Together with customers, partners and colleagues, we shape a future where people and societies grow and flourish.
We do that by co-creating sustainable and beautiful solutions that improve the quality of life for people today and many generations ahead. Our starting point is gaining a deep understanding of our customers, their aspirations and concerns.
This is what sets us apart and how we deliver long-term value. Primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America and India, we currently number 6,900 people, who offer our expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment.
The UK Business
The UK Business Unit employs nearly 600 people, based in six offices and remotely. We mainly work within transportation infrastructure, with a focus on bridges, tunnels and underground structures and railways. However, our extensive experience also covers ground engineering and reclamation, energy, utilities, special structures, and buildings.
Our engineering culture is to design buildability in, and design risk out. We understand how important a varied workload is in developing our engineers, so we encourage them to work on a mix of smaller, local assignments and larger, multidisciplinary projects.
We are growing the business to become more multi-disciplinary, by adding employees with skills in sustainability, planning, M&E, community engagement and much more to our ever-growing talent pool.
Our Strategy
With the climate crisis, the need for dramatic and thoroughgoing action for the benefit of coming generations has become evident. At COWI, we offer solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time. That is why we are committed to meeting customers’ and society’s demand by shaping a sustainable and liveable world.
If we succeed, we can grow our business and make a significant difference in the world – together with our customers and partners.
To inspire and guide us in the coming years, we have formulated a vision and a set of values; and to develop our company and seize the numerous market opportunities, we have developed COWI's new strategy.
It is called FUTURE-NOW, because if we, as society and as a company, want to survive and thrive in the future, we must act today; and because in our work with the strategy, we have taken our starting point in the future: What will it look like and what does that mean for us now?
To meet customer demands and move towards our aspiration, we have chosen where to focus our efforts. The choices are made based on our current and potential strengths and market positions:
- We will work with and for key customers with multiple projects, a long-term perspective and compatible ethics.
- We deliver studies and concept design, design development, planning/permissions, final and detailed design, construction management, PMC services and asset management.
- We operate within: urban development, energy, industry, buildings, transportation, water, climate adaptation and environment.
- We focus on Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark, Sweden), the UK and North America. For key customers, we will take on projects outside these countries.
- We will continue to use a key account approach and co-creation with partners when we complement each other’s capabilities.
Going 100% Sustainable
Sustainability is at the heart of COWI's new vision and strategy. With our extended expertise within sustainability, we have a special responsibility to accelerate the green transition, which is also the biggest growth opportunity in COWI history. We need to be ready to seize the green projects and support our customers in the green transition. This also means that we are exiting all fossil fuel projects, even if it is a lucrative business.
Instead, COWI will allocate all resources to projects that move our customers towards sustainability. The ambition is clear. Within approximately three to five years, 100 per cent of our revenue must come from projects driving sustainability.
