Sustainability services
Local and regional authorities are making a sustainable living environment and a resilient economy key priorities of their policies. Companies are working hard to transition to sustainable operations. Sweco supports governments and businesses in developing successful strategies for these highly complex challenges. With our Sustainability Consultancy Services, we help clients make their policies or operations more sustainable. Our strategic advice is results-driven and firmly substantiated, thanks to our extensive technical expertise. This also enables Sweco to continue supporting clients during the later implementation and delivery of the sustainability strategy.
Infrastructure management
Optimise and extend the lifespan of your buildings, infrastructure, or installations with effective asset management. At Sweco, we offer strategic planning and advanced tools to optimise the operation of your assets for stronger performance and greater stability at lower costs. With sustainable asset management, you improve energy efficiency, reduce maintenance, and extend the lifespan.
Project delivery
Sweco supports project owners during the preparation of their construction projects. Through a needs assessment and a programme study, we help sharpen your building programme and sustainability ambitions. With technical, financial, and planning feasibility studies, we optimise your project and anticipate potential risks. For existing buildings, we assess the reuse potential of existing assets—both technically and programmatically—and advise building managers in their investment decisions.
Advice, certification & monitoring
Choose sustainable (re)development with expert advice on solutions for energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, future-proof buildings with high user quality. Sweco ensures your buildings meet high sustainability standards—protecting asset value, reducing operating costs, and contributing to a sustainable living environment. Our Sustainability Consultancy preferably starts with defining the requirements programme and supports the full conceptual and technical design process. During procurement and construction, we stay by your side to safeguard sustainability, resulting in certified sustainability performance for your building.
Performance gap management
Optimise the efficiency and user quality of your building. Sweco advises you on identifying, measuring, and closing the gap between the designed and actual performance of a building: energy consumption and production, ventilation, comfort, and overall environmental performance. Based on accurate insight into your building’s performance, we advise you on control and optimisation of your technical installations. This improves operational efficiency and ensures your building truly meets the intended sustainability and comfort goals.
Carbon footprinting & accounting
Reduce the environmental footprint of your company, institution, or government with an accurate estimate of your greenhouse gas emissions and a practical strategy to reduce them (SBTi-validated and aligned with the GHGP). Sweco sets up an accounting methodology and monitoring plan for you, for example based on our own user-friendly Futureproofed platform, and helps you get started with data collection and processing. If desired, we can fully unburden you and prepare the entire carbon accounting for you.
Climate risk analysis
Prepare your assets or the territory you manage for impending climate change. Sweco analyses short- and long-term risks resulting from climate change, including flooding, drought, heat, disruption of supply and operations. We help you anticipate the impacts of climate change and develop strategies to protect your assets. Proactive plans and measures increase your resilience and strengthen continuity.
Climate plans & zero-carbon solutions
Get your company, institution, or government ready for the future. Sweco supports you in developing a climate or sustainability strategy—anticipating tightening regulations—in which you define your objectives and explore transition pathways. We develop a transition roadmap and action plan that enables your organisation to act jointly and in a coordinated way. We support you in organising internal processes and following up on measures. Specifically for companies, we make the climate roadmap practically transparent, linked to an investment plan for the short and long term. In addition to energy-efficiency measures, we propose solutions for making (waste) heat more sustainable and reusable, electrifying processes using, for example, heat pumps and e-boilers. Where relevant, we can also evaluate the techno-economic feasibility of green hydrogen or a derivative as a defossilisation solution. In addition, we also support companies in technology choices in the context of carbon capture options to achieve corporate carbon neutrality.
Climate finance & instruments
Gain insight into the business case and financing options for your climate projects, and the instruments you can use to support them. Sweco offers climate finance expertise so you can select and leverage appropriate financial instruments—helping you safeguard the economic feasibility of your climate projects.
Environmental & soil consulting
Take care of the environment and soil around your company with our specialised expertise. Sweco analyses the (potential) impact of your activities and provides solutions for pollution and possible remediation measures. This helps you protect the environment and gives you certainty about sustainable operations. Our deep knowledge and experience help tackle environmental issues effectively and implement preventive measures.
Renewable energy
To enable the energy transition, renewable energy generation is an indispensable step. Energy developers, companies, and governments play a key role in this. Developing a wind farm or PV installation requires local knowledge of permitting requirements, calculating energy yields and environmental impacts, a clear vision, and an integrated approach. Our experts provide the know-how you need to deliver your renewable energy infrastructure. We advise across the entire energy value chain so that green electricity is competitive, reliable, and available in sufficient volumes. And because renewable energy also brings challenges such as grid stability, our experts also support battery systems and smart flexibility solutions—tailored to your specific situation.
Energy flexibility & storage
Develop and implement a robust energy strategy for your company, institution, or policy domain. Sweco analyses your needs, risks, and opportunities in the short and longer term and develops a strategy with targeted measures and investments to achieve a stable, future-ready energy supply. This secures your organisation’s operations, enables future growth, and supports your transition to sustainable energy.
Energy efficiency
Improve the energy efficiency of your company, institution, or government with deep insight into your energy use and expert advice on feasible energy measures. Sweco advises solutions that improve the energy efficiency of your assets and processes, facilitate the transition to renewable energy, secure energy supply, and keep energy costs under control. We help you monitor and report on your energy management so you can further optimise your energy consumption.
ESG and CSRD
Sweco supports your company in developing an ESG policy and CSRD reporting in line with evolving laws and regulations. Even if you are not subject to CSRD, it can be useful to differentiate your company with a well-thought-out sustainability approach. We support you in drafting, implementing, and transparently reporting a strategy for corporate social responsibility. This strengthens your company’s position with clients and stakeholders, as well as with (potential) employees and investors.
Ecological consulting & biodiversity
Strengthen the sustainability and positioning of your company or institution by actively caring for the ecosystems around your assets. Sweco advises you on how to safeguard and further develop ecological quality and biodiversity. This enables you to truly embed integrated sustainability into your operations. It benefits not only the ecosystem, but also your employees and the people living and working near your site. Ultimately, it also strengthens your company’s sustainable image.
Green-blue strategies
As a city, municipality, or regional authority, an integrated green-blue strategy helps you achieve multiple policy objectives at once. It lays the foundation for integrated water management, stronger biodiversity, and ambitious nature restoration. It makes your city, municipality, or region more resilient to the impacts of climate change and provides your residents with greater quality of life. Sweco develops a green-blue strategy for you, linked to a step-by-step implementation trajectory in which you can involve residents, organisations, and other stakeholders.
Master planning
Safeguard your operations with a future-oriented master plan for consolidating or expanding your business or production site. Sweco designs a robust, well-considered future vision that enables the sustainable growth of your company. Together with you, we explore how your production processes can be optimised and potentially expanded further. We take into account opportunities and boundary conditions related to the energy transition, the shift to circular processes, and integrated water management.
We examine how you can reduce any impact on the surrounding area and how your company can contribute to better environmental quality and spatial integration. We can also provide solutions to safeguard multimodal accessibility to your site for employees, visitors, and logistics transport—with as little impact on the environment as possible.
An industrial master plan not only supports your future operations; it also forms the cornerstone of your ESG strategy, strengthens societal support for your company, and provides a solid basis for future permits. Of course, we can also support you with cost-benefit analyses, technical feasibility studies, and the preparation of an investment plan.
Industrial sustainability consultancy
Secure your company’s future by implementing strategies and solutions that strengthen the sustainability of your activities and production processes. Based on your company’s specific needs, Sweco proposes operational improvements that increase energy efficiency, enhance circularity, and reduce negative impacts on the surrounding environment. Using LCAs and CBAs, we optimise your investments and operational costs in the short to medium term—preparing your company for a sustainable industrial future.
Process engineering & simulations
Optimise industrial processes through advanced engineering based on digital simulations. Sweco provides solutions focused on improving the efficiency and sustainability of industrial processes, leading to cost savings and reduced environmental impact. Our innovative solutions help you achieve higher productivity.
Waste-to-X, circularity & life cycle
Gain detailed insight into the full environmental impact and the societal and economic costs and benefits of your products, processes, and assets. Sweco provides life cycle analyses with recommendations to reduce your ecological footprint and optimise your total costs.
Mobility planning & management
Improve the mobility performance of your company, institution, or public domain through expert planning and management of transport flows and mobility systems—focused on greater sustainability, safety, and efficiency. Sweco develops mobility solutions that address both today’s travel needs and tomorrow’s challenges. We increase sustainability through modal shift, combined mobility, and electrification. With dynamic mobility management, we align supply and demand and optimise the use of infrastructure and mobility systems.
Nature management plans & nature restoration
The conservation and restoration of natural habitats are supported through expert nature management. At Sweco, we offer solutions that contribute to biodiversity and ecological balance—essential for long-term sustainability and climate resilience. Through effective management practices, ecosystem health is safeguarded and we deliver nature restoration.
Environmental management
For governments, institutions, and companies, the transition to a sustainable future is a complex process that requires contributions from many partners and stakeholders. Through expert stakeholder and process management, Sweco facilitates engagement, support, commitment, and ultimately effective collaboration around your projects and policies. Through transparency and involvement, Sweco helps align interests and prioritise shared objectives—creating the right context for productive and sustainable project delivery.
Sustainability certification & monitoring
Achieve sustainability certifications for your assets and operations with Sweco’s specialised support and advice. We help you monitor your assets and production processes so you can maintain and further improve sustainable performance. This safeguards asset value, increases operational efficiency, and contributes to a sustainable future.
Sustainable procurement
Make conscious, environmentally friendly purchasing choices by using sustainable procurement methods. Sweco supports you in developing and implementing a procurement strategy that optimises the sustainability—together with operational and economic performance—of your procurement policy. We help you select partners, products, and services that support your sustainability goals and reduce your environmental impact. Harmonising procurement processes with sustainability objectives promotes responsible business conduct.
Spatial policy planning & planning instruments
Develop robust urban policy plans that promote sustainability, liveability, and resilience in our living environment, focusing on climate mitigation and adaptation. Sweco supports cities, municipalities, and regions in preparing spatial policy plans that drive regenerative development of cities and village centres, and strengthen green-blue systems. Our urban policy plans accelerate the transition to renewable energy and create space for a resilient, circular economy. We develop strategies, instruments, and programmes to embed policy and deliver tangible outcomes together with partners.
Urban master planning
Sweco designs the neighbourhoods of the future for private and public developers. Our master plans for area development and neighbourhood renovation provide a solid foundation for economically viable projects with maximum societal value. We optimise quality of life and spatial efficiency, adding value to the wider surroundings. We deliver future-proof buildings and create high-quality public and green-blue spaces. We build local support and foster collaborations between public and private stakeholders.
Circular water solutions
To guarantee water security in the short and longer term, Sweco advises governments and companies on sustainable, integrated water management. This includes, among other things, careful management of water resources, circular water use, groundwater conservation, improving water quality, restoring water ecology, and protection against flooding and drought. A robust vision and strategy form the basis for a future-oriented and feasible programme of investments, management, and monitoring of water systems.
Industrial water solutions
Consultancy for sustainable water management in companies, including the right choices and an investment plan to further purify discharge water (tertiary and quaternary techniques for, among other things, pharmaceutical residues, recalcitrant organic substances, and PFAS components). This improves discharge quality and reduces environmental impact, while also enabling the recovery of treated water for use in production or utilities.
Demolition follow-up plans and asbestos inventory
Circular demolition reduces waste and maximises reuse. Careful inventory of hazardous substances, such as asbestos, is crucial. Sweco carries out thorough assessments, detects asbestos, and prepares demolition follow-up plans that help limit these risks, costs, and delays. You receive clear insights to make well-founded choices, while our experts ensure compliance with all regulations and a safe, efficient execution of your project.
