Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Design, Engineering consulting, Environment consulting, Project management |
Founded | 1885 (as Parsons Brinckerhoff) |
Founder | William Barclay Parsons (1885) |
Headquarters | |
Number of locations | New York, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and approximately 150 other offices worldwide |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Lewis Cornell, President and CEO, U.S. |
Products | Strategic consulting, planning, design, program management, engineering, construction services and operations & maintenance |
Number of employees | Approximately 14,000 worldwide |
Parent | WSP Global |
Website | www |
WSP USA, formerly Parsons Brinckerhoff, is an American multinational engineering and design firm.[1] The firm operates in the fields of strategic consulting, planning, engineering, construction management, energy, infrastructure and community planning. It is a subsidiary of WSP Global.
In 2013, the company was named the tenth largest U.S.-based engineering/design firm by Engineering News Record.[2] In 2020, it was ranked #7 of the Top 500 Design Firms and #2 of the Top 100 Pure Designers by the same magazine.[3] On October 31, 2014, Parsons Brinckerhoff became a wholly owned independent subsidiary of WSP Global,[4] a Canadian-based professional services firm. Parsons Brinckerhoff was renamed to WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff, then to WSP in 2017.[5] Part of WSP Global, WSP USA is one of the largest professional services firms in the world, with approximately 31,500 employees in 500 offices serving 39 countries.[6]