FOREWORD
GHD’s 2008 Annual Review, An Enduring Force, focuses on the collaborative approach needed to deliver innovative solutions that create opportunities for our clients and help enhance global communities.
For 80 years GHD has fostered partnerships with clients that reflect our creativity, flexibility and desire to meet and exceed expectations. It is this experience and our commitment to teamwork, knowledge and project delivery that continue to drive our success.
The theme of this report, and the basis on which we underpin our business, is an enduring force – a collaborative strength that powers relationships, creates mutual understanding, drives innovation and fosters extraordinary outcomes to benefit our clients and the communities in which we work.
Across the globe, we are witnessing historic levels of demand on the earth’s natural resources, for infrastructure development and for expansion of the built environment. Counterpoised with this burgeoning growth are the sharpening challenges of climate change, the dwindling supplies of natural resources, increasing population, changing demographics and a record number of people living in poverty.
As we look to a future increasingly driven by the need for sustainable development, we must remain steadfast in our commitment to providing innovative solutions. GHD will continue to apply its experience and deep skillset to help achieve such a future by delivering solutions characterised by appropriate and well-considered design, demand management and conservation of resources. In the pages that follow, we showcase some of our landmark projects and demonstrate our contributions to communities around the world. We also highlight the solid investments we have made in our business and our people, including the organic expansion of our capabilities.
At GHD we believe the enduring force of partnering with our clients to solve challenges with innovative solutions is the key to providing lasting value for global communities.
