SMEC has operated in Bangladesh since 1977, and established a permanent office in Dhaka in 1978. SMEC (Bangladesh) Ltd was established in 1998 to provide domestic support and local firm, ACE Consultants, was acquired in 2002 to operate as an independent subsidiary in Bangladesh.
The Dhaka-Chittagong Railway Development Project; Padma Multi-purpose Bridge; Rural Electrification Upgrade; and urban governance and infrastructure improvements in secondary towns across Bangladesh.