Fiji Engineering Consultants

Based in Suva, Beca's Fiji team works alongside long-term local partner Erasito Consultants in a partnership spanning over 20 years. Together we deliver projects across buildings, mining, transport infrastructure, water assets, and coastal and marine engineering. We also work with clients across the broader Pacific region, including the Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu.

Some of our noteworthy projects include the Kwajalein Atoll Master Plan in the Marshall Islands, the Vanuatu Tourism Infrastructure Project, and the Namosi Joint Venture copper mine here in Fiji.

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Capabilities and Services

Pacific Development

Beca has worked on Pacific development for more than 30 years, covering eleven countries from Fiji to the Cook Islands to Vanuatu, and working alongside stakeholders including aid agencies, development banks, and national and local governments. This work covers infrastructure planning, climate resilience, water resources management, transport policy, housing and renewable energy programmes across the region.

Environmental Impact Assessments

Sensitive coastal ecosystems and limited freshwater supplies come with almost every build in the Pacific, and each needs assessing before design can proceed. Beca carries out environmental impact assessments covering ecological, social and cultural considerations across the region. That work extends past reef surveys and water studies into how local communities live on and use the land.

Transport and Infrastructure Engineering

Beca's transport and infrastructure engineers design bridges, jetties and roading built to survive cyclones and severe flooding, not just carry everyday traffic. On many Pacific islands a single bridge is the only route to school, hospital or market, which is why scope on these projects extends well past the structure itself into social and environmental safeguards, economic assessment and procurement planning for donor-funded programmes.

Coastal and Marine Engineering

Sea level rise, changing storm patterns and coastal erosion put sustained pressure on the ports, wharves and waterfront infrastructure that connect Pacific island nations to the rest of the world. Beca's coastal and marine engineering team works from initial planning and feasibility through to detailed design and construction, covering coastal processes assessment, port and marine asset management, and the extension of life on existing waterfront assets.

Minerals and Metals

A copper deposit isn't worth building if there's no way to get the ore out and the equipment in. Beca evaluates infrastructure options for minerals and metals projects across the Pacific, covering concentrate storage, shipping facilities and transport links into existing networks. This work typically sits inside a prefeasibility study, giving a client the evidence to decide whether a project is worth pursuing before major capital gets committed.

Planning Services

Beca prepares planning documents for governments and communities across the Pacific, covering land use, infrastructure sequencing and long-term development strategy. Some plans set national policy, others work at precinct level for a single town or district. Each one matches land use decisions to the infrastructure investment needed to support them, so a plan for growth also carries the funding case to back it.

Water Infrastructure

Managing water infrastructure across a Pacific nation is no small logistical challenge, as it requires management across dozens of islands at once. Beca makes this easier through asset inspection, condition assessment and digital asset management for water and wastewater networks. This approach gives our clients an accurate record of pipeline, pump and reservoir condition to base investment and maintenance decisions on.

Structural Engineering

A building engineered only for wind will crack under seismic load. One engineered only for seismic will fail in a cyclone. Our structural engineers design against both simultaneously across the Pacific, working through load combinations most other markets never need to consider. That applies equally to new construction and to assessing the safety of buildings already standing, including those decades old and no longer compliant with modern standards.

Geotechnical Engineering

Beca gives clients foundation designs they can trust through geotechnical testing of soil and rock conditions across the Pacific's coral atolls, volcanic islands and reclaimed land. Remote sites get the same rigour as accessible ones, even where drilling access is limited and every borehole has to count. Reclaimed land in particular carries liquefaction risk during seismic events, something this investigation work is built to catch early.

Airport Engineering

Tourism revenue and emergency medical evacuations can depend on the same single runway when an island nation has no alternative airstrip to fall back on. Beca provides airport engineering across the Pacific, including runway and pavement rehabilitation work. Our approach meets international aviation standards while working within the practical constraints of remote island construction and logistics.
 

