# GHD — Employee-owned engineering and professional services

> GHD is an employee-owned engineering and professional-services firm founded in Melbourne in 1928. Its work spans advisory, planning, design and project services across water, energy, transport and the built environment. Its role is normally professional services; design or advisory appointments do not mean it supplies or constructs the whole facility.

- **Legal name:** GHD Group Limited
- **Headquarters:** Sydney, Australia (group corporate contact); founded in Melbourne
- **Founded:** 1928
- **Official website:** [GHD](https://www.ghd.com/en-au)
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## CEO and leadership profile

### Jim Giannopoulos

Chief Executive Officer

Jim Giannopoulos became GHD Chief Executive Officer on 2 April 2024 and is based in Melbourne. He previously led GHD’s Americas region and joined the firm as a graduate chemical engineer more than 30 years earlier.

- **In role since:** 2024-04-02
- **Sources checked:** 2026-10-11
- **Profile:** [Jim Giannopoulos](https://voltformer.com/ceo/jim-giannopoulos)

[GHD · CEO biography](https://www.ghd.com/en-au/biography/jim-giannopoulos) · [GHD · CEO appointment](https://www.ghd.com/en-au/about-ghd/news/02-04-2024-ghd-names-jim-giannopoulos-as-new-global-ceo)

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## Engineering specializations

- Energy transition and renewables
- Environmental assessment and approvals
- Water and wastewater planning/design
- Transport and infrastructure advisory

## Declared capabilities

- **Basic and detailed engineering:** Listed capability; confirm project-specific scope
- **Procurement and supply:** Not listed
- **Civil and structural construction:** Not listed
- **Testing and commissioning:** Not listed
- **High-voltage substation EPC:** Not listed
- **Transmission lines:** Not listed
- **Turnkey power plant EPC:** Not listed
- **Grid interconnection:** Listed capability; confirm project-specific scope

## Representative projects

### Blue Mackerel offshore wind EIA
- **Capacity / scope:** Environmental impact assessment and approvals for a proposed 1 GW offshore wind development targeting 2032–33.
- **Country:** Australia · Gippsland, Victoria | **Client:** Parkwind (JERA Nex)
- **Description:** GHD was appointed to lead the EIA and approvals process. This is an environmental and planning advisory appointment for a proposed project, not a construction or operating-plant contract.
- **Technologies:** Offshore wind, Environmental impact assessment, Approvals planning
- **Original source:** [https://www.ghd.com/en-au/about-ghd/news/press-releases/16-07-2025-ghd-secures-key-role-on-blue-mackerel-offshore-wind-project](https://www.ghd.com/en-au/about-ghd/news/press-releases/16-07-2025-ghd-secures-key-role-on-blue-mackerel-offshore-wind-project)

### TasWater Engineering, Planning and Design Framework
- **Capacity / scope:** Selected engineering/planning/design partner for a 10-year A$100m programme covering dams, water and sewerage upgrades.
- **Country:** Australia · Tasmania | **Client:** TasWater
- **Description:** GHD provides professional services through TasWater’s EPD framework, integrating planning and design across major projects and renewals. The framework appointment is not a construction EPC award.
- **Technologies:** Dam infrastructure, Water supply, Wastewater systems
- **Original source:** [https://www.ghd.com/en-au/about-ghd/news/07-10-2025-taswater-epd-announcement](https://www.ghd.com/en-au/about-ghd/news/07-10-2025-taswater-epd-announcement)

### Upper South Creek Advanced Water Recycling Centre
- **Capacity / scope:** Detailed design for a 35 ML/day foundation plant and associated 4 MW solar farm, with network and future expansion provisions for up to 70 ML/day.
- **Country:** Australia · New South Wales | **Client:** Sydney Water; delivery consortium John Holland and TRILITY
- **Description:** GHD and Jacobs designed the 35 ML/day foundation plant with network and future expansion provisions for up to 70 ML/day; John Holland and TRILITY held delivery roles. The facility uses biological treatment, membrane bioreactor and advanced water treatment, with anaerobic digestion and solar energy recovery. GHD’s documented role is consulting/design, not plant construction.
- **Technologies:** Membrane bioreactor, Anaerobic digestion, Solar energy recovery
- **Original source:** [https://www.ghd.com/en/projects/delivering-sustainable-wastewater-treatment-services-for-western-sydney](https://www.ghd.com/en/projects/delivering-sustainable-wastewater-treatment-services-for-western-sydney)

## Technical services

- **Engineering and design:** Multidisciplinary technical design and engineering services for client-owned infrastructure and facilities.
- **Advisory and approvals:** Environmental impact assessment, planning, business-case and regulatory support; scope is advisory unless a separate delivery contract says otherwise.
- **Project management:** Client-side programme, project and construction-phase services with defined professional responsibilities.
- **Water infrastructure:** Planning and design support for dams, treatment, water-supply and wastewater programmes.

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## Official contacts

- **Address:** Sydney, Australia (group corporate contact); founded in Melbourne
- **Official website:** https://www.ghd.com/en-au/contact-us

## Reference statistics

- **Founded in Melbourne:** 1928
- **TasWater programme value:** A$100m / 10 years
- **Upper South Creek design facility:** 35 ML/day

## Company and energy news

- [Reconciliation at GHD: action, partnership and progress](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-reconciliation-action-progress) — 2026-06-09 · [Markdown](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-reconciliation-action-progress.md)
- [GHD recognised at Consult Australia Awards for Excellence](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-upper-south-creek-awards) — 2026-03-23 · [Markdown](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-upper-south-creek-awards.md)
- [GHD welcomes funding for high-speed rail business case](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-high-speed-rail-business-case) — 2026-02-24 · [Markdown](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-high-speed-rail-business-case.md)
- [Franco-Australian grant backs GHD mine-tailings research](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-tailings-critical-minerals) — 2025-12-22 · [Markdown](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-tailings-critical-minerals.md)
- [GHD partners with TasWater on a decade of water infrastructure](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-taswater-epd-framework) — 2025-10-07 · [Markdown](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-taswater-epd-framework.md)
- [GHD secures key role on Blue Mackerel offshore wind project](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-blue-mackerel-offshore-wind) — 2025-07-16 · [Markdown](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-blue-mackerel-offshore-wind.md)
- [GHD names Jim Giannopoulos as new global CEO](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-jim-giannopoulos-ceo) — 2024-04-02 · [Markdown](https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-jim-giannopoulos-ceo.md)

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