Our history

Founded in 1928, GHD has been creating lasting benefit for communities around the world for over 90 years.
GHD infra project in 1920s.jpg
Founded in 1928, GHD has been creating lasting benefit for communities around the world for over 90 years.

Renowned for our core values of Safety, Teamwork, Respect and Integrity, we have grown into one of the world's top employee-owned professional services companies.

As a fully employee-owned business, our people have been able to build their stake in the company and pass it on to the next generation.

EielsonVC

2024

Acquisition of RIM Architects, an architecture and planning firm based in Anchorage, Alaska with a geographic footprint across the US West and Pacific regions.

2020

Global merger with Movement Strategies, those services include world-leading crowd dynamics and people movement consultancy for busy places.

Niblett Environmental Associates Inc.'s team, an Ontario-based natural resources consulting firm, joins the GHD Family.

man in wheelchair wearing virtual reality glasses

2018

GHD celebrated 90 years of creating lasting community benefit.

Launch of GHD Digital, focused on delivering client services in digital strategy and transformation, smart technology services, cybersecurity and risk, innovation, and digital intelligence.

Acquisition of Olsson Fire & Risk (OFR), a New Zealand and Australian engineering business, with extensive experience in fire safety, fire protection, passive fire management and computational fluid dynamics.

legacy way construction

2017

Merger with Omni-Means, an award-winning, engineering business focused on the transportation market, based in California, USA.

GHD Project Wurun aerial view

2016

GHD Advisory launches to give clients access to services beyond the design and delivery of assets, such as asset management, infrastructure investment and economics, and risk, assurance and regulation.

buildings in London

2015

Merger with GHA Livigunn in the UK creates a platform for future growth, based on strong relationships with end-user, contractor, and regulated industry clients.

GHD Project Barwon Water Headquarters

2014

GHD's merger with Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA) is one of the largest private stock transactions in the engineering and environmental consulting industry. GHD is now one of the top employee-owned companies in the industry, comprising 8500 people across five continents.

The team from renowned architecture firm Woodhead joins GHD, creating the GHDWoodhead integrated design practice, which brings together architecture, landscape, interiors, planning and urban design to create inspirational places.

water desalination plant

2010-2013

GHD expands to more than 1000 people in USA and Canada thanks to a combination of mergers and organic growth. The company provides owner's engineer services for the Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the first major desalination facility on the West Coast of USA.

Accor Stadium

2000s

GHD enters a period of great expansion, with significant growth in the Middle East and New Zealand. The company also establishes its presence in the UK, USA, Canada and Chile.

GHD's work on desalination plants to supply major cities during the Millennium Drought in Australia demonstrates its ability to deliver globally significant infrastructure.

GHD community building project

1990s

GHD diversifies its services beyond engineering into architecture, environmental consulting and business consulting. The company also ramps up its presence in South-East Asia.

LNG cargo vessel

1980s

GHD helps design and deliver the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, as well as vital transport and infrastructure projects for the resources industry in Western Australia and Queensland.

Andong Dam

1970s

GHD plays a major role in rebuilding Darwin, following the devastating Cyclone Tracey. Global expansion begins with a joint venture in Malaysia.

water pipes installation

1960s

GHD grows to more than 400 people. The company helps introduce or extend potable water supplies and sewerage schemes in many towns across Tasmania.

GHD rail transport project in 1950

1950s

GHD expands into transportation, manufacturing plants, building and civil works, energy, mining and dams.

world war 2 soldiers

1940s

Most GHD people enlist at the outbreak of the Second World War. Despite depleted employee numbers, GHD applies an extraordinary effort to hundreds of defence projects.

GHD founders - Gordon Gutteridge, Gerald Haskins, Geoffrey Davey

1928

Gordon Gutteridge establishes GHD in Melbourne, focused on water and sewerage. Gerald Haskins and Geoffrey Davey join the partnership in 1939.