands of other projects, SKM’s services have been utilised in the following endeavours:

• El Teniente
  El Teniente
  El Teniente is an underground copper mine in the Chilean commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, O'Higgins Region, near the town of Sewell, above mean sea level in the Andes. Mining at El Teniente is reported to have started as early as 1819...
  
  , Chile
  Chile
  Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
  
   (engineering and design)
• Hume Highway
  Hume Highway
  The Hume Highway/Hume Freeway is one of Australia's major inter-city highways, running for 880 km between Sydney and Melbourne. It is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury-Wodonga and...
  
  , Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
   (road, bridge, drainage design and environmental management)
• Irrigation Modernisation Project, Victoria, Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
   (engineering design and program management))
• The Eden Project
  Eden Project
  The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse. Inside the artificial biomes are plants that are collected from all around the world....
  
   (structural and civil design)
• Athens Olympic Stadium (structural design)
• Wembley Stadium
  Wembley Stadium
  The original Wembley Stadium, officially known as the Empire Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the new Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007...
  
   redevelopment (seating and roof design)
• Gold Coast desalination plant
  Gold Coast desalination project
  The Gold Coast desalination project is a reverse osmosis, water desalination plant that supplies water to the Gold Coast and South East Queensland via the South East Queensland Water Grid, located in Tugun....
  
   (engineering and design)
• Port upgrade, Dampier Western Australia
  Dampier, Western Australia
  Dampier is a major industrial port in the north-west of Western Australia. The Dampier Port is part of the Dampier Archipelago. The port services petrochemical, salt, iron ore and natural gas export industries. Rio Tinto exports large volumes of iron ore through the port, and in September 2010...
  
   (engineering, procurement and construction management)
• The Roundhouse (London) (structural engineering and roof design)
• Project Seabird – Indian naval base (planning, design, civil and construction supervision services)
• Dublin Light Rail system
  Luas
  Luas , also promoted in the development stage as the Dublin Light Rail System, is a tram or light rail system serving Dublin, the first such system in the decades since the closure of the last of the Dublin tramways. In 2007, the system carried 28.4 million passengers, a growth of 10% since...
  
   (track, civil, structural and building design)
• Australian Air Warfare Destroyer
  Australian air warfare destroyer
  The Hobart class of destroyers, known during their planning phase as the Australian Air Warfare Destroyer or SEA 4000, is a class of three ships scheduled to begin entering service with the Royal Australian Navy in 2013....
  
   program (detail design, marine engineering, risk management, infrastructure engineering)
• Albury-Wodonga Hume Freeway
  Hume Highway
  The Hume Highway/Hume Freeway is one of Australia's major inter-city highways, running for 880 km between Sydney and Melbourne. It is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury-Wodonga and...
  
   bypass (design)
• Central Motorway Junction
  Central Motorway Junction
  The Central Motorway Junction or CMJ , is the intersection of New Zealand State Highways 1 and 16, just south of the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand...
  
  , Auckland, New Zealand (strategic planning and project delivery)