Celebrating More Than 40 Years of Service
he Sinclair Knight Merz Group represents the combined strengths of a number of earlier practices. Astute mergers have brought together diverse skills and experiences and provided the Group with the ability to offer world’s best practice combined with detailed local knowledge across the markets in which we operate. A feature of these mergers has been the desire for cultural compatibility and market synergy. In this way, we have been able to preserve our most successful characteristics whilst simultaneously adding value and services for our clients. The Group has also grown as a result of a number of public and private sector outsourcings in Australia.
The Sinclair Knight Merz name recognises the earlier practices of Sinclair Knight & Partners (originally Sinclair & Knight) and Merz Australia (from Merz and McLellan origins).
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The Sinclair & Knight practice began in Sydney Australia by Bruce Sinclair & Jack Knight.
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| 1994 |
Merz Australia (operating in Australia since the 1950s) merges with Sinclair & Knight forming Sinclair Knight Merz
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| 1999 |
Merger with Kingston Morrison of New Zealand.
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| 1999 |
Merger with Modus Consulting Engineers from the UK.
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| 2000 |
Group expands its presence in Asia through its link with leading Malaysia consulting engineer, H.S. Liao Sdn Bhd.
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| 2002 |
Merger in Singapore with Murray North. Acquisition of Ingenco and merger with Kirkman and Bradford Buildings consultancy in Scotland.
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| 2004 |
Merger with one of Britain's leading structural & civil engineering consultancies Anthony Hunt Associates.
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| 2004 |
SKM acquires OPCV. OPCV was established in 1985 by Australia's Victorian State Government and has completed more than 400 projects in more than 40 countries throughout Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, South America and Europe.
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| 2004 |
CCD Australia merges with SKM in November 2004. CCD Australia provides specialist consulting engineering services in security, custodial and Defence markets.
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| 2005 |
Merger with leading Chilean Engineering firm, Minmetal, which provides integrated solutions to clients in the Mining & Metals, Infrastructure and Industrial markets.
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| 2006 |
SKM joins forces with engineering consultant HBH in a move designed to bolster the capability of the two firms in servicing the booming Resources market. Principally based in Perth, Western Australia, HBH specialises in multidisciplinary projects for the resources sector, and in industrial machine design.
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| 2008 |
South Australian environmental consultancy REM merges with SKM to form a groundwater assessment and management centre of excellence offering leading edge technical expertise and global experience.
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| 2008 |
In October 2008 SKM joins forces with Environmental Design Consultants (EDC), a United Kingdom based building services engineering group specialising in sustainable building design.
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| 2009 |
SKM acquires the Enviros Consulting Group, a market leading consultancy providing water, environmental, sustainability and health and safety solutions across the UK and Europe.
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| 2010 |
SKM acquires McLennan Magasanik Associates (MMA). MMA is a leading independent strategic consultancy advising on commercial, techno-economic, regulatory and environmental aspects of the energy, water and process industries.
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| 2011 |
SKM merges with Colin Buchanan & Partners Ltd, a leading transport planning, planning, urban design and economics consultancy founded by Professor Sir Colin Buchanan in 1964.
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| 2011 |
SKM merges with multi-disciplinary architectural and engineering firm S2F. S2F's skills and experience in pharmaceuticals and research add to SKM’s already strong presence in the health and defence sectors.
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| 2011 |
Leading Chilean water engineering consultancy IRH merges with SKM. IRH specialises in the implementation and management of projects related to water supply, water networks, urbanisation, stormwater systems, water and sewage treatment, environmental management and hydraulics.
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| 2011 |
SKM acquires key rail engineering assets from UK consulting and engineering services group Mouchel.
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In addition to this growth, a major restructure of the Group was implemented in 1999. This was in recognition of the development of the Group globally, and the importance of equitable participation by all shareholders, regardless of country of residence and professional practice. This restructure resulted in the constitution of Sinclair Knight Merz Management Pty Limited as the ultimate holding entity for the direction of the Group's business. This is also the entity in which all shareholders have their voting interests.