Hyder Consulting
Hyder Consulting is an engineering company with headquarters in London and activities in 25 countries, which is mainly involved in the consultation and planning of major construction and infrastructure projects. The company has revenues of an average of around GBP 300 million and employs nearly 4,000 employees. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Freeman Fox & Partners
Sir Charles Fox & Sons
Freeman Fox & Partners goes back to Sir Charles Fox, with his eldest son Douglas Fox the engineering firm founded in 1857 by Sir Charles Fox & Son, which after recording the second son of Francis as Sir Charles Fox & Sons primarily by a few years later, the planning were known of narrow gauge railways in southern Africa and in Canada, but also by expanding the Grosvenor Bridge ( Vicoria station Bridge ) in London, together with the complex access tracks.
Douglas Fox & Partners
After his father's death in 1874, the sons continued the office continued as Douglas Fox & Partners. The most significant project of this phase was the Mersey Tunnel in Liverpool, was knighted for Douglas Fox 1886.
Sir Douglas & Francis Fox
Under the duly adopted name, the brothers were planning with their office among other things, the Liverpool Overhead Railway, the. Snowdon Mountain Railway, metro and railway lines in and around London, but especially long railway lines in southern Africa This included the planning of the Victoria Falls Bridge over the Zambezi River, in the recently set young Ralph Freeman (1880-1950) participated. 1912 Ralph Freeman was promoted to partner; after the death of Douglas Fox 1921, he became senior partner. During this period he created the detailed design of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Birchenough Bridge.
Freeman Fox & Partners
In 1938 the company was renamed Freeman Fox & Partners. In 1939 the son of the senior partner Ralph Freeman ( 1911-1998 ), his work in the company, among other things, the plans for the Auckland Harbour Bridge in New Zealand and for the Adomi bridge in Ghana for the Forth Road Bridge, Severn Bridge, the Erskine Bridge, the Humber Bridge and the First Bosphorus Bridge and the second, Fatih created Sultan Mehmet Bridge.
Freeman Fox & Partners were also on various other areas worked, eg in the planning of power plants and highways, studies and plans for public transport in the UK, Hong Kong and Taiwan, various railway projects and not least in the construction of radio telescopes.
John Taylor & Co.
John Taylor & Co. was an engineering firm that had specialized in water supply and sewage systems. It goes back to John Taylor, who was at the same time working as you Charles Fox in London. They must have known each other since they have both presented at a meeting of contributions to the expansion of the Victoria Station Bridge 1867. In time, John Taylor had grown to a similar size as Freeman Fox and Partners.
Acer Consultants Limited
In both offices, we came to the conclusion that a pooling of different skills would improve market opportunities. Consequently, it began in 1987 so to merge the activities of the two agencies in a common enterprise under the new company Acer.
The company was acquired in 1993 along with another engineering firm of Welsh Water, the operating in Wales and parts of western England private water utilities, and summarized in 1996 under the new name Hyder Consulting.
Hyder Consulting
After a takeover by Western Power Distribution, a power company, the company was acquired by the partners in 2001 through a management buy -out and floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2002.