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In 2017 Parsons Brinckerhoff changed its name to WSP USA. On September 3, 2014, it was announced that WSP Global had made an offer to purchase Parsons Brinckerhoff from Balfour Beatty plc for US$1.24 billion. [29] The transaction closed on October 31, 2014 [30] and Parsons Brinckerhoff became a wholly owned subsidiary of WSP Global. On January ...
In October 2014, WSP completed the purchase of New York-headquartered professional services firm Parsons Brinckerhoff from Balfour Beatty for US$1.24 billion. [10] The company has a network of approximately 170 offices and nearly 13,500 employees on five continents [11] and became a wholly owned independent subsidiary. [12]
Lieutenant Colonel Parsons in France, October 1918. Parsons worked for the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad from 1882 through 1885. He wrote Turnouts; Exact Formulae for Their Determination (1884) and Track, A Complete Manual of Maintenance of Way (1886) which both addressed railroad problems, and this interest in rail transportation continued throughout his life.
Parsons Corporation, engineering firm headquartered in Centreville, Virginia; Parsons Dance Company, based in New York City; Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, company founded by Charles Parsons to build marine steam turbines; WSP Global, formerly Parsons Brinckerhoff, engineering firm headquartered in New York City
Henry M. Brinckerhoff in "The Street railway journal" (1884) Henry M. Brinckerhoff (1868–1949) was a pioneering highway engineer who in 1906 partnered with William Barclay Parsons to found what would eventually be known as Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the largest transportation, planning and engineering companies in the United States. [1]
Brinckerhoff was born in 1724. He was the eldest child of Femmetje (née Remsen) Brinckerhoff (1703–1771) and Abraham Brinckerhoff (1701–1738). [1]Among his younger siblings was Altie Brinckerhoff, who married New York State Senator Abraham Adriance.
Michel, upon returning to New York City in 1965, joined the engineering planning and construction company Parsons Brinckerhoff. He became the company's partner in 1969 and in 1975 reorganized the traditional partnership into an employee-owned corporation. He became the first chief executive and chairman of the newly formed corporation in 1990. [3]
The land that the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant occupies has a long history of use. In 1805, Augustus and Peter Porter of Buffalo, New York, purchased the American Falls from New York in a public auction (and later acquired the rights to the eastern rapids above the falls) with a stated plan to generate power by way of a "hydraulic raceway".