BINNINGTON COPELAND AND ASSOCIATES
Engineering in Randburg

HKA provides expert advisory and consulting services for the development of major projects, programmes and assets around the world, working to achieve clarity and certainty for clients in delivering their outcomes. HKA is now one of the world’s leading providers of advisory, consulting and expert services for the construction, manufacturing, process and technology industries. We anticipate, investigate and resolve project challenges. HKA understands the pressures associated with delivering successful projects, whatever their size and complexity, wherever in the world. Now a privately-owned organisation with management equity, HKA is supported by Bridgepoint Development Capital, part of Bridgepoint, a major international private equity group headquartered in London, UK. It takes insight to cut through the complexity that stands between your project or programme and its success. No consultancy worldwide has greater experience overcoming these challenges in construction, engineering and asset development. They have the technical skills to get quickly to the heart of even the most complex issues. When litigation requires an expert to testify, we can assign an appropriate expert with the experience and expertise relevant to your requirements. All experts are carefully screened for availability and cleared of conflicts before being submitted for consideration by our clients. Expert determination is a quite unique dispute resolution method, primarily focused on technical issues. The advice HKA provides is grounded in real-world experience of project disputes and deep expertise spanning many specialisms. HKA’s experts have the technical skills and insight to get to the heart of even the most complex issues. HKA brings a proud heritage of excellence to our clients based on origins established almost half a century ago by true entrepreneurs and pioneers in the construction industry. These solid foundations remain today and afford our clients real assurance and confidence in our ability to deliver. A. L. Hancox founded Hancox & Partners, a mechanical and electrical (M&E) practice designing and installing hospital boilers and chimneys. The firm’s first assignment was at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Scotland, UK. Knowles is founded in Manchester by James Roger Knowles, specialising in construction dispute resolution. Its first office was in Progress House in Randburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. James R Knowles becomes a quoted company on the AIM market (formerly known as the Alternative Investment Market). The company becomes synonymous with pioneering project consultancy practices in Australia. MapleConsult is established at Exchange Quay, Salford Quays, Manchester, a subsidiary of QS practice Haleys (formerly known as Haley Somerset Consulting). Hill International Construction Claims & Consulting Group restructures operations to create three distinct regions: the Americas; Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Pacific. Hill International acquires PCI Group, LLC, a Las Vegas-based firm that provides scheduling, construction claims, project management support, and software sales and support services throughout the western United States.