'This deal puts us back in the top league'

摘要

For Parsons Brinckerhoff, the deal gives one of the US' most respected consulting engineers the financial muscle and diversity to compete with much larger rivals on projects in the country's lucrative transport infrastructure maintenance sector.rnKeith Hawksworth, its chief executive, said: "About 10 years ago only Bechtel and Fluor were larger than us, but there's been an immense amount of mopping up of small and mid-sized companies and suddenly we found we weren't in the top group anymore.