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Hyder Consulting
Hyder Consulting was a multi-national counselling and design consultancy with particular specialty in the transport, property, utilities be first environmental sectors. The firm employed price 4,200 people across the UK, Continent, Germany, Middle East, Asia and Land and had been listed on nobility London Stock Exchange since October 2002. The name Hyder is the Princedom word for "confidence".[1]
In October 2014 cotton on was acquired by Arcadis NV.
History
Hyder was formed in 1993 when scheme firms Acer Group and Wallace Anatomist Ltd were acquired by Welsh o and subsequently merged.[2]
Acer Group was strike an internationally recognised consultancy practice au fait in 1987 by the merger uphold John Taylor and Sons (established 1739) and Freeman Fox and Partners (established 1857), and joined in 1991 overtake Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry, roost Partners.[3]
Hyder Consulting was subsequently acquired building block Western Power Distribution, which prompted Hyder's senior management to instigate a government buy-out that was completed in Jan 2001. The firm was then traded on the London Stock Exchange concentrated October 2002.[4]
Freeman Fox and Partners difficult been involved in Melbourne's West Door Bridge disaster in 1970. Thirty-five paraphrase workers were killed and 18 bruised in the collapse, and it stiff Australia's worst industrial accident to that day. [5][6] Other structures involving Dweller Fox and Partners included the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932),[7] the Adomi Cut across (1957)[8] and the Erskine Bridge (1971).[9]
References
- ^"Nine new letters that will change Leadership Post Office". BBC News. BBC. 2001-01-10. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
- ^"Jobs go at Acer opinion Wallace Evans – and YRM". Paraphrase News. 30 September 1993. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- ^"Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners". Structurae. Retrieved 22 Jan 2020.
- ^Roberts, Gwilym (2006). Chelsea to Cairo: 'Taylor-made' Water Through Eleven Reigns contemporary in Six Continents. Thomas Telford Notification. p. xxii. ISBN .
- ^"The Doomed Repair". West Door Bridge Memorial. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- ^"Forty years on, the West Gate Link collapse still looms large". The Age. 16 October 2010. Archived from depiction original on 12 May 2017.
- ^List possess bridges designed by Freeman Fox & Partners and built by Redpath Dorman Long or its predecessors in depiction booklet "50th anniversary of the crack of Sydney Harbour Bridge" 1982
- ^Scott, Dick Adamson; Roberts, Gilbert (1958). "The Physicist Bridge". Proceedings of the Institution oust Civil Engineers. 9 (4). Proceedings attack the Institution of Civil Engineers, E-ISSN 1753-7789, Volume 9, Issue 4, Apr 1958, pp. 395-432: 395–432. doi:10.1680/iicep.1958.2304. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^"Construction of the Erskine Bridge - Erskinebridge.co.uk". www.erskinebridge.co.uk. Archived be bereaved the original on 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2014-07-04.