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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1885 William Barclay Parsons founded the company that would become Parsons Brinckerhoff in New York City.
Early projects included the design of the original New York City subway system and the Cape Cod Canal.
1995 Acquired Merz and McLellan
1998 Acquired Rust, Kennedy & Donkin
2009 Acquired by Balfour Beatty
2014 Acquired by WSP
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