BGIS has acquired AREA3, a niche provider of strategic advisory, development consulting, project management and project delivery services to a range of national and international clients across the public and private sectors.
AREA3’s team is located in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane and is known for specialist capabilities and experience with data centre projects from concept to delivery. The broad scope of projects spans across many sectors including commercial and residential, industrial, infrastructure, data centres, telecommunications, education, health, defence and transportation.
BGIS is a global leader in the provision of facility management, project delivery, energy and sustainability, asset management, workplace advisory and real estate services. It manages over 30,000 facilities totalling more than 31.5 million square metres across several markets.
“Building on our leading global position in managing critical environments, this acquisition gives us the scale and impetus to support clients in Asia Pacific with the full critical asset lifecycle from project delivery services, commissioning, engineering consulting and facilities management, to the self-perform of technical services.
This aligns us to BGIS’ capability in Canada, the US and the United Kingdom to create a global team to service critical environment customers across the lifecycle of their physical assets,” said BGIS President and Managing Director Dana Nelson.
“We see many opportunities to transfer technical knowledge and deliver more innovative solutions to our clients”.
AREA3 Managing Director Charles Penny said, “BGIS is a progressive company offering us the opportunity to grow our footprint by leveraging the scale and reach of a multinational organisation. We believe this is a positive change for our customers, management and employees.”
Led by Charles Penny, Managing Director, AREA3 boasts a team of technical and engineering consultants with expertise in development and construction projects. Recent projects include data centres, hospitals, heavy rail infrastructure, commercial office fit outs, childcare facilities, and telecommunication exchanges.
