Company Information
Higgin Lloyd & Partners Pty Ltd was established in Port Moresby as Enginneers and Architects by the original Directors, Mr E.S.P Higgin and Mr D.H.Lloyd. At that time the Directors had been engaged in their respective professions ( Architect & Engineer ) for sixteen years.
Following Mr Lloyd's death in 1969, the company deleted Engineering works from their consultancy services.
In 1964 Mr Dennis Bradney joined the Australian Commonwealth Department of Works in Port Moresby in their Architectural design section. While having conventional Architectural design involvement in that Department, he was also specifically involved in the major landscaping projects of Military Barracks throughout Papua New Guinea, Rouna No. 2 Hydro Electric Scheme and other institutional sites.
He joined the Port Moresby office of Higgin Lloyd & Partners in 1969 and then in 1971 transferred to Lae to manage the company's branch there.
In 1968 the company ahd established an office in Lae, and later in 1973 an office was opened in Arawa, North Solomons Province, specifically to service the needs of Buogainville Copper Limited and peripheral business. The Arawa office was maintained until 1976 when the initial Buougainville building works slowed and the Lae office, under the management of Mr Dennis Bradney, then continued to service this client.
In 1977, by Mr Bradney taking a parcel of shares from Mr Higgin on his departure from Papua New Guinea, the two commenced the Architectural Practice of Bradney, Higgin & Associates Pty Limited operating in Lae independently of Higgin Lloyd & Partners.
Bradney, Higgin & Associates Pty Limited maintained a 25% shareholding in the Port Moresby Practice of Higgin Lloyd & Partners until 1986.
In 1993, National Architects Naka Songake and John Ronnie, both graduates of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, purchased shares in Bradney, Higgin & Associates Pty Limited with the intention of the eventual full transfer of company ownership from Mr Bradney by 2000AD.
With their inclusion in the ownership of the company the de-personalised name of
"Designscope Architects" was registered.
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Directors Naka Jia Songake, B.Arch. Alison Nalu, PNGAA
The company is 83% owned by PNG Automatic citizens. |
Shareholders Naka Jia Songake, B.Arch. John Poloka Ronnie, B.Arch. Dennis Bradney, MBE Manase Botieng |
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The company is registered as an Approved Architectural Company with the PNG Board of Architects. |
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