aurecon

About Aurecon

Aurecon is an Asia Pacific engineering, design and advisory company that uses engineering expertise to provide advisory, design, delivery and asset management services. Its stated purpose - bringing ideas to life - describes a business that works from early strategic thinking through to the long-term operation of completed assets.

The group is headquartered in Docklands, Melbourne and is owner-managed, a governance structure that keeps decision-making with the people delivering the work rather than with external shareholders.

Formation and Structure

Aurecon was created through the merger of three established engineering consultancies - Africon, Connell Wagner and Ninham Shand - bringing together African and Australasian engineering practices under a single brand. The company today employs more than 6,500 people across a network of offices spanning Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

Geographic Presence

In Australia the firm operates from around fifteen offices including Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. In New Zealand roughly 900 engineering and advisory professionals work from five offices in Auckland, Tauranga, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch, with further presence across Southeast Asia.

That regional concentration matters. Australian and New Zealand infrastructure work involves specific conditions - seismic design in New Zealand, extreme heat and bushfire risk in Australia, cyclone loading in the north, and long distances between population centres - which shape engineering decisions in ways that generic international practice does not address.

Services

• Advisory - asset management and advisory, infrastructure and risk advisory, and sustaining capital planning
• Design - multidisciplinary engineering and design across building and infrastructure projects
• Delivery - support through construction and commissioning
• Asset management - performance, maintenance strategy and whole-of-life planning for completed assets

Technical Disciplines

• Water resources, supply, purification and treatment
• Transportation and roads
• Structures and buildings
• Heavy engineering and industrial facilities
• Infrastructure services and utilities
• Environmental science and sustainability

Advisory and Asset Management

The advisory and asset management strands are worth singling out. Most engineering consultancies concentrate on design, but Aurecon positions advisory work at the front of its offer - helping clients decide what to build and whether to build at all - and asset management at the back, covering how an asset performs over decades. Sustaining capital advice, in particular, addresses a problem many owners face: allocating limited renewal budgets across an ageing portfolio.

Sustainability

Sustainability and environmental science run through the practice, from environmental impact assessment on infrastructure schemes to decarbonisation and climate resilience planning. In a region facing acute climate exposure, resilience is an engineering requirement rather than an optional service.

Market Position

Aurecon is one of the leading engineering and advisory firms in Australia and New Zealand, competing with the large global consultancies while retaining a distinctly regional identity and owner-managed structure. Its clients include government agencies, utilities, transport authorities, developers and industrial owners.

Why AEC Teams Should Know Aurecon

For teams working on Australasian infrastructure, water or major buildings, Aurecon is a significant reference point for integrated advisory, design and asset management across the built environment.