Babtie, Shaw and Morton was a firm of

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s based in

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, Scotland, and noted for its work on

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s, dams and

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History

It took its name following the 1906 merger of Babtie & Bonn (a partnership founded by John Babtie and Carl Bonn in 1897) and Shaw & Morton (founded by William Shaw and Hugh Morton). The Babtie Group acquired consulting engineers Harris & Sutherland in 1997, then also Allott & Lomax in 2000. The 3,500-strong Babtie Group was acquired by Jacobs Engineering Group in August 2004.

Projects

Notable design projects include the Backwater Reservoir, Kielder Water, and the Harland & Wolff shipbuilding dock in

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People

James Arthur Banks and William George Nicholson Geddes both became President of the

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while partners in the firm. Gordon Masterton, a director of Babtie from 1993 became the firm's third President of the ICE in 2005, whilst a Vice President of Jacobs.

References

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