Opus International Consultants Limited

Opus International Consultants is an international multi-disciplinary infrastructure consultancy operating in five markets – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Opus provides professional consultancy services in transportation asset development and management, building design, water and other infrastructure, and environmental consultancy services.

Opus’ origins began with the Ministry of Works and Development, a former New Zealand government entity which was established in 1876. Corporatized in 1988, the Ministry of Works and Development became a State-Owned-Enterprise and was thereafter known as Works Consultancy Services Corporation NZ Limited.

In 1996, Kinta Kellas purchased Works and Development Services and the company was rebranded as Opus International Consultants Limited in 1997. From 2002 onwards, Opus developed its global markets through a series of acquisitions and in 2007, Opus was listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange.

Today, Opus has approximately 3,000 staff throughout Australia, MENA (Middle East & North Africa), Canada, The United Kingdom, New Zealand and United States of America.

In 2016 Opus was named Company of the Year by the New Civil Engineer (NCE) at that year's NCE100 Awards in London. The United Kingdom's top civil engineering firms were assessed against demanding criteria with the top 100 being decided through an in-depth company survey, employee satisfaction surveys and face-to-face interviews with a 30-strong judging panel.

The judges decided Opus as the winner after scoring the company high across all of the competition's core themes of Engineering Equality, Future Engineer, World View, Future Tech and Technical Excellence.