Our Projects in Fiji and Across the Pacific

40 Bridges and 3 Domestic Jetties Replacement Project

We worked alongside local partner Erasito Consultants and the Fiji Roads Authority on the 40 Bridges and 3 Domestic Jetties Replacement Project. The outcome was safer, climate-resilient infrastructure that connects people and goods and supports economic activity, education and healthcare access across Fiji's islands. Funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank and Government of Fiji, the two-year programme's scope extended beyond the bridges and wharves themselves into social and environmental safeguards, economic assessment and procurement planning.

Water Authority of Fiji Asset Advisory Programme

With more than 600 sites across 110 islands, Fiji's water network is both vast and vital. Our partnership with the Water Authority of Fiji has delivered one of the region's most comprehensive water asset management programmes, combining on-the-ground inspection with digital platforms including Autodesk Construction Cloud to support reliable water and wastewater services for decades to come. Capturing new assets with accuracy on the day they're found, rather than weeks later back at the office, was the technical problem this programme was built to solve.

Kwajalein Atoll Master Plan

The Kwajalein Atoll Development Authority engaged Beca to help improve quality of life across one of the most densely populated places on earth, Ebeye Island, home to around 10,000 people on just 31 hectares of land. Drawing on environmental, planning and urban design expertise, Beca developed a two-part solution: a comprehensive masterplan setting long-term strategy, paired with a 10-year costed infrastructure development plan the Authority could use to sequence funding requests to donors over time.

Namosi Joint Venture

Newcrest Mining engaged Beca to evaluate infrastructure options as part of a prefeasibility study into a proposed copper mine 30km west of Suva. If approved, the mine would produce 60 million tonnes per annum with 17 million tonnes of ore feed for processing, creating an estimated 736 new jobs a year. Beca's work covered concentrate storage options, standalone shipping facilities and road designs linking the site to existing transport networks, helping the joint venture secure a special prospecting licence from the Fijian Government.

Vanuatu Tourism Infrastructure Project

Port Vila's waterfront once greeted cruise ship visitors, over 250 a year, with little more than a bare wharf. Working with New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on a NZD$20 million redevelopment, our urban design and engineering team delivered a central pier observation platform, sea steps, a water taxi jetty, seawall promenade and new market buildings built specifically to house locally made handicraft. Community consultation with government representatives, tour operators and local businesses shaped the final design.

Apia Waterfront Redevelopment

Samoa's Government wanted to transform the Mulinu'u Peninsula to Apia town into a safer, more inclusive waterfront reflecting a genuinely Samoan experience for locals and visitors. Working alongside OSM Consultants on a NZD$6 million project funded through the New Zealand Aid Programme, Beca delivered the design, consultation, engineering and construction of the Apia Event Space and Clock Tower Boulevard, officially opened by Samoa's Prime Minister in 2019. 

Ready to Build in the Pacific?

Beca has worked across Fiji and the wider Pacific for more than 30 years, on projects ranging from remote atoll infrastructure to landmark buildings in Suva. Get in touch to discuss what we can do for your next project.
 

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Beca work outside Fiji as well?

Yes. Beca's Fiji team works across the wider Pacific, including the Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu. Projects range from atoll masterplanning to waterfront redevelopment, drawing on the same technical disciplines applied across every market Beca operates in.

How does Beca handle projects on remote Pacific islands?

Remote sites change the logistics of everything, materials, equipment and specialist staff often have to be planned and shipped well in advance of any work starting. Beca's Pacific projects are typically delivered through local partnerships, combining on-the-ground knowledge with international technical standards.

Does Beca provide masterplanning as well as engineering design?

Yes. Beca has developed masterplans for Pacific communities, pairing long-term strategy with costed, prioritised infrastructure plans that can be taken to donors for funding. This work sits alongside the detailed engineering needed to build against those plans once funding is secured.

Does Beca work with mining and resources companies in Fiji?

Yes, on a prefeasibility basis. Beca has evaluated infrastructure options for proposed mining projects in Fiji, covering concentrate storage, shipping facilities and transport links, work that helps a client decide whether a project is viable before major capital gets committed.

What's different about engineering for small island nations compared to larger markets?

Land scarcity, remote logistics and exposure to cyclones and sea level rise all shape decisions a larger mainland market rarely has to weigh together. Foundation design, coastal protection and material transport all get planned around these constraints.