Kennedy & Donkin

Kennedy & Donkin was established in 1889 by Sir Alexander Kennedy as a consultant engineering practice focused on electrical engineering. In 1897 Sydney Bryan Donkin joined the business with Kennedy and Donkin becoming partners in 1908. In 1913 the firm become Kennedy and Donkin and the business went onto focus on power generation and electricity distribution projects.

The firm acted as a consultant engineer to the Central Electricity Board for the construction of the National Grid in the 1930s. The company would later work on other large scale engineering projects such as the construction of the Aswan Dam, Egypt, in 1947 and on the Pimlico district heating scheme in 1949.

In 1994 Kennedy and Donkin was acquired by WMX Technologies Incorporated and become Rust, Kennedy & Donkin. In 1998 the company was purchased by Parsons Brinckerhoff, becoming PB Kennedy and Donkin.