CCCC Highway Consultants (HPDI)

CCCC Highway Consultants Co., Ltd., commonly known as HPDI, is a Beijing-based infrastructure engineering and consulting company within China Communications Construction Company. HPDI’s official website says the company was established in 1954 and became a second-tier subsidiary of CCCC after its predecessor was reorganized into China Road and Bridge Corporation in 1999. [1] Its historical account dates the predecessor’s formal establishment to August 23, 1954, as the Design Department of the Highway Bureau under China’s Ministry of Transport, responsible for national-highway planning, investigation, design, and management. [2]

HPDI’s current service chain covers planning and policy, feasibility studies, investment and financing, survey and design, engineering construction, operation and maintenance, and asset disposal. [1] The company lists work across roads, municipal engineering, tunnels and rail transit, engineering management, urban planning, landscape architecture, ecological and environmental protection, investment consulting, and related infrastructure services. [1] Its official profile says it has independently or jointly designed nearly 200 large and extra-large bridges and has technical influence in suspension bridges, cable-stayed bridges, and sea-crossing bridges. [1]

The company also describes an international portfolio of more than 100 projects across 70 countries, including projects in Malaysia, Serbia, the Maldives, and Brunei. [1] AECOM described HPDI as a wholly owned CCCC subsidiary and a leading Chinese engineering consultant with capabilities in mega-bridge design, underwater-tunnel design, and engineering consulting. [3] In 2017, AECOM and a CCCC subsidiary established CCCC-AECOM Eco-Environmental to pursue environmental-remediation and related infrastructure opportunities in China. [3] HPDI is the engineering parent entity connected to that partnership, not the joint-venture company itself. [3]