Architectural and engineering firm S2F has joined forces through a merger with projects firm Sinclair Knight Merz.  In Australia, New Zealand and China, the merged operation will take the name "SKM–S2F".

 

The combination of SKM’s and S2F’s skills and capability via a merger will provide a broader architectural and engineering service offering to clients, with S2F's skills and experience in pharmaceuticals and research adding to SKM’s  presence in the health and defence sectors.

 

As a result of the merger, SKM's Built Environment service line will double in size, and the combined operation will provide a broader architectural and engineering service, with S2F's skills and experience in pharmaceuticals and research adding to SKM’s presence in the health and defence sectors.  The merged operation will be seeking to pursue opportunities with multinational clients, particularly in China and Europe.

 

S2F Managing Director Andrew Kings will become SKM’s Group Manager Clients, Social Infrastructure. S2F Executive Chairman John Byrne will take a senior role leading SKM’s pharmaceutical sector globally and growing of the firm’s Social Infrastructure business.

 

Sinclair Knight Merz operates in the Asia Pacific, the Americas and EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa), deploying some 6,500 people from more than 40 offices to service the Buildings and Infrastructure, Mining and Metals, Power and Energy and Water and Environment sectors. Formed in 1964 in Sydney as a private company, SKM has retained its independence through employee ownership, with fee income now greater than A$1 billion.  Since 1996, the company has completed more than 60 mergers, acquisitions and outsourcings. Most recently, SKM announced that leading transport planning, planning, urban design and economics consultancy Colin Buchanan & Partners Ltd would be merging with its existing team.

 

S2F is a multi-disciplinary architecture and engineering consulting group focused on the design of complex buildings in the high technology manufacturing, research and development, health and defence sectors, where there is need to integrate architecture and engineering  with the functions, people and environment they serve. Formed in 1999, S2F operates in the Australian cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane as well as Shanghai, China, employing some 275 staff.