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Andreas Gyllenhammar has been appointed new Chief Sustainability Officer. He succeeds Mattias Goldmann who has decided to move abroad for new opportunities outside of the company.

Let the champagne flow, because Sweco has won the Public Space Prize with the redesigned city park De Motten in Tongeren. The Drongenplein in Ghent won the Public Prize. Congratulations to the clients involved, the City of Tongeren and the City of Ghent, and our teams from Regional Infrastructure and the BUUR cluster!

Sweco Belgium strengthens its buildings and infrastructure offering through an Asset Deal with Arcade Concept Engineering from Lokeren. This engineering firm specialises in stability studies, and the design and monitoring of construction projects. The broad portfolio includes leading private and public buildings as well as civil engineering structures.

Food-tech company ENOUGH (formerly 3F BIO) intends to build a new mycoprotein plant in Sas van Gent, The Netherlands. The project, called Unity, entails a complete greenfield 10kT/a production facility, the first in its kind as a zero-waste production plant.

A stable start to the year

Sweco has won its nominations at the Belgian Construction Awards. With the bicycle and pedestrian bridge over the Leopold III-laan, we won the 1st place in the BIM Award Infrastructure and with the extension of the lifting beam furnace for ArcelorMittal Ghent, we won the 3rd prize in the BIM Award in the category Industrial, Tertiary & Residential Project.

More than 70 percent of people in European cities breathe dangerous air, according to the European Environment Agency and 1 million deaths occur annually due to physical inactivity in Europe, states the World Health Organisation. The key to a healthier, more productive, greener and less polluted city could be a new planning and design strategy based on the idea of shared speed in urban space. 

Vice minister-president of the Flemish Government, Hilde Crevits has unveiled the unique Vehicle-to-Grid charging hub for the new energy-neutral Sweco office in Zelzate. Engineering firm Sweco joined forces for this purpose with technology companies ABB and Yuso. This innovation allows a system with a battery and electric vehicles to supply power to buildings.

Sweco has signed an agreement to acquire Linja Arkkitehdit Oy, specialised in design of educational and business premises as well as residential buildings. With the acquisition Sweco becomes one of the largest architecture companies in Finland.