News analysis

In the second instalment of this special series, Environment Analyst examines how consultancies are responding internally to the complex challenges of climate change mitigation and measuring their wider sustainability impacts.

Reducing carbon emissions from the built environment requires a move away from silo-based carbon counting towards a circular, whole systems approach, or the ‘super cities’ of the future risk being environmental disasters.

Katherine Maxwell, Sweco’s new technical director for net zero cities, discusses the firm’s ambitions to enable the net zero city concept to fulfil its potential.

Swedish consultancy reports improved annual performance through strategic M&A and organic gains – including in its environmental & sustainability business – and a strong end to the year.

International design, engineering, science and risk management consultancy BMT becomes the twelfth member of Environment Analyst’s Sustainability Delivery Group, as our new ESG-focused working group also debuts.

This year’s flagship awards event for the brownfield community featured particularly innovative applications and a record number of ‘Highly Commended’ entries.

EA’s latest industry data and research report reveals emergence of the sector's own ‘big four’ as environmental & sustainability consulting market sees record M&A activity and solid post-COVID recovery. 

Firm fills senior positions as sustainability and digital drive net sales growth.

Consultancy majors and their clients – notably including several western energy companies – are closing down business links to Russia, in response to the invasion of Ukraine

EIA is a well established staple of the environmental & sustainability consulting industry. But does "environment" truly reflect the health, wellbeing, social cohesion and economic health aspects of any good EIA today?

Weaker conditions impact UK business but other European markets see improvements

European engineering, environment and design consultancy Sweco has announced the release of a new tool designed to help organisations assess and visualise how their projects contribute to the SDGs. It also shows how or if a project embeds social value.

CEO praises firm for showing profitable growth through COVID crisis

Following the first six to eight months of pandemic-induced lockdowns and economic instability, the picture for some leading environmental consulting players features the tentative beginnings of an upturn.

Sweco realises MLM synergy with Hammersmith and Fulham town hall upgrade contract

Rapid adaptation has been key for Swedish group through the first half of 2020 with utilization remaining high, although impacts have been felt in construction related areas of the business

Swedish-headquartered environmental, engineering and architecture consultancy reveals sustainability and social mobility plan as part of business strategy to 2023

Ten percent of Swedish firm’s UK contingent on furlough; Q1 financials strong enough for dividend payments

LUC suspends all field work, whilst other firms review on an individual basis if onsite work is deemed ‘essential’ given government restrictions to stem coronavirus transmission

Swedish-headquartered sustainability, engineering and architecture consultancy Sweco has landed a role in a consortium commissioned to undertake a major flood risk management project in Poland. The contract, signed with the Polish government agency...

Sweden's premier consultancy enjoys improved performance in Danish and UK markets with group organic growth at 5% in 2019. UK energy & environment lead Andy King provides a spotlight on the expanding British and Irish operations.

Brexit fails to dampen sector thanks to a resurgent public sector spending and continued infrastructure activity. And there’s change at the top as WSP, Jacobs, RSK, AECOM and Mott MacDonald lead the pack, while APEM, Delta-Simons and Sweco enter EA’s Top 30 for the first time.

Swedish player Sweco has signed an agreement to acquire the 110-strong Belgian consulting firm, Talboom. Active predominantly in the pharmaceutical and infrastructure markets - with a multidisciplinary offering that includes environment and energy...

The Swedish consulting engineer and environmental consultancy player reports an 8.1% uplift in net sales to SEK 10.3bn (US$1.1bn), with organic growth accounting for around 5%. The group’s EBITA margin remained essentially stable at 9.2%. Sweco said...

Financial leads changeover for Nordic players

Swedish multidisciplinary consultancy Sweco has agreed to acquire the UK engineering consultancy MLM Group in a transformative deal for the Swedish-headquartered group’s UK outfit. The addition – which expands Sweco’s UK footprint by over 50% to...

Swedish multidisciplinary consultancy Sweco has reported its "best year so far" as net sales grew by 11% to SEK 18,735 ($2bn) in 2018 while the firm’s EBITA margin remained healthy at 8.7% (2017: 8.8%). The performance was attributed to strong...

In order to fully align to its strategy and simplify the organisation, Sweco has adjusted its business area structure to include Sweco Belgium and Sweco United Kingdom. The two new business areas join existing area segments, namely Denmark, Finland,...

Arup, PBA (now part of Stantec), Ramboll, RPS, Sweco and WYG among consultancies supporting delivery partners for road improvement programme to 2024

The Swedish multidisciplinary consultancy Sweco reports organic growth equivalent to 7% (when adjusted for calendar effects), with acquired growth boosting its top line by a further 3%, in its results for the first half of 2018. Net sales for the six...