Sustainability Consultancy

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Sustainable Development

Societies, industries, companies and economies need to transition to a more sustainable future. Sweco has the greatest opportunity to influence and contribute to the transition through the tremendous number of client projects the company carries out each year. In its client projects, Sweco identifies, shapes and applies the most sustainable solutions with long-term consideration of people, the environment and society. Sweco also has a great responsibility to run its own operations sustainably, with the least possible environmental and climate impact and an inclusive culture supported by diverse competencies and based on robust business ethics.

Through our engineering, environment, design and regulatory services we believe we can play a leading role in making positive changes. We’re committed to improving our clients’ sustainability performance by fostering positive partnerships and working towards meaningful, actionable project outcomes that align with the 17 UNSDGs.

Here’s how our main areas of expertise touch some of the key UNSDGs:

Buildings and Urban Areas

Through its broad collaboration with energy and industry clients in Europe, Sweco contributes to the energy transition with expertise and knowledge-sharing in renewable energy production, planning and design of transmission and distribution grid, more efficient energy consumption, and technology development in areas including energy storage, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage. Sweco’s experts also work to ensure access to clean water and safe sanitation, reduce air pollution, and minimise toxins through efficient chemical and waste management.

Solving the greatest societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than even before. We are proud to be at the centre of the green transition with sustainability consultancy that is embedded into our portfolio of Buildings, Transportation, Water, Energy and Environmental projects – as we combine the collective knowledge of architects, engineers and multi-disciplinary experts to co-create solutions with our clients that transform societies.

Our approach to the green transition enables us to offer our partners a combination of global expertise and local understanding for the UK market, adapted to each business in their own regional requirements as we endeavour to be our clients’ most relevant and committed sustainability consultancy partner.

Sweco enables solutions to reduce cities’ climate impact, adapt to climate change and mitigate the negative effects of increasing incidents of extreme weather on the built environment. The company integrates sustainability into all phases of planning, design and implementation and promotes the use of environmentally friendly materials and recycling technologies with a focus on minimising resource use and waste in buildings construction – promoting circular economy where possible and viable, as well as smart buildings solutions. Throughsustainable buildings and user-conscious building performance design, Sweco also focuses on creating socially inclusive urban areas that promote health and wellbeing and enable people to thrive.

Water, Energy and Industry

Transportation Infrastructure

Sweco designstransport systems to enable tomorrow’s societies to manage growing populations and increased demand for sustainable mobility solutions. Engineers and traffic planners focus on reducing carbon emissions by expanding infrastructure for active travel by bicycle, walking and public transport; efficient solutions for logistics and distribution of goods and services; and digitalisation of transportation systems. Experts in shipping, railways, tramlines and metros specialise in the design, planning, construction and management of critical infrastructure.