Beca Group

Beca Group (generally known as Beca) is a multinational, employee-owned, Australasia-centered engineering consultancy. It is the largest such company in New Zealand, where most of its staff are based. Beca and has over 2,000 employees in total; [http://www.beca.com/AboutBeca/ About Beca] (from the official company website. Retrieved 2008-01-10.)] , many of them international recruits." [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/11/story.cfm?c_id=11&objectid=10435784 Migrants firm's secret weapon] " - "New Zealand Herald", Tuesday 24 April 2007] It ranks 77th in the top 200 international design firms. [ [http://www.derceto.com/aboutus.html Engineering News Record 2005] (via mention on www.derceto.com)] It has received numerous awards for its design work (see external links).

Beca 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.