Babtie, Shaw and Morton was a firm of civil engineers based in Glasgow, Scotland, and noted for its work on bridges, dams and reservoirs.
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).Babtie, Shaw & Morton, Dictionary of Scottish Architects, 2008, https://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/apex/r/dsa/dsa/practices?session=11846496897024John Taylor Babtie, Dictionary of Scottish Architects, 2008, https://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/apex/r/dsa/dsa/architects?session=9433302015893
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.Jacobs buys Babtie consultancy for £90m, Financial Times, 16 August 2004 – https://www.ft.com/content/2d0cbf2e-f112-11d8-95b8-00000e2511c8
Projects Notable design projects include the Backwater Reservoir, Kielder Water,North Tyne, Kielder Reservoir http://www.bridgesonthetyne.co.uk/kdr.html and the Harland & Wolff shipbuilding dock in Belfast.
People James Arthur Banks and William George Nicholson Geddes both became President of the Institution of Civil Engineers 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.
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