B+H Partners with Global Urban and Infrastructure Consulting Firm, Surbana Jurong
New alliance to strengthen B+H's Strategic Consulting and Design Solutions Practice
TORONTO, Oct. 16, 2018 /CNW/ - Award-winning architecture, interior design, planning, landscape design, and strategic consulting firm B+H is partnering with one of Asia's largest urban and infrastructure consulting firms, Surbana Jurong Private Limited (Surbana Jurong).
This new partnership aligns B+H with a global industry leader that shares common service, sector and geographic synergies, and will provide B+H with unprecedented access to Surbana Jurong Group's broad network. In turn B+H will deepen Surbana Jurong's architecture and design capabilities, supporting its transformation into world-class strategic consulting and design powerhouse.
"This partnership accelerates B+H's continued growth strategy and positions us to compete with some of the most powerful firms in the world," says Bill Nankivell, CEO, B+H. "Continued investments, consolidation and mergers in our industry are providing platforms for firms to grow, diversify, compete, and attract and retain the best talent. The B+H and Surbana Jurong partnership will allow us to deliver bold and inspiring projects in new geographies and sectors, providing extraordinary opportunities for our people."
B+H and Surbana Jurong share a legacy of transformative projects that have made significant contributions to communities around the world. This, in addition to shared goals and values, is why B+H selected Surbana Jurong as an investor in its future. This new partnership marks Singapore-based Surbana Jurong's first investment in a North American consulting and design practice.
"Surbana Jurong and B+H believe in shaping spaces, communities, cities, economies and lives," says Wong Heang Fine, Group CEO of Surbana Jurong. "Both firms are committed to delivering resilient and healthy environments. Together, we will aim to provide integrated, end-to-end and best-in-class solutions, from real estate and development strategies, to design and consulting services and through to facilities management. We will create spaces and design infrastructure where people live, work and play, shaping cities into homes with sustainable jobs where communities and businesses can flourish."
B+H Principals will continue to be owners and the firm will be managed as an independent entity by its Managing Principals, with its head office remaining in Toronto, thereby retaining its strong Canadian brand. This fits Surbana Jurong's business model where specialist groups operate independently in the global marketplace, with the flexibility to work separately or collaboratively as needed.
B+H and Surbana Jurong will collaborate on strategic opportunities in North America, where Surbana Jurong does not currently have a strong market presence. In Asia, B+H will continue to operate independently, providing a full suite of design services and collaborating with Surbana Jurong and member companies. Propelling future growth of the B+H brand, B+H will leverage Surbana Jurong's presence in Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines, India, Indonesia, Australia and Africa to pursue new project opportunities.
About B+H
B+H is a global, award-winning consulting + design solutions firm. We leverage the core visualization and integration skills of an architecture and design practice to understand and articulate complex data into transformative solutions across a broad spectrum of sectors and services.
Founded on a 65-year legacy of creating bold and inspiring spaces for people, B+H provides core architecture, planning, landscape, and interior design services. Today our team includes more than 450 curious designers, place makers, strategists, storytellers, and creative human beings who believe in embracing change and challenging the status quo to deliver resilient, healthy environments that make positive contributions to their communities and are characterized by vibrant human experiences.
Collaborating across ten studios in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Seattle, Los Angeles, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore & Ho Chi Minh City, B+H's architects, interior designers, planners, landscape architects, organizational design specialists, experience designers, researchers, analysts, and brand strategists combine strategic thinking, bold design and advanced technology with the creative human energy of an interdisciplinary, multigenerational team.
A member of the Surbana Jurong Group, B+H delivers strategic consulting and high value design solutions that shape spaces, communities, and economies.
About Surbana Jurong
Surbana Jurong is one of the largest Asia-based urban and infrastructure consulting firms. Leveraging technology and creativity, Surbana Jurong provides best-in-class consultancy solutions across the entire value chain of the urbanisation, industrialisation and infrastructure domains.
Headquartered in Singapore, the Surbana Jurong Group has a global workforce of over 14,500 employees in more than 130 offices across over 40 countries in Asia, Australia, UK, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, and an annual turnover of around S$1.5 billion.
Surbana Jurong has a track record of close to 70 years, and has built more than a million homes in Singapore, crafted master plans for more than 30 countries and developed over 100 industrial parks globally.
Surbana Jurong's motto 'Building Cities, Shaping Lives' reflects its belief that development is more than just steel and concrete. Surbana Jurong creates spaces and designs infrastructure where people live, work and play, shaping cities into homes with sustainable jobs where communities and businesses can flourish.
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