Beca Group

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Beca Group (generally known as Beca) is a multinational, Australasia-centered professional engineering services company. It has around 1,700 employees, and is employee-owned. Beca ranks 77th in the top 200 international design firms.^[1] It receives numerous awards for its design work every year (see external links).

It was founded in 1920s by Arthur Gray on his return to New Zealand after WWI, where he purchased an engineering practice that would later become Gray Watts & Beca and eventually Beca Group. The company notes its core skills as engineering, planning, project management and valuations services, applied in five main sectors: industry, buildings, transport, environmental and resource management and management services.^[2]

Beca has undertaken projects in at least 62 countries outside New Zealand, from Belize to Tanzania. Amongst its major projects so far were the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand, and the Macau Sky Tower in Macau, China, inspired by the first. ^[3]

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^ Engineering News Record 2005 (via mention on www.derceto.com)
^ Beca history (From the Beca website)
^ Sir Ronald Powell Carter (entry in the 'Entrepreneur of the Year', 2005 finalists page of Ernst & Young